Patents by Inventor Roman Vaculin

Roman Vaculin 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).

  • Publication number: 20170186047
    Abstract: A method for automatic placement opportunity bidding of digital advertising in a real-time advertisement exchange includes receiving a request for an ad placement opportunity from the exchange or a content publisher. The request includes information pertaining to a user who is presently viewing on-line content. Audience segments that the user belongs to are identified. An audience group is identified based on the audience segments. It is determined if a first and/or a second ad campaign of an advertiser should respond to the requests based on the identified audience group. When there is an audience conflict, it is resolved to identify one single ad campaign to respond to the placement opportunity request. The bid for the placement opportunity is submitted on behalf of the identified ad campaign.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: YING LI, PIETRO MAZZOLENI, PAVANKUMAR MURALI, ROMAN VACULIN
  • Publication number: 20170180799
    Abstract: A video personalizing method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium receiving user information for a viewer watching a first video, includes a video selection device configured to select a second video out of a plurality of videos stored in a video storing unit in order to increase a satisfaction of the viewer based on the user information collected while the viewer is watching the first video, where the satisfaction to the second video is observed and the selection by the video selection device is modified if a level of the satisfaction of the viewer towards the second video is less than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Kuntal Dey, Seema Nagar, Roman Vaculin
  • Publication number: 20170155971
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for A/B testing including a storage device storing a set of data, an input device receiving input from a sensor according to a review of composed set of data, a processor receiving an input signal from the input device, the input signal including a plurality of criteria noted according to a time of the composed set of data, the processor processing the first set of data according to a feedback of the input signal. The processor analyzes the input signal and extracts the plurality of criteria from the input signal as extracted information. The processor composes the set of data from the storage device according to the extracted information, and sends the composed set of data, time segment by time segment, to the input device according to the feedback of the input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Roman Vaculin, Kuntal Dey, Seema Nagar
  • Patent number: 9652676
    Abstract: A video personalizing method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium receiving user information for a viewer watching a first video, includes a biometric analyzing device configured to analyze the user information for biometric data, a viewer content analyzing device configured to analyze the user information for online content generated by the viewer in parallel to watching the first video, an expression analyzing device configured to analyze the user information for facial and eye reactions of the viewer, a text analyzing device configured to analyze the user information for text that the viewer reads, and a video selection device configured to select a second video out of a plurality of videos stored in a video storing unit in order to increase a satisfaction of the viewer based on the collective outputs the biometric analyzing device, the viewer content analyzing device, the expression analyzing device, and the text analyzing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuntal Dey, Seema Nagar, Roman Vaculin
  • Publication number: 20170064354
    Abstract: A method includes identifying, by a communication device, an audience including one or more viewers, generating a preference profile for the audience, correlating the generated preference profile to one or more social profiles, determining, based on the generated preference profile, the one or more social profiles, and a database of social influencers, a contextual influence, the contextual influence identifies and quantifies a possible reaction of the audience to a video content, computing a plurality of potential video advertisements from a plurality of video templates, the computing is based on the determination of the contextual influence, and ranking the computed plurality of potential video advertisements according to the contextual influence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kuntal Dey, Seema Nagar, Roman Vaculin
  • Patent number: 9565460
    Abstract: A method includes identifying, by a communication device, an audience including one or more viewers, generating a preference profile for the audience, correlating the generated preference profile to one or more social profiles, determining, based on the generated preference profile, the one or more social profiles, and a database of social influencers, a contextual influence, the contextual influence identifies and quantifies a possible reaction of the audience to a video content, computing a plurality of potential video advertisements from a plurality of video templates, the computing is based on the determination of the contextual influence, and ranking the computed plurality of potential video advertisements according to the contextual influence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kuntal Dey, Seema Nagar, Roman Vaculin
  • Publication number: 20170026974
    Abstract: A method includes the following steps. A request is received to locate one or more convenient communication devices for a recipient of an interaction request. A command is issued to search for the recipient at one or more communication devices. Information related to the recipient is received from the one or more communication devices. A convenience score is computed for each of the one or more communication devices based on the received information. The interaction request is forwarded to one of the one or more communication devices based on the one or more computed convenience scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Kuntal Dey, Seema Nagar, Roman Vaculin
  • Patent number: 9330420
    Abstract: A method and computer for managing analysis of sentiment is disclosed. A computer retrieves data used to perform the analysis of sentiment. The computer analyzes the data and the analysis of sentiment to determine if a gap exists requiring further processing to improve the analysis of sentiment. Responsive to a determination that the gap exists requiring further processing to improve the analysis of sentiment, the computer generates a task to address the gap. The computer then uses crowdsourcing to submit the generated task for processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng H. Bao, Yu Deng, Hong L. Guo, Qi Hu, Jim A. Laredo, Roman Vaculin, Maja Vukovic
  • Publication number: 20150242872
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing marketing impressions. An apparatus identifies utility of a seller and utility of a user. The apparatus generates an offer of a reward based on the utility of the seller and the utility of the user. The offer of the reward is for performing a social marketing task. The social marketing task is for generating a first number of marketing impressions to achieve a set of objectives of the seller. The apparatus activates the reward for the user when the social marketing task is completed. The social marketing task is completed when the apparatus determines that the user has accepted the offer and the performing of the social marketing task has generated the first number of marketing impressions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: International Buisness Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pietro Mazzoleni, Pavankumar Murali, Hironori Takeuchi, Roman Vaculin
  • Publication number: 20150046217
    Abstract: A method for identifying influence on user interest for products and ability of users and products to be influenced is disclosed. A processor identifies a degree of influence a number of influencers has over user interest for each of a number of products based on a history of user interest of a number of users for the number of products, wherein each influencer in the number of influencers as one of a user in the number of users and a product in the number of products. The processor also identifies a degree of ability of one or more of the number of users and the number of products to be influenced based on the degree of influence of each of the number of influencers and a number of relationships between the one or more of the number of users and the number of products and the number of influencers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Desmond, Natwar Modani, Seema Nagar, Harini Srinivasan, Roman Vaculin
  • Patent number: 8949104
    Abstract: The techniques provided herein include obtaining a model of an enterprise operation that specifies initiation and one or more evolution milestones of one or more business entities, formulating one or more performance metrics for the enterprise operation, wherein the one or more performance metrics are calculated from the one or more business entities, the one or more evolution milestones, and one or more relevant external events, and using the one or more business entities and one or more performance metrics to automatically create an executable performance monitoring model for the enterprise operation, wherein the executable performance monitoring model processes data in the one or more business entities, the one or more evolution milestones, and the one or more relevant external events to compute the one or more performance metrics for the enterprise operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jun-Jang Jeng, Rong Liu, Anil Nigam, Chian-Rou Shieh, Roman Vaculin, Frederick Wu, Zhe Shan
  • Publication number: 20140317118
    Abstract: A system and method to perform context aware sentiment analysis on a project that includes two or more aspects are described. The method includes identifying one or more inputs related to the project. The method also includes decomposing each of the one or more inputs, based on a content of the one or more comments, into at least one of the two or more aspects to generate one or more comment-aspect sets, each of the two or more aspects representing a context within the project, extracting opinions from each of the comment-aspect sets, and generating a disruptive argument based on the opinions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shenghua Bao, David L. Cohn, Yu Deng, HongLei Guo, Qi Hu, Richard B. Hull, Roman Vaculin
  • Publication number: 20140317089
    Abstract: A system and method to perform context aware sentiment analysis on a project that includes two or more aspects are described. The method includes identifying one or more inputs related to the project. The method also includes decomposing each of the one or more inputs, based on a content of the one or more comments, into at least one of the two or more aspects to generate one or more comment-aspect sets, each of the two or more aspects representing a context within the project, extracting opinions from each of the comment-aspect sets, and generating a disruptive argument based on the opinions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shenghua Bao, David L. Cohn, Yu Deng, HongLei Guo, Qi Hu, Richard B. Hull, Roman Vaculin
  • Publication number: 20140201251
    Abstract: A computer and computer program product for managing analysis of sentiment is disclosed. A computer retrieves data used to perform the analysis of sentiment. The computer analyzes the data and the analysis of sentiment to determine if a gap exists requiring further processing to improve the analysis of sentiment. Responsive to a determination that the gap exists requiring further processing to improve the analysis of sentiment, the computer generates a task to address the gap. The computer then uses crowdsourcing to submit the generated task for processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Yu Deng, Hong L. Guo, Qi Hu, Jim A. Laredo, Roman Vaculin, Maja Vukovic
  • Publication number: 20140201749
    Abstract: A method and computer for managing analysis of sentiment is disclosed. A computer retrieves data used to perform the analysis of sentiment. The computer analyzes the data and the analysis of sentiment to determine if a gap exists requiring further processing to improve the analysis of sentiment. Responsive to a determination that the gap exists requiring further processing to improve the analysis of sentiment, the computer generates a task to address the gap. The computer then uses crowdsourcing to submit the generated task for processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sheng H. Bao, Yu Deng, Hong L. Guo, Qi Hu, Jim A. Laredo, Roman Vaculin, Maja Vukovic
  • Publication number: 20120296624
    Abstract: The techniques provided herein include obtaining a model of an enterprise operation that specifies initiation and one or more evolution milestones of one or more business entities, formulating one or more performance metrics for the enterprise operation, wherein the one or more performance metrics are calculated from the one or more business entities, the one or more evolution milestones, and one or more relevant external events, and using the one or more business entities and one or more performance metrics to automatically create an executable performance monitoring model for the enterprise operation, wherein the executable performance monitoring model processes data in the one or more business entities, the one or more evolution milestones, and the one or more relevant external events to compute the one or more performance metrics for the enterprise operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun-Jang Jeng, Rong Liu, Anil Nigam, Chian-Rou Shieh, Roman Vaculin, Frederick Wu, Zhe Shan