Patents by Inventor Umut Topkara

Umut Topkara 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).

  • TWO-DIMENSIONAL BARCODE TO AVOID UNINTENTIONAL SCANNING
    Publication number: 20140061316
    Abstract: A method of disseminating a message is disclosed. The message is encoding in a barcode. A selected region of the barcode is damaged so as to hinder decoding of the message at a scanning device. The damaged region of the barcode may be occluded from the scanning device in order to enable the scanning device to read the barcode and the message therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Umut Topkara
  • TWO-DIMENSIONAL BARCODE TO AVOID UNINTENTIONAL SCANNING
    Publication number: 20140061310
    Abstract: A method of disseminating a message is disclosed. The message is encoding in a barcode. A selected region of the barcode is damaged so as to hinder decoding of the message at a scanning device. The damaged region of the barcode may be occluded from the scanning device in order to enable the scanning device to read the barcode and the message therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Umut Topkara
  • Natural language watermarking
    Patent number: 8589148
    Abstract: A method, system and machine-readable medium are provided for watermarking natural language digital text. A deep structure may be generated and a group of features may be extracted from natural language digital text input. The deep structure may be modified based, at least partly, on a watermark. Natural language digital text output may be generated based on the modified deep structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Perdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Mikhail Mike Atallah, Srinivas Bangalore, Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tur, Giuseppe Riccardi, Mercan Topkara, Umut Topkara
  • AUTOMATIC AND TRANSPARENT APPLICATION LOGGING
    Publication number: 20130262617
    Abstract: Automatic application logging, in one aspect, may receive a directive for logging data associated with an application. One or more runtime objects of an instance of the application running on a processor may be modified according to the directive to collect the data. The data may be collected via the modified one or more runtime objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph W. Ligman, Marco Pistoia, John J. Ponzo, Umut Topkara
  • USER AUTHENTICATION FOR DEVICES WITH TOUCH SENSITIVE ELEMENTS, SUCH AS TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY SCREENS
    Publication number: 20100225443
    Abstract: For user authentication, finger touch information from a user is accepted via a touch sensitive element, the finger touch information including at least a time series of finger touch samples that define a trace of the user's signature, and each of the finger touch samples including centroid coordinates and non-centroid information, the non-centroid information including at least one of (A) a shape of the finger touch sample, (B) a size of the finger touch sample, (C) an orientation of the finger touch sample, and (D) characteristics of a multi-touch finger touch sample. A similarity of such finger touch samples with previously entered and stored finger touch samples is determined and compared with a threshold for purposes of user authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Sevinc Bayram, Ahmet Emir Dirik, Nasir MEMON, Umut Topkara
  • Natural Language Watermarking
    Publication number: 20070244693
    Abstract: A method, system and machine-readable medium are provided for watermarking natural language digital text. A deep structure may be generated and a group of features may be extracted from natural language digital text input. The deep structure may be modified based, at least partly, on a watermark. Natural language digital text output may be generated based on the modified deep structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: AT&T Corp.
    Inventors: Mikhail Atallah, Srinivas Bangalore, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Giuseppe Riccardi, Mercan Topkara, Umut Topkara