Patents by Inventor Steven A. Black

Steven A. Black 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: 12060130
    Abstract: A device and communication software connect controls/features of a vehicle driven by handlebar control, for example, a motorcycle, with a universal handlebar-based control system. Embodiments also provide access to a mobile computing device and operate the mobile computing device through the handlebar-based control system. Aspects of the subject disclosure remove the need for a rider to take their hands off the handlebars and eyes off the road to manipulate a portable computing device or control on-board vehicle functions. The access to the controls/features of a vehicle provides the rider alerts to potential safety events which can be seen through the on-board display of the vehicle or a mobile computing device mounted to the vehicle and connected to the control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Inventors: Keith Edward Conger, Wayne Steven Black
  • Publication number: 20240070526
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable variable and dynamic feedback to electronic activities by receiving event data and utilizing a feedback machine learning model to predict an average feedback attribute and an average feedback variability attribute based on the event data. A feedback data entry is added to a user profile to store the average feedback attribute and the average feedback variability attribute. A new event and a new event attribute are received for the user profile, and a feedback probability distribution for the new event is generated based on the new event attribute, the average feedback attribute, and the average feedback variability attribute. A new event feedback is generated for the new event based on a random selection from the feedback probability distribution and is output to a computing device associated with the user profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Samuel Rapowitz, Bryant Yee, Zachary Sweeney, Steven Black, Alexander Lin, Jenny Melendez, Joshua Peters
  • Publication number: 20230252517
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments may include a method for automatically providing customized financial card incentives where the system can identify if a transaction is eligible for additional bonus rewards by determining if the user is a student using a clustering algorithm with user similarity data to generate a probability. Then, if the probability is above a predetermined threshold, a machine learning model with comprehensive user data classifies the user as a student or non-student. Once the user is determined to be a student, the transaction is verified as being an educational purchase using the transaction data or by having the user provide an image of a receipt. Once the transaction is verified, the transaction or items within the transaction qualify for additional rewards that are applied to the user’s account. Users who are not identified as students may qualify for a standard amount of rewards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Jenny Melendez, Joshua Peters, Zachary Sweeney, Samuel Rapowitz, Steven Black, Bryant Yee, Alexander Lin
  • Publication number: 20230251443
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical fiber ribbon. The optical fiber ribbon includes a plurality of subunits each having a subunit coating surrounding at least one optical fiber. The subunit coating is made of a first material. The optical fiber ribbon also includes a plurality of bonds intermittently formed between adjacent subunits of the plurality of subunits. The plurality of bonds are made of a second material. Each bond of the plurality of bonds has a unique longitudinal position along a length of the optical fiber ribbon such that no other bond of the plurality of bonds is located at the unique longitudinal position. Further, each bond of the plurality of bonds includes a diffusion zone comprising a mixture of the first material and the second material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Arash Abedijaberi, Ronald Steven Black, David Wesley Chiasson, Darin Gregory Howe, Gregory Alan Mills
  • Patent number: 11599900
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments may include a method for automatically providing customized financial card incentives where the system can identify if a transaction is eligible for additional bonus rewards by determining if the user is a student using a clustering algorithm with user similarity data to generate a probability. Then, if the probability is above a predetermined threshold, a machine learning model with comprehensive user data classifies the user as a student or non-student. Once the user is determined to be a student, the transaction is verified as being an educational purchase using the transaction data or by having the user provide an image of a receipt. Once the transaction is verified, the transaction or items within the transaction qualify for additional rewards that are applied to the user's account. Users who are not identified as students may qualify for a standard amount of rewards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Jenny Melendez, Joshua Peters, Zachary Sweeney, Samuel Rapowitz, Steven Black, Bryant Yee, Alexander Lin
  • Publication number: 20230009934
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for providing an out of band cache mechanism for ensuring availability of data. An example system may include a client device configured to, in response to determining requested data is not available in a cache, access the requested data from a data source, transmit, to a cache mechanism, an indication that the requested data is unavailable in the cache, the indication configured to be placed in a queue as an element pointing to the requested data, a cache mechanism configured to receive an indication of requested data, determine whether an element, the element indicative of the requested data, exists in a queue, and in an instance in which the element is not present in the queue, placing the element in the queue, the queue being a list of elements, each indicative of requested data needing to be placed in the cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Steven BLACK, Stuart SIEGRIST, Gilligan MARKHAM
  • Patent number: 11429539
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for providing an out of band cache mechanism for ensuring availability of data. An example system may include a client device configured to, in response to determining requested data is not available in a cache, access the requested data from a data source, transmit, to a cache mechanism, an indication that the requested data is unavailable in the cache, the indication configured to be placed in a queue as an element pointing to the requested data, a cache mechanism configured to receive an indication of requested data, determine whether an element, the element indicative of the requested data, exists in a queue, and in an instance in which the element is not present in the queue, placing the element in the queue, the queue being a list of elements, each indicative of requested data needing to be placed in the cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Black, Stuart Siegrist, Gilligan Markham
  • Patent number: 11406701
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for enhancing immune responses to a vaccine in immunocompromised individuals, including those receiving a statin therapy. Related products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Seqirus UK Limited
    Inventors: Giuseppe Del Giudice, Rino Rappuoli, Steven Black, Uwe Nicolay
  • Publication number: 20200306365
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for enhancing immune responses to a vaccine in immunocompromised individuals, including those receiving a statin therapy. Related products are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Giuseppe DEL GIUDICE, Rino RAPPUOLI, Steven BLACK, Uwe NICOLAY
  • Patent number: 10716844
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for enhancing immune responses to a vaccine in immunocompromised individuals, including those receiving a statin therapy. Related products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Seqirus UK Limited
    Inventors: Giuseppe Del Giudice, Rino Rappuoli, Steven Black, Uwe Nicolay
  • Publication number: 20200147203
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for enhancing immune responses to a vaccine in immunocompromised individuals, including those receiving a statin therapy. Related products are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Giuseppe DEL GIUDICE, Rino RAPPUOLI, Steven BLACK, Uwe NICOLAY
  • Publication number: 20200069176
    Abstract: This patent describes a machine that allows patients with a single, central scotoma to receive an acceptable but sub-optimal refraction for the badThanks. eye based on previous refraction values, current refraction of the Good Eye, cataract characteristics, and subjective judgements of whether the patient can identify optotypes after incremental changes in refraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventor: Ronald Steven Black
  • Publication number: 20190361817
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for providing an out of band cache mechanism for ensuring availability of data. An example system may include a client device configured to, in response to determining requested data is not available in a cache, access the requested data from a data source, transmit, to a cache mechanism, an indication that the requested data is unavailable in the cache, the indication configured to be placed in a queue as an element pointing to the requested data, a cache mechanism configured to receive an indication of requested data, determine whether an element, the element indicative of the requested data, exists in a queue, and in an instance in which the element is not present in the queue, placing the element in the queue, the queue being a list of elements, each indicative of requested data needing to be placed in the cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Steven Black, Stuart Siegrist, Gilligan Markham
  • Patent number: 10360159
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for providing an out of band cache mechanism for ensuring availability of data. An example system may include a client device configured to, in response to determining requested data is not available in a cache, access the requested data from a data source, transmit, to a cache mechanism, an indication that the requested data is unavailable in the cache, the indication configured to be placed in a queue as an element pointing to the requested data, a cache mechanism configured to receive an indication of requested data, determine whether an element, the element indicative of the requested data, exists in a queue, and in an instance in which the element is not present in the queue, placing the element in the queue, the queue being a list of elements, each indicative of requested data needing to be placed in the cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Black, Stuart Siegrist, Gilligan Markham
  • Publication number: 20170304429
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for enhancing immune responses to a vaccine in immunocompromised individuals, including those receiving a statin therapy. Related products are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Giuseppe DEL GIUDICE, Rino RAPPUOLI, Steven BLACK, Uwe NICOLAY
  • Patent number: 7571480
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and apparatus for presenting data about security-related events that puts the data into a concise form is disclosed. Events are abstracted into a set data-type. Sets with common elements are grouped together, and summaries of the groups—“situations”—are presented to a user or administrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Black, Herve Debar, John Michael Garrison
  • Patent number: 7308689
    Abstract: An event handler is provided that associates events from heterogeneous data sources. In a first phase, incoming events are translated to vectors of event attributes. Based on the data source, implicit information about the event and its attributes may be available. This information is used to normalize the information provided by the event. Normalization actions may include renaming the attributes, deriving new attributes from given attributes, and transforming attribute value ranges. In a second phase, a determination is made as to whether two or more events are considered to be associated based on the vectors. Different vectors of core attributes may be created in order to create associations with different semantics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Black, Herve Debar, John Michael Garrison, Andreas Wespi
  • Patent number: 7278160
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and apparatus for presenting data about security-related events that puts the data into a concise form is disclosed. Events are abstracted into a set data-type. Sets with common elements are grouped together, and summaries of the groups—“situations”—are presented to a user or administrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Black, Herve Debar, John Michael Garrison
  • Publication number: 20070204343
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and apparatus for presenting data about security-related events that puts the data into a concise form is disclosed. Events are abstracted into a set data-type. Sets with common elements are grouped together, and summaries of the groups—“situations”—are presented to a user or administrator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Steven Black, Herve Debar, John Garrison
  • Patent number: 7081602
    Abstract: A heater comprising a conduit made of corundum (e.g. synthetic sapphire) and having a wall forming a closed cross-section with an interior surface, and an exterior surface. At least one of the interior and exterior surfaces may have a roughened portion comprising inclusions and corresponding protrusions formed substantially continuously therethroughout. An electrically resistive coating may extend substantially continuously over, in, and around the inclusions and protrusions of at least a part of the roughened portion to form a conformal cross-section having a thickness selected to promote bending thereof to accommodate annular expansion and contraction occurring in response to a differential in the coefficients of expansion between the electrically resistive coating and the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Trebor International, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven A. Black