Patents by Inventor Sergio Borger
Sergio Borger 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: 11593821Abstract: A method for calculating sales trend of a product at a store shelf based on crowdsourcing, includes receiving, by a retail store server, availability data of a product measured on a shelf in the retail store from a portable device, where the availability data is in the form of a picture acquired of the product on the shelf, identifying products on the shelf using tags attached to the shelves, calculating sales velocity and sales trends of the product from the identified products, and transmitting the sales velocity and sales trend of the product to one or more third parties' systems in a supply chain of said retail store. Products and their locations on retail store shelves have been cataloged in a product database.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Priscilla Barreira Avegliano, Sergio Borger, Carlos Henrique Cardonha, Ricardo Guimaraes Herrmann, Cesar Kawabata, Andrea Britto Mattos, Daniel Alves Da Silva
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Patent number: 9945980Abstract: A infrastructure sensitivity centric weather forecast system, method of forecasting weather and a computer program product therefor. A forecasting computer applies a grid to a forecast area, locates infrastructure, e.g. power grid infrastructure, in the area and determines weather effects on infrastructure in each grid cell. A targeted selection module iteratively identifies grid cells for refinement in response to the weather effects on cell infrastructure. In each iteration a refined grid is applied to each grid cell identified as containing infrastructure that may be sensitive, or vulnerable, to expected weather. The forecasting computer refines the area considered to focus on area infrastructure and sensitivities/vulnerabilities to expected weather.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sergio Borger, Renato Fontoura De Gusmao Cerqueira, Kiran Mantripragada, Ulisses T. Mello, Alexandre Pfeifer, Lucas Correia Villa Real
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Patent number: 9898754Abstract: A system to measure effectiveness of displayed content includes a video processing service configured to receive and process a stream of video images captured by one or more video cameras, a display application service configured to produce display content to be displayed on one or more display monitors and to capture user interactions with the displayed content, and a display effectiveness service configured to correlate data received from the video processing service and the display application service and generate a display effectiveness measurement that is a measure of an effectiveness of the displayed content for specific periods of time.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sergio Borger, Marcia Ito, Julio Nogima, Ademir Ferreira Da Silva
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Patent number: 9892421Abstract: A system to measure effectiveness of displayed content includes a video processing service configured to receive and process a stream of video images captured by one or more video cameras, a display application service configured to produce display content to be displayed on one or more display monitors and to capture user interactions with the displayed content, and a display effectiveness service configured to correlate data received from the video processing service and the display application service and generate a display effectiveness measurement that is a measure of an effectiveness of the displayed content for specific periods of time.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sergio Borger, Marcia Ito, Julio Nogima, Ademir Ferreira Da Silva
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Patent number: 9571443Abstract: A community information sharing system, method and program product therefore. A communications network with connected communications devices serves community communications device users. A communications network gateway is associated with a community communications server, e.g., on a cloud computer, and couples the communications network to a data network. The gateway interfaces communications devices connected to communications network with the communications server, providing communications devices access to an online message board, message board information and services.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sergio Borger, Carlos H. Cardonha, Fernando Luiz Koch
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Publication number: 20160328741Abstract: A system to measure effectiveness of displayed content includes a video processing service configured to receive and process a stream of video images captured by one or more video cameras, a display application service configured to produce display content to be displayed on one or more display monitors and to capture user interactions with the displayed content, and a display effectiveness service configured to correlate data received from the video processing service and the display application service and generate a display effectiveness measurement that is a measure of an effectiveness of the displayed content for specific periods of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: SERGIO BORGER, MARCIA ITO, JULIO NOGIMA, ADEMIR FERREIRA DA SILVA
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Publication number: 20160328614Abstract: A system to measure effectiveness of displayed content includes a video processing service configured to receive and process a stream of video images captured by one or more video cameras, a display application service configured to produce display content to be displayed on one or more display monitors and to capture user interactions with the displayed content, and a display effectiveness service configured to correlate data received from the video processing service and the display application service and generate a display effectiveness measurement that is a measure of an effectiveness of the displayed content for specific periods of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: SERGIO BORGER, MARCIA ITO, JULIO NOGIMA, ADEMIR FERREIRA DA SILVA
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Patent number: 9485637Abstract: A mobile device is employed to be a gateway device to transmit messages between end-users and a shared message board running on a remote sever. The gateway device runs a gateway application to implement the gateway function.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sergio Borger, Carlos H. Cardonha, Fernando L. Koch
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Publication number: 20160242013Abstract: A mobile device is employed to be a gateway device to transmit messages between end-users and a shared message board running on a remote sever. The gateway device runs a gateway application to implement the gateway function.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2015Publication date: August 18, 2016Inventors: Sergio Borger, Carlos H. Cardonha, Fernando L. Koch
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Publication number: 20160196268Abstract: People sensing reports are applied to support video surveillance allowing for assigning priority rating in the processing of video and image produced by a video surveillance system based on crowdsensing reports. The present invention addresses a challenge faced by organizations, such as public agencies and/or private companies that employ surveillance systems in order to capture surveillance media.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2015Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Sergio Borger, Carlos H. Cardonha, Fernando L. Koch, Ademir F. Silva
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Publication number: 20150312535Abstract: A self-rousing surveillance system, method and computer program product for monitoring activity across a geographical location. Surveillance sensors are distributed about a geographical location and normally in a low surveillance state. A sensor controller controls data collection by each surveillance sensors. An event monitor receives reports indicating events at local areas within the geographical location. The event monitor identifies local areas with each report.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2014Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sergio Borger, Carlos Cardonha, Ademir Silva, Fernando Koch
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Publication number: 20150302425Abstract: Various embodiments prioritize incidents associated with citizen sensor reports. In one embodiment, a plurality of citizen sensor reports is received from a plurality of users. A context associated with each of the plurality of citizen sensor reports is determined. A set of citizen sensor reports associated with at least one incident from a plurality of different incidents is identified based on the determined context. A severity level of the incident associated with the set of citizen sensor reports is calculated for each of the set of citizen sensor reports based on a reputation value assigned to each of a set of users who generated the set of citizen sensor reports. Each of the plurality of incidents is prioritized based on their calculated severity levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2014Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sergio BORGER, Carlos Henrique CARDONHA, Fernando KOCH, Jan Marcel Paiva IENTILE
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Publication number: 20150294333Abstract: A method for calculating sales trend of a product at a store shelf based on crowdsourcing, includes receiving, by a retail store server, availability data of a product measured on a shelf in the retail store from a portable device, where the availability data is in the form of a picture acquired of the product on the shelf, identifying products on the shelf using tags attached to the shelves, calculating sales velocity and sales trends of the product from the identified products, and transmitting the sales velocity and sales trend of the product to one or more third parties' systems in a supply chain of said retail store. Products and their locations on retail store shelves have been cataloged in a product database.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: PRISCILLA BARREIRA AVEGLIANO, SERGIO BORGER, CARLOS HENRIQUE CARDONHA, DIEGO SANCHEZ GALLO, RICARDO GUIMARAES HERRMANN, CESAR KAWABATA, ANDREA BRITTO MATTOS, DANIEL ALVES DA SILVA
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Publication number: 20150235157Abstract: A method for calculating sales trend of a product at a store shelf based on crowdsourcing, includes receiving, by a retail store server, availability data of a product measured on a shelf in the retail store from a portable device, where the availability data is in the form of a picture acquired of the product on the shelf, identifying products on the shelf using tags attached to the shelves, calculating sales velocity and sales trends of the product from the identified products, and transmitting the sales velocity and sales trend of the product to one or more third parties' systems in a supply chain of said retail store. Products and their locations on retail store shelves have been cataloged in a product database.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventors: PRISCILLA BARREIRA AVEGLIANO, SERGIO BORGER, CARLOS HENRIQUE CARDONHA, DIEGO SANCHEZ GALLO, RICARDO GUIMARAES HERRMANN, CESAR KAWABATA, ANDREA BRITTO MATTOS, DANIEL ALVES DA SILVA
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Patent number: 8965042Abstract: The present invention relates to the measurement of human activities through video, particularly in retail environments. A method for measuring retail display effectiveness in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: detecting a moving object in a field of view of an imaging device, the imaging device obtaining image data of a product display; tracking the object in the field of view of the imaging device to obtain a track; and obtaining statistics for the track with regard to the product display.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2007Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sergio Borger, Christopher R. Carlson, Arun Hampapur, Andrew W. Senior, Chiao-Fe Shu
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Patent number: 8754901Abstract: A computer system generates video based cohorts. Digital video data is processed to identify a set of color and texture based attributes associated with clothing worn by a set of objects. The digital video data comprises metadata describing the set of objects. The set of color and texture based attributes are analyzed using cohort criteria to form a result. The cohort criteria specify attributes that are associated with members of a given cohort. A set of cohorts is generated based on the result. Each cohort in the set of cohorts comprises a subset of objects from the set of objects that share at least one color and texture based attribute in common.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert L. Angell, Sergio Borger, Robert R. Friedlander, James R. Kraemer, Yashodhara M. Patnaik
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Patent number: 8749570Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating video based cohorts. Digital video data is processed to identify a set of color and texture based attributes associated with the set of objects. The digital video data comprises metadata describing the set of objects. The set of color and texture based attributes are analyzed using cohort criteria to form a result. The cohort criteria specify attributes that are associated with members of a given cohort. A set of cohorts is generated based on the result. Each cohort in the set of cohorts comprises a subset of objects from the set of objects that share at least one color and texture based attribute in common.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2008Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert Lee Angell, Robert R Friedlander, James R Kraemer, Sergio Borger, Yashodhara M. Patnaik
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Publication number: 20140108567Abstract: A community information sharing system, method and program product therefore. A communications network with connected communications devices serves community communications device users. A communications network gateway is associated with a community communications server, e.g., on a cloud computer, and couples the communications network to a data network. The gateway interfaces communications devices connected to communications network with the communications server, providing communications devices access to an online message board, message board information and services.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sergio Borger, Carlos H. Cardonha, Fernando Luiz Koch
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Publication number: 20140056483Abstract: A computer system generates video based cohorts. Digital video data is processed to identify a set of color and texture based attributes associated with clothing worn by a set of objects. The digital video data comprises metadata describing the set of objects. The set of color and texture based attributes are analyzed using cohort criteria to form a result. The cohort criteria specify attributes that are associated with members of a given cohort. A set of cohorts is generated based on the result. Each cohort in the set of cohorts comprises a subset of objects from the set of objects that share at least one color and texture based attribute in common.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: ROBERT L. ANGELL, SERGIO BORGER, ROBERT R. FRIEDLANDER, JAMES R. KRAEMER, YASHODHARA M. PATNAIK
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Publication number: 20130317749Abstract: A infrastructure sensitivity centric weather forecast system, method of forecasting weather and a computer program product therefor. A forecasting computer applies a grid to a forecast area, locates infrastructure, e.g. power grid infrastructure, in the area and determines weather effects on infrastructure in each grid cell. A targeted selection module iteratively identifies grid cells for refinement in response to the weather effects on cell infrastructure. In each iteration a refined grid is applied to each grid cell identified as containing infrastructure that may be sensitive, or vulnerable, to expected weather. The forecasting computer refines the area considered to focus on area infrastructure and sensitivities/vulnerabilities to expected weather.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sergio Borger, Renato Fontoura De Gusmao Cerqueira, Kiran Mantripragada, Ulisses T. Mello, Alexandre Pfeifer, Lucas Correia Villa Real