Patents by Inventor Nicholas J. Witchey

Nicholas J. Witchey 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: 11977530
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods of managing the lifecycle of a digital token are described. In an example, while the digital token is being generated, the digital token or the underlying digital asset can be compared to other digital tokens and/or digital assets to determine similarity thereto. Based on the similarity, a program code interface (e.g., smart contract, an application programming interface—API, RPC, etc.) can be determined and an API call can be made to execute a program code. The execution can indicate whether the digital token creation process can be completed. If so, the digital token is recorded. Thereafter, its use or the use of the underlying digital asset can be monitored, whereby this monitoring can apply similarity processing. If a use thereof is determined or if a use of a similar digital token or similar digital asset is determined, notifications can be generated and sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP
    Inventors: Patrick Soon-Shiong, John Wiacek, Nicholas J. Witchey, Jake Fyfe
  • Patent number: 11951391
    Abstract: One exemplary aspect relates to normalizing latency in a networking environment to reduce the chances of creating an unfair advantage. While an exemplary aspect will be discussed in relation to a gaming environment, it is to be appreciated that the techniques disclosed herein can be applied to other environments where latency normalization or the ability to maintain latency between various endpoints is desired. For example, other environments include eSporting, on-line betting, fantasy esports, streaming services, etc. Some more specific examples include World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, H1Z1®, PUBG®, Fortnite®, Realm Royale®, Planet Side 2®, real-time strategy games, slot machines, electronic poker tournaments, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Soon-Shiong, John Wiacek, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Patent number: 11936632
    Abstract: A system and method for homomorphic encryption in a healthcare network environment is provided and includes receiving digital data over the healthcare network at a data custodian server in a plurality of formats from various data sources, encrypting the data according to a homomorphic encryption scheme, receiving a query at the data custodian server from a data consumer device concerning a portion of the encrypted data, initiating a secure homomorphic work session between the data custodian server and the data consumer device, generating a homomorphic work space associated with the homomorphic work session, compiling, by the data custodian server, a results set satisfying the query, loading the results set into the homomorphic work space, and building an application programming interface (API) compatible with the results set, the API facilitating encrypted analysis on the results set in the homomorphic work space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NANTHEALTH, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Soon-Shiong, Harsh Kupwade-Patil, Ravi Seshadri, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20240086382
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods of managing the lifecycle of a digital token are described. In an example, while the digital token is being generated, the digital token or the underlying digital asset can be compared to other digital tokens and/or digital assets to determine similarity thereto. Based on the similarity, a program code interface (e.g., smart contract, an application programming interface—API, RPC, etc.) can be determined and an API call can be made to execute a program code. The execution can indicate whether the digital token creation process can be completed. If so, the digital token is recorded. Thereafter, its use or the use of the underlying digital asset can be monitored, whereby this monitoring can apply similarity processing. If a use thereof is determined or if a use of a similar digital token or similar digital asset is determined, notifications can be generated and sent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Soon-Shiong, John Wiacek, Nicholas J. Witchey, Jake Fyfe
  • Publication number: 20240086384
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods of managing the lifecycle of a digital token are described. In an example, while the digital token is being generated, the digital token or the underlying digital asset can be compared to other digital tokens and/or digital assets to determine similarity thereto. Based on the similarity, a program code interface (e.g., smart contract, an application programming interface—API, RPC, etc.) can be determined and an API call can be made to execute a program code. The execution can indicate whether the digital token creation process can be completed. If so, the digital token is recorded. Thereafter, its use or the use of the underlying digital asset can be monitored, whereby this monitoring can apply similarity processing. If a use thereof is determined or if a use of a similar digital token or similar digital asset is determined, notifications can be generated and sent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Soon-Shiong, John Wiacek, Nicholas J. Witchey, Jake Fyfe
  • Publication number: 20240087753
    Abstract: A sensor-based leading indicator management ecosystem is described. Sensor data associated with the individual, possibly within a Personal Area Network (PAN) and related to the healthcare of the individual, is compiled and converted to a one or more sets of leading indicators with respect to one or more possible future healthcare actions. Leading indicators may then be compiled into one or more condition state vectors that represent encoded inputs into one or more trained action prediction agents. The trained action prediction agents then generate, possibly in real-time or based on time-series data, predicted actions that may be required at a predicted point-of-care or a moment-of-care. Further, action prediction agents may be context or domain specific.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Soon-Shiong, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Patent number: 11928785
    Abstract: Techniques (e.g., systems, apparatus, methods) for context-based management of tokens are described. In an example, a geographical location of a device is used as one possible context. This location can correspond to a physical location associated with an AR virtual object container. This container can be associated with a set of virtual object container information applicable to the context, such as to the device's location. Based on separately maintained virtual object information, virtual objects to be shown as being available from the container are determined. Each of such virtual objects can be associated with a set of tokens. In an AR session, the container and the virtual objects are presented. An interaction with the container or a virtual object can result in associating a relevant set of tokens with a user account by recording information about the container, the virtual object, the user account, and/or the context(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Witchey, John Wiacek, Jake Fyfe, Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Publication number: 20240062587
    Abstract: An activity recognition system is disclosed. A plurality of temporal features is generated from a digital representation of an observed activity using a feature detection algorithm. An observed activity graph comprising one or more clusters of temporal features generated from the digital representation is established, wherein each one of the one or more clusters of temporal features defines a node of the observed activity graph. At least one contextually relevant scoring technique is selected from similarity scoring techniques for known activity graphs, the at least one contextually relevant scoring technique being associated with activity ingestion metadata that satisfies device context criteria defined based on device contextual attributes of the digital representation, and a similarity activity score is calculated for the observed activity graph as a function of the at least one contextually relevant scoring technique, the similarity activity score being relative to at least one known activity graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Nant Holding IP, LLC
    Inventors: Kamil Wnuk, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20240055133
    Abstract: A sensor-based leading indicator management ecosystem is described. Sensor data associated with the individual, possibly within a Personal Area Network (PAN) and related to the healthcare of the individual, is compiled and converted to a one or more sets of leading indicators with respect to one or more possible future healthcare actions. Leading indicators may then be compiled into one or more condition state vectors that represent encoded inputs into one or more trained action prediction agents. The trained action prediction agents then generate, possibly in real-time or based on time-series data, predicted actions that may be required at a predicted point-of-care or a moment-of-care. Further, action prediction agents may be context or domain specific.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Soon-Shiong, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20240037857
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods and systems of providing AR content are disclosed. Embodiments of the inventive subject matter can obtain an initial map of an area, derive views of interest, obtain AR content objects associated with the views of interest, establish experience clusters and generate a tile map tessellated based on the experience clusters. A user device could be configured to obtain and instantiate at least some of the AR content objects based on at least one of a location and a recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: David McKinnon, Kamil Wnuk, Jeremi Sudol, Matheen Siddiqui, John Wiacek, Bing Song, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Patent number: 11880824
    Abstract: A computer-based digital notarized ledger management system comprises at least one computer-readable memory storing a primary ledger and software instructions. The system further comprises at least one processor coupled with the memory, the processor performs operations upon software instruction execution. The at least one processor performs instructions to receive a ledger request comprising target ledger parameters, generate in the memory, at least one digital token representing a target ledger based on target ledger parameters, mint according to at least one primary ledger smart contract, the at least one digital token as a set of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) having at least some of the target ledger parameters and representing the target ledger on the primary ledger, instruct at least one computing node to instantiate the target ledger in at least one node memory according to the target ledger parameters, and instruct the at least one node to enable target ledger transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Witchey, Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Patent number: 11881315
    Abstract: A sensor-based leading indicator management ecosystem is described. Sensor data associated with the individual, possibly within a Personal Area Network (PAN) and related to the healthcare of the individual, is compiled and converted to a one or more sets of leading indicators with respect to one or more possible future healthcare actions. Leading indicators may then be compiled into one or more condition state vectors that represent encoded inputs into one or more trained action prediction agents. The trained action prediction agents then generate, possibly in real-time or based on time-series data, predicted actions that may be required at a predicted point-of-care or a moment-of-care. Further, action prediction agents may be context or domain specific.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Soon-Shiong, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20240009558
    Abstract: One exemplary aspect relates to normalizing latency in a networking environment to reduce the chances of creating an unfair advantage. While an exemplary aspect will be discussed in relation to a gaming environment, it is to be appreciated that the techniques disclosed herein can be applied to other environments where latency normalization or the ability to maintain latency between various endpoints is desired. For example, other environments include eSporting, on-line betting, fantasy esports, streaming services, etc. Some more specific examples include World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, H1Z1®, PUBG®, Fortnite®, Realm Royale®, Planet Side 2®, real-time strategy games, slot machines, electronic poker tournaments, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Soon-Shiong, John Wiacek, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20230421447
    Abstract: Resource command messages comprise commands and command urgency or importance information that is interpreted by a resource device and is coupled with information relating to the resource device to determine when to process the command within the resource command message. Resource devices comprising a plurality of resource nodes provide increased performance, responsiveness, and load balancing by multiple resource nodes processing the same resource command message in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Rateze Remote Mgmt. L.L.C.
    Inventors: Mark A. Adams, Thomas Earl Ludwig, Charles William Frank, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Patent number: 11848822
    Abstract: Resource command messages comprise commands and command urgency or importance information that is interpreted by a resource device and is coupled with information relating to the resource device to determine when to process the command within the resource command message. Resource devices comprising a plurality of resource nodes provide increased performance, responsiveness, and load balancing by multiple resource nodes processing the same resource command message in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Rateze Remote Mgmt. L.L.C.
    Inventors: Mark A. Adams, Thomas Earl Ludwig, Charles William Frank, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Patent number: 11837027
    Abstract: An activity recognition system is disclosed. A plurality of temporal features is generated from a digital representation of an observed activity using a feature detection algorithm. An observed activity graph comprising one or more clusters of temporal features generated from the digital representation is established, wherein each one of the one or more clusters of temporal features defines a node of the observed activity graph. At least one contextually relevant scoring technique is selected from similarity scoring techniques for known activity graphs, the at least one contextually relevant scoring technique being associated with activity ingestion metadata that satisfies device context criteria defined based on device contextual attributes of the digital representation, and a similarity activity score is calculated for the observed activity graph as a function of the at least one contextually relevant scoring technique, the similarity activity score being relative to at least one known activity graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Kamil Wnuk, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Patent number: 11806618
    Abstract: One exemplary aspect relates to normalizing latency in a networking environment to reduce the chances of creating an unfair advantage. While an exemplary aspect will be discussed in relation to a gaming environment, it is to be appreciated that the techniques disclosed herein can be applied to other environments where latency normalization or the ability to maintain latency between various endpoints is desired. For example, other environments include eSporting, on-line betting, fantasy esports, streaming services, etc. Some more specific examples include World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, H1Z1®, PUBG®, Fortnite®, Realm Royale®, Planet Side 2®, real-time strategy games, slot machines, electronic poker tournaments, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Soon-Shiong, John Wiacek, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Patent number: 11798244
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods of context-based management of tokens are described. In an example, a geographical location of a device is used as one possible context. This location can correspond to a physical location associated with an AR virtual object container. This container can be associated with a set of virtual object container information applicable to the context, such as to the device's location. Based on separately maintained virtual object information, virtual objects to be shown as being available from the container are determined. Each of such virtual objects can be associated with a set of tokens. In an AR session, the container and the virtual objects are presented. An interaction with the container or a virtual object can result in associating a relevant set of tokens with a user account by recording information about the container, the virtual object, the user account, and/or the context(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Witchey, John Wiacek, Jake Fyfe, Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Patent number: 11758411
    Abstract: In some aspects, there is provided a method. The method may include selecting a first antenna coupled to a first transceiver at a first vehicle; determining a configuration of a first beam pattern emanated by the first antenna; and reconfiguring, based on the configuration of the first beam pattern and a beam tracking packet, the first antenna to provide a beam tracking of the first beam pattern. The first beam pattern may be associated with a wireless communication link to an object proximate to the first vehicle, which may be a second vehicle or a stationary object. Reconfiguring the first antenna may be further based on a steering angle associated with the first antenna and a distance between the first vehicle and the object proximate to the first vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Guerena, John Wiacek, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20230281811
    Abstract: A device includes software instructions for a circular plot analysis agent and at least one circular plot definition. The circular plot analysis agent obtains a digital image of a circular plot, detects a perimeter of the circular plot within the digital image, detects a plurality of edges within the perimeter, identifies a set of endpoints on the perimeter as a function of the plurality of edges, generates a plot descriptor from the set of endpoints, and initiates a transaction with a second device as a function of the plot descriptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLC
    Inventors: Carla W. Balch, Nicholas J. Witchey