Patents by Inventor John McCann

John McCann has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10679188
    Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting feature values in a matrix are disclosed. In example embodiments, a server accesses a matrix, the matrix having multiple dimensions, one dimension of the matrix representing features, and one dimension of the matrix representing entities. The server separates the matrix into multiple submatrices along a first dimension, each submatrix including all cells in the matrix for a set of values in the first dimension. The server provides the multiple submatrices to multiple machines. The server computes, using each machine, a correlation between values in at least one second dimension of the matrix and a value for a preselected feature in the matrix, the correlation being used to predict the value for the preselected feature based on other values along the at least one second dimension. The server provides an output representing the computed correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gio Borje, Benjamin John McCann, David DiCato, Jerry Lin, Skylar Payne, Apoorv Khandelwal, Nadeem Anjum
  • Patent number: 10608972
    Abstract: Systems and methods for messaging service integration with a deduplicator are disclosed. In example embodiments, a server determines that a first user from among a set of users is composing a message to an entity using a first contact information of the entity. The server determines that a second user from among the set of users previously contacted the entity using a second contact information of the entity, the second contact information being different from the first contact information. The server provides for display, within a graphical user interface, an indication that the second user has previously contacted the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John Robert Jersin, Benjamin John McCann, Erik Eugene Buchanan, Travis Nelson Hummel
  • Patent number: 10606821
    Abstract: Systems and methods for applicant tracking system (ATS) integration with a deduplicator are disclosed. A recruiting company computer system accesses a first entity record external to an ATS. The recruiting company computer system determines that the first entity record corresponds to a second entity record within the ATS based on at least first information of the first entity record and second information of the second entity record. The first information is different from the second information. The recruiting company computer system imports, into the second entity record within the ATS, information from the first entity record external to the ATS in response to the first entity record corresponding to the second entity record. The recruiting company computer system provides, in response a request to access information about an entity associated with the second entity record, the information from the first entity record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John Robert Jersin, Benjamin John McCann, Erik Eugene Buchanan
  • Patent number: 10586219
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented systems and processes that perform operations consistent with services provisioned to a device based on real-time sensor data indicative of and characterizing a user's operation of the device and additionally or alternatively, a system or apparatus that includes the device. For example, the device may obtain stored data identifying a provisioned service, and may obtain sensor data captured by an on-board or external sensor during an operation of the device. Based on the sensor data, the device may generate a usage parameter that characterizes the operation of the device during a temporal period, and perform an operation consistent with the provisioned service in accordance with the generated usage parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Arthur Carroll Chow, Paul Mon-Wah Chan, Perry Aaron Jones Haldenby, Rakesh Thomas Jethwa, Eddie Cheuk Long Law, John Jong Suk Lee, Stephen John McCann, Haituyen Anthony Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20200068022
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented systems and processes that perform operations consistent with services provisioned to a device based on real-time sensor data indicative of and characterizing a user's operation of the device and additionally or alternatively, a system or apparatus that includes the device. For example, the device may obtain stored data identifying a provisioned service, and may obtain sensor data captured by an on-board or external sensor during an operation of the device. Based on the sensor data, the device may generate a usage parameter that characterizes the operation of the device during a temporal period, and perform an operation consistent with the provisioned service in accordance with the generated usage parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: ARTHUR CARROLL CHOW, Paul Mon-Waff Chan, Perry Aaron Jones Haldenby, Rakesh Thomas Jethwa, Eddie Cheuk Long Law, John Jong Suk Lee, Stephen John McCann, Haituyen Anthony Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10546965
    Abstract: Novel materials, material deposition methods, and devices used to generate electrical power from thermal radiators based on thermophotovoltatic (TPV) operating principles using group IV-VI alloys and materials are disclosed. A semiconductor structure comprising (N) stacked junctions, each junction formed of a IV-VI semiconductor alloy and each of said N junctions having a bandgap, where N is an integer and N>1 is disclosed. The semiconductor structure is configured to capture electromagnetic radiation having wavelengths from about 1 ?m to about 7 ?m. TPV devices comprising the novel semiconductor structure and methods of making the novel structures and devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma
    Inventor: Patrick John McCann
  • Patent number: 10528927
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include computerized methods and systems that automatically provision one or more services available to an Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices upon connection to and registration onto communications network. In one aspect, a device may receive, from a computing system, data specifying one or more first services provisioned to the device. The device may identify a subset of the first services that are consistent with a device type of an additional device, and may transmit a portion of the stored first data that specifies the subset of the first services to that additional device. The additional device may process the transmitted portion to provision the subset of the first services to the additional device prior to a successful authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Arthur Carroll Chow, Paul Mon-Wah Chan, Perry Aaron Jones Haldenby, Rakesh Thomas Jethwa, Eddie Cheuk Long Law, John Jong Suk Lee, Stephen John McCann
  • Patent number: 10521489
    Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting feature values in a matrix are disclosed. In example embodiments, a server accesses a matrix, the matrix having multiple dimensions, one dimension of the matrix representing features, and one dimension of the matrix representing entities. The server separates the matrix into multiple submatrices along a first dimension, each submatrix including all cells in the matrix for a set of values in the first dimension. The server provides the multiple submatrices to multiple machines. The server computes, using each machine, a correlation between values in at least one second dimension of the matrix and a value for a preselected feature in the matrix, the correlation being used to predict the value for the preselected feature based on other values along the at least one second dimension. The server provides an output representing the computed correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gio Borje, Benjamin John McCann, David DiCato, Jerry Lin, Skylar Payne, Apoorv Khandelwal, Nadeem Anjum
  • Patent number: 10498827
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented systems and processes that perform operations consistent with services provisioned to a device based on real-time sensor data indicative of and characterizing a user's operation of the device and additionally or alternatively, a system or apparatus that includes the device. For example, the device may obtain stored data identifying a provisioned service, and may obtain sensor data captured by an on-board or external sensor during an operation of the device. Based on the sensor data, the device may generate a usage parameter that characterizes the operation of the device during a temporal period, and perform an operation consistent with the provisioned service in accordance with the generated usage parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Arthur Carroll Chow, Paul Mon-Wah Chan, Perry Aaron Jones Haldenby, Rakesh Thomas Jethwa, Eddie Cheuk Long Law, John Jong Suk Lee, Stephen John McCann, Haituyen Anthony Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20190336377
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved bilateral compression device for post-operative surgical site, the bilateral compression device including a central cavity presented by an outerwall and a circumscribing sidewall, the central cavity in receipt of a post-operative pillow further comprising an outer membrane separated from an inner membrane for exerting a central compressive force towards the post-operative surgical area which varies from a surrounding compression force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventor: John McCann
  • Patent number: 10467299
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying user information from a set of pages are disclosed. In example embodiments, a server determines that a first set of pages is associated with a specific user based on addresses of the first set of pages having a common portion of a uniform resource locator (URL). The server determines that at least a threshold number of pages from the first set of pages include common information, the common information comprising contact information or social networking information. The server associates the contact information or the social networking information with a user profile of the specific user. The server provides, as a digital transmission, the contact information or the social networking information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John Robert Jersin, Benjamin John McCann, Erik Eugene Buchanan, Gio Borje
  • Patent number: 10448301
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a demand for real-time services to a first mobile device, by way of a base station of an LTE system. In response, utilization of a first wireless channel of a first radio of the base station is evaluated. The first radio supports a first wireless service that includes the real-time service and a non-real-time service to a second mobile device within the same cellular region. A handover of the second mobile device to a second radio of the base station is facilitated in response to the utilization. The second radio is configured to support a second wireless service that excludes the real-time service within the same cellular region. Responsive to the handover, the second radio supports the non-real-time service over the second wireless channel to the second mobile device within the cellular region. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventor: John McCann
  • Publication number: 20190311364
    Abstract: The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented systems, apparatuses, and processes that, among other things, generate and provision digital tokens based on dynamically obtained contextual data. For example, an apparatus may receive first information that characterizes an exchange of data initiated by a first application program executed by the apparatus, and may generate and transmit a signal to a computing system through a programmatic interface associated with a second application program executed by the apparatus. In some instances, the first signal may include the first information and data that instructs the computing system to obtain a digital token representative of a data type available for use in the data exchange. The apparatus may also receive a second signal that includes the digital token and based on the digital token, perform operations that present second information characterizing the available data type on an interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Milos DUNJIC, Arthur Caroll Chow, Anthony Haituyen Nguyen, Casey Lyn Doyle, Yubing Liu, Het Anand Patel, Stephen John McCann, Perry Aaron Jones Haldenby, David Samuel Tax, John Jong-Suk Lee, Arun Victor Jagga
  • Publication number: 20190303877
    Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing pipelined data are disclosed. In some examples, a server receives a transaction description requesting candidates for a given transaction. The server accesses first records representing parties that fully completed the given transaction and second records representing parties that were in a pipeline for completing the given transaction but did not fully complete the given transaction. The first records and the second records are stored at a data repository. The server generates a model for predicting whether an identified record represents a party likely to complete the given transaction. The model is generated based on at least the first records and the second records. The server orders a list of third records representing parties likely to complete the given transaction. The server provides an output representing the third records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Benjamin John McCann, Jerry Lin, Erik Eugene Buchanan, Alexis Blevins Baird, Skylar Payne, Nadeem Anjum
  • Patent number: 10423676
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying user information from a set of pages are disclosed. In example embodiments, a server determines that a first set of pages is associated with a specific user based on addresses of the first set of pages having a common portion of a uniform resource locator (URL). The server determines that at least a threshold number of pages from the first set of pages include common information, the common information comprising contact information or social networking information. The server associates the contact information or the social networking information with a user profile of the specific user. The server provides, as a digital transmission, the contact information or the social networking information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John Robert Jersin, Benjamin John McCann, Erik Eugene Buchanan, Gio Borje
  • Publication number: 20190287070
    Abstract: Systems and methods for query expansion are disclosed. In some examples, a server receives, from a client device, a search query for employment candidates, the search query comprising a first set of parameters. The server determines a second set of parameters related to the first set of parameters in response to identifying a second parameter for the second set of parameters that corresponds with a first parameter from the first set of parameters, the professional records being stored in a professional data repository. The server generates, from the professional data repository, a first set of search results based on the first set of parameters and the second set of parameters. The server provides, to the client device, an output representing the first set of search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Erik Eugene Buchanan, Vijay Dialani, Sahin Cem Geyik, Benjamin John McCann, Ketan Thakkar, Patrick Cheung, Nadeem Anjum, David DiCato
  • Publication number: 20190288858
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include processes that manage a cryptographically secure generation and exchange of data between network-connected systems operating within a computing environment using a permissioned distributed ledger. For example, and based on secure interaction with a distributed smart contract maintained within ledger blocks of the permissioned distributed ledger, an apparatus and a counterparty system may generate local symmetric encryption keys that facilitate a secure communication session between the apparatus and the counterparty system. Using the symmetric encryption key, the apparatus may generate a cryptographically secure representation of generated or obtained data, which may be transmitted to the counterparty system across the secure communications channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Arthur Carroll CHOW, Milos DUNJIC, Perry Aaron Jones HALDENBY, John Jong-Suk LEE, Anthony Haituyen NGUYEN, Casey Lyn DOYLE, Het Anand PATEL, Stephen John MCCANN
  • Patent number: 10361870
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include processes that manage a cryptographically secure generation and exchange of data between network-connected systems operating within a computing environment using a permissioned distributed ledger. For example, and based on secure interaction with a distributed smart contract maintained within ledger blocks of the permissioned distributed ledger, an apparatus and a counterparty system may generate local symmetric encryption keys that facilitate a secure communication session between the apparatus and the counterparty system. Using the symmetric encryption key, the apparatus may generate a cryptographically secure representation of generated or obtained data, which may be transmitted to the counterparty system across the secure communications channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Arthur Carroll Chow, Milos Dunjic, Perry Aaron Jones Haldenby, John Jong-Suk Lee, Anthony Haituyen Nguyen, Casey Lyn Doyle, Het Anand Patel, Stephen John McCann
  • Publication number: 20190197192
    Abstract: An example system generates a search query for candidates, the search query comprising a set of parameters corresponding to attributes extracted from one or more stream-related information sources, each parameter in the set having a weight. Additionally, the system executes the query on member profiles of members of an online system to return search results based on the parameters and the weights of the parameters. Moreover, the system causes presentation of at least one search result from the search results, the at least one search result, being associated with at least one of the attributes. Furthermore, the system accesses feedback to the at least one search result that indicates a level of interest in the search result. Then, the system adjusts the parameters based on the feedback. Next, the system causes presentation of an updated search result, the updated search result being generated based on the adjusted set of parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: John Robert Jersin, Alexis Blevins Baird, Erik Eugene Buchanan, Benjamin John McCann
  • Publication number: 20190197486
    Abstract: Techniques for calculating probability of hire scores in a streaming environment are described. In an embodiment, a system accesses a candidate stream definition comprising a hiring organization and a role. Additionally, the system accesses, based on the candidate stream definition, one or more stream-related information sources, and extracts attributes from the stream-related information sources. Moreover, the system identifies similar organizations based on the attributes, the role, and features of the hiring organization. Then, the system accesses historical data regarding hiring patterns at the similar organizations for the role. The system calculates, based on the historical data and interactions by the hiring organization with member profiles of an online system (e.g., hosting a social networking service), a probability of hire for the role. Next, the system presents the probability of hire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: John Robert Jersin, Alexis Blevins Baird, Divyakumar Menghani, Benjamin John McCann, Huanyu Zhao