Patents by Inventor Robert E. Loredo

Robert E. Loredo 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: 11006250
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for ensuring that important messages are viewed by the intended recipient. A time-to-live pattern for a message identified as being important is determined for the target group, where the time-to-live pattern indicates a set of presentation criteria (e.g., impression analysis, such as the number of views of the message). The target group refers to the intended recipient(s) of the message identified as being important. The message is then monitored in the network environment with respect to the time-to-live pattern using the set of presentation criteria of the time-to-live pattern. An action (e.g., pinning the message for a period of time) may then be performed to increase the priority of the message for the target group if the time-to-live pattern has underachieved within a threshold period of time (i.e., has not met the requirements of the presentation criteria within the threshold period of time).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Thomas J. Evans, IV, Robert E. Loredo
  • Publication number: 20210133487
    Abstract: One or more processors access a plurality of messages from a discussion community and determine concept topics and metadata of the messages. A graph of the concept topics and messages is generated with messages and concept topics as nodes and connection strength between nodes as edges. Distances between nodes correspond to computed weights of edges. A low boundary distance threshold is calculated based on the aggregate distances between existing messages and concept topics of the graph. A distance is computed between new concept topics of a received message and existing messages and concept topics. A distance between the new concept topics of the received message and existing nodes is determined and compared to the boundary distance threshold of the graph, and responsive to determined distance falling below the boundary threshold, an action is performed to anchor the new concept topics of the received message in the discussion community.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Liam S. Harpur, Robert E. Loredo
  • Patent number: 10999225
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for ensuring that all users of a group message receive a response to the group message. The content of a detected group message is analyzed to determine if the group message requires a response and, if so, to assess the urgency of the response. If the analyzed group message requires a response, then a determination is made as to whether a response was received by all or a subset of the users of the group message (sender and recipients of the group message) within a threshold amount of time based on the urgency of the response. If the response was only received by a subset of the users of the group message, then the response is broadcasted to the other users of the group message who had not previously received the response if no confidential information is detected in the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Jana H. Jenkins, Robert E. Loredo, Fang Lu
  • Patent number: 10996741
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for interpreting conversation engagement is provided. The present invention may include receiving, by an augmented reality device, an input, wherein the augmented reality device is associated with a user. The present invention may also include processing the received input. The present invention may then include analyzing the input based on the processed input. The present invention may further include determining that the user is engaged in a conversation with an individual based on the analyzed input. The present invention may also include capturing a plurality of core parameters between the user and the individual based on the determined engaged conversation. The present invention may then include analyzing the captured plurality of core parameters. The present invention may further include delivering a representation of the analyzed plurality of core parameters to the user on the augmented reality device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo, SathyaNarayanan Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 10992906
    Abstract: A web conferencing system includes web conferencing server for outputting a visual presentation which includes a visual cue. The visual cue is linked with an executable action. A visual robot operated by the web conferencing server graphically recognizes the visual cue when the visual presentation is displayed in a web conference, and associates the visual cue with the executable action. The executable action is then executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo
  • Publication number: 20210110110
    Abstract: Interleaved conversation concept flow enhancement can include detecting a topic of an on-going conversation over an electronic communication system. In response to detecting a topic newly introduced into the on-going conversation, a topic-divergence metric (TDM) with respect to the original topic and the newly introduced topic can be determined. A topic-divergence response action can be initiated in response to the newly introduced topic diverging from the original topic by more than a predetermined threshold based on the TDM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Fang Lu, Robert E. Loredo, Matthew E. Broomhall
  • Publication number: 20210103381
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for displaying content without obscuring key details on a computer screen. After the computing system detects the display of overlapping application windows, objects in the application windows are detected using an object recognition service. A determination is then made as to which of these detected objects correspond to objects that are being focused by the user, will be focused by the user and/or have been focused by the user based on the tracking of the eye gaze of the user and/or prior recorded patterns of activity. A score may then be generated for each of these focused objects indicating a level of obstruction using the location of the focused objects, the location of overlays and/or prior recorded patterns of activity. An optimal layout of the overlapped application windows is determined in response to the score for the focused object(s) exceeding a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Robert E. Loredo, Matthew E. Broomhall
  • Patent number: 10972860
    Abstract: A system and method for responding to changes in social traffic in a geographic area receives, via an electronic communications interface, information describing a geographic area and one or more attributes of people expected to be in the geographic area. A geofence is defined based on the information describing the geographic area, and a cohort of people expected to be in the geofence is defined based on the one or more attributes. Information from a sensor regarding an attribute of a person at a geographic location is received via an electronic communications network. Based on the attribute, a determination is made whether or not the person is a member of the cohort of people expected to be in the geofence. An alert may be triggered based at least in part on whether or not the person is a member of the cohort of people expected to be in the geofence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo, Fang Lu
  • Patent number: 10956115
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for intelligently synchronizing exercise music for an instructor based group workout is provided. The present invention may include identifying at least one goal workout. The present invention may then include receiving a plurality of verbal cues associated with an instructor and a plurality of nonverbal cues associated with the instructor. The present invention may also include analyzing the received plurality of verbal cues and the received plurality of nonverbal cues. The present invention may further include generating the exercise music based on the analyzed plurality of verbal cues and analyzed plurality of nonverbal cues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo, Fang Lu
  • Publication number: 20210081850
    Abstract: A set of ticket transfer data associated with a user is monitored. A user profile to store the set of ticket transfer data is generated. A risk score for the user is calculated, based on the user profile. A ticket transfer attempt by the user is detected. Based on the risk score, the ticket transfer attempt is determined to meet a set of transfer criteria. The ticket is posted for transfer, and the user profile is updated, according to the ticket transfer attempt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Robert E. Loredo, Paul R. Bastide, Liam S. Harpur, Jonathan D. Dunne
  • Publication number: 20210083998
    Abstract: Machine logic rules for adding, or recommending to add, recipients for an e-message based at least in part upon historical data relating to e-message distribution and content; machine logic rules for add adding, or recommending to add, text to an e-message based at least in part upon historical data relating to e-message distribution and content; and/or machine logic rules for responding to (for example, replying, forwarding), or recommending to respond to, an e-message based at least in part upon historical data relating to e-message distribution and content. Historical data relating to e-message distribution and content may be structured in the form of graphs with nodes and connections among and between the nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Robert E. Loredo, Matthew E. Broomhall
  • Patent number: 10949779
    Abstract: Balancing a workload based on commitments to projects includes monitoring messages in a collaboration system, the messages representing correspondences between users of the collaboration system, selecting a number of the users associated with the collaboration system to form a group of users, retrieving the messages from each of the users in the group of users, analyzing data associated with the messages to determine which of the messages relate to at least one project, and executing, based on a threshold, at least one action to optimize a workload for at least one user in the group of users for the at least one project.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo, Dale M. Schultz, Shunguo Yan
  • Patent number: 10951566
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system processes messages and includes at least one processor. The system receives a message intended for a collection of messages having a common topic. The message is compared to the common topic of the collection of messages to determine relatedness of the message to the collection of messages. The presentation of the message is altered based on the comparing. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for processing messages in substantially the same manner described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Thomas J. Evans, IV, Robert E. Loredo
  • Patent number: 10942956
    Abstract: A system and method of detecting medical fraud using blockchains including receiving a prescription comprising first prescription data from a prescription entry device associated with an prescribing entity, generating a validation code for the prescription based on the first prescription data, adding the validation code to the first prescription data, appending the first prescription data including the validation code to a blockchain, and receiving a query associated with the prescription from a prescription verification device associated with a prescription dispensing entity. The query includes second prescription data. The method further includes comparing the first prescription data to the second prescription data, for example, using pixel comparison, determining based on the comparison that the prescription has been modified, and transmitting to the prescription verification device an indication that the prescription has been modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Jonathan Dunne, Liam Harpur, Robert E. Loredo
  • Patent number: 10936143
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system dynamically resizes one or more application windows displayed on one or more screens based on an interactive state associated with the one or more application windows. Initially, a processor displays a plurality of different windows associated with one or more corresponding applications and determines an interactive state associated with each of the plurality of different windows. The processor then analyzes the interactive states of each of the plurality of different windows and, in response, adjusts a size of one or more of the plurality of different windows in accordance with the determined interactive states. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for dynamically resizing one or more application windows based on the interactive states associated with the one or more application windows in substantially the same manner described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Jana H. Jenkins, Robert E. Loredo, Fang Lu
  • Patent number: 10936174
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for displaying content without obscuring key details on a computer screen. After the computing system detects the display of overlapping application windows, objects in the application windows are detected using an object recognition service. A determination is then made as to which of these detected objects correspond to objects that are being focused by the user, will be focused by the user and/or have been focused by the user based on the tracking of the eye gaze of the user and/or prior recorded patterns of activity. A score may then be generated for each of these focused objects indicating a level of obstruction using the location of the focused objects, the location of overlays and/or prior recorded patterns of activity. An optimal layout of the overlapped application windows is determined in response to the score for the focused object(s) exceeding a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Robert E. Loredo, Matthew E. Broomhall
  • Publication number: 20210056172
    Abstract: Interleaved conversation concept flow enhancement can include detecting a topic of an on-going conversation over an electronic communication system. In response to detecting a topic newly introduced into the on-going conversation, a topic-divergence metric (TDM) with respect to the original topic and the newly introduced topic can be determined. A topic-divergence response action can be initiated in response to the newly introduced topic diverging from the original topic by more than a predetermined threshold based on the TDM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Fang Lu, Robert E. Loredo, Matthew E. Broomhall
  • Patent number: 10929489
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for improving the discoverability of messages on a social network. The creation of a proposed message that requests a response from a target audience is detected. The social network is then searched to identify search terms and posts related to the proposed message. Upon identifying the search terms, the search terms are ranked in order of usage among the identified posts. A list of identified search terms in order of rank is then presented to the user to modify the proposed message. The proposed message is modified using a search term selected by the user from the list of search terms. The modified message is then posted on the social network. In this manner, the message created by the user has been modified to improve the discoverability of the message on the social network and to increase responses from an appropriate target audience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Thomas J. Evans, IV, Robert E. Loredo
  • Publication number: 20210050002
    Abstract: Structured conversation enhancement can include determining an anticipated ebb point of a current conversation. The determination can be made in response to a predetermined triggering event indicating a start of the current conversation. Structured conversation enhancement also can include monitoring the current conversation using pattern recognition. A probable change in the anticipated ebb point can be determined in response to recognizing a predetermined word pattern indicating a change in the conversation. A response action can be initiated in response to the probable change in the anticipated ebb point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Fang Lu, Robert E. Loredo, Matthew E. Broomhall
  • Publication number: 20210042677
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for evaluating team effectiveness and acting on one or more outliers based on the evaluated team effectiveness. The method retrieves electronic data of one or more users, wherein the electronic data comprises a plurality of electronic communications. The method further extracts one or more concepts and metadata from the retrieved electronic data. The method further determines one or more outliers based on the extracted one or more concepts and metadata, wherein the determined one or more outliers are based on one or more poorly connected concepts and one or more poorly connected users. The method further acts on the determined one or more outliers and displays a report based on the determined one or more outliers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Robert E. Loredo, Matthew E. Broomhall