Patents by Inventor Willard Simmons

Willard Simmons 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: 9482442
    Abstract: A decision dashboard system to balance competing objectives in a control system suggests control parameter settings for the control system based on specified weights for the competing objectives. For example, given a target amount of energy consumption for a campus-wide, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) control system, providing an optimal amount of climate control to the different campus locations may compete against the length of time climate control is provided to each of the locations. In some aspects, sets of control system settings may be used to predict outcomes based on a history of control parameter settings and measurements from the control system. In further aspects, the predicted outcomes and their associated control parameter settings may be mapped to different weights for the competing objectives and displayed in a graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: DataXu, Inc.
    Inventors: Saket Mengle, Beth Teresa Logan, Misha Natan Sidorsky, Willard Simmons
  • Publication number: 20160313019
    Abstract: A decision dashboard system to balance competing objectives in a control system suggests control parameter settings for the control system based on specified weights for the competing objectives. For example, given a target amount of energy consumption for a campus-wide, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) control system, providing an optimal amount of climate control to the different campus locations may compete against the length of time climate control is provided to each of the locations. In some aspects, sets of control system settings may be used to predict outcomes based on a history of control parameter settings and measurements from the control system. In further aspects, the predicted outcomes and their associated control parameter settings may be mapped to different weights for the competing objectives and displayed in a graphical user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Saket Mengle, Beth Teresa Logan, Misha Natan Sidorsky, Willard Simmons
  • Publication number: 20110040635
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for dynamically determining an anticipated economic valuation for each of a plurality of potential advertising placements for an advertisement in response to receiving a request to place an advertisement for a publisher, wherein the selection and presentation of an available advertising placement to the publisher is based at least in part on the economic valuation. The economic valuation may be a current valuation, an anticipated valuation, and/or a valuation that is selected from among a set of competing valuations. In embodiments, the request for the placement may be a time limited request. Further, the economic valuation model may evaluate performance information relating to each of the plurality of advertisement placements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Inventors: Willard Simmons, Sandro N. Catanzaro