Patents by Inventor Maurice M. Materise
Maurice M. Materise 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).
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Patent number: 11120074Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a computer-implemented method, computer system, and computer program product for analyzing image data to create a reference. The method includes receiving a first image data. The image data is saved in a database. The image data is analyzed to determine a source of the first image data. A reference is created based on the analyzing.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
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Patent number: 10784830Abstract: Audio information of audio content being listened to by a user is received. An aspect of a listening environment of the user is identified. A volume preset, based on the audio information and the aspect of the listening environment, is determined to be available. A first volume of the audio content being listened to by the user is determined to be different from the volume preset. The first volume of the audio content is adjusted to a second volume.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
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Patent number: 10733220Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include method, systems and computer program products for using a target similarity calculation to identify relevant content in a corpus of documents or records. The computer-implemented method includes creating, by a processor, a term frequency (TF) list for one or more documents of a corpus. The processor calculates an inverse document frequency (IDF) for each listed term. The processor calculates a TF-IDF for each listed term. The processor determines a similarity ranking for one or more documents of the corpus using a target similarity calculation using the TF-IDF for each listed term.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Steven N. Burchfield, Steven P. Lafalce, Maurice M. Materise, James A. Oconnor
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Patent number: 10540994Abstract: Aspects relate to computer implemented methods and systems for monitoring a user's hearing and comprehension. The methods and systems include receiving, by an audio capture device, a first audio input, receiving, by the audio capture device, a second audio input, converting the first and second audio inputs into respective first and second audio signals, transcribing the first and second audio signals into respective first and second transcriptions, analyzing, by a processor of the remote resource, the first and second transcriptions to determine if a content of the second transcription is related to a content of the first transcription to determine degradation of hearing of the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
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Publication number: 20190244631Abstract: Aspects relate to computer implemented methods and systems for monitoring a user's hearing and comprehension. The methods and systems include receiving, by an audio capture device, a first audio input, receiving, by the audio capture device, a second audio input, converting the first and second audio inputs into respective first and second audio signals, transcribing the first and second audio signals into respective first and second transcriptions, analyzing, by a processor of the remote resource, the first and second transcriptions to determine if a content of the second transcription is related to a content of the first transcription to determine degradation of hearing of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
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Patent number: 10339960Abstract: Aspects relate to computer implemented methods and systems for monitoring a user's hearing and comprehension. The methods and systems include receiving, by an audio capture device, a first audio input, receiving, by the audio capture device, a second audio input, converting the first and second audio inputs into respective first and second audio signals, transmitting said first and second audio signals to a remote resource, transcribing the first and second audio signals into respective first and second transcriptions, analyzing, by a processor of the remote resource, the first and second transcriptions to determine if a content of the second transcription is related to a content of the first transcription, and recording the analysis to track a hearing and comprehension ability of the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
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Publication number: 20190149114Abstract: Audio information of audio content being listened to by a user is received. An aspect of a listening environment of the user is identified. A volume preset, based on the audio information and the aspect of the listening environment, is determined to be available. A first volume of the audio content being listened to by the user is determined to be different from the volume preset. The first volume of the audio content is adjusted to a second volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2019Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
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Publication number: 20190130024Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include method, systems and computer program products for using a target similarity calculation to identify relevant content in a corpus of documents or records. The computer-implemented method includes creating, by a processor, a term frequency (TF) list for one or more documents of a corpus. The processor calculates an inverse document frequency (IDF) for each listed term. The processor calculates a TF-IDF for each listed term. The processor determines a similarity ranking for one or more documents of the corpus using a target similarity calculation using the TF-IDF for each listed term.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: Steven N. Burchfield, Steven P. Lafalce, Maurice M. Materise, James A. Oconnor
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Patent number: 10277706Abstract: An aspect of preemptive distribution of content includes monitoring content accessed in a local cache of a computing device. A time and a location of content accesses in the local cache are tracked. Prefetching heuristics are determined based on patterns of the time and the location of the content accesses. The prefetching heuristics are applied to speculatively prefetch additional content prior to the computing device receiving a request to access the additional content.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew Dow, Eli M. Dow, Maurice M. Materise, Katrin Nagel, Nickalaus A. Painter, Jairo A. Pava, Salma Y. Rodriguez
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Patent number: 10257305Abstract: An aspect of preemptive distribution of content includes monitoring content accessed in a local cache of a computing device. A time and a location of content accesses in the local cache are tracked. Prefetching heuristics are determined based on patterns of the time and the location of the content accesses. The prefetching heuristics are applied to speculatively prefetch additional content prior to the computing device receiving a request to access the additional content.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew Dow, Eli M. Dow, Maurice M. Materise, Katrin Nagel, Nickalaus A. Painter, Jairo A. Pava, Salma Y. Rodriguez
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Patent number: 10243528Abstract: Audio information of audio content being listened to by a user is received. An aspect of a listening environment of the user is identified. A volume preset, based on the audio information and the aspect of the listening environment, is determined to be available. A first volume of the audio content being listened to by the user is determined to be different from the volume preset. The first volume of the audio content is adjusted to a second volume.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
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Patent number: 10209772Abstract: Described herein are methods, systems, and computer program products for providing supplementary information with an initial visualization. To provide supplementary information, a display device can provide the initial visualization, a gaze tracker can capture gaze direction data from a user viewing the initial visualization, and a processor of a computing device can process the gaze direction data to determine a point of interest. The display device can then provide the supplementary information with the initial visualization based on the point of interest.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
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Publication number: 20180365735Abstract: Examples of techniques for displaying an advertisement for a product of interest are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes identifying, by a processing device, a product of interest. The method further includes retrieving, by the processing device, information about the product of interest. The method further includes retrieving, by the processing device, an advertisement associated with the product of interest based at least in part on the information about the product of interest. The method further includes displaying, by the processing device, the advertisement associated with the product of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
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Publication number: 20180365736Abstract: Examples of techniques for displaying an advertisement for a product of interest are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes identifying, by a processing device, a product of interest. The method further includes retrieving, by the processing device, information about the product of interest. The method further includes retrieving, by the processing device, an advertisement associated with the product of interest based at least in part on the information about the product of interest. The method further includes displaying, by the processing device, the advertisement associated with the product of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
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Publication number: 20180278223Abstract: Audio information of audio content being listened to by a user is received. An aspect of a listening environment of the user is identified. A volume preset, based on the audio information and the aspect of the listening environment, is determined to be available. A first volume of the audio content being listened to by the user is determined to be different from the volume preset. The first volume of the audio content is adjusted to a second volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
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Publication number: 20180157658Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a computer-implemented method, computer system, and computer program product for analyzing image data to create a reference. The method includes receiving a first image data. The image data is saved in a database. The image data is analyzed to determine a source of the first image data. A reference is created based on the analyzing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2016Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: ELI M. DOW, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
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Publication number: 20180108370Abstract: Aspects relate to computer implemented methods and systems for monitoring a user's hearing and comprehension. The methods and systems include receiving, by an audio capture device, a first audio input, receiving, by the audio capture device, a second audio input, converting the first and second audio inputs into respective first and second audio signals, transmitting said first and second audio signals to a remote resource, transcribing the first and second audio signals into respective first and second transcriptions, analyzing, by a processor of the remote resource, the first and second transcriptions to determine if a content of the second transcription is related to a content of the first transcription, and recording the analysis to track a hearing and comprehension ability of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2016Publication date: April 19, 2018Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
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Patent number: 9948256Abstract: Audio information of audio content being listened to by a user is received. An aspect of a listening environment of the user is identified. A volume preset, based on the audio information and the aspect of the listening environment, is determined to be available. A first volume of the audio content being listened to by the user is determined to be different from the volume preset. The first volume of the audio content is adjusted to a second volume.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
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Patent number: 9930134Abstract: A method for sending data to a user device comprises establishing a communicative connection between a first user device and a server, receiving the data at the first user device, caching the data on the first user device, establishing a communicative connection between the first user device and a second user device, determining whether the first user device is moving out of communicative range with the second user device, sending the data from the first user device to the second user device responsive to determining that the first user device is moving out of communicative range with the second user device, and caching the data on the second user device.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew Dow, Eli M. Dow, Maurice M. Materise, Katrin Nagel, Nickalaus A. Painter, Jairo A. Pava, Salma Y. Rodriguez
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Publication number: 20180081431Abstract: Described herein are methods, systems, and computer program products for providing supplementary information with an initial visualization. To provide supplementary information, a display device can provide the initial visualization, a gaze tracker can capture gaze direction data from a user viewing the initial visualization, and a processor of a computing device can process the gaze direction data to determine a point of interest. The display device can then provide the supplementary information with the initial visualization based on the point of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu