Patents by Inventor Joy Thomas

Joy Thomas 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).

  • Publication number: 20240221086
    Abstract: Systems and computer-implemented methods for estimating a cost to repair a damaged item are provided. In some example implementations, an indication identifying a portion of the damaged item is received. A series of images are selected that depict increasing degrees of damage to a reference item at the portion identified, and the series of images are provided for presentation. An indication is received that identifies one of the images in the series of images that has been selected as best representing the damage to the portion of the damaged item identified. An estimated cost to repair the damaged item is generated based, at least in part, on the image selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Randall Martin Hanson, Joy Thomas, Eric Huls, Floyd Yager
  • Publication number: 20230070094
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing insurance claims are provided. A notice of loss associated with a damaged item and damage information describing the damage may be received. Repair cost data may be retrieved based on the damage information received. A repair cost model may be configured based on the damage information and the repair cost data and used to generate a repair cost for repairing the damaged item. A non-negotiable payment amount may be selected based on the repair cost generated and included in a work order along with the damage information. The work order may be transmitted to a repair service provider that accepted the terms of the work order. Feedback may be received from the repair service provider that indicates an actual cost to repair the damaged item, and the repair cost data may be updated based on the feedback received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Randall Martin Hanson, Joy Thomas, Eric Huls, Floyd Yager
  • Publication number: 20230073115
    Abstract: Systems and computer-implemented methods for estimating a cost to repair a damaged item are provided. In some example implementations, an indication identifying a portion of the damaged item is received. A series of images are selected that depict increasing degrees of damage to a reference item at the portion identified, and the series of images are provided for presentation. An indication is received that identifies one of the images in the series of images that has been selected as best representing the damage to the portion of the damaged item identified. An estimated cost to repair the damaged item is generated based, at least in part, on the image selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Randall Martin Hanson, Joy Thomas, Eric Huls, Floyd Yager
  • Patent number: 10832536
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, program products, and systems are presented for guided cable management. An apparatus includes a cable module that detects a first end of a cable installed at a port of a first node, a first port module that determines whether the cable that is installed at the port is an expected cable for the port based on a cable mapping table, and a first indicator module that triggers a visual indicator at the port to visually confirm that the cable is the expected cable for the port. The apparatus includes a second port module that determines a port of a second node where a second end of the cable is expected to be installed and a second indicator module that triggers a visual indicator at the port to visually indicate that the second end of the cable is expected to be installed in the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Venkatesh Sainath, Jinu Joy Thomas, Daniel E. Hurlimann, Thomas Sand, Fernando Pizzano, Victor Garibay, Chetan Mehta
  • Publication number: 20200184784
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, program products, and systems are presented for guided cable management. An apparatus includes a cable module that detects a first end of a cable installed at a port of a first node, a first port module that determines whether the cable that is installed at the port is an expected cable for the port based on a cable mapping table, and a first indicator module that triggers a visual indicator at the port to visually confirm that the cable is the expected cable for the port. The apparatus includes a second port module that determines a port of a second node where a second end of the cable is expected to be installed and a second indicator module that triggers a visual indicator at the port to visually indicate that the second end of the cable is expected to be installed in the port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Venkatesh Sainath, Jinu Joy Thomas, Daniel E. Hurlimann, Thomas Sand, Fernando Pizzano, Victor Garibay, Chetan Mehta
  • Publication number: 20160287430
    Abstract: A condom used by males during sexual intercourse. The first portion includes a semen catch that goes over the tip of the penis. The second portion includes a glans tip cover that goes over the glans. The semen catch spirals down on top of the glans tip cover and stays in place over the glans until ejaculation, wherein the semen catch unfurls. The condom may include a strong comfortable corona ring that goes snuggly around the corona and rests on the circumcision scar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventor: Aretha Joy Thomas
  • Patent number: 9355171
    Abstract: Documents likely to be near-duplicates are clustered based on document vectors that represent word-occurrence patterns in a relatively low-dimensional space. Edit distance between documents is defined based on comparing their document vectors. In one process, initial clusters are formed by applying a first edit-distance constraint relative to a root document of each cluster. The initial clusters can be merged subject to a second edit-distance constraint that limits the maximum edit distance between any two documents in the cluster. The second edit-distance constraint can be defined such that whether it is satisfied can be determined by comparing cluster structures rather than individual documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Joy Thomas, Sauraj Goswami, Vamsi Salaka
  • Patent number: 8862670
    Abstract: A pool of messages, e.g., e-mails and/or other electronic documents that each correspond to a communication from a sender to a recipient, is analyzed to identify communication chains between a source and a target. Sender and recipient identifiers extracted from the messages are used to detect direct and indirect communication links between pairs of entities. Information related to the identified communication chains can be presented to a user via an interactive network graph that supports iterative analysis of the communication-chain data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Stratify, Inc.
    Inventors: Hakan Ancin, David Bayer, Kumar Maddalli, Joy Thomas
  • Patent number: 8781817
    Abstract: Meaningful phrases are distinguished from chance word sequences statistically, by analyzing a large number of documents and using a statistical metric such as a mutual information metric to distinguish meaningful phrases from groups of words that co-occur by chance. In some embodiments, multiple lists of candidate phrases are maintained to optimize the storage requirement of the phrase-identification algorithm. After phrase identification, a combination of words and meaningful phrases can be used to construct clusters of documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Stratify, Inc.
    Inventors: Joy Thomas, Karthik Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 8527436
    Abstract: An automated parser for e-mail messages identifies component parts such as header, body, signature, and disclaimer. The parser uses a hidden Markov model (HMM) in which the lines making up an e mail are treated as a sequence of observations of a system that evolves according to a Markov chain having states corresponding to the component parts. The HMM is trained using a manually-annotated set of e-mail messages, then applied to parse other e-mail messages. HMM-based parsing can be further refined or expanded using heuristic post-processing techniques that exploit redundancy of some component parts (e.g., signatures, disclaimers) across a corpus of e-mail messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Stratify, Inc.
    Inventors: Vamsi Salaka, Joy Thomas
  • Patent number: 8484221
    Abstract: Documents are assigned to one or more indexes in a document indexing system on the basis of document properties such as total number of tokens in the document, number of numeric tokens in the document, number of alphabetic tokens in the document, size of the document, and metadata associated with the document. Based on statistical distributions of document properties (over a large number of documents), different indexes can be defined, and a document router can direct a particular document to one index or another based on the properties of the particular document. In some implementations, certain document properties may be used to identify a nonrelevant document, or garbage document, so that it is either not indexed or assigned to an index dedicated for such documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Stratify, Inc.
    Inventors: Kumar Maddali, Joy Thomas
  • Patent number: 8392175
    Abstract: Meaningful phrases are distinguished from chance word sequences statistically, by analyzing a large number of documents and using a statistical metric such as a mutual information metric to distinguish meaningful phrases from groups of words that co-occur by chance. In some embodiments, multiple lists of candidate phrases are maintained to optimize the storage requirement of the phrase-identification algorithm. After phrase identification, a combination of words and meaningful phrases can be used to construct clusters of documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Stratify, Inc.
    Inventors: Joy Thomas, Karthik Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 8244767
    Abstract: Reliable identification of highly similar documents allows such documents to be treated as identical for purposes of document analysis. Identification of highly similar documents can be based on a composite hash value or other value for which the likelihood of two documents having the same value is high if and only if the documents have a high degree of similarity. Prior to performing content based analysis, the composite hash value for the current document is determined and compared to composite hash values of previously analyzed documents. If a match is found, the results of the analysis of the previous document can be applied to the current document. If no match is found, the current document is analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Stratify, Inc.
    Inventors: Hakan Ancin, Rajashekhar Goli, Ankita Bakshi, Kumar Maddali, Joy Thomas, Karthik Ramachandran
  • Publication number: 20120054135
    Abstract: An automated parser for e-mail messages identifies component parts such as header, body, signature, and disclaimer. The parser uses a hidden Markov model (HMM) in which the lines making up an e mail are treated as a sequence of observations of a system that evolves according to a Markov chain having states corresponding to the component parts. The HMM is trained using a manually-annotated set of e-mail messages, then applied to parse other e-mail messages. HMM-based parsing can be further refined or expanded using heuristic post-processing techniques that exploit redundancy of some component parts (e.g., signatures, disclaimers) across a corpus of e-mail messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: Stratify, Inc.
    Inventors: Vamsi Salaka, Joy Thomas
  • Publication number: 20110191347
    Abstract: Documents are assigned to one or more indexes in a document indexing system on the basis of document properties such as total number of tokens in the document, number of numeric tokens in the document, number of alphabetic tokens in the document, size of the document, and metadata associated with the document. Based on statistical distributions of document properties (over a large number of documents), different indexes can be defined, and a document router can direct a particular document to one index or another based on the properties of the particular document. In some implementations, certain document properties may be used to identify a nonrelevant document, or garbage document, so that it is either not indexed or assigned to an index dedicated for such documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Stratify, Inc.
    Inventors: Kumar Maddali, Joy Thomas
  • Publication number: 20110191098
    Abstract: Meaningful phrases are distinguished from chance word sequences statistically, by analyzing a large number of documents and using a statistical metric such as a mutual information metric to distinguish meaningful phrases from groups of words that co-occur by chance. In some embodiments, multiple lists of candidate phrases are maintained to optimize the storage requirement of the phrase-identification algorithm. After phrase identification, a combination of words and meaningful phrases can be used to construct clusters of documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Stratify, Inc.
    Inventors: Joy Thomas, Karthik Ramachandran
  • Publication number: 20110087669
    Abstract: Reliable identification of highly similar documents allows such documents to be treated as identical for purposes of document analysis. Identification of highly similar documents can be based on a composite hash value or other value for which the likelihood of two documents having the same value is high if and only if the documents have a high degree of similarity. Prior to performing content based analysis, the composite hash value for the current document is determined and compared to composite hash values of previously analyzed documents. If a match is found, the results of the analysis of the previous document can be applied to the current document. If no match is found, the current document is analyzed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: Stratify, Inc.
    Inventors: Hakan Ancin, Rajashekhar Goli, Ankita Bakshi, Kumar Maddali, Joy Thomas
  • Publication number: 20110087668
    Abstract: Documents likely to be near-duplicates are clustered based on document vectors that represent word-occurrence patterns in a relatively low-dimensional space. Edit distance between documents is defined based on comparing their document vectors. In one process, initial clusters are formed by applying a first edit-distance constraint relative to a root document of each cluster. The initial clusters can be merged subject to a second edit-distance constraint that limits the maximum edit distance between any two documents in the cluster. The second edit-distance constraint can be defined such that whether it is satisfied can be determined by comparing cluster structures rather than individual documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: Stratify, Inc.
    Inventors: Joy Thomas, Sauraj Goswami, Vamsi Salaka
  • Patent number: 7664821
    Abstract: A pool of messages, e.g., e-mails and/or other electronic documents that each correspond to a communication from a sender to a recipient, is analyzed to identify communication chains between a source and a target. Sender and recipient identifiers extracted from the messages are used to detect communication links between pairs of entities. Indirect chains of any desired length can be found by iteratively tracing a communication path one step forward from the source, then one step backward from the target, and so on; at each new step, entities at end points of the forward paths and backward paths are compared to detect any entities that complete a communication chain from source to target. Information related to the identified communication chains can be presented to a user via an interactive report that supports iterative analysis of the communication-chain data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Stratify, Inc.
    Inventors: Hakan Ancin, David Bayer, Kumar Maddalli, Joy Thomas
  • Publication number: 20070212383
    Abstract: The present invention relates to hormone coating layers having desirable hormone delivery characteristics and product lifetime. In one embodiment, the invention is a hormone composition including a substrate having an external surface, and a coating layer disposed on the external surface. The coating layer preferably includes a polymer web, and from about 1 wppm to about 100,000 wppm of a hormone comprising a terpene dispersed throughout the polymer web. The invention also relates to methods for making hormone coating materials of the present invention. The coating compositions of the present invention preferably are implemented in human and animal food packaging materials in order to safely and efficiently protect the foodstuffs contained therein from insect infestation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Applicant: Ashland Licensing and Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Leeper, Joy Thomas, Amy Nichols