Patents by Inventor Michael Ratcliff

Michael Ratcliff 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: 11523605
    Abstract: A scent distribution device having a spherical housing and having one or more internal cavities in communication with a plurality of wicking members. The wicking members dispersed across the exterior of the housing for the distribution of a scent agent. The device including a harness engaged with an axis of the housing, wherein the housing rotates along the axis for rolling across a surface. The device further including a lead line and segregated and compartmentalized storage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventor: Michael Ratcliff
  • Publication number: 20220383225
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program code for digitally presenting a comparison of labor resource allocations between organizations. A computer system identifies employee data for a set of employees. The employee data includes job titles, and job descriptions. Using a set of machine learning models, the computer system extracts skills data from the job descriptions. Based on the skills data extracted from the job descriptions and using the set of machine learning models, the computer system maps the job titles to normalized titles within a job taxonomy that governs relationships between business functions, subfunctions, and the normalized titles. The computer system determines a resource allocation for an organization over each of the normalized titles. The computer system generates a granular comparison of the granular resource allocation to a set of benchmark allocations. The computer system digitally presents the granular comparison in a graphical user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Jack Berkowitz, Amin Venjara, Zafrir Babin, Brent Weiss, Justo Pastor, Malvika Tiwari, Cory Schamble, Hafeez Raji, Mathew Skaria, Sreenath Kodedala, Szabi Nagy, Anuj Singh, Kishore Bangali, Rajan Patel, Siva Bangaru, Manoj Oleti, Nakul Kapoor, Zeeshan Anwar, Mark Anthony Maraj, Vibhor Shukla, Michael Ratcliff, Leon Liu, Anil Dhotre, Annette Allen, WaiWah Pak, Pallavi Renati, Praveen Kumar Kommineni
  • Publication number: 20200372473
    Abstract: Career coaching comprising defining a number of employment positions, wherein each employment position comprises a number of required skills. Relationships between the employment positions are modeled, wherein the model maps potential transitions between employment positions according to similarities of required skills. A number of persons who have occupied the employment positions are modeled according to skills, employment history, and job performance. A user provides user data that comprises skills, employment history, and job performance. The user data is compared to the modeled persons, and a number of potential employment opportunities from among the number of employment positions are matched to the user based on similarities between the user and the modeled persons. The potential employment opportunities are then displayed to the user on a graphical user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Deepa Muralikrishnan, Marc Rind, Rajesh Uttamchandani, Amit Kumar Sharma, Manoj Oleti, Eric Zitaner, Samir Khanal, Michael Ratcliff, Anthony Heyliger, John Sheehy, Teresa Geiger, Elaine Clement, Jesse Zolna, Neha Pahwa, Saravanan Sundaresan, DeAnna Carey, James Mason
  • Publication number: 20200170239
    Abstract: A scent distribution device having a spherical housing and having one or more internal cavities in communication with a plurality of wicking members. The wicking members dispersed across the exterior of the housing for the distribution of a scent agent. The device including a harness engaged with an axis of the housing, wherein the housing rotates along the axis for rolling across a surface. The device further including a lead line and segregated and compartmentalized storage container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Ratcliff
  • Patent number: 10588312
    Abstract: A scent distribution device having a spherical housing and having one or more internal cavities in communication with a plurality of wicking members. The wicking members dispersed across the exterior of the housing for the distribution of a scent agent. The device including a harness engaged with an axis of the housing, wherein the housing rotates along the axis for rolling across a surface. The device further including a lead line and segregated and compartmentalized storage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Ratcliff
  • Patent number: 10268722
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for processing information in a big data environment. A target query is received. The target query is run against a catalog to obtain desired fields for search and to filter for specific targets from which data will be extracted. Responsive to the query, particular data is extracted from the specific targets. Extracting includes defining a query pack comprising a configuration file and one or more files containing queries to execute on each target in the specific targets, the configuration file containing a section for each of the one or more files to customize configurations for each of the one or more files, and particular connection information defining relationships among the specific targets. One ingestion daemon is executed for every file of the one or more files in the query pack to produce results. The results are processed in a distributed parallel computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: ADP, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Ratcliff, James Haas, Marc Rind, Venkata Turlapati
  • Publication number: 20180279604
    Abstract: A scent distribution device having a spherical housing and having one or more internal cavities in communication with a plurality of wicking members. The wicking members dispersed across the exterior of the housing for the distribution of a scent agent. The device including a harness engaged with an axis of the housing, wherein the housing rotates along the axis for rolling across a surface. The device further including a lead line and segregated and compartmentalized storage container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventor: Michael Ratcliff
  • Publication number: 20180268026
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for processing information in a big data environment. A target query is received. The target query is run against a catalog to obtain desired fields for search and to filter for specific targets from which data will be extracted. Responsive to the query, particular data is extracted from the specific targets. Extracting includes defining a query pack comprising a configuration file and one or more files containing queries to execute on each target in the specific targets, the configuration file containing a section for each of the one or more files to customize configurations for each of the one or more files, and particular connection information defining relationships among the specific targets. One ingestion daemon is executed for every file of the one or more files in the query pack to produce results. The results are processed in a distributed parallel computing environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Ratcliff, James Haas, Marc Rind, Venkata Turlapati
  • Patent number: D794666
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: ADP, LLC
    Inventors: Sachin Havaldar, Anshuman Gaur, Chandradeep Kanakamedala, Eric Zitaner, Xiaojing Wang, Samir Khanal, Slawomir Krysiak, Linxuan Jiang, Fang Yuan, Dmitry Tolstonogov, Min Xiao, Lei Xia, Manoj Oleti, Uday Kovur, James Haas, Michael Ratcliff, Faseeha Khan, Nitin Kumar Tammewar, Marc Rind, Vikas Saini
  • Patent number: D794667
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: ADP, LLC
    Inventors: Sachin Havaldar, Anshuman Gaur, Chandradeep Kanakamedala, Eric Zitaner, Xiaojing Wang, Samir Khanal, Slawomir Krysiak, Linxuan Jiang, Fang Yuan, Dmitry Tolstonogov, Min Xiao, Lei Xia, Manoj Oleti, Uday Kovur, James Haas, Michael Ratcliff, Faseeha Khan, Nitin Kumar Tammewar, Marc Rind, Vikas Saini
  • Patent number: D798892
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: ADP, LLC
    Inventors: Sachin Havaldar, Anshuman Gaur, Chandradeep Kanakamedala, Eric Zitaner, Xiaojing Wang, Samir Khanal, Slawomir Krysiak, Linxuan Jiang, Fang Yuan, Dmitry Tolstonogov, Min Xiao, Lei Xia, Manoj Oleti, Uday Kovur, James Haas, Michael Ratcliff, Faseeha Khan, Nitin Kumar Tammewar, Marc Rind, Vikas Saini