Patents by Inventor Travis Woodruff

Travis Woodruff 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: 9256686
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the use of a Bloom Filter in a web analytics application. Large sets of data, obtained from on and offline sources, may be analyzed using a Bloom Filter to find desired patterns within the data. The use of a Bloom Filter in the analysis allows for a more efficient use of resources to perform the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Travis Woodruff
  • Patent number: 8768943
    Abstract: A process for tracking a consumer's behavior based on his or her entries into a number of cybernetic device sources such as personal computers, automated goods and services dispensing kiosks, automated teller machines and cell phones does not depend exclusively upon the presence of cookies implanted into such devices by vendors or upon a consumer's having provided a positive identification form. The process uses a pairing algorithm to comb elements of information from the source device visitation records in search of one or more common characteristics that can be presumptively attributed to a single consumer. Characteristics such as source device identifiers, phone numbers, street addresses or email addresses are each weighted by a weighting factor that is used to identify the consumer and attribute the visitation record and its associated activity to that consumer at a calculated confidence level. The attributed information can analyzed to track that consumer's behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hemanth Puttaswamy, Travis Woodruff, Srinivasa Ogireddy, Nipun Batra, Steve Howard
  • Publication number: 20120054213
    Abstract: A process for tracking a consumer's behavior based on his or her entries into a number of cybernetic device sources such as personal computers, automated goods and services dispensing kiosks, automated teller machines and cell phones does not depend exclusively upon the presence of cookies implanted into such devices by vendors or upon a consumer's having provided a positive identification form. The process uses a pairing algorithm to comb elements of information from the source device visitation records in search of one or more common characteristics that can be presumptively attributed to a single consumer. Characteristics such as source device identifiers, phone numbers, street addresses or email addresses are each weighted by a weighting factor that is used to identify the consumer and attribute the visitation record and its associated activity to that consumer at a calculated confidence level. The attributed information can analyzed to track that consumer's behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventors: Hemanth Puttaswamy, Travis Woodruff, Srinivasa Ogireddy, Nipun Batra, Steve Howard
  • Publication number: 20100070514
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the use of a Bloom Filter in a web analytics application. Large sets of data, obtained from on and offline sources, may be analyzed using a Bloom Filter to find desired patterns within the data. The use of a Bloom Filter in the analysis allows for a more efficient use of resources to perform the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: Coremetrics,Inc.
    Inventor: Travis Woodruff