Patents by Inventor Nixon Cheaz
Nixon Cheaz 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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Publication number: 20240086546Abstract: Techniques are described with respect to a system, method, and computer product for privatizing media feeds. An associated method includes receiving a plurality of media data. The method further includes monitoring the plurality of media data, determining at least one vulnerable segment of the plurality of media data, and modifying the at least one vulnerable segment based on the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Nixon Cheaz, Chinh Vien Hoang, VINCE SIU, Steve Martinelli, Lisa Beth Lurie, William Troy Cochran, James Ransom Talton
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Patent number: 11647257Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for playing a video recording that includes captions, wherein each caption includes a textual transcription of an audio portion of the video, a description of non-speech elements of the video, or both, is provided. The present invention may include rendering a video, identifying a first portion of the video that includes a first caption, and, in response to identifying the first portion of the video, estimating a second time period for a particular user to read and understand text in the first caption. The present invention may further include determining whether the second time period for the particular user to read and understand text in the first caption is greater than the first time period for rendering the first portion of the video. The present invention may lastly include pausing the video for a third time period.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Troy Cochran, Nixon Cheaz, James Talton
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Publication number: 20230095215Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product mitigate the impact of broken web links. The method includes receiving a web link request from a source website. The web link request includes a broken URL. The method also includes determining an intent of the web link request. In addition, the method includes selecting a relevant substitute webpage, wherein the relevant substitute webpage includes an address, based on the determined intent. Lastly, the method includes routing the web link request to the address of the relevant substitute webpage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Nixon Cheaz, Rosemary Lucille Ray, Partho Ghosh, Sergio Escalante
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Publication number: 20230092553Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure include a recall notification method, a method for communicating an action to be performed by a device, and a method of operating a relay service by a network device. One embodiment of the recall notification method may comprise periodically transmitting, by a network interface of a medical device implanted in a user's body, a poll request to a recall service endpoint. The method may further comprise receiving, by the network interface in response to the poll request, a recall notification; and in response to receiving the recall notification, directly notifying the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Nixon Cheaz, Vince Siu, Clayton M. Billups, Jian Zhang
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Patent number: 11382159Abstract: An emergency token for one-time, highly restricted, access to an arbitrary WiFi network, while maintaining full network security and integrity, is disclosed. When an IoT medical device (IMD) detects failure in the IMD, or detects the patient having a medical emergency, IMD detects local active WiFi networks, and attempts connecting to a monitoring center through one of the networks. If the network is password protected, the connection may fail. The IMD retries the connection request using factory-installed one-time use token that is only for emergency calls only. If successful, the IMD sends an emergency message to the monitoring center, which dispatches emergency responder to the location of the IMD. Monitoring center invalidates the token with the central on-line token registrar when both the IMD and the monitoring center acknowledges that the notification is successful. A person having the proper security authorization can install a new one-time use token.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nixon Cheaz, Barton Clark Vashaw, Tomas Znamenacek, Jian Zhang, Nanditha Sivashankar, Chinh Vien Hoang, Clayton M. Billups
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Publication number: 20220141541Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for playing a video recording that includes captions, wherein each caption includes a textual transcription of an audio portion of the video, a description of non-speech elements of the video, or both, is provided. The present invention may include rendering a video, identifying a first portion of the video that includes a first caption, and, in response to identifying the first portion of the video, estimating a second time period for a particular user to read and understand text in the first caption. The present invention may further include determining whether the second time period for the particular user to read and understand text in the first caption is greater than the first time period for rendering the first portion of the video. The present invention may lastly include pausing the video for a third time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Troy Cochran, Nixon Cheaz, James Talton
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Publication number: 20210289576Abstract: An emergency token for one-time, highly restricted, access to an arbitrary WiFi network, while maintaining full network security and integrity, is disclosed. When an IoT medical device (MD) detects failure in the IMD, or detects the patient having a medical emergency, IMD detects local active WiFi networks, and attempts connecting to a monitoring center through one of the networks. If the network is password protected, the connection may fail. The IMD retries the connection request using factory-installed one-time use token that is only for emergency calls only. If successful, the IMD sends an emergency message to the monitoring center, which dispatches emergency responder to the location of the IMD. Monitoring center invalidates the token with the central on-line token registrar when both the IMD and the monitoring center acknowledges that the notification is successful. A person having the proper security authorization can install a new one-time use token.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Nixon Cheaz, Barton Clark Vashaw, Tomas Znamenacek, Jian Zhang, Nanditha Sivashankar, Chinh Vien Hoang, Clayton M. Billups
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Patent number: 11042622Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method, computer system, and computer program product for biometric-enhanced virtual reality experience modification. One or more ocular scans of a user are conducted using a sensor, wherein at least one scan within the one or more conducted ocular scans is a pupil scan. A plurality of pupillometry data is associated with the user based on the one or more conducted ocular scans. A plurality of user information is inferred by the plurality of gathered pupillometry data. The virtual environment is modified based on the plurality of inferred information.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nixon Cheaz, Anthony M. Diaz, Michael E. Head, Jordana H. Kerr
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Patent number: 10988143Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for cloud integration for autonomous vehicles is provided. An embodiment may include receiving a location for the autonomous vehicle from a global positioning system, may also include determining a rule area in which the autonomous vehicle is located based on the received location, may include identifying a traffic rule set associated with the determined rule area, may also include, in response to determining that the identified traffic rule set is not available for the determined rule area, transmitting a manual mode alert to a user, and may include enabling a manual mode in the autonomous vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nixon Cheaz, Anthony Diaz, Richard Gebhardt, Ashrith Shetty, Rohit Shetty
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Patent number: 10899344Abstract: A method and system enabling a process for preventing a vehicular accident is provided. The method includes continuously monitoring vehicular impact conditions associated with a vehicle in motion. In response, an imminent impact event associated with the vehicle in motion and an external object is detected and a surface of a roadway below the vehicle in motion is scanned by sensors of the vehicle. Results of the scanning indicate that the roadway surface is safe for deployment of a destructive friction based braking mechanism of the vehicle. The destructive friction based braking mechanism is deployed with respect to a first braking force threshold and it is determined if rate of speed decrease exceeds a specified speed decrease threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nixon Cheaz, Anthony Diaz, Michael E. Head, Jordana H. Kerr, Rohit Shetty
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Patent number: 10778888Abstract: A camera selection system and method for automatically selecting an appropriate camera to use for capturing photos and videos is provided. The method includes the steps of detecting that a camera application has been opened, activating a first camera and a second camera of the mobile device, analyzing a feed received from the first camera and a feed received from the second camera to detect whether a face is present in a field of view of the first camera or the second camera, determining that the user intends to use the first camera based on a detection of the face in the field of view of the first camera, deactivating the second camera in response to the determining and displaying the feed received from the first camera on the main display of the mobile device for viewing by the user while using the camera application.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nixon Cheaz, Anthony M. Diaz, Richard A. Gebhardt, Rohit Shetty
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Patent number: 10625733Abstract: A method for the delayed parking optimization of an autonomous vehicle includes activating a delayed parking optimization mode in a vehicle and, during the delayed parking optimization mode, detecting a presence of one or more passengers in the vehicle. On condition that no further passengers are detected in the vehicle, a delay period is initiated subsequent to which the vehicle engages the transmission of the vehicle from park to reverse, applies power to cause the vehicle to back out of the parking spot onto the roadway, engages the transmission into drive, applies power and manages steering and braking of the vehicle in order to navigate the vehicle forward on the roadway beyond the parking spot, engages the transmission into reverse, applies power and manages steering of the vehicle to cause the vehicle to back into the parking spot and engages the transmission of the vehicle into park.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nixon Cheaz, Anthony Diaz, Michael E. Head, Jordana H. Kerr
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Patent number: 10620011Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining, by one or more processor, one or more vehicle parameter of first and second moving vehicles; processing, by the one or more processor, the one or more vehicle parameter of first and second moving vehicles to determine rendezvous point information; outputting, by the one or more processor, data of the rendezvous point information to the first and second moving vehicles; and repeating, by the one or more processor, the obtaining, the processing and the outputting.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Nixon Cheaz, William T. Cochran, Anthony M. Diaz, Bradley M. Segobiano
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Patent number: 10602462Abstract: Mitigating channel congestion, or crowding, that degrades the performance capabilities of a venue-provided access point, or hotspot, can include identifying, with a mobile communication device, the venue-provided access point. Additionally, mitigating channel congestion can also include establishing a mobile hotspot with the mobile communication device. The mobile communication device can establish the mobile hotspot on a channel different from a channel used by the venue-provided access point. Mitigating channel congestion can also include reducing a signal radius of the mobile communication device by reducing transmission power of the mobile communication device.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Nixon Cheaz, Akanksha Pramod Joshi, Ariel Borochov, Sarah L. Talty, Nanditha Sivashankar
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Patent number: 10547801Abstract: Detection of an image obstruction is facilitated by, in part, obtaining multiple frames of an image being captured via an imaging device, and confirming movement of the imaging device between the multiple frames. The movement causes perspective shifting of the image between frames and the perspective shifting results in one or more objects of the image shifting between frames. The detection process determines whether an edge object within the multiple frames does not shift in a manner corresponding to the one or more objects between the multiple frames, and based, at least in part, on determining that the edge object does not shift in the corresponding manner to the one or more objects, identifying the edge object as an image obstruction. Presence of the identified image obstruction is signaled to facilitate corrective action being taken.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Nixon Cheaz, Anthony Diaz, Rohit Shetty, Richard A. Gebhardt
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Publication number: 20190387159Abstract: A camera selection system and method for automatically selecting an appropriate camera to use for capturing photos and videos is provided. The method includes the steps of detecting that a camera application has been opened, activating a first camera and a second camera of the mobile device, analyzing a feed received from the first camera and a feed received from the second camera to detect whether a face is present in a field of view of the first camera or the second camera, determining that the user intends to use the first camera based on a detection of the face in the field of view of the first camera, deactivating the second camera in response to the determining and displaying the feed received from the first camera on the main display of the mobile device for viewing by the user while using the camera application.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Nixon Cheaz, Anthony M. Diaz, Richard A. Gebhardt, Rohit Shetty
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Publication number: 20190340345Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method, computer system, and computer program product for biometric-enhanced virtual reality experience modification. One or more ocular scans of a user are conducted using a sensor, wherein at least one scan within the one or more conducted ocular scans is a pupil scan. A plurality of pupillometry data is associated with the user based on the one or more conducted ocular scans. A plurality of user information is inferred by the plurality of gathered pupillometry data. The virtual environment is modified based on the plurality of inferred information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Nixon Cheaz, Anthony M. Diaz, Michael E. Head, Jordana H. Kerr
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Patent number: 10440261Abstract: A camera selection system and method for automatically selecting an appropriate camera to use for capturing photos and videos is provided. The method includes the steps of detecting that a camera application has been opened, activating a first camera and a second camera of the mobile device, analyzing a feed received from the first camera and a feed received from the second camera to detect whether a face is present in a field of view of the first camera or the second camera, determining that the user intends to use the first camera based on a detection of the face in the field of view of the first camera, deactivating the second camera in response to the determining and displaying the feed received from the first camera on the main display of the mobile device for viewing by the user while using the camera application.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nixon Cheaz, Anthony M. Diaz, Richard A. Gebhardt, Rohit Shetty
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Patent number: 10423714Abstract: Some examples described are directed to operations performed by a processor of a computer system to receive text data corresponding to a piece of text (e.g., a text string) displayable via a display device. The processor can further perform operations to determine, based on evaluation of the text data using text-filtering logic, that a revision condition exists for at least a portion of the piece of text. The processor can further perform operations to, in response to determination that the revision condition exists, determine, for a display data set corresponding to the piece of text, to either not display the at least the portion of the piece of text or display a modified form of the at least the portion of the piece of text. The processor can further perform operations to, present, via the display device, a display (e.g., a graphical-user-interface object) corresponding to the display data set.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Diane C. Chalmers, Nixon Cheaz, Andrew J. Ivory, David M. Stecher
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Patent number: 10386923Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method, computer system, and computer program product for biometric-enhanced virtual reality experience modification. One or more ocular scans of a user are conducted using a sensor, wherein at least one scan within the one or more conducted ocular scans is a pupil scan. A plurality of pupillometry data is associated with the user based on the one or more conducted ocular scans. A plurality of user information is inferred by the plurality of gathered pupillometry data. The virtual environment is modified based on the plurality of inferred information.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nixon Cheaz, Anthony M. Diaz, Michael E. Head, Jordana H. Kerr