Patents by Inventor Thomas Hobbs

Thomas Hobbs 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: 20220351207
    Abstract: There is provided a computing system for optimizing a plurality of fraud detection strategies used to generate a corresponding set of potentially fraudulent transactions. The system determines an overall fraud value such as an average fraud value for each transaction based on pre-defined factors and identifies a particular strategy having a highest average fraud value for its fraudulent transactions as a highest priority on a ranked list of strategies. The system is configured to remove each transaction from the remaining other strategies if the same as the fraudulent transactions in the identified strategy and calculate an average fraud value for the remaining other strategies. The system then ranks the next highest priority fraud detection strategy having the highest average fraud value while removing its corresponding transactions flagged from other remaining strategies and repeat the ranking until all the strategies have been ranked and apply the ranked list to subsequent transactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: STEVEN THOMAS HOBBS, YIFAN WANG
  • Patent number: 8392842
    Abstract: In one example embodiment a system and method is illustrated to receive image data identifying a characteristic of a portion of a first image, the first image displayed as part of a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The system and method may also include generating a search request for a second image based upon the characteristic. Further, the system and method may include receiving an image search result including at least the second image, the second image displayed as part of an image array within the GUI. Moreover, the system and method may include augmenting the first image with the second image, based upon the characteristic, to create an augmented image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Jon Lorenz, Thomas Hobbs
  • Publication number: 20070059533
    Abstract: Disclosed are synthetic silica glass body with a birefringence pattern having low fast axis direction randomness factor and glass reflow process. The glass reflow process comprises steps of: providing a glass tube having a notch; and thermally reflowing the glass tube to form a glass plate. The process can be advantageously used to produce fused silica glass plate without observable striae when viewed in the direction of optical axis. Also disclosed are optical members comprising the fused silica glass body and a process for reflowing glass cylinders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventors: Steven Burdette, Polly Chu, James Fagan, Thomas Hobbs, Sumalee Likitvanichkul, Daniel Sempolinski, Terry Taft, Michael Walters