Patents by Inventor Michael Truss
Michael Truss 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: 9785971Abstract: A mechanism is provided for prioritizing advertisements for a location. The mechanism identifies one or more person at the location and identifies a set of advertisements associated with a set of products for the location. The mechanism determines a score for the one or more persons indicating their likelihood to promote or detract from each of the set of products. The mechanism prioritizes the advertisements in the set according to the aggregate scores of the one or more persons for the products of the advertisements. The mechanism identifies a target person at the location to which the advertisement is to be directed and wherein determining a score of the one or more persons excludes or weights the target person.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2013Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Paul B. French, Jack J. Healy, Niall J. Lucey, Michael Truss
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Patent number: 9667659Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for determining security factors associated with an operating environment for a computer through a wireless network. The computer identifies one or more local computers operating within range of wireless communications to the computer through a wireless network. The computer determines a current operating environment corresponding to the one or more identified local computers. The computer determines a current security value for the current operating environment corresponding to identities and security of the identified local computers. The computer identifies data corresponding to the current operating environment, the data corresponding to a current time period of the current operating environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Paul B. French, Jack Healy, Niall J. Lucey, Michael Truss
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Publication number: 20160072849Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for determining security factors associated with an operating environment for a computer through a wireless network. The computer identifies one or more local computers operating within range of wireless communications to the computer through a wireless network. The computer determines a current operating environment corresponding to the one or more identified local computers. The computer determines a current security value for the current operating environment corresponding to identities and security of the identified local computers. The computer identifies data corresponding to the current operating environment, the data corresponding to a current time period of the current operating environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Paul B. French, Jack Healy, Niall J. Lucey, Michael Truss
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Patent number: 9246943Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for determining security factors associated with an operating environment for a computer through a wireless network. The computer identifies one or more local computers operating within range of wireless communications to the computer through a wireless network. The computer determines a current operating environment corresponding to the one or more identified local computers. The computer determines a current security value for the current operating environment corresponding to identities and security of the identified local computers. The computer identifies data corresponding to the current operating environment, the data corresponding to a current time period of the current operating environment.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Paul B. French, Jack Healy, Niall J. Lucey, Michael Truss
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Publication number: 20160012483Abstract: A mechanism is provided for prioritizing advertisements for a location. The mechanism identifies one or more person at the location and identifies a set of advertisements associated with a set of products for the location. The mechanism determines a score for the one or more persons indicating their likelihood to promote or detract from each of the set of products. The mechanism prioritizes the advertisements in the set according to the aggregate scores of the one or more persons for the products of the advertisements. The mechanism identifies a target person at the location to which the advertisement is to be directed and wherein determining a score of the one or more persons excludes or weights the target person.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2013Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Paul B. French, Jack J. Healy, Niall J. Lucy, Michael Truss
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Patent number: 9219754Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for determining security factors associated with an operating environment for a computer through a wireless network. The computer identifies one or more local computers operating within range of wireless communications to the computer through a wireless network. The computer determines a current operating environment corresponding to the one or more identified local computers. The computer determines a current security value for the current operating environment corresponding to identities and security of the identified local computers. The computer identifies data corresponding to the current operating environment, the data corresponding to a current time period of the current operating environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2014Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Paul B. French, Jack Healy, Niall J. Lucey, Michael Truss
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Publication number: 20140366086Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for determining security factors associated with an operating environment for a computer through a wireless network. The computer identifies one or more local computers operating within range of wireless communications to the computer through a wireless network. The computer determines a current operating environment corresponding to the one or more identified local computers. The computer determines a current security value for the current operating environment corresponding to identities and security of the identified local computers. The computer identifies data corresponding to the current operating environment, the data corresponding to a current time period of the current operating environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Paul B. French, Jack Healy, Niall J. Lucey, Michael Truss
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Publication number: 20140310763Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for determining security factors associated with an operating environment for a computer through a wireless network. The computer identifies one or more local computers operating within range of wireless communications to the computer through a wireless network. The computer determines a current operating environment corresponding to the one or more identified local computers. The computer determines a current security value for the current operating environment corresponding to identities and security of the identified local computers. The computer identifies data corresponding to the current operating environment, the data corresponding to a current time period of the current operating environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2013Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Paul B. French, Jack Healy, Niall J. Lucey, Michael Truss
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Publication number: 20130080260Abstract: Method and system is provided for targeted digital media content delivery. The method includes: receiving activation of the targeting service by a consumer; determining a first value of a human emotion metric corresponding to the mood of a consumer at a first time before or while consuming digital media content; determining a second value of that human metric at a second time while consuming the digital media content. The method also includes: comparing the first value of human emotion metric with the second value in order to determine a change in emotion of the consumer; and targeting the media content in accordance with the change in emotion of the consumer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Paul B. French, Niall J. Lucey, Michael Truss
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Patent number: 8364395Abstract: An enhanced navigation system allowing navigation route and destination planning according to user-specified criteria for the emotion state of persons along the route, at the destination, or both. The enhancement is accomplished by receiving a set of human emotion metrics corresponding to one or more parts of a navigation plan; determining if the human emotion metrics meet one or more user-specified criteria; responsive to not meeting the criteria, determining an alternate navigation plan until the user-specified criteria are met; and responsive to the criteria being met, presenting the navigation plan to the user for laying into a navigation system, and optionally during execution of the navigation plan updating the received human emotion metrics; repeating the determination against the user-specified criteria; and repeating the steps of determining an alternate navigation plan and presentation to a user responsive to the updated human emotion metrics not meeting the user-specified criteria.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Paul B. French, Eric Thiebaut-George, Niall Jude Lucey, Edith Helen Stern, Michael Truss
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Patent number: 8352179Abstract: An enhanced navigation system allowing navigation route and destination planning according to user-specified criteria for the emotion state of persons along the route, at the destination, or both. The enhancement is accomplished by receiving a set of human emotion metrics corresponding to one or more parts of a navigation plan; determining if the human emotion metrics meet one or more user-specified criteria; responsive to not meeting the criteria, determining an alternate navigation plan until the user-specified criteria are met; and responsive to the criteria being met, presenting the navigation plan to the user for laying into a navigation system, and optionally during execution of the navigation plan updating the received human emotion metrics; repeating the determination against the user-specified criteria; and repeating the steps of determining an alternate navigation plan and presentation to a user responsive to the updated human emotion metrics not meeting the user-specified criteria.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2012Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Paul B. French, Eric Thiebaut-George, Niall Jude Lucey, Edith Helen Stern, Michael Truss
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Publication number: 20120191338Abstract: An enhanced navigation system allowing navigation route and destination planning according to user-specified criteria for the emotion state of persons along the route, at the destination, or both. The enhancement is accomplished by receiving a set of human emotion metrics corresponding to one or more parts of a navigation plan; determining if the human emotion metrics meet one or more user-specified criteria; responsive to not meeting the criteria, determining an alternate navigation plan until the user-specified criteria are met; and responsive to the criteria being met, presenting the navigation plan to the user for laying into a navigation system, and optionally during execution of the navigation plan updating the received human emotion metrics; repeating the determination against the user-specified criteria; and repeating the steps of determining an alternate navigation plan and presentation to a user responsive to the updated human emotion metrics not meeting the user-specified criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Paul B. French, Eric Thiebaut-George, Niall Lucey, Edith Stern, Michael Truss
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Publication number: 20120150430Abstract: An enhanced navigation system allowing navigation route and destination planning according to user-specified criteria for the emotion state of persons along the route, at the destination, or both. The enhancement is accomplished by receiving a set of human emotion metrics corresponding to one or more parts of a navigation plan; determining if the human emotion metrics meet one or more user-specified criteria; responsive to not meeting the criteria, determining an alternate navigation plan until the user-specified criteria are met; and responsive to the criteria being met, presenting the navigation plan to the user for laying into a navigation system, and optionally during execution of the navigation plan updating the received human emotion metrics; repeating the determination against the user-specified criteria; and repeating the steps of determining an alternate navigation plan and presentation to a user responsive to the updated human emotion metrics not meeting the user-specified criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Paul B. French, Eric Thiebaut-George, Niall Lucey, Edith Stern, Michael Truss