Patents by Inventor Matthew Peveler

Matthew Peveler 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).

  • Using natural language to control structured web page data
    Patent number: 11442991
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for multi-modal interaction with structured web page data includes automatically injecting event monitoring code into a web page. One or more event streams generated by the injected event monitoring code are received. A request to perform an operation on data displayed on the web page is received from a user. A command is generated that has one or more parameters based at least in part on one or more mappings between the received request and the received one or more event streams. The command to fulfil the received request is executed by interacting with the web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jeffrey Owen Kephart, Hui Su, Matthew Peveler
  • Embodied negotiation agent and platform
    Patent number: 11437017
    Abstract: Human speech signals that are uttered within an environment are transcribed; the environment includes one or more avatars representing one or more software agents; the human speech signals are directed to at least one of the avatars. At least one non-speech behavioral trace is obtained within the environment; the trace is representative of non-speech behavior directed to the at least one of the avatars. The transcribed human speech signals and the at least one non-speech behavioral trace are forwarded to the one or more software agents. A proposed act is obtained from at least one of the agents; responsive thereto, a command is issued to cause the avatar corresponding to the software agent from which the proposed act is obtained to emit synthesized speech and to act visually in accordance with the proposed act.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jeffrey Owen Kephart, Hui Su, Maira Gatti de Bayser, Melina de Vasconcelos Alberio Guerra, Rahul Divekar, Matthew Peveler, Xiangyang Mou, Lisha Chen
  • EMBODIED NEGOTIATION AGENT AND PLATFORM
    Publication number: 20220028366
    Abstract: Human speech signals that are uttered within an environment are transcribed; the environment includes one or more avatars representing one or more software agents; the human speech signals are directed to at least one of the avatars. At least one non-speech behavioral trace is obtained within the environment; the trace is representative of non-speech behavior directed to the at least one of the avatars. The transcribed human speech signals and the at least one non-speech behavioral trace are forwarded to the one or more software agents. A proposed act is obtained from at least one of the agents; responsive thereto, a command is issued to cause the avatar corresponding to the software agent from which the proposed act is obtained to emit synthesized speech and to act visually in accordance with the proposed act.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Jeffrey Owen Kephart, Hui Su, Maira Gatti de Bayser, Melina de Vasconcelos Alberio Guerra, Rahul Divekar, Matthew Peveler, Xiangyang Mou, Lisha Chen