Patents by Inventor Matthew Charles Hillary

Matthew Charles Hillary 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: 8774778
    Abstract: An approach is provided that receives a geographic beacon location that corresponds to a mobile entity with the mobile entity being an established entity at a social network website. A geographic user location is received with the geographic user location corresponding to a mobile user device that is associated with a user of the social networking website. A determination is made as to whether the geographic beacon location is proximate to the geographic user location. A check-in of the user at the entity is logged at the social media website in response to the geographic beacon location being proximate to the geographic user location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony E. Faillaci, Matthew Charles Hillary, Jorge Rafael Nogueras, Irina Tyshkevich
  • Publication number: 20130252594
    Abstract: An approach is provided that receives a geographic beacon location that corresponds to a mobile entity with the mobile entity being an established entity at a social network website. A geographic user location is received with the geographic user location corresponding to a mobile user device that is associated with a user of the social networking website. A determination is made as to whether the geographic beacon location is proximate to the geographic user location. A check-in of the user at the entity is logged at the social media website in response to the geographic beacon location being proximate to the geographic user location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony E. Faillaci, Matthew Charles Hillary, Jorge Rafael Nogueras, Irina Tyshkevich
  • Publication number: 20130246520
    Abstract: An approach is provided that receives social network feeds at a network interface. Each of the feeds is a freeform comment. The feeds are analyzed in order to identify keywords that are included in any of the social network feeds. A keyword found in a social network feed indicates the presence of contact data in the social network feed. When a keyword is found, contact data is extracted from the selected social network feed and the extracted data is stored in a contact-oriented application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marcus Lee Belvin, Kelly Ann Gani, Matthew Charles Hillary, Kimberly Dawn McCall, Henri Fouotsop Meli