Patents by Inventor Myron Flickner
Myron Flickner 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: 11636317Abstract: Long-short term memory (LSTM) cells on spiking neuromorphic hardware are provided. In various embodiments, such systems comprise a spiking neurosynaptic core. The neurosynaptic core comprises a memory cell, an input gate operatively coupled to the memory cell and adapted to selectively admit an input to the memory cell, and an output gate operatively coupled to the memory cell an adapted to selectively release an output from the memory cell. The memory cell is adapted to maintain a value in the absence of input.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Rathinakumar Appuswamy, Michael Beyeler, Pallab Datta, Myron Flickner, Dharmendra S. Modha
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Patent number: 10360623Abstract: A personalization enhancement method and system. The method includes retrieving and analyzing digital content associated with a user. Characteristics describing the digital content are tagged and transferred to a profile of said the user. The profile includes additional characteristics generated during previous analysis of data from the digital content and additional digital content associated with the user. User information associated with products, a location, and a time profile is assigned. The profile is analyzed based on selection and interaction of the user with respect to a consumer Website. The profile includes the characteristics and the additional characteristics with respect to products and services of the consumer Website. A presentation color setting and a group of products and services of are determined for presentation to the user. The group of products and services are presented to the user using the presentation color setting.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bernadette R. Duponchel, Myron Flickner, Victoria B. Platt, John R. Smith
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Publication number: 20180232631Abstract: Long-short term memory (LSTM) cells on spiking neuromorphic hardware are provided. In various embodiments, such systems comprise a spiking neurosynaptic core. The neurosynaptic core comprises a memory cell, an input gate operatively coupled to the memory cell and adapted to selectively admit an input to the memory cell, and an output gate operatively coupled to the memory cell an adapted to selectively release an output from the memory cell. The memory cell is adapted to maintain a value in the absence of input.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2017Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Rathinakumar Appuswamy, Michael Beyeler, Pallab Datta, Myron Flickner, Dharmendra S. Modha
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Publication number: 20170270600Abstract: A personalization enhancement method and system. The method includes retrieving and analyzing digital content associated with a user. Characteristics describing the digital content are tagged and transferred to a profile of said the user. The profile includes additional characteristics generated during previous analysis of data from the digital content and additional digital content associated with the user. User information associated with products, a location, and a time profile is assigned. The profile is analyzed based on selection and interaction of the user with respect to a consumer Website. The profile includes the characteristics and the additional characteristics with respect to products and services of the consumer Website. A presentation color setting and a group of products and services of are determined for presentation to the user. The group of products and services are presented to the user using the presentation color setting.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Bernadette R. Duponchel, Myron Flickner, Victoria B. Platt, John R. Smith
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Patent number: 9760945Abstract: A personalization enhancement method and system. The method includes retrieving and analyzing digital content associated with a user. Characteristics describing the digital content are tagged and transferred to a profile of said the user. The profile includes additional characteristics generated during previous analysis of data from the digital content and additional digital content associated with the user. User information associated with products, a location, and a time profile is assigned. The profile is analyzed based on selection and interaction of the user with respect to a consumer Website. The profile includes the characteristics and the additional characteristics with respect to products and services of the consumer Website. A presentation color setting and a group of products and services of are determined for presentation to the user. The group of products and services are presented to the user using the presentation color setting.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bernadette R. Duponchel, Myron Flickner, Victoria B. Platt, John R. Smith
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Publication number: 20170004569Abstract: A personalization enhancement method and system. The method includes retrieving and analyzing digital content associated with a user. Characteristics describing the digital content are tagged and transferred to a profile of said the user. The profile includes additional characteristics generated during previous analysis of data from the digital content and additional digital content associated with the user. User information associated with products, a location, and a time profile is assigned. The profile is analyzed based on selection and interaction of the user with respect to a consumer Website. The profile includes the characteristics and the additional characteristics with respect to products and services of the consumer Website. A presentation color setting and a group of products and services of are determined for presentation to the user. The group of products and services are presented to the user using the presentation color setting.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Bernadette R. Duponchel, Myron Flickner, Victoria B. Platt, John R. Smith
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Patent number: 9477973Abstract: A personalization enhancement method and system. The method includes retrieving and analyzing digital content associated with a user. Characteristics describing the digital content are tagged and transferred to a profile of said the user. The profile includes additional characteristics generated during previous analysis of data from the digital content and additional digital content associated with the user. User information associated with products, a location, and a time profile is assigned. The profile is analyzed based on selection and interaction of the user with respect to a consumer Website. The profile includes the characteristics and the additional characteristics with respect to products and services of the consumer Website. A presentation color setting and a group of products and services of are determined for presentation to the user. The group of products and services are presented to the user using the presentation color setting.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: International Business MachinesInventors: Bernadette R. Duponchel, Myron Flickner, Victoria B. Platt, John R. Smith
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Publication number: 20140379484Abstract: A personalization enhancement method and system. The method includes retrieving and analyzing digital content associated with a user. Characteristics describing the digital content are tagged and transferred to a profile of said the user. The profile includes additional characteristics generated during previous analysis of data from the digital content and additional digital content associated with the user. User information associated with products, a location, and a time profile is assigned. The profile is analyzed based on selection and interaction of the user with respect to a consumer Website. The profile includes the characteristics and the additional characteristics with respect to products and services of the consumer Website. A presentation color setting and a group of products and services of are determined for presentation to the user. The group of products and services are presented to the user using the presentation color setting.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Bernadette R. Duponchel, Myron Flickner, Victoria B. Platt, John R. Smith
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Publication number: 20130110865Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing image endorsements. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search query from a user device of a user that belongs to a social affinity group; receiving image search results responsive to the search query, each image search result referencing a corresponding image resource and including a representative image of the image resource; identifying representative images of the image search results that each have an endorsement association with one or more of the users identified by the social affinity group; generating annotation data describing the endorsement association with at least one of the users identified by the social affinity group; and providing the annotation data to a user device for presentation with the representative image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: May 2, 2013Inventors: Arcot J. Preetham, Myron Flickner, Xiaorui Gan, Gabriel Wolosin
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Patent number: 8199966Abstract: A system and method for providing contemporaneous product information with animated virtual representations includes identifying a product by detecting a marker with a user device. Based upon the product, an animated virtual representation is generated in a display of the user device. Information about the product is conveyed to the user by virtual interaction with the animated virtual representation.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2008Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sinem Guven, Myron Flickner, Gopal Sarma Pingali, Mark Edward Podlaseck, Robyn Ruth Schwartz
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Publication number: 20090285483Abstract: A system and method for providing contemporaneous product information with animated virtual representations includes identifying a product by detecting a marker with a user device. Based upon the product, an animated virtual representation is generated in a display of the user device. Information about the product is conveyed to the user by virtual interaction with the animated virtual representation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2008Publication date: November 19, 2009Inventors: Sinem Guven, Myron Flickner, Gopal Sarma Pingali, Mark Edward Podlaseck, Robyn Ruth Schwartz
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Publication number: 20090171853Abstract: A system for hosting an in-store electronic auction including a plurality of shoppers including a store server capable of synchronizing with handheld portable devices within a predetermined geographic area, a plurality of customers having portable electronic devices. The portable electronic devices are capable of synchronizing with the store server, such that the plurality of customers can individually send and receive auction information therethrough, as well as an inventory of products within the predetermined geographic area from which a customer can shop. The store server identifies the shoppers in the predetermined geographical area through the portable electronic device, and determines a shopper's eligibility to participate in the auction. If the shopper is determined to be eligible to participate, the system synchronizes the shopper's portable electronic device to the store server.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2007Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Christos John Georgiou, Bernice Ellen Rogowitz, Myron Flickner
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Patent number: 7503490Abstract: A non-scan detect system for a retail checkout station includes a non-scan detect module. The non-scan detect module, when operated, causes the non-scan detect system to detect the passing of an item across a scanner device of a retail checkout station, determine that the item passing across the scanner device was not registered as a scan, establish a potential non-scanned item based on the item not being registered as a scan, obtain an image of the potential non-scanned item, establish a scanned item based on an item passing across the scanner device being registered as a scan, extract features associated with the scanned item, compare the features associated with the scanned item with the image of the potential non-scanned item, and trigger an actual non-scan if the features of the scanned item do not substantially match the image of the potential non-scanned item.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2008Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Russell P. Bobbitt, Myron Flickner, Arun Hampapur, Charles A. Otto, Sharathchandra U. Pankanti, Unsang Park, Akira Yanagawa, Yun Zhai
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Patent number: 7448542Abstract: A method for detecting a non-scan at a retail checkout station includes detecting the passing of an item across a scanner device of a retail checkout station, obtaining an image of the item passing across the scanner, detecting a scan of an item passing across the scanner to establish a scanned item, and establishing a register associated with the scanned item. A scan occurs if the image of the item passing across the scanner substantially matches the register associated with the scanned item. Conversely, a non-scan is triggered when the image of the item passing across the scanner does not match the register associated with the scanned item.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2008Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Russell P. Bobbitt, Myron Flickner, Arun Hampapur, Charles A. Otto, Sharathchandra U. Pankanti, Unsang Park, Akira Yanagawa, Yun Zhai
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Publication number: 20070021968Abstract: A method for managing a usage cost of an asset. A user component of a business entity may access the asset after the asset has been developed by a development component of the business entity, wherein the user component receives compensation from a compensator in response to the user component having incurred a usage burden from using the asset, and wherein the compensator may have contributed to the usage burden. Alternatively, a user component of a second business entity may access an asset after the asset is developed by a development component of a first business entity, wherein second business entity receives compensation from the first business entity in response to the user component having incurred a usage burden from using the asset. The compensation has a magnitude that is a function of the usage burden. The asset may be a software application.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2005Publication date: January 25, 2007Inventors: Arnon Amir, Myron Flickner, Douglas McDavid, James Spohrer