Patents by Inventor Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit

Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit 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: 11249481
    Abstract: A method for transporting a parcel comprises a marine unmanned vehicle (MUMV) receiving a waterproof tote, coupling the tote to a tether, and towing the tether and the tote, with the tether floating on the transport waterway and the tote immersed in the the transport waterway, to a delivery location. The method can include an MUMV receiving the tote from, and/or delivering the tote to, an aerial vehicle. An unmanned water transport system (UWTS) comprises an MUMV, a floating tether, and a waterproof tote containing a parcel for transport on a transport waterway. The MUMV and tether are configured to tow the tether, with the tether floating on the transport waterway, and the tote coupled to the tether and immersed in the water of the transport waterway, to transport the tote from a source location to a delivery location on the transport waterway. The UWTS can perform the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Vance Kline, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11244381
    Abstract: A method comprises a computer-implemented virtual reality (VR) system connecting VR devices in a collaborative VR session. The VR devices are associated with participants in a collaborative activity to perform an ordered procedure directed to a real-world assembly. The VR system receives session inputs from VR devices associated with the participants. The session inputs correspond to actions of the participants to modify a virtual object included in a VR expression of the VR session. The virtual object corresponds to the real-world assembly. In response to the session inputs, the VR system performs a transaction directed to the virtual object, which produces modifications of the real-world assembly corresponding to the modifications of the virtual object. A collaborative VR system can comprise a VR server and VR devices configured to perform the method. A computer program product can instruct processors of a VR system to perform the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric Vance Kline, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11093129
    Abstract: Methods and program products repositioning icons on a touch display based on characteristics of touch gestures performed on the touch display. The disclosed method may include detecting characteristics of a touch gesture performed on a touch display of an electronic device, and determining if the detected characteristics of the touch gesture exceed a predetermined threshold. In response to determining the detected characteristics exceed the predetermined threshold, the method may also include selecting a group of icons based on at least one of the detected characteristics of the touch gesture performed on the touch display, or predetermined electronic device data. Additionally, the method may include repositioning the selected group of icons on the touch display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vijay Kumar Ananthapur Bache, Vijay Ekambaram, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit, Saravanan Sadacharam
  • Publication number: 20210089035
    Abstract: A method for transporting parcels in an aerial and roadway restricted area comprises an unmanned water transport train (UWTT) utilizing marine unmanned vehicles (MUMVs) receiving and transporting a waterproof tote on a transport waterway. The method can also include a UWTT receiving a waterproof tote from, and/or delivering a waterproof tote to, an aerial unmanned vehicle (AUMV). The method can include adding one or more MUMVs to the UWTT, and/or replacing a failing MUMV with one or more substitute MUMVs. An unmanned water transport system (UWTS) comprises a UWTT that includes MUMVs and waterproof totes. The UWTT is configured to transport the totes on a transport waterway. An MUMV can include a tether and a tote can attach to the tether. The UWTS can include a control center and/or AUMVs, and the UWTT can receive a tote from, or deliver a tote to, an AUMV, and/or receive additional MUMV(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Eric Vance Kline, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit
  • Patent number: 10872111
    Abstract: An apparatus for presenting search results includes a content module that gathers user-generated content from a plurality of users of a social networking service, the user-generated content relating to one or more of an event and an activity, a cluster module that identifies a cluster of related user-generated content from the location information of the gathered user-generated content, the cluster comprising a plurality of items of user-generated content relating to one or more of a common event and an activity that have a geographically similar location, an area module that determines an area containing the cluster of related user-generated content, a search module that receives a search query, the search query related to one or more of the common event and activity of the cluster, and a map display module that presents, on an electronic map, a boundary for the determined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: LENOVO Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD
    Inventors: Barry Alan Kritt, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit
  • Publication number: 20200065889
    Abstract: In a method for performing a collaborative activity, a processor connects Virtual Reality (VR) devices in a collaborative VR session. The processor presents a VR expression to a VR device. The VR expression represents a real-world object associated with the collaborative activity. The method includes receiving an input from a VR device, associated with a real-world object in the VR expression, and, in response, performing a transaction associated with the real-world object. A collaborative VR system comprises a VR server and VR devices configured to perform aspects of the method. The collaborative VR system can include a collaborative VR database. A computer program product can instruct one or more processors to perform aspects of the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Eric Vance Kline, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit
  • Publication number: 20180210640
    Abstract: Methods and program products repositioning icons on a touch display based on characteristics of touch gestures performed on the touch display. The disclosed method may include detecting characteristics of a touch gesture performed on a touch display of an electronic device, and determining if the detected characteristics of the touch gesture exceed a predetermined threshold. In response to determining the detected characteristics exceed the predetermined threshold, the method may also include selecting a group of icons based on at least one of the detected characteristics of the touch gesture performed on the touch display, or predetermined electronic device data. Additionally, the method may include repositioning the selected group of icons on the touch display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Ananthapur Bache Vijay Kumar, Vijay Ekambaram, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit, Saravanan Sadacharam
  • Publication number: 20180089869
    Abstract: A method for displaying an indoor view of a building is provided. The method includes the steps of: (i) capturing, with a camera coupled to a pair of augmented reality glasses, at least one image; (ii) identifying, within the image, an identifying marker; (iii) determining from the identifying marker a search parameter; (iv) determining a location of the glasses or a mobile device paired with the glasses; (v) entering the search parameter into a search engine; (vi) receiving from the search engine the location of at least one building; (vii) selecting the building having the location nearest to the geolocation of the glasses or the mobile device; (viii) retrieving from an indoor view repository an indoor view of the selected building; and (ix) displaying at least a portion of the retrieved indoor view over a portion of the user's field of view when wearing the glasses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: James Edward Bostick, John Michael Ganci, Martin Geoffrey Keen, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit, Craig Matthew Trim
  • Patent number: 9678638
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for guiding gesture operations are provided in the illustrative embodiments. An initial position of a gesture is determined. The gesture is a touch-based gesture made by a user relative to a touch-sensitive interface of a data processing system. The gesture is made to manipulate data presented using the data processing system. A set of gesture size adjustments is determined. A set of data adjustments to be made to the data is computed. An adjustment in the set of data adjustments corresponds to an adjustment in the set of gesture size adjustments. The set of gesture size adjustments and the corresponding set of data adjustments are presented as a guide relative to the initial position of the gesture. The guide informs the user about an expected result of a member gesture size adjustment before the user makes the gesture size adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: LENOVO ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Barry Alan Kritt, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit
  • Patent number: 9569669
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a security location module that tracks a location of a user. The user has a heads-up display with a display that allows viewing by the user of items along with electronic display images. An object identification module identifies an object for tracking using cameras. A selection module selects the identified object for tracking, an object location module identifies a location and direction information of the selected object and an alert module sends the location and the direction information of the selected object to the heads-up display. A display module identifies the selected object in the heads-up display of the user when the object is in the field of view of the heads-up display, or provides instruction on the heads-up display to direct the user to move the heads-up display so that the selected object is in the field of view of the heads-up display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Barry Alan Kritt, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit
  • Publication number: 20160203143
    Abstract: An apparatus for presenting search results includes a content module that gathers user-generated content from a plurality of users of a social networking service, the user-generated content relating to one or more of an event and an activity, a cluster module that identifies a cluster of related user-generated content from the location information of the gathered user-generated content, the cluster comprising a plurality of items of user-generated content relating to one or more of a common event and an activity that have a geographically similar location, an area module that determines an area containing the cluster of related user-generated content, a search module that receives a search query, the search query related to one or more of the common event and activity of the cluster, and a map display module that presents, on an electronic map, a boundary for the determined area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Barry Alan Kritt, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit
  • Patent number: 9380538
    Abstract: Mobile communication devices, like smartphones, cooperatively interact with one another and with a communication provider, like a cellular telephone provider, to manage power usage by the mobile devices, where the communication capabilities of the devices are still retained. For example, for two mobile devices, the first device may be placed into a reduced-power mode, while the second device remains in a non-reduced-power mode. The second device at least partially assumes the communication capability of the first device so that the communication capability of the first device is retained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Barry Alan Kritt, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit
  • Patent number: 9342224
    Abstract: A creator can specify one or more navigation paths through an album of pictures on a social networking web site. Each navigation path has a name and specifies a sequence in which a number of the pictures are to be viewed by a viewer. The viewer can select by name the desired navigation path through the album. A navigation path through the album can also be determined from content in which the viewer is interested from a profile of the viewer on the social networking web site. A navigation path can be determined from users on the social networking web site that are associated with the viewer on the web site. A navigation path can be determined from analysis of an interaction history of the viewer on the social networking web site, apart from the viewer's profile and the viewer's associated users on the web site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Barry Alan Kritt, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit, Anthony Cappa Spielberg
  • Patent number: 9268533
    Abstract: In developing custom programming, particularly for clients or tenants of a cloud computing environment, following pointers from a candidate, existing object of interest vertically to obtain inherited attributes and horizontally to obtain encapsulated properties and presenting such attributes and properties to a software developer for editing and inclusion in custom object-oriented programming facilitates and expedites accommodation of requirements of model based design for potential or existing tenants or clients of a cloud computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Faried Abrahams, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit, Sandeep Patil Ramesh, Gandhi Sivakumar, Lennox Epstein Thomas
  • Patent number: 9190841
    Abstract: A user of an automobile interactive onboard computer display monitors and controls battery power distribution during discharge. The user is enabled to interactively enter into a computer controlled display, proportions of the total battery power to be distributed to each of a set of devices. The distribution of the battery power to each of the devices is then monitored. The distribution of power to a specific device is halted when the power distributed to the specific device reaches the maximum of the proportion of the entered battery power to be distributed to the specific device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Barry Alan Kritt, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit
  • Patent number: 9104720
    Abstract: A functional description is of a report to be formulated and then run against a database. Report keywords and relationships among the report keywords are extracted from the functional description of the report, using an ontology related to data contained in the database. The report keywords and the relationships among the report keywords are processed or profiled against a data dictionary of the database, such as by performing text mining, to identify particular tables and columns of the database that contain the data needed for the report. The particular tables and columns are a technical description of the report that facilitates formulation of the report. The technical description can also include representative structured query language (SQL) statements and relationships among the identified tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit, Barry Alan Kritt
  • Publication number: 20150220548
    Abstract: Tracking all accessing of individual files in a database that do not change a files content, and generating and storing for an accessed file, metadata defining the accessing. Thus, the stored metadata for metadata describing the accessing of the files in said database covers all accessing of files irrespective of whether files have been modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Barry Alan Kritt, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit
  • Publication number: 20150206297
    Abstract: A person within a video stream is selected. Each appearance of the selected person within any video stream is located. For each appearance of the selected person, other people within the same appearance are located that each satisfy a criterion with respect to the selected person. The other people are displayed. The criterion satisfied by at least one first person of the other people includes that a facial direction of each first person converges within a first threshold with a facial direction of the person within the same appearance, such as for more than a threshold length of time. The criterion satisfied by at least one second person of the other people can include that each second person moves parallel to the selected person within a second threshold for more than a threshold length of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Barry Alan Kritt, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit
  • Publication number: 20150205493
    Abstract: A creator can specify one or more navigation paths through an album of pictures on a social networking web site. Each navigation path has a name and specifies a sequence in which a number of the pictures are to be viewed by a viewer. The viewer can select by name the desired navigation path through the album. A navigation path through the album can also be determined from content in which the viewer is interested from a profile of the viewer on the social networking web site. A navigation path can be determined from users on the social networking web site that are associated with the viewer on the web site. A navigation path can be determined from analysis of an interaction history of the viewer on the social networking web site, apart from the viewer's profile and the viewer's associated users on the web site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Barry Alan Kritt, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit, Anthony Capella Spielberg
  • Publication number: 20150208357
    Abstract: Mobile communication devices, like smartphones, cooperatively interact with one another and with a communication provider, like a cellular telephone provider, to manage power usage by the mobile devices, where the communication capabilities of the devices are still retained. For example, for two mobile devices, the first device may be placed into a reduced-power mode, while the second device remains in a non-reduced-power mode. The second device at least partially assumes the communication capability of the first device so that the communication capability of the first device is retained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Barry Alan Kritt, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit