Patents by Inventor Steven H. Lamoureux

Steven H. Lamoureux 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).

  • Method and apparatus for interactive evolutionary optimization of concepts
    Patent number: 9799041
    Abstract: A method includes determining a plurality of data points, determining a distance between each data point and each of the other plurality of data points, choosing a first one of the plurality of data points, identifying all of the other plurality of data points within a maximum distance of the chosen data point, repeating steps the previous steps to choose a different one of the plurality of data points until all of the data points have been chosen, identifying one or more clusters each having a predefined minimum number, K, of data points within a predefined search radius and analyzing the one or more clusters with respect to K linkages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Kevin D. Karty, Steven H. Lamoureux, Jenkin Espinosa Lee, Mark Gerard Flynn, Xinyan Chen
  • System and method for concept development with content aware text editor
    Patent number: 9208132
    Abstract: A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations including providing a visual representation of a product concept comprising a textual component comprising at least one dynamic textual element and at least on static textual element and providing text editing functionality of the textual component such that a selection of any text forming a part of the at least one dynamic textual element automatically results in the selection of the entire at least one dynamic textual element wherein the text editing functionality comprises changing a format of at least a part of the at least one dynamic textual element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Estelle DeBlois, Steven H. Lamoureux
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTIVE EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION OF CONCEPTS
    Publication number: 20140344013
    Abstract: A method includes determining a plurality of data points, determining a distance between each data point and each of the other plurality of data points, choosing a first one of the plurality of data points, identifying all of the other plurality of data points within a maximum distance of the chosen data point, repeating steps the previous steps to choose a different one of the plurality of data points until all of the data points have been chosen, identifying one or more clusters each having a predefined minimum number, K, of data points within a predefined search radius and analyzing the one or more clusters with respect to K linkages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Affinnova, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin D. Karty, Steven H. Lamoureux, Jenkin Espinoza Lee, Mark Gerard Flynn, Xinyan Chen
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT WITH CONTENT AWARE TEXT EDITOR
    Publication number: 20140195901
    Abstract: A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations including providing a visual representation of a product concept comprising a textual component comprising at least one dynamic textual element and at least on static textual element and providing text editing functionality of the textual component such that a selection of any text forming a part of the at least one dynamic textual element automatically results in the selection of the entire at least one dynamic textual element wherein the text editing functionality comprises changing a format of at least a part of the at least one dynamic textual element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Affinnova, Inc.
    Inventors: Estelle DeBlois, Steven H. Lamoureux