Patents by Inventor Robert L. Angell
Robert L. Angell 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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Patent number: 8626505Abstract: A computer implemented method, system, and/or computer program product generates an audio cohort. Audio data from a set of audio sensors is received by an audio analysis engine. The audio data, which is associated with a plurality of objects, comprises a set of audio patterns. The audio data is processed to identify audio attributes associated with the plurality of objects to form digital audio data. This digital audio data comprises metadata that describes the audio attributes of the set of objects. A set of audio cohorts is generated using the audio attributes associated with the digital audio data and cohort criteria, where each audio cohort in the set of audio cohorts is a cohort of accompanied customers in a store, and where processing the audio data identifies a type of zoological creature that is accompanying each of the accompanied customers.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2012Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert L. Angell, Robert R. Friedlander, James R. Kraemer
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Publication number: 20130326372Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and/or computer program product manages data in a webpage. A processor receives an input to an input box located in a first webpage on a first network. This input is analyzed to determine whether there is match between a subject topic of the entered data and a first interest window on the first webpage, where the first interest window is reserved for data entries that are described by the subject topic. In response to a processor being unable to determine the subject topic of the entered data in the text entry box, the processor creates a new interest window in the first webpage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: ROBERT L. ANGELL, ROBERT R. FRIEDLANDER, RICHARD HENNESSY, JAMES R. KRAEMER, WILLIAM P. SHAOUY
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Publication number: 20130268530Abstract: A computer implemented method, system, and/or computer program product generates deportment and comportment cohorts. Digital sensor data comprises event metadata describes a set of events associated with an individual. Descriptive data about the individual is retrieved by data mining a combination of online sources and off-line sources. A set of conduct analysis models is selected based on event metadata and available description data. The event metadata and the description data are analyzed in the set of conduct analysis models to form a deportment and comportment cohort, where the deportment and comportment cohort comprises attributes identifying a demeanor and manner of the individual.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventors: ROBERT L. ANGELL, ROBERT R. FRIEDLANDER, JAMES R. KRAEMER
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Publication number: 20120265365Abstract: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product for adjusting cooling settings. The computer implemented method comprises analyzing a set of instructions of an application to determine a number of degrees by which a set of instructions will raise a temperature of at least one processor core. The computer implemented method further calculates a cooling setting for at least one cooling system for the at least one processor core. The computer implemented method adjusts the at least one cooling system based on the cooling setting. The step of analyzing the set of instructions is performed before the set of instructions is executed on the at least one processor core. The step of adjusting the at least one cooling system is performed before the set of instructions is executed on the at least one processor core.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2012Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Robert L. Angell, David W. Cosby, Robert R. Friedlander, James R. Kraemer
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Publication number: 20120139697Abstract: Biometric data, which identifies a set of biometric patterns, is received from a set of biometric sensors. The biometric data is processed to form digital biometric data that identifies attributes of the biometric data. Thereafter, a biometric cohort is generated using the digital biometric data. Each member of the set of biometric cohorts shares at least one biometric attribute in common.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: ROBERT L. ANGELL, ROBERT R. FRIEDLANDER, JAMES R. KRAEMER
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Patent number: 8145582Abstract: Generating synthetic events based on a vast amount of data. First and second data are received. The first data is organized into a first cohort. The second data is organized into a second cohort. The first cohort and the second cohort are processed to generate a synthetic event. The synthetic event comprises third data representing a result of a mathematical computation defined by S(p1)==>F(p2), wherein S comprises input facts with probability p1, wherein the input facts comprise the first cohort and the second cohort, and wherein F comprises an inferred event with probability p2. The term “event” means a particular set of data that represents, encodes, or records at least one of a thing or happening. Each of the first data, the second data, the first cohort, the second cohort, the synthetic event, and subcomponents thereof all comprise different events. The synthetic event is stored.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2008Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert L. Angell, Robert R. Friedlander, James R. Kraemer
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Patent number: 8004414Abstract: Material passing through a piping is laced with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. As the RFID tags pass an RFID sensor, which is either adjacent to or within the piping, a flow-rate of the material is determined by counting the rate at which the RFID tags pass the RFID sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2008Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert L. Angell, James R. Kraemer
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Patent number: 7965172Abstract: Toxic waste is laced with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. Subsequently, wherever the RFID tags are detected in an area, a conclusion is drawn that there is a presence, either past or present, of the toxic waste in the area.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2008Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert L. Angell, James R. Kraemer
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Publication number: 20110106722Abstract: An invention for comparing utility and warranty of services in an information (IT) stack is provided. Embodiments of this invention are directed to comparing utility and warranty of services in an information technology (IT) stack comprising a plurality of layers, at least one of the plurality of layers having a set of services. In these embodiments, a utility and warranty tool provides this capability. Specifically, the utility and warranty tool comprises a determination component configured to determine, at each layer of the IT stack, a required utility and warranty (RUW) value for each of the set of services, wherein the RUW value represents a desired solution for implementing a business process; and determine, at each layer of the IT stack, an available utility and warranty (AUW) value for each of the set of services, wherein the AUW value is a measure of an ability of each of the set of services to satisfy the RUW at each layer of the IT stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert L. Angell, Timothy Durniak, Robert R. Friedlander, James R. Kraemer
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Patent number: 7919326Abstract: A method of tracking a status of a catalytic process in a mixture incorporates the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags that have corrosive-sensitive coatings. The coatings are removable, by a corrosive in the mixture, at a rate that tracks with the rate at which a catalytic-driven process progresses. As coatings on the RFID tags are removed by the corrosive in the mixture, the digital signatures returned by the RFID tags change, in response to the corrosive damaging the RFID tags. By quantifying the number of damaged RFID tags, a determination can be made as to the progress status of the catalytic process.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2008Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert L. Angell, James R. Kraemer
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Publication number: 20110078250Abstract: A pass-through module in a blade chassis receives an incoming message that utilizes a transmission protocol from one of multiple transmission protocols. The pass-through module determines which of the multiple transmission protocols is used by the incoming message by: comparing a physical component of the transmission protocol used by the incoming message with known physical components of the multiple transmission protocols, and, if necessary, comparing a logical component of the transmission protocol used by the incoming message with known logical components of the multiple transmission protocols. The incoming message is then routed to an optimal blade that is specifically adapted to process messages that utilize the transmission protocol used by the incoming message.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: ROBERT L. ANGELL, DAVID W. COSBY, RICHARD J. DALLE-MOLLE, ROBERT R. FRIEDLANDER, JAMES R. KRAEMER, EDWARD S. SUFFERN
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Patent number: 7880611Abstract: Unpackaged bulk material is made up of components that have been laced with RFID tags. By interrogating the RFID tags, the different components are identified and quantified, thus providing a quick assay of the bulk material.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert L. Angell, James R. Kraemer
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Patent number: 7868768Abstract: A Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) is tracked using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. A bulk load of GMOs, which is intended for consumption by livestock only, is laced with RFID tags at or near a time of harvest. If the RFID tags appear in a product that is intended for human consumption, then the product is pulled from distribution, since it contains GMOs that are potentially harmful to humans if eaten.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2008Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert L. Angell, James R. Kraemer
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Patent number: 7843317Abstract: An electronic device has at least one component that is coated with a material that is non-persistent if exposed to a specific environmental condition. If the coating is stripped off by the specific environmental condition, the previously coated component's function is altered, causing a functionality of the electronic device to be altered.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2008Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert L. Angell, James R. Kraemer
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Patent number: 7839264Abstract: Unplanned waste stream diversions are detected through the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. Input bulk material coming into the facility is laced with multiple RFID tags, which are suspended in a colloidal state in the input bulk material. Incoming RFID tags are counted, and then re-counted as they leave the facility, either as part of a known waste material stream or as part of a finished product. If the incoming and outgoing counts differ, then a conclusion is reached that some of the incoming RFID tags are within an unplanned waste stream diversion.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2008Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert L. Angell, James R. Kraemer
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Patent number: 7791482Abstract: A material is laced with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags at a known concentration of RFID tags per unit of material. Subsequently, if an interrogation of the RFID tags reveals a reduced concentration of RFID tags in the material, then a conclusion is drawn that the material has been diluted.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2008Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert L. Angell, James R. Kraemer
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Publication number: 20090237250Abstract: A material is laced with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags at a known concentration of RFID tags per unit of material. Subsequently, if an interrogation of the RFID tags reveals a reduced concentration of RFID tags in the material, then a conclusion is drawn that the material has been diluted.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2008Publication date: September 24, 2009Inventors: Robert L. Angell, James R. Kraemer
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Publication number: 20090231149Abstract: Material passing through a piping is laced with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. As the RFID tags pass an RFID sensor, which is either adjacent to or within the piping, a flow-rate of the material is determined by counting the rate at which the RFID tags pass the RFID sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2008Publication date: September 17, 2009Inventors: Robert L. Angell, James R. Kraemer
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Publication number: 20090231127Abstract: A method of tracking a status of a catalytic process in a mixture incorporates the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags that have corrosive-sensitive coatings. The coatings are removable, by a corrosive in the mixture, at a rate that tracks with the rate at which a catalytic-driven process progresses. As coatings on the RFID tags are removed by the corrosive in the mixture, the digital signatures returned by the RFID tags change, in response to the corrosive damaging the RFID tags. By quantifying the number of damaged RFID tags, a determination can be made as to the progress status of the catalytic process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2008Publication date: September 17, 2009Inventors: Robert L. Angell, James R. Kraemer
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Publication number: 20090224915Abstract: Unplanned waste stream diversions are detected through the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. Input bulk material coming into the facility is laced with multiple RFID tags, which are suspended in a colloidal state in the input bulk material. Incoming RFID tags are counted, and then re-counted as they leave the facility, either as part of a known waste material stream or as part of a finished product. If the incoming and outgoing counts differ, then a conclusion is reached that some of the incoming RFID tags are within an unplanned waste stream diversion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2008Publication date: September 10, 2009Inventors: Robert L. Angell, James R. Kraemer