Patents by Inventor Sara H. Basson
Sara H. Basson 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: 11916960Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for concealing searches for information stored on public networks, includes splitting of a search query, transforming the query into one or more related queries, and searching each of related queries separately.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sara H Basson, Robert George Farrell, Dimitri Kanevsky, Sophia Krasikov
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Patent number: 11255673Abstract: GPS devices of vehicles send routes of drivers and automatically generated coordinates of driver positions to a host application for saving on memory remote from the vehicles. Selections of saved routes by drivers and coordinates of driver positions indicating starting and completion of the saved routes are sent to the host application for storing driver trip times corresponding to the saved routes. A driver sends a request for a saved route to the host application. When the host application identifies other saved routes that have start and destination locations within predetermined distances of start and destination locations of the requested saved route, the GPS device of the driver receives at least one of the other save routes from the host application.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Airbnb, Inc.Inventors: Sara H. Basson, Peter G. Fairweather, Dimitri Kanevsky, Edward E. Kelley
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Patent number: 11195544Abstract: A computer based tool and method for automatically producing, from an existing presentation, a new presentation that fits within a specific presentation duration based on the priority associated with each element within the existing presentation and the presentation time for each individual element.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sara H. Basson, Michael Bender, David J. Delia, Wayne M. Delia
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Patent number: 10671601Abstract: Receiving a first model associated with a user, a generic model of a generic domain, and a specific domain having an associated domain-specific corpus. A first set of query terms based on elements of the first model, and a second set of query terms based on elements of the generic model, are determined. A third set of query terms is generated based on the first and second sets of query terms. The domain specific corpus is queried using the third set of query terms, and a domain specific model is generated based on results of the querying.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sara H. Basson, Kember A.-R. Forcke, Richard T. Goodwin, Kaan K. Katircioglu, Meir M. Laker, Pietro Mazzoleni, Nitinchandra R. Nayak, John G. Vergo
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Publication number: 20200049506Abstract: GPS devices of vehicles send routes of drivers and automatically generated coordinates of driver positions to a host application for saving on memory remote from the vehicles. Selections of saved routes by drivers and coordinates of driver positions indicating starting and completion of the saved routes are sent to the host application for storing driver trip times corresponding to the saved routes. A driver sends a request for a saved route to the host application. When the host application identifies other saved routes that have start and destination locations within predetermined distances of start and destination locations of the requested saved route, the GPS device of the driver receives at least one of the other save routes from the host application.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: SARA H. BASSON, PETER G. FAIRWEATHER, DIMITRI KANEVSKY, EDWARD E. KELLEY
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Patent number: 10495463Abstract: A host application on a host computer system receives annotations made by drivers of respective navigation information displayed to the drivers by GPS devices in vehicles of the respective drivers. The host application saves the annotated navigation information for the respective drivers on a computer readable memory accessible by the host application. The host application receives a request from a first one of the drivers for annotated navigation information made by one or more of the other drivers. Responsive to the request, the host application selects one or more items of the saved annotated navigation information. The host application sends the selected one or more items of the saved annotated navigation information to the GPS device of the first one of the drivers.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2017Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sara H. Basson, Peter G. Fairweather, Dimitri Kanevsky, Edward E. Kelley
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Publication number: 20190319988Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for concealing searches for information stored on public networks, includes splitting of a search query, transforming the query into one or more related queries, and searching each of related queries separately.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Sara H. Basson, Robert George Farrell, Dimitri Kanevsky, Sophia Krasikov
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Publication number: 20190295565Abstract: A computer based tool and method for automatically producing, from an existing presentation, a new presentation that fits within a specific presentation duration based on the priority associated with each element within the existing presentation and the presentation time for each individual element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Sara H. Basson, Michael Bender, David J. Delia, Wayne M. Delia
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Patent number: 10362060Abstract: A system and method for concealing searches for information stored on public networks, includes intercepting a sensitive query to a search engine prior to transmission of the sensitive query over a public network, transforming the sensitive query into one or more related queries, submitting the related queries over the public network to the search engine, aggregating search results from the search engine, and performing a search on the original query with a search engine privately against said search results.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sara H Basson, Robert George Farrell, Dimitri Kanevsky, Sophia Krasikov
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Patent number: 10360925Abstract: A computer based tool and method for automatically producing, from an existing presentation, a new presentation that fits within a specific presentation duration based on the priority associated with each element within the existing presentation and the presentation time for each individual element.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sara H. Basson, Michael Bender, David J. Delia, Wayne M. Delia
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Patent number: 10049593Abstract: A method and system for providing computerized education may provide a user with a first set of educational segments such as problem sets or presentations, and may further monitor the user's reactions and responses using electronic devices, including biometric sensors, to identify difficulty points. Reports may be generated and presented to the user or another party to assist in manual identification of the difficulty point. New or modified educational segments may be provided to the user based on the identified difficulty points.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sara H. Basson, Robert G. Farrell, Dimitri Kanevsky, Frances W. West
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Publication number: 20180075765Abstract: A method to provide automatic curriculum design includes building a model of benefit of each of a plurality of curriculum models under uncertainty as a function of an expected benefit of each of the curriculum models, building a model of risk of each of the curriculum models under uncertainty as a function of the expected benefit of each of the curriculum models, calculating risk of each of the plurality of curriculum models with the models of risk, calculating benefit of each of the plurality of curriculum models with the models of benefit; and finding a curriculum model among the plurality of curriculum models using the benefit and the risk.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: SARA H. BASSON, RAGHURAM KRISHNAPURAM, BIKRAM SENGUPTA, MARK S. SQUILLANTE, BO ZHANG
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Patent number: 9824606Abstract: A method, information processing system, and computer readable article of manufacture reinforce behavior in an individual. A behavior associated with an individual is monitored. A determination is made, based on the monitoring, that the behavior substantially matches a behavior in a set of behaviors. A set of interactive actions associated with the behavior are identified. At least one of the interactive actions in the set of interactive actions is selected. The at least one of the interactive actions that has been selected is performed. A response from the individual is monitored in response to the least one of the interactive actions being performed. An indicator is associated with the at least one of the interactive actions based on the reaction from the individual. The indicator indicates a relative degree of success in obtaining a desired response from the individual.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2009Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sara H. Basson, Genady Grabarnik, Dimitri Kanevsky, Irina Rish
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Publication number: 20170299391Abstract: A host application on a host computer system receives annotations made by drivers of respective navigation information displayed to the drivers by GPS devices in vehicles of the respective drivers. The host application saves the annotated navigation information for the respective drivers on a computer readable memory accessible by the host application. The host application receives a request from a first one of the drivers for annotated navigation information made by one or more of the other drivers. Responsive to the request, the host application selects one or more items of the saved annotated navigation information. The host application sends the selected one or more items of the saved annotated navigation information to the GPS device of the first one of the drivers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: SARA H. BASSON, PETER G. FAIRWEATHER, DIMITRI KANEVSKY, EDWARD E. KELLEY
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Patent number: 9755996Abstract: A method, executed by one or more processors, includes receiving a message that is addressed to a user, determining, via one or more sensors, whether the user is occupied with an attention critical situation, and conducting a user-directed response process responsive to determining that the user is not occupied with an attention critical situation. In some embodiments, the user-directed response process includes conducting a text substitution process on the message, presenting an abbreviated version of the message and a list of response options to the user, determining a response option that is selected by the user, and sending a response to the message that corresponds to the response option that is selected by the user. In some embodiments, the list of response options includes a plurality of message-dependent formulated responses, a null response, and a spoken response. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sara H. Basson, Seth E. Bravin, William B. Huber, Dimitri Kanevsky, Alfred J. Noll, Adam Skwersky
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Patent number: 9726495Abstract: A host application on a host computer system receives annotations made by drivers of respective navigation information displayed to the drivers by GPS devices in vehicles of the respective drivers. The host application saves the annotated navigation information for the respective drivers on a computer readable memory accessible by the host application. The host application receives a request from a first one of the drivers for annotated navigation information made by one or more of the other drivers. Responsive to the request, the host application selects one or more items of the saved annotated navigation information. The host application sends the selected one or more items of the saved annotated navigation information to the GPS device of the first one of the drivers.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sara H. Basson, Peter Gustav Fairweather, Dimitri Kanevsky, Edward Emile Kelley
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Publication number: 20170195365Abstract: A system and method for concealing searches for information stored on public networks, includes intercepting a sensitive query to a search engine prior to transmission of the sensitive query over a public network, transforming the sensitive query into one or more related queries, submitting the related queries over the public network to the search engine, aggregating search results from the search engine, and performing a search on the original query with a search engine privately against said search results.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2015Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Sara H. Basson, Robert George Farrell, Dimitri Kanevsky, Sophia Krasikov
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Patent number: 9691361Abstract: A method comprises presenting content on a display associated with a computing device, determining one or more security characteristics associated with respective portions of the content on the display, detecting a presence of one or more individuals proximate to the display associated with the computing device, and modifying presentation of at least one of the portions of the content on the display based on an authorization status of at least one individual proximate to the display associated with the computing device and the security characteristics associated with the at least one portion of the content on the display.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sara H. Basson, Dimitri Kanevsky, Clifford A. Pickover, Tara N. Sainath
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Patent number: 9680784Abstract: A method, executed by one or more processors, includes receiving a message that is addressed to a user, determining, via one or more sensors, whether the user is occupied with an attention critical situation, and conducting a user-directed response process responsive to determining that the user is not occupied with an attention critical situation. In some embodiments, the user-directed response process includes conducting a text substitution process on the message, presenting an abbreviated version of the message and a list of response options to the user, determining a response option that is selected by the user, and sending a response to the message that corresponds to the response option that is selected by the user. In some embodiments, the list of response options includes a plurality of message-dependent formulated responses, a null response, and a spoken response. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sara H. Basson, Seth E. Bravin, William B. Huber, Dimitri Kanevsky, Alfred J. Noll, Adam Skwersky
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Patent number: 9666209Abstract: Preventing unintended distribution of audio information may comprise analyzing audio data of a speaker's speech received by a microphone; determining automatically by a processor, from the analyzing whether the speaker's speech is intended to be distributed to an audience via the microphone; and in response to determining that the speaker's speech is not intended to be distributed to the audience via the microphone, performing one or more actions.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sara H. Basson, Dimitri Kanevsky, Peter K. Malkin, Mark N. Wegman