Patents by Inventor Robert K. Parkin

Robert K. Parkin 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: 10832268
    Abstract: In an aspect of the invention, a computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device via computer network, a plurality of session data records indicating computer network browsing activity between a plurality of client devices and a merchant server hosting an online store; aggregating, by the computing device, a subset of the plurality of session data records for a single product, of a plurality of products, identified in the session data records and offered for purchase by the online store; extracting, by the computing device, features from the aggregated subset of session data records relating to customer demand for a the single product; modeling, by the computing device, customer demand for the single product based on the extracted features; optimizing, by the computing device, a price for the single product based on results of the modeling; and publishing, by the computing device, the optimized price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norbert M. Binkiewicz, Junlei Chen, Elizabeth J. Chester, Prafulla N. Dawadi, Robert K. Parkin, Emrah Zarifoglu
  • Patent number: 10769658
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide approaches for detecting anomalies in electronic communications. Specifically, a set of response metrics is obtained from each of a plurality of communications. Each of the plurality of communications is part of a communications batch. Based on an aggregation of the response metric over the plurality of communications, a response metric value for one or more of the set of response metrics is computed. This response metric value is compared to a predicted metric value corresponding to the response metric. Based on this comparison, it is determined whether the response metric value is anomalous. If the response metric value is anomalous, a remediation activity is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michelle L. Carlough, Christopher M. Curtin, Robert K. Parkin, Joshua P. Schiffman, Zuochun Tang, Richard T. Winchell
  • Publication number: 20180204233
    Abstract: In an aspect of the invention, a computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device via computer network, a plurality of session data records indicating computer network browsing activity between a plurality of client devices and a merchant server hosting an online store; aggregating, by the computing device, a subset of the plurality of session data records for a single product, of a plurality of products, identified in the session data records and offered for purchase by the online store; extracting, by the computing device, features from the aggregated subset of session data records relating to customer demand for a the single product; modeling, by the computing device, customer demand for the single product based on the extracted features; optimizing, by the computing device, a price for the single product based on results of the modeling; and publishing, by the computing device, the optimized price.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Norbert M. Binkiewicz, Junlei Chen, Elizabeth J. Chester, Prafulla N. Dawadi, Robert K. Parkin, Emrah Zarifoglu
  • Publication number: 20180096384
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide approaches for detecting anomalies in electronic communications. Specifically, a set of response metrics is obtained from each of a plurality of communications. Each of the plurality of communications is part of a communications batch. Based on an aggregation of the response metric over the plurality of communications, a response metric value for one or more of the set of response metrics is computed. This response metric value is compared to a predicted metric value corresponding to the response metric. Based on this comparison, it is determined whether the response metric value is anomalous. If the response metric value is anomalous, a remediation activity is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Michelle L. Carlough, Christopher M. Curtin, Robert K. Parkin, Joshua P. Schiffman, Zuochun Tang, Richard T. Winchell