Patents by Inventor Nicholas Bryan

Nicholas Bryan 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: 11915714
    Abstract: Methods for modifying audio data include operations for accessing audio data having a first prosody, receiving a target prosody differing from the first prosody, and computing acoustic features representing samples. Computing respective acoustic features for a sample includes computing a pitch feature as a quantized pitch value of the sample by assigning a pitch value, of the target prosody or the audio data, to at least one of a set of pitch bins having equal widths in cents. Computing the respective acoustic features further includes computing a periodicity feature from the audio data. The respective acoustic features for the sample include the pitch feature, the periodicity feature, and other acoustic features. A neural vocoder is applied to the acoustic features to pitch-shift and time-stretch the audio data from the first prosody toward the target prosody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: Adobe Inc., Northwestern University
    Inventors: Maxwell Morrison, Juan Pablo Caceres Chomali, Zeyu Jin, Nicholas Bryan, Bryan A. Pardo
  • Publication number: 20240013293
    Abstract: A system for payment routing programmed to: receive a payment transaction message relating to a putative transaction, the payment transaction message containing putative transaction data identifying an accountholder and a transaction amount corresponding to the putative transaction; input historical transaction data for the accountholder and at least a portion of the transaction amount to a scaled score algorithm to generate scaled scores, each of the scaled scores representing the likelihood of settlement of the putative transaction on a corresponding date and payment rail; output the scaled scores to a merchant in response to the payment transaction message; receive, from the merchant and in response to the output, feedback data for the putative transaction, the feedback data including a date of attempted payment processing for the putative transaction and an indicator of whether the attempted payment processing was completed; and retrain the scaled score algorithm using the feedback data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Nicholas Bryan Baguley, Serenie Gagon, Natesh Babu Arunachalam, Justin A. Harnish, Cameron Bell, Daniel Roper
  • Publication number: 20240013176
    Abstract: A system for payment routing programmed to: receive a payment transaction message relating to a putative transaction, the payment transaction message containing putative transaction data identifying an account of an accountholder and a transaction amount corresponding to the putative transaction; input at least some of the putative transaction data to a scaled score algorithm to generate a scaled score representing the likelihood of settlement of the putative payment transaction on a date, the scaled score algorithm including a plurality of components each respectively outputting a value and the scaled score being based on the plurality of values; generate metadata regarding the scaled score by applying a plurality of contribution rules to the values, the metadata comprising significance indicators for the components with respect to the generation of the scaled score; and output the scaled score and the metadata regarding the scaled score in response to the payment transaction message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Nicholas Bryan Baguley, Serenie Gagon, Natesh Babu Arunachalam, Justin A. Harnish, Cameron Bell, Daniel Roper
  • Publication number: 20240013189
    Abstract: A system for payment routing programmed to: receive a payment transaction message relating to a putative transaction, the payment transaction message containing putative transaction data identifying an accountholder and a transaction amount corresponding to the putative transaction; input historical transaction data for the accountholder and at least a portion of the transaction amount to a scaled score algorithm to generate scaled scores for corresponding potential settlement dates, each of the scaled scores representing the likelihood of settlement of the putative transaction from an account of the accountholder on the corresponding one of the potential settlement dates; retrieve, from a financial institution corresponding to the account, actual account balances for the account on the corresponding potential settlement dates; and retrain the scaled score algorithm using the actual account balances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Nicholas Bryan Baguley, Serenie Gagon, Natesh Babu Arunachalam, Justin A. Harnish, Cameron Bell, Daniel Roper
  • Publication number: 20230394458
    Abstract: A method for operating a private group transaction network, includes: receiving a group creation request; communicating a group invitation to each of the group members; receiving a plurality of group acceptance messages, one from each of the group members, where each group acceptance message includes an account identifier associated with a payment account of an associated group member, where a group member has a payment account issued by an issuer system different from at least one of the issuer systems of the other group members; generating the private group transaction network; processing an intra-group transfer request by: executing a plurality of pull transfers by pulling the transfer amount from the first and second payment accounts to the group payment account; and executing a single push transfer for the transfer amount by pushing the transfer amount from the group payment account to the third payment account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Nicholas Bryan Kurlas, Nkanyiso Khumalo, Sameer Shiraz Poonja
  • Patent number: 11830481
    Abstract: Methods are performed by one or more processing devices for correcting prosody in audio data. A method includes operations for accessing subject audio data in an audio edit region of the audio data. The subject audio data in the audio edit region potentially lacks prosodic continuity with unedited audio data in an unedited audio portion of the audio data. The operations further include predicting, based on a context of the unedited audio data, phoneme durations including a respective phoneme duration of each phoneme in the unedited audio data. The operations further include predicting, based on the context of the unedited audio data, a pitch contour comprising at least one respective pitch value of each phoneme in the unedited audio data. Additionally, the operations include correcting prosody of the subject audio data in the audio edit region by applying the phoneme durations and the pitch contour to the subject audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Maxwell Morrison, Zeyu Jin, Nicholas Bryan, Juan Pablo Caceres Chomali, Lucas Rencker
  • Patent number: 11812254
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for rendering scene-aware audio based on acoustic properties of a user environment. For example, the disclosed system can use neural networks to analyze an audio recording to predict environment equalizations and reverberation decay times of the user environment without using a captured impulse response of the user environment. Additionally, the disclosed system can use the predicted reverberation decay times with an audio simulation of the user environment to optimize material parameters for the user environment. The disclosed system can then generate an audio sample that includes scene-aware acoustic properties based on the predicted environment equalizations, material parameters, and an environment geometry of the user environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Tang, Timothy Langlois, Nicholas Bryan, Dingzeyu Li
  • Publication number: 20230206242
    Abstract: A system for payment routing according to a likelihood of settlement. The system includes processors and/or transceivers programmed to receive a payment transaction message relating to a putative payment transaction. The payment transaction message contains putative payment transaction data including a customer identification (ID) for an account and a transaction amount. The system generates a scaled score representing the likelihood of settlement of the putative payment transaction on at least one date for each of a plurality of potential payment rails. Based at least in part on the at least one scaled score for each of the plurality of potential payment rails, the system selects a payment rail from the plurality of payment rails. The system initiates, via the selected payment rail, a payment transaction corresponding to the putative payment transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Nicholas Bryan Baguley, Young Mi Catarina Ban, William Campbell, Wally F. Lo Faro, William Parkinson, Serenie Gagon, Ahmed Hosny, Alexander Liberson, Gayley Woolston, Nicholas A. Thomas, Brett Ragozzine, Daniel Roper, Justin A. Harnish, Abbas Moosavi, Swati Saini, Cameron Bell, Natesh Babu Arunachalam, Shawn J. Mehrhoff
  • Publication number: 20230197093
    Abstract: Methods for modifying audio data include operations for accessing audio data having a first prosody, receiving a target prosody differing from the first prosody, and computing acoustic features representing samples. Computing respective acoustic features for a sample includes computing a pitch feature as a quantized pitch value of the sample by assigning a pitch value, of the target prosody or the audio data, to at least one of a set of pitch bins having equal widths in cents. Computing the respective acoustic features further includes computing a periodicity feature from the audio data. The respective acoustic features for the sample include the pitch feature, the periodicity feature, and other acoustic features. A neural vocoder is applied to the acoustic features to pitch-shift and time-stretch the audio data from the first prosody toward the target prosody.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Maxwell Morrison, Juan Pablo Caceres Chomali, Zeyu Jin, Nicholas Bryan, Bryan A. Pardo
  • Publication number: 20230169961
    Abstract: Methods are performed by one or more processing devices for correcting prosody in audio data. A method includes operations for accessing subject audio data in an audio edit region of the audio data. The subject audio data in the audio edit region potentially lacks prosodic continuity with unedited audio data in an unedited audio portion of the audio data. The operations further include predicting, based on a context of the unedited audio data, phoneme durations including a respective phoneme duration of each phoneme in the unedited audio data. The operations further include predicting, based on the context of the unedited audio data, a pitch contour comprising at least one respective pitch value of each phoneme in the unedited audio data. Additionally, the operations include correcting prosody of the subject audio data in the audio edit region by applying the phoneme durations and the pitch contour to the subject audio data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Maxwell Morrison, Zeyu Jin, Nicholas Bryan, Juan Pablo Caceres Chomali, Lucas Rencker
  • Publication number: 20220414808
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for determining and presenting information related to embedded sound recordings are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kevin Song Zhu, Thomas Bugnon, Keith Wedelich, George Huang, Jacob Levine, Sha Chang, Julian Bill, Arthur Gaudriot, Nicholas Bryan Johnson, Vishaal Prasad
  • Publication number: 20220300645
    Abstract: A server includes an identity certainty model, which has permutation ensembled weights. The server receives a plurality of data access consent receipts from an external consent repository. Based on the data access consent receipts, the server retrieves a plurality of data types from one or more data providers. The server executes the identity certainty model on the data types. The server performs an ID resolution operation on the data types. Using data outputs produced by the ID resolution operation, the server calculates metrics from the ID resolution operation. A weighting of the data outputs produced by the metrics calculations is performed using the permutation ensembled weights. An identity protection score and a risk score are determined based on the weighted data outputs. An optimization operation is performed on the identity protection score and the risk score to determine an identity certainty score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Finicity Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas Bryan Baguley, John M. Davies, Justin A. Harnish, Nicholas A. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20220300972
    Abstract: A server includes a consent repository and a consent management interface. The consent repository is configured to store data and one or more existing consent receipts. A method performed by the server includes receiving a customer ID that corresponds to a customer. The customer ID is matched to a universal ID stored on the server. Financial account data associated with a financial account of the customer is retrieved from a financial institution associated with the customer. Furthermore, a consent request data submission is received from an external computing device. The consent request data submission includes one or more data access consents. In addition, a consent request is transmitted to the consent management interface. The consent request includes the one or more data access consents. Additionally, the consent request is digitally signed by the server and stored in the consent repository as a new consent receipt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Finicity Corporation
    Inventors: John M. Davies, Steven B. Smith, Nicholas A. Thomas, Nicholas Bryan Baguley
  • Publication number: 20220060842
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for rendering scene-aware audio based on acoustic properties of a user environment. For example, the disclosed system can use neural networks to analyze an audio recording to predict environment equalizations and reverberation decay times of the user environment without using a captured impulse response of the user environment. Additionally, the disclosed system can use the predicted reverberation decay times with an audio simulation of the user environment to optimize material parameters for the user environment. The disclosed system can then generate an audio sample that includes scene-aware acoustic properties based on the predicted environment equalizations, material parameters, and an environment geometry of the user environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Zhenyu Tang, Timothy Langlois, Nicholas Bryan, Dingzeyu Li
  • Patent number: 11190898
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for rendering scene-aware audio based on acoustic properties of a user environment. For example, the disclosed system can use neural networks to analyze an audio recording to predict environment equalizations and reverberation decay times of the user environment without using a captured impulse response of the user environment. Additionally, the disclosed system can use the predicted reverberation decay times with an audio simulation of the user environment to optimize material parameters for the user environment. The disclosed system can then generate an audio sample that includes scene-aware acoustic properties based on the predicted environment equalizations, material parameters, and an environment geometry of the user environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Tang, Timothy Langlois, Nicholas Bryan, Dingzeyu Li
  • Patent number: 11082789
    Abstract: One example method involves operations for receiving input to transform audio to a target style. Operations further include providing the audio to a predictive model trained to transform the audio into produced audio. Training the predictive model includes accessing representations of audios and unpaired audios. Further, training includes generating feature embeddings by extracting features from representations of an audio and an unpaired audio. The unpaired audio includes a reference production style, and the feature embeddings correspond to their representations. Training further includes generating a feature vector by comparing the feature embeddings using a comparison model. Further, training includes computing prediction parameters using a learned function. The prediction parameters can transform the feature vector into the reference style. Training further includes updating the predictive model with the prediction parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Stylianos Ioannis Mimilakis, Paris Smaragdis, Nicholas Bryan
  • Patent number: 11074925
    Abstract: The disclosure describes one or more embodiments of an impulse response system that generates accurate and realistic synthetic impulse responses. For example, given an acoustic impulse response, the impulse response system can generate one or more synthetic impulse responses that modify the direct-to-reverberant ratio (DRR) of the acoustic impulse response. As another example, the impulse response system can generate one or more synthetic impulse responses that modify the reverberation time (e.g., T60) of the acoustic impulse response. Further, utilizing the synthetic impulse responses, the impulse response system can perform a variety of functions to improve a digital audio recording or acoustic measurement or prediction model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventor: Nicholas Bryan
  • Publication number: 20210142815
    Abstract: The disclosure describes one or more embodiments of an impulse response system that generates accurate and realistic synthetic impulse responses. For example, given an acoustic impulse response, the impulse response system can generate one or more synthetic impulse responses that modify the direct-to-reverberant ratio (DRR) of the acoustic impulse response. As another example, the impulse response system can generate one or more synthetic impulse responses that modify the reverberation time (e.g., T60) of the acoustic impulse response. Further, utilizing the synthetic impulse responses, the impulse response system can perform a variety of functions to improve a digital audio recording or acoustic measurement or prediction model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventor: Nicholas Bryan
  • Publication number: 20210136510
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for rendering scene-aware audio based on acoustic properties of a user environment. For example, the disclosed system can use neural networks to analyze an audio recording to predict environment equalizations and reverberation decay times of the user environment without using a captured impulse response of the user environment. Additionally, the disclosed system can use the predicted reverberation decay times with an audio simulation of the user environment to optimize material parameters for the user environment. The disclosed system can then generate an audio sample that includes scene-aware acoustic properties based on the predicted environment equalizations, material parameters, and an environment geometry of the user environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Zhenyu Tang, Timothy Langlois, Nicholas Bryan, Dingzeyu Li
  • Patent number: 9792681
    Abstract: Methods and systems for obtaining a probabilistic diagnosis based on medical images of a patient are disclosed. In exemplary embodiments, such methods include the steps of scanning some or all of a patient to obtain a medical image; evaluating the medical image for one or more designated key features; assigning discrete values to the one or more designated key features to form a patient scan key feature pattern; and transmitting the values of the one or more designated key features to a processor programmed to match the patient scan key feature pattern to one or more known disease-specific key feature patterns to create a probabilistic diagnosis and transmit the probabilistic diagnosis to a user. Associated systems include a medical imaging device that is capable of producing a medical image of some or all of a patient and a processor programmed to create a probabilistic diagnosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Robert Nicholas Bryan, Edward H. Herskovits