Patents by Inventor Siegfried De Smedt

Siegfried De Smedt 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: 20220358603
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor auditing devices. An example apparatus includes a workload analyzer to obtain alert data related to a potential new product from an auditing device, and a product analyzer to identify a product within the alert data to determine if the product has been previously identified by another auditing device. In response to determining that the product has not been previously identified, the example apparatus includes an alert analyzer to cluster the alert data based on characteristics associated with an auditor profile of the auditing device, and determine a probability of transmitting the alert data to other auditing devices based on the clustered alert data. The example apparatus also includes an alert authorizer to suppress the alert data from being transmitted to the other auditing devices to reduce an amount of network resources required for subsequent processing when the probability does not satisfy a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Kannan Balaji, Pranab Pandey, Brahmanand Reddy Shivampet, Melissa Alexander, Siegfried De Smedt, Ranjit Panda, Jijesh Chandran
  • Patent number: 11393047
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor auditing devices. An example apparatus includes a workload analyzer to obtain alert data related to a potential new product from an auditing device, and a product analyzer to identify a product within the alert data to determine if the product has been previously identified by another auditing device. In response to determining that the product has not been previously identified, the example apparatus includes an alert analyzer to cluster the alert data based on characteristics associated with an auditor profile of the auditing device, and determine a probability of transmitting the alert data to other auditing devices based on the clustered alert data. The example apparatus also includes an alert authorizer to suppress the alert data from being transmitted to the other auditing devices to reduce an amount of network resources required for subsequent processing when the probability does not satisfy a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NIELSEN CONSUMER LLC
    Inventors: Kannan Balaji, Pranab Pandey, Brahmanand Reddy Shivampet, Melissa Alexander, Siegfried De Smedt, Ranjit Panda, Jijesh Chandran
  • Publication number: 20200184573
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor auditing devices. An example apparatus includes a workload analyzer to obtain alert data related to a potential new product from an auditing device, and a product analyzer to identify a product within the alert data to determine if the product has been previously identified by another auditing device. In response to determining that the product has not been previously identified, the example apparatus includes an alert analyzer to cluster the alert data based on characteristics associated with an auditor profile of the auditing device, and determine a probability of transmitting the alert data to other auditing devices based on the clustered alert data. The example apparatus also includes an alert authorizer to suppress the alert data from being transmitted to the other auditing devices to reduce an amount of network resources required for subsequent processing when the probability does not satisfy a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Kannan Balaji, Pranab Pandey, Brahmanand Reddy Shivampet, Melissa Alexander, Siegfried De Smedt, Ranjit Panda, Jijesh Chandran