Patents by Inventor Robert Wohlers

Robert Wohlers 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: 11544584
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for accessing an internal database that includes at least one payroll database, identifying an individual, a first location, a second location, a future date, and a time of day. Responsive to identifying the individual, the first location, the second location, the date, and the time of day, determining a predicted travel time for the individual between the first location and the second location at the time of day on the future date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: ADP, Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt Newman, Debashis Ghosh, Robert Wohlers
  • Patent number: 11144938
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product that aggregates data regarding a plurality of factors correlated with demographic parameters; performs iterative analysis on the data using machine learning to construct a predictive model of purchasing propensity; populates, using the predictive model, a database with predicted values of spending propensity for selected demographic parameters; converts the predicted values of spending propensity in the database into percentages of observed values of spending propensity for a selected group of people within the selected demographic parameters over a specified time period to create indices of spending propensity; and rank orders the people within the selected group according to their indices of spending propensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: ADP, LLC
    Inventors: Kurt Newman, Debashis Ghosh, Robert Wohlers
  • Patent number: 10990990
    Abstract: A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for predicting changes in market dynamics for a geographic region. A computer system identifies human resource data regarding employees of organizations. The human resource data comprises geolocation data based at least partially on a geolocation of the organization and geolocations of the employees. The computer system generates a plurality of location aggregates for different combinations of dimensions of the human resource data across a plurality of different geolocations. The computer system identifies a set of matched markets for a particular geographic region based on similarities among facts for the different combinations of dimensions among the plurality of location aggregates. The computer system identifies a predicted change in market dynamics for the particular geographic region based on a change in market dynamics for the set of matched markets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: ADP, LLC
    Inventors: Kurt Newman, Debashis Ghosh, Robert Wohlers
  • Patent number: 10964128
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing an amount of resources required for address validation. An address validation program running on a processor unit configures a tax information table in a payroll database to have an authorization column indicating whether an employee having data in a row of the tax information table has authorized release of data in the row; receives a validation request for at least one validated address entered in one or more request fields in a graphical user interface connected to the processor unit; searches only rows having an indication of authorization in the authorization column of the tax information table; and responsive to finding at least one current address in the tax information table, displays the at least one current address in one or more response fields of the graphical user interface as the at least one validated address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: ADP, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Wohlers, Kurt Newman, Debashis Ghosh
  • Patent number: 10853827
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for research in a double-blind framework, links, by a data processing system, a double-blind framework application to an intra-network database, provides a double-blind framework portal linked to the double-blind framework application, and responsive to a request entered on the double-blind framework portal, provides to a requestor, responses to research surveys directed to an audience selected from the intra-network database based on an intra-change system. The intra-network database comprises a database of entities and employees of the entities that have opted-in to an intra-change system. The intra-change system provides financial incentives to the entities and employees by sharing a fee paid by the requestor for each research survey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: ADP, LLC
    Inventors: Debashis Ghosh, Kurt D. Newman, Robert Wohlers
  • Patent number: 10839387
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for automatically causing an action to be performed and a payment for the action to be made in a blockchain environment. The blockchain environment receives a transaction. The transaction is configured to activate a smart contract. In response to being activated by the transaction, the smart contract issues a message within the blockchain environment. The message causes the action to be performed at a location device and an indication of the payment for the action to be rendered on a display of a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: ADP, LLC
    Inventors: Kurt Newman, Debashis Ghosh, Robert Wohlers
  • Publication number: 20200226591
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for automatically causing an action to be performed and a payment for the action to be made in a blockchain environment. The blockchain environment receives a transaction. The transaction is configured to activate a smart contract. In response to being activated by the transaction, the smart contract issues a message within the blockchain environment. The message causes the action to be performed at a location device and an indication of the payment for the action to be rendered on a display of a device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Kurt Newman, Debashis Ghosh, Robert Wohlers
  • Publication number: 20200051098
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product that aggregates data regarding a plurality of factors correlated with demographic parameters; performs iterative analysis on the data using machine learning to construct a predictive model of purchasing propensity; populates, using the predictive model, a database with predicted values of spending propensity for selected demographic parameters; converts the predicted values of spending propensity in the database into percentages of observed values of spending propensity for a selected group of people within the selected demographic parameters over a specified time period to create indices of spending propensity; and rank orders the people within the selected group according to their indices of spending propensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Kurt Newman, Debashis Ghosh, Robert Wohlers
  • Publication number: 20200050972
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product that aggregates sample payroll data regarding a plurality of factors associated with take home pay; performs iterative analysis on the data using machine learning to construct a predictive model; populates, using the predictive model, a database with predicted values of take home pay for selected populations; converts the predicted values take home pay in the database into percentages of observed values of take home pay for the selected populations over a specified time period to create indices of take home pay; and rank orders the selected populations according to their indices of take home pay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Kurt Newman, Debashis Ghosh, Robert Wohlers
  • Publication number: 20200035043
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing an amount of resources required for address validation. An address validation program running on a processor unit configures a tax information table in a payroll database to have an authorization column indicating whether an employee having data in a row of the tax information table has authorized release of data in the row; receives a validation request for at least one validated address entered in one or more request fields in a graphical user interface connected to the processor unit; searches only rows having an indication of authorization in the authorization column of the tax information table; and responsive to finding at least one current address in the tax information table, displays the at least one current address in one or more response fields of the graphical user interface as the at least one validated address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Wohlers, Kurt Newman, Debashis Ghosh
  • Publication number: 20190385179
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for research in a double-blind framework, links, by a data processing system, a double-blind framework application to an intra-network database, provides a double-blind framework portal linked to the double-blind framework application, and responsive to a request entered on the double-blind framework portal, provides to a requestor, responses to research surveys directed to an audience selected from the intra-network database based on an intra-change system. The intra-network database comprises a database of entities and employees of the entities that have opted-in to an intra-change system. The intra-change system provides financial incentives to the entities and employees by sharing a fee paid by the requestor for each research survey.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Debashis Ghosh, Kurt D. Newman, Robert Wohlers
  • Publication number: 20190385241
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product pays a bill payment amount for an employee from a non-payroll account prior to a payroll payment date of the employee, and deducts on the payroll payment date of the employee from a payroll payment amount of the employee, the bill payment amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Kurt D. Newman, Debashis Ghosh, Robert Wohlers
  • Publication number: 20190325465
    Abstract: A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for predicting changes in market dynamics for a geographic region. A computer system identifies human resource data regarding employees of organizations. The human resource data comprises geolocation data based at least partially on a geolocation of the organization and geolocations of the employees. The computer system generates a plurality of location aggregates for different combinations of dimensions of the human resource data across a plurality of different geolocations. The computer system identifies a set of matched markets for a particular geographic region based on similarities among facts for the different combinations of dimensions among the plurality of location aggregates. The computer system identifies a predicted change in market dynamics for the particular geographic region based on a change in market dynamics for the set of matched markets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Kurt Newman, Debashis Ghosh, Robert Wohlers
  • Publication number: 20190294979
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for accessing an internal database that includes at least one payroll database, identifying an individual, a first location, a second location, a future date, and a time of day. Responsive to identifying the individual, the first location, the second location, the date, and the time of day, determining a predicted travel time for the individual between the first location and the second location at the time of day on the future date.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Kurt Newman, Debashis Ghosh, Robert Wohlers
  • Publication number: 20060136524
    Abstract: The present invention relates to summarizing cross-network user behavioral data and further relates to restoring damaged data structures, either data structures summarizing cross-network user behavioral data or data structures remotely identifying to logic running on a user computer. The summarizing cross-network user behavioral data may particularly include publishing the data to one or more data structures that become accessible to a server hosting an authorized domain when a user accesses the authorized domain. The restoring of damaged data structures may particularly include automatically detecting deletion of or damaged to data structures and restoring the damaged data structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Applicant: Claria Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Wohlers, Scott Eagle, Marc Silverberg, Richard Mora, Anthony Martin, David Goulden