Patents by Inventor John Rice

John Rice 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: 11162146
    Abstract: Provided herein are reagents for improving PCR accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Brandeis University
    Inventors: John Rice, Lawrence Wangh, Arthur H. Reis, Jr., Kenneth Pierce, Cristina Hartshorn, J. Aquiles Sanchez, Stephen Van Hooser, Skye Fishbein
  • Patent number: 11159466
    Abstract: Activity information relating to activities of a respective electronic communication recipient accessing information associated with an electronic communication is received from each of a plurality of electronic communication clients. The activity information received from each of the plurality of electronic communication clients can indicate an amount of time the electronic communication is open in the respective electronic communication client. Based on the received activity information, each of the electronic communication recipients can be rated to generate at least one recommendation as to who is able to provide information pertaining to the electronic communication. The recommendation can be communicated to another electronic communication recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Al Chakra, Liam Harpur, Michelle M. Purcell, John Rice
  • Patent number: 11152020
    Abstract: A method includes immersing a wafer in an electrolyte including a plurality of compounds having elements of a thermally stable soft magnetic material. The method also includes applying a combined stepped and pulsed current to the wafer when the wafer is immersed in an electrolyte. The wafer is removed from the electrolyte when a layer of the thermally stable soft magnetic material is formed on the wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Jie Gong, Steven C. Riemer, John A. Rice, Michael C. Kautzky
  • Patent number: 11086878
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for providing contextual information associated with a post in an activity stream. In an implementation, a method may include determining a need for contextual information relative to a post within an activity stream. The method may also include searching one or more contextual information sources relative to at least a portion of the post within the activity stream. The method may further include associating contextual information with the post within the activity stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Al Chakra, Liam Harpur, John Rice
  • Patent number: 11044588
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method comprising determining a recurring event involving a first vehicle based on location information for the first vehicle over a pre-determined period of time, and determining one or more recurring vehicles for the recurring event. Each recurring vehicle is a different vehicle, and a number of times the recurring vehicle is within proximity of the first vehicle over the pre-determined period of time satisfies a pre-determined threshold. The method further comprises establishing a vehicle social network including the first vehicle and the one or more recurring vehicles. The method further comprises generating a shared pool of resources and caching power by pooling together resources and caching power of each vehicle included in the vehicle social network, and utilizing the shared pool of resources and caching power to facilitate collaborative caching between vehicles in the vehicle social network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy R. Fox, John Rice, Liam S. Harpur, Chris Kau
  • Publication number: 20210171264
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide an improved edge protector having two plies wrapped around a core and a method of manufacturing the improved edge protector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Martin F. Jette, Mathew S. Burton, Rene Guerrero Camacho, Randall John Rice
  • Patent number: 11030413
    Abstract: Embodiments generally relate to recommending message wording in a collaboration environment. In some embodiments, a method includes monitoring content characteristics of messages provided by users in a collaboration environment, where the content characteristics include individual usage statistics. The method further includes aggregating the individual usage statistics. The method further includes determining group usage statistics from the aggregated individual usage statistics. The method further includes determining community characteristics based at least in part on the group usage statistics. The method further includes providing one or more recommendations to at least one user who writes at least one new message based at least in part on the community characteristics and based at least in part on one or more recommendation policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Asima Silva, Hernan A. Cunico, John Rice, Liam S. Harpur
  • Patent number: 11032659
    Abstract: Providing a user with an augmented sound experience include receiving an identification an object within an environment proximate a user; determining a location of the object within the environment; determining a current location of the user within the environment; and causing a speaker array to produce a sound based on the current location of the object and the current location of the user such that the sound appears, relative to the current location of the user, to originate from the current location of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeremy R. Fox, Trudy L. Hewitt, Liam S. Harpur, John Rice
  • Patent number: 11025375
    Abstract: Mitigating the risk of sensor data loss can include establishing, with a computing node, a first communication channel with a first proximate device and a second communication channel with a second proximate device. The first proximate device can be operatively coupled to a sensor and can generate data in response to signals received from the sensor. The computing node can receive the data generated by the first proximate device. The data can be received from the second proximate device via the second communication channel in response to detecting a failure to receive a complete uncorrupted transmission of the data from the first proximate device via the first communication channel and determining that the second proximate device is capable of receiving and retransmitting the data to the computing node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeremy R. Fox, Trudy L. Hewitt, Liam S. Harpur, John Rice
  • Publication number: 20210160072
    Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to providing authorization code management for published static applications. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Edward HELDMAN, Brian Ray BRINEGAR, Chad Anthony VANHORN, Dinesh RAJASEKHARAN, Joshua Allen BRONSON, Joshua Thomas ARMSTRONG, John RICE, Nathan CORN, Tyler STALEY
  • Publication number: 20210144194
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for endpoint URL generation and management. An entity identifier may be received. The entity identifier may be hashed with a hashing algorithm to generate an alphanumeric string. A custom endpoint URL may be generated by combining the alphanumeric string with a URL that identifies an endpoint located on a server of a cloud computing system. A CNAME record in a DNS database may be updated to associate the URL that identifies the endpoint located in a stack of cloud computing system with the custom endpoint URL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: John Rice, Thomas B. Kashin, Venkatesh Baskar, Nathan Corn, Sangamesh Wadawadigi
  • Patent number: 10972298
    Abstract: Merging two or more user groups for collaboration includes constructing a social graph of each user of a plurality of users within the two or more user groups based upon a user profile and a workflow associated with each user. A weighted adjacency matrix is calculated based on at least one user interaction between two or more users indicated by the social graph. A model inferring leading edge contributions and least significant edge contributions among the users is generated based upon the social graph and the weighted adjacency matrix. One or more prospective groups expected to be involved in a future collaboration are identified based upon the identified leading edge contributions and least significant edge contributions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Trudy L. Hewitt, Jeremy R. Fox, Jonathan Dunne, Liam S. Harpur, John Rice
  • Patent number: 10956872
    Abstract: A method of handling a message comprises receiving a message comprising content such as keywords, receiving a selection of one or more recipients for the message, identifying that at least one recipient is unfamiliar with a portion of the message, and notifying the composer of the message of the portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Liam Harpur, Mark Kelly, John Rice
  • Patent number: 10954052
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide an improved edge protector having two plies wrapped around a core and a method of manufacturing the improved edge protector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLC
    Inventors: Martin F. Jette, Mathew S. Burton, Rene Guerrero Camacho, Randall John Rice
  • Patent number: 10942979
    Abstract: Systems and methods for collaborative creation of content snippets are disclosed. In embodiments, a method of the invention includes: receiving, by a computing device, indications from multiple users over time that content is of value, wherein the indications are in the form of computer-based actions from multiple user devices monitored by the computing device; dynamically generating, by the computing device, a collaborative snippet based on the indications from the multiple users, wherein the collaborative snippet is auto-tagged by the computing device with context data such that the collaborative snippet includes one or more tags; and saving, by the computing device, the collaborative snippet in a snippet database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Trudy L. Hewitt, Jeremy R. Fox, John Rice, Liam S. Harpur
  • Patent number: 10931614
    Abstract: A method and system of adjusting a content of an electronic communication are provided. An electronic communication sent from a first entity to a second entity is received and its content determined. The electronic communication is assigned to a collaboration group based on the determined content. One or more downstream collaboration entities in the collaboration group are identified. For each identified collaboration entity, one or more electronic communication parameters are determined. The electronic communication is adjusted for compliance with the electronic communication parameters of the identified collaboration entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chris Kau, Jeremy R. Fox, Liam S. Harpur, John Rice
  • Patent number: 10904314
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for endpoint URL generation and management. An entity identifier may be received. The entity identifier may be hashed with a hashing algorithm to generate an alphanumeric string. A custom endpoint URL may be generated by combining the alphanumeric string with a URL that identifies an endpoint located on a server of a cloud computing system. A CNAME record in a DNS database may be updated to associate the URL that identifies the endpoint located in a stack of cloud computing system with the custom endpoint URL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: John Rice, Thomas B. Kashin, Venkatesh Baskar, Nathan Corn, Sangamesh Wadawadigi
  • Patent number: 10901665
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system, and computer program product for managing categorized workgroup print jobs. The method includes receiving from an end user a print job designated for printing in a workgroup printer and categorizing the print job as work related or non-work related. Additionally whether or not printing the print job on behalf of the end user encroaches within a threshold value of a remaining allocation of printing resources established for the end user is determined. Finally, in response to determining both that the print job is within a specific category and also that the printing of the print job on behalf of the end user encroaches within the threshold value of the remaining allocation of printing resources established for the end user, further processing of the print job can be restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Al Chakra, Liam Harpur, Mark Kelly, John Rice
  • Publication number: 20210006368
    Abstract: Mitigating the risk of sensor data loss can include establishing, with a computing node, a first communication channel with a first proximate device and a second communication channel with a second proximate device. The first proximate device can be operatively coupled to a sensor and can generate data in response to signals received from the sensor. The computing node can receive the data generated by the first proximate device. The data can be received from the second proximate device via the second communication channel in response to detecting a failure to receive a complete uncorrupted transmission of the data from the first proximate device via the first communication channel and determining that the second proximate device is capable of receiving and retransmitting the data to the computing node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Jeremy R. Fox, Trudy L. Hewitt, Liam S. Harpur, John Rice
  • Publication number: 20200410387
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an intelligent computer platform to utilize machine learning techniques to for task planning optimization. Tasks and task characteristics are collected and tracked over defined temporal segments. Data points and corresponding measurements of the collected and tracked tasks and task characteristics are temporally analyzed. Statistically significant data associated with the tracked tasks are identified in response to the identification of a statistical deviation in the analyzed data points. A path of the tracked tasks is modified to create an optimal delivery path in view of the identified statistical deviation. One or more encoded actions are executed in compliance with the modified path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy R. Fox, Chris Kau, Liam S. Harpur, John Rice