Patents by Inventor Nicholas S. Kersting

Nicholas S. Kersting 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: 11646894
    Abstract: A method for securely broadcasting information to a group of undisclosed recipients. The information in an information system is encoded by applying a hash function to a group of messages to form the information stream, wherein portions of the information in the information stream are intended for respective ones of the group of undisclosed recipients. The information is encoded such that that only an intended recipient can decode a portion of the information intended for the intended recipient. The information stream is broadcasted to the group of undisclosed recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas S. Kersting, Bodhisatwa Sadhu
  • Patent number: 11080341
    Abstract: The present application relates to systems for generating new variants from an existing corpus of documents and methods for using the same. The systems and methods generally comprise a corpus of documents and one or more types of variety provided by a user. The system generates one or more documents that are variants of the documents in the corpus of documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas S. Kersting, Michael P. Perrone, Jerome L. Quinn
  • Patent number: 10922365
    Abstract: Methods and systems for matching users include measuring a biometric state of a first user. The biometric state of the first user is matched to a set of biometric states of respective other users. The set of biometric states is limited in accordance with user preferences including how recently each biometric state was measured. A real-time connection is formed with a second user from the limited set of biometric states having a best match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Maryam Ashoori, Nicholas S. Kersting, Clifford A. Pickover
  • Publication number: 20200004828
    Abstract: The present application relates to systems for generating new variants from an existing corpus of documents and methods for using the same. The systems and methods generally comprise a corpus of documents and one or more types of variety provided by a user. The system generates one or more documents that are variants of the documents in the corpus of documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Nicholas S. Kersting, Michael P. Perrone, Jerome L. Quinn
  • Patent number: 10305765
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer-implemented method for communicating a reference code for a transaction. The method monitors a communication session conducted between a user and an agent via a communication channel, extracts user and channel properties from the monitored communication session, selects a reference code from a set of references codes stored on a database, in which the selection is based at least in part on the extracted communication channel properties and the extracted user properties, and then communicates the selected reference code to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Church, Martin Franz, Nicholas S. Kersting, Jeffrey S. McCarley, Jason W. Pelecanos, Weizhong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20190132132
    Abstract: A method for securely broadcasting information to a group of undisclosed recipients. The information in an information system is encoded by applying a hash function to a group of messages to form the information stream, wherein portions of the information in the information stream are intended for respective ones of the group of undisclosed recipients. The information is encoded such that that only an intended recipient can decode a portion of the information intended for the intended recipient. The information stream is broadcasted to the group of undisclosed recipients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Nicholas S. Kersting, Bodhisatwa Sadhu
  • Publication number: 20190028370
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer-implemented method for communicating a reference code for a transaction. The method monitors a communication session conducted between a user and an agent via a communication channel, extracts user and channel properties from the monitored communication session, selects a reference code from a set of references codes stored on a database, in which the selection is based at least in part on the extracted communication channel properties and the extracted user properties, and then communicates the selected reference code to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Church, Martin Franz, Nicholas S. Kersting, Jeffrey S. McCarley, Jason W. Pelecanos, Weizhong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20170076000
    Abstract: Methods and systems for matching users include measuring a biometric state of a first user. The biometric state of the first user is matched to a set of biometric states of respective other users. The set of biometric states is limited in accordance with user preferences including how recently each biometric state was measured. A real-time connection is formed with a second user from the limited set of biometric states having a best match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Maryam Ashoori, Nicholas S. Kersting, Clifford A. Pickover