Patents by Inventor Ricardo G. Herrmann

Ricardo G. Herrmann 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: 9582574
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for summarizing, displaying, and navigating content. In one embodiment, text content is parsed to generate representative terms that are linked to portions of the text content to which they correspond. The representative terms can be provided to a user alongside the text content to provide an up-to-date navigable overview of the text content for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Carlos H. Cardonha, Ricardo G. Herrmann, Mateus M. Motta, Nicole B. Sultanum
  • Publication number: 20160196237
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for summarizing, displaying, and navigating content. In one embodiment, text content is parsed to generate representative terms that are linked to portions of the text content to which they correspond. The representative terms can be provided to a user alongside the text content to provide an up-to-date navigable overview of the text content for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Carlos H. Cardonha, Ricardo G. Herrmann, Mateus M. Motta, Nicole B. Sultanum
  • Patent number: 8812243
    Abstract: A method, computer product and computer system of transmitting a compressed genome of an organism: a computer at a source reading an uncompressed sequence and a reference genome from a repository; the computer comparing nucleotides of the genetic sequence of the organism to nucleotides from a reference genome, to find differences where nucleotides of the genetic sequence of the organism which are different from the nucleotides of the reference genome; the computer using the differences to create surprisal data, the surprisal data comprising a starting location of the differences within the reference genome, and the nucleotides from the genetic sequence of the organism which are different from the nucleotides of the reference genome; and the computer transmitting, to a destination, a compressed genome comprising: surprisal data and an indication of the reference genome, discarding sequences of nucleotides that are the same in the sequence of the organism and reference genome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Carlos H. Cardonha, Robert R. Friedlander, Ricardo G. Herrmann, James R. Kraemer, Julio Nogima