Patents by Inventor Samuel Scott

Samuel Scott 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: 20200193155
    Abstract: A method and system to interpret sensor transmission patterns to analyze anomalies in a smart environment include obtaining a map of the smart environment, the map including an indication of obstructions and openings. The method includes determining an initial location of each sensor of a plurality of sensors in the smart environment. Each sensor emits a transmission after each detection. The method also includes identifying an initial transmission pattern associated with each sensor, and identifying a change in the initial transmission pattern of a sensor among the plurality of sensors. The change is interpreted to determine whether the change in the initial transmission pattern of the sensor among the plurality of sensors is due to movement or obstruction of the sensor. Action is taken based on a determination that the sensor among the plurality of sensors is obstructed or removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Susann Marie Keohane, Scott Gerard, Aliza Heching, Samuel Scott Adams, Mohammad Arif Ul Alam
  • Patent number: 10546278
    Abstract: A system for matching entities comprising a contributor parameter system operating on a processor and configured to generate a plurality of contributor selection controls, each contributor selection control associated with one or more user-selectable parameters. A recipient parameter system operating on the processor and configured to generate a plurality of recipient input controls, each recipient input control associated with one or more user-selectable parameters. A recipient bundling system operating on the processor and configured to receive the user-selected parameters from the contributor selection controls and the user-selected parameters from the recipient input controls and to select a plurality of recipients as a function of the user-selected parameters from the contributor selection controls and the user-selected parameters from the recipient input controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Capdevilla
    Inventors: Elizabeth S. Dreicer, Anders Olsson, Petar P. Kralev, Samuel Scott Beckey, Arnon Brouner, John Joseph McCarthy
  • Patent number: 10505875
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for determining contextually relevant application templates associated with electronic message content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jessica Nicole Jenks, Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Catherine Ann Hendricks
  • Patent number: 10455362
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to generating one or more presence-event notifications at one or more user devices associated with a user, and transmitting those presence-event notifications to one or more presence server(s). At the presence server(s) a stream of presence-event notifications may be filtered according to any number of predefined criteria, and then the presence-event notifications that have filtered through may be applied to presence plug-ins to generate presence information associated with user(s) for whom presence-event notifications were received. The presence-event notifications may be provided as a stream of presence information to one or more consumers of presence information and/or stored in a presence datastore. A consumer of presence information, such as a service provider, may request presence information associated with one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Meissner, Alexander Say Go, Chinmay Milind Dani, Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Benjamin Markwardt, Tejas Patel
  • Patent number: 10402460
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for generating personalized and contextually relevant cards and delivering the cards to card clients for presentation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Joseph Jesensky, Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Anil Kumar Kalagatla, Jean Sevak Froundjian, Angela Lam, Ari Liberman Garcia, Leon Amdour, Ronald Alan Morris, Tracy Dianne Schultz, Raghav Kishor Phadke
  • Patent number: 10368136
    Abstract: Techniques are described for allocation hardware and/or bandwidth resources of a viewer device between a live streaming media content playback of a video player and a concurrently provided live chat. For example, the bandwidth used by the live chat can be adjusted based on the playback of the video player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Aneeb Naveed Qureshi, Adam Paul DeRusha, David James Roy Erdmann, Samuel Scott Gigliotti
  • Patent number: 10346759
    Abstract: Automatically create abstractions of large sets of data and then probabilistic inferences based on the abstractions. The probabilistic inference is derived from the logical hierarchy using Bayesian statistics to infer a probabilistic event based upon a characteristic of the data in a hierarchy of synthetic events. The logical hierarchy of a set of a plurality of synthetic events is related by at least one characteristic of data is built by accessing a first set of data. The first set of data is organized based on a first characteristic. A second set of data different than the first set of data is accessed. A second set of data based is organized based on a second characteristic. The first characteristic and the second characteristic are processed to generate a synthetic event. The synthetic event is a third set of data representing a result of a mathematical computation defined by an operation S(p1)==>F(p2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Scott Adams, Robert R. Friedlander, James R. Kraemer, Kelly Grant Lee
  • Patent number: 10254928
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for generating cards that include personalized content that is relevant to tastes or preferences of a user and contextually relevant to a current, historical, or future use context of a user device. The card content is determined to be relevant to a current use context of a user device based on an evaluation of contextual data with respect to constraints associated with the card. The card content is transmitted to a card client for presentation via a user interface of the client when the card content is deemed relevant to the current use context of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Joseph Jesensky, Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Anil Kumar Kalagatla, Jean Sevak Froundjian, Angela Lam, Ari Liberman Garcia, Leon Amdour, Ronald Alan Morris, Tracy Dianne Schultz, Raghav Kishor Phadke
  • Patent number: 10182024
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for dividing and merging online content sharing environments such as, for example, online chat rooms. An online content sharing environment may have a group of user profiles associated therewith, some subgroup of which may be exchanging message content within the online content sharing environment at any given time. If an amount of message data traffic being exchanged and/or a number of user profiles exchanging messages exceeds a corresponding threshold value, the online content sharing environment may be divided into two or more sub-environments. Respective sub-groups of user profiles may then be identified based on association criteria and associated with the various sub-environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tan Shen Cliff Chung, Brian Ashley Garber, Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Thomas Werner Kuehnel, Pavneet Singh
  • Patent number: 10120957
    Abstract: A system comprises a hashing logic, which executes instructions to convert raw data into a first logical address and payload data, where the first logical address describes metadata about the payload data. A hardware translation unit executes instructions to translate the first logical address into a first physical address on a storage device. A hardware load/storage unit stores the first logical address and the payload data at the first physical address on the storage device. A content addressable store is associated with a reference to the logical addressed data in this location addressable high dimensional store, where the content addressable store is searched for the desired content word using at least one temporal attribute to retrieve the corresponding references with low latency. A hardware exclusive OR (XOR) unit compares two logical address vectors to derive a Hamming distance between the two logical address vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Scott Adams, Suparna Bhattacharya, Robert R. Friedlander, James R. Kraemer
  • Patent number: 10073589
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for generating personalized and contextually relevant cards and delivering the cards to card clients for presentation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Joseph Jesensky, Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Anil Kumar Kalagatla, Jean Sevak Froundjian, Angela Lam, Ari Liberman Garcia, Leon Amdour, Ronald Alan Morris, Tracy Dianne Schultz, Raghav Kishor Phadke
  • Patent number: 10055611
    Abstract: A customer support application provides screen sharing of the user's computing device with a remote customer support agent, thereby enabling the customer support agent to view the content displayed on the user's device. At least a portion of the content displayed on the user's device may contain sensitive information. Coordinates corresponding to the content displayed on the user's device may be obtained and the portion of the display corresponding to the coordinates may be obscured from the remote customer support agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Bhupendra Patel, Samuel Scott Gigliotti
  • Publication number: 20180182389
    Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating communications between shared electronic devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a group account may be assigned to a shared electronic device. The group account may include one or more user accounts, where individuals associated with those user accounts may interact with the shared electronic device, and also may form a part of the group account. When a message is sent from one shared electronic device to another personal device or shared electronic device, the message may be indicated as being sent from the group account, as if the shared electronic device corresponds to its own separate account. In some embodiments, speaker identification processing may be employed to determine a speaker of the message and, if the speaker is able to be identified, the message may be sent from the corresponding speaker's user account instead of the shared electronic device's corresponding group account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Christo Frank Devaraj, Venkata Krishnan Ramamoorthy, Gregory Michael Hart, Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Scott Southwood, Ran Mokady, Hale Sostock, Roman Yusufov
  • Publication number: 20180049508
    Abstract: A collapsible helmet for cyclists, the collapsible helmet comprising: at least one elongate, curved central portion adapted to extend over a crown of a user's head from front to back; and, a plurality of side portions supported either side of the at least one central portion, the plurality of side portions configured to nest substantially under the at least one central portion when in a collapsed position, and the plurality of side portions configured to form a helmet when in an operative position; and, at least one flexible strap interconnecting the plurality of side portions and the at least one central portion, wherein the at least one flexible strap limits the relative separation of the plurality of side portions in the operative position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventor: Samuel Scott Terry
  • Patent number: 9801835
    Abstract: Methods for preconditioning and/or providing neuroprotection to the animal central nervous system against the effects of stoke, including associated cognitive, behavioral and physical impairments. Initially, a patient at risk for stroke is identified. Effective amounts of therapeutic agents are administered to the upper third of the at-risk patient's nasal cavity to bypass the blood-brain barrier and access the central nervous system directly to avoid unwanted and potentially lethal side effects. Therapeutic agents include those substances that interact with iron and/or copper such as iron chelators, copper chelators, and antioxidants. A particular example of a therapeutic agent is the iron chelator deferoxamine (DFO).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: HealthPartners Research Foundation
    Inventors: William H. Frey, II, Samuel Scott Panter, Leah Ranae Bresin Hanson
  • Publication number: 20170277904
    Abstract: A third party intermediary and a data protection method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium, include a content request receiving circuit configured to receive a service request from a user, to communicate the service request to a provider, and to receive pre-approved versions of content from the provider, a content matching circuit configured to match a pre-approved version of content of the pre-approved versions of content to the user based on a condition of the user, a user data receiving circuit configured to receive user data to complete the pre-approved version of the content, and a zero-knowledge verifiable computing circuit configured to execute a program using zero-knowledge verifiable computing to remove private content from the pre-approved version of the content to ensure privacy of the condition of the user from the provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Samuel Scott Adams, Susann Marie Keohane, James R. Kraemer, Jeb R. Linton
  • Publication number: 20170270220
    Abstract: A system comprises a hashing logic, which executes instructions to convert raw data into a first logical address and payload data, where the first logical address describes metadata about the payload data. A hardware translation unit executes instructions to translate the first logical address into a first physical address on a storage device. A hardware load/storage unit stores the first logical address and the payload data at the first physical address on the storage device. A content addressable store is associated with a reference to the logical addressed data in this location addressable high dimensional store, where the content addressable store is searched for the desired content word using at least one temporal attribute to retrieve the corresponding references with low latency. A hardware exclusive OR (XOR) unit compares two logical address vectors to derive a Hamming distance between the two logical address vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Scott ADAMS, Suparna BHATTACHARYA, Robert R. FRIEDLANDER, James R. KRAEMER
  • Patent number: 9707193
    Abstract: Methods for preconditioning and/or providing neuroprotection to the animal central nervous system against the effects of cerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage. Therapeutic agents are administered to the upper third of the nasal cavity to bypass the blood-brain barrier and access the central nervous system directly to avoid unwanted and potentially lethal side effects. Therapeutic agents include those substances that interact with iron and/or copper such as iron chelators, copper chelators, and antioxidants. A particular example of such therapeutic agents is the iron chelator deferoxamine (DFO). An effective amount of DFO may be administered to the upper third of the nasal cavity of a patient at risk for, or diagnosed with, cerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage. The effective amount of DFO is delivered directly to the patient's central nervous system for preconditioning, preventing and/or treating the cerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: HealthPartners Institute
    Inventors: William H. Frey, II, Samuel Scott Panter, Leah Ranae Bresin Hanson
  • Publication number: 20170200021
    Abstract: A customer support application provides screen sharing of the user's computing device with a remote customer support agent, thereby enabling the customer support agent to view the content displayed on the user's device. At least a portion of the content displayed on the user's device may contain sensitive information. Coordinates corresponding to the content displayed on the user's device may be obtained and the portion of the display corresponding to the coordinates may be obscured from the remote customer support agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Anand Bhupendra Patel, Samuel Scott Gigliotti
  • Patent number: 9703894
    Abstract: A system comprises a hashing logic, which executes instructions to convert raw data into a first logical address and payload data, where the first logical address describes metadata about the payload data. A hardware translation unit executes instructions to translate the first logical address into a first physical address on a storage device. A hardware load/storage unit stores the first logical address and the payload data at the first physical address on the storage device. A content addressable store is associated with a reference to the logical addressed data in this location addressable high dimensional store, where the content addressable store is searched for the desired content word using at least one temporal attribute to retrieve the corresponding references with low latency. A hardware exclusive OR (XOR) unit compares two logical address vectors to derive a Hamming distance between the two logical address vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Scott Adams, Suparna Bhattacharya, Robert R. Friedlander, James R. Kraemer