Patents by Inventor William Carter

William Carter 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: 20250247474
    Abstract: A method including: receiving a user report dataset indicating fraudulent activity corresponding to a phone number; responsive to receiving the user report dataset, identifying a record in a database corresponding to the phone number; and tagging the record to identify the phone number as being associated with fraudulent activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Sriram Sharma, Michael J. Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ryan Patrick Karnas, Alan Stiffler, Dewang Lakhani
  • Patent number: 12341619
    Abstract: A content moderation system analyzes speech, or characteristics thereof, and determines a toxicity score representing the likelihood that a given clip of speech is toxic. A user interface displays a timeline with various instances of toxicity by one or more users for a give session. The user interface is optimized for moderation interaction, and shows how the conversation containing toxicity evolves over the time domain of a conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Modulate, Inc.
    Inventors: William Carter Huffman, Michael Pappas, Ken Morino, David Pickart
  • Patent number: 12323552
    Abstract: A method including: receiving a user report dataset indicating fraudulent activity corresponding to a phone number; responsive to receiving the user report dataset, identifying a record in a database corresponding to the phone number; and tagging the record to identify the phone number as being associated with fraudulent activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Somos, Inc.
    Inventors: Sriram Sharma, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ryan Karnas, Alan Stiffler, Dewang Lakhani
  • Patent number: 12314968
    Abstract: A method including: receiving one or more datasets indicating call activity corresponding to a phone number; analyzing the one or more datasets to identify unusual call activity; and generating a fraud prediction, based at least in part on the identified unusual call activity, that the phone number will be used for fraud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Somos, Inc.
    Inventors: Sriram Sharma, Sanjeev Chauhan, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Ryan Karnas, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong
  • Publication number: 20250159062
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for natively generating a first protocol, including receiving, via a user device, a first transmission and first transmission data, wherein the first transmission is at least one of a call, a voicemail, a text message, an audio message, or a video message, determining, via a first trained machine learning model, the first protocol based on the first transmission and the first transmission data, the first trained machine learning model having been trained to determine one or more protocols using training transmissions and training transmission data, generating, via the first trained machine learning model, a first responsive output based on the first protocol, and transmitting, via the user device, the first responsive output to a third-party device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2024
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: William CARTER, Greg COHN, Gabe HAACK, Robert KAZIMIROFF, Jessalyn JOHNSON, Thomas VU, Adam AKE, Giancarlo MUSETTI, Daniel GROOT, Tim HENDERSON
  • Patent number: 12155657
    Abstract: An Internet of Things device registry display that includes a user input processing circuit structured to interpret one or more user input command values, an Internet of Things Universal Identification (IoT UID) identification circuit structured to determine one or more IoT UIDs, based at least in part on the one or more user input command values, a device lookup circuit structured to: generate a query that includes the one or more IoT UIDs, and retrieve device property data corresponding to the one or more IoT UIDs, a query provisioning circuit structured to transmit the query to an IoT device registrar server, a device property processing circuit structured to interpret the device property data generated by the IoT device registrar server in response to the query, and a display circuit structured to display the device property data with the corresponding one or more IoT UIDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Somos, Inc.
    Inventors: Sridhar Ramachandran, Eduardo Correia da Silva Brazao, Steven Norman Brumer, Ian Michael Klein, Li Kong, Marc Rudloff Plante, Kimberly Tashner Shyu, Robert Janusz Sliwa, Jeffrey Scott Smith, Christopher Anton Wendt, Haofang Yu, Sriram Sharma, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ryan Karnas, Alan Stiffler, Dewang Lakhani
  • Patent number: 12140267
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a mounting platform comprising a retainer plate opening that includes a first opening profile at a top platform surface of the mounting platform and a second opening profile at a bottom platform surface of the mounting platform. the top platform surface first receives a retainer plate when nested within the mounting platform, and the bottom platform surface abuts the retainer plate when the retainer plate is nested within the mounting platform. The first opening profile matches a planform profile of the retainer plate and is etched into the top platform surface through to the bottom platform surface, and the second opening profile is etched from midway between the top platform surface and the bottom platform surface through to the bottom platform surface. The second opening profile corresponding to a rotational offset of the first opening profile by a predetermined angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Painter, Joseph Baird, Parag Garg, Kenneth Chou, Michael Lo, William Carter-Giannini
  • Publication number: 20240296858
    Abstract: A toxicity moderation system has an input configured to receive speech from a speaker. The system includes a multi-stage toxicity machine learning system having a first stage and a second stage. The first stage is trained to analyze the received speech to determine whether a toxicity level of the speech meets a toxicity threshold. The first stage is also configured to filter-through, to the second stage, speech that meets the toxicity threshold, and is further configured to filter-out speech that does not meet the toxicity threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: William Carter Huffman, Michael Pappas, Henry Howie
  • Patent number: 11996117
    Abstract: A toxicity moderation system has an input configured to receive speech from a speaker. The system includes a multi-stage toxicity machine learning system having a first stage and a second stage. The first stage is trained to analyze the received speech to determine whether a toxicity level of the speech meets a toxicity threshold. The first stage is also configured to filter-through, to the second stage, speech that meets the toxicity threshold, and is further configured to filter-out speech that does not meet the toxicity threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventors: William Carter Huffman, Michael Pappas, Henry Howie
  • Publication number: 20240119954
    Abstract: A method of building a new voice having a new timbre using a timbre vector space includes receiving timbre data filtered using a temporal receptive field. The timbre data is mapped in the timbre vector space. The timbre data is related to a plurality of different voices. Each of the plurality of different voices has respective timbre data in the timbre vector space. The method builds the new timbre using the timbre data of the plurality of different voices using a machine learning system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: William Carter Huffman, Michael Pappas
  • Patent number: 11854563
    Abstract: A method of building a new voice having a new timbre using a timbre vector space includes receiving timbre data filtered using a temporal receptive field. The timbre data is mapped in the timbre vector space. The timbre data is related to a plurality of different voices. Each of the plurality of different voices has respective timbre data in the timbre vector space. The method builds the new timbre using the timbre data of the plurality of different voices using a machine learning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Modulate, Inc.
    Inventors: William Carter Huffman, Michael Pappas
  • Publication number: 20230395065
    Abstract: A method for online voice content moderation provides a multi-stage voice content analysis system. The system includes a pre-moderator stage having a toxicity scorer configured to provide a toxicity score for a given toxic speech content from a user. The toxicity score is a function of a platform content policy. The method generates a toxicity score for the given toxic speech content. The toxic speech content is provided to a moderator as a function of the toxicity score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Modulate, Inc.
    Inventors: William Carter Huffman, Michael Pappas, Ken Morino, David Pickart
  • Publication number: 20230396457
    Abstract: A content moderation system analyzes speech, or characteristics thereof, and determines a toxicity score representing the likelihood that a given clip of speech is toxic. A user interface displays a timeline with various instances of toxicity by one or more users for a give session. The user interface is optimized for moderation interaction, and shows how the conversation containing toxicity evolves over the time domain of a conversation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: William Carter Huffman, Michael Pappas, Ken Morino, David Pickart
  • Publication number: 20230321546
    Abstract: Illustrative embodiments employ trained artificial intelligence to provide real-time (e.g., zero introduced latency), or near-real-time (e.g., less than 500 ms of introduced latency), moderation of a verbal communication, without the need for human moderators. By using predictive technology with pre-defined knowledge of undesirable content (e.g., speech to be redacted from a verbal communication), undesirable content of a verbal communication (e.g., human speech or text-to-speech communication) may be censored, as the verbal communication is created. Prediction of undesirable content may be based on context of the initial audio communication (e.g., words preceding the offensive language) and/or the phonetic content of the verbal communication preceding the undesirable content, and/or the phonetic content of the undesirable content itself (e.g., the first sounds of offensive language).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: William Carter Huffman, Joshua D. Fishman, Zachary Nevue
  • Publication number: 20230210406
    Abstract: Devices associated with on-body analyte sensor units are disclosed. These devices include any of packaging and/or loading systems, applicators and elements of the on-body sensor units themselves. Also, various approaches to connecting electrochemical analyte sensors to and/or within associated on-body analyte sensor units are disclosed. The connector approaches variously involve the use of unique sensor and ancillary element arrangements to facilitate assembly of separate electronics assemblies and sensor elements that are kept apart until the end user brings them together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Louis Pace, Peter G. Robinson, Udo Hoss, Samuel Mason Curry, Phillip William Carter, Vincent Michael DiPalma, Amit Mhatre, Jennifer Olson, Manuel Luis Miguel Donnay, Marc Barry Taub
  • Publication number: 20230194041
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a mounting platform comprising a retainer plate opening that includes a first opening profile at a top platform surface of the mounting platform and a second opening profile at a bottom platform surface of the mounting platform. the top platform surface first receives a retainer plate when nested within the mounting platform, and the bottom platform surface abuts the retainer plate when the retainer plate is nested within the mounting platform. The first opening profile matches a planform profile of the retainer plate and is etched into the top platform surface through to the bottom platform surface, and the second opening profile is etched from midway between the top platform surface and the bottom platform surface through to the bottom platform surface. The second opening profile corresponding to a rotational offset of the first opening profile by a predetermined angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Painter, Joseph Baird, Parag Garg, Kenneth Chou, Michael Lo, William Carter-Giannini
  • Publication number: 20230136732
    Abstract: A method including: receiving one or more datasets indicating call activity corresponding to a phone number; analyzing the one or more datasets to identify unusual call activity; and generating a fraud prediction, based at least in part on the identified unusual call activity, that the phone number will be used for fraud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Sriram Sharma, Sanjeev Chauhan, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Ryan Karnas, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong
  • Publication number: 20230128054
    Abstract: A method including: receiving a user report dataset indicating fraudulent activity corresponding to a phone number; responsive to receiving the user report dataset, identifying a record in a database corresponding to the phone number; and tagging the record to identify the phone number as being associated with fraudulent activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Sriram Sharma, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ryan Karnas, Alan Stiffler, Dewang Lakhani
  • Patent number: 11618185
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing three-dimensional (3D) objects is provided. The method includes generating a plan for printing a plurality of 3D objects in a 3D printing medium at least in part by identifying an unprinted area of the 3D printing medium for insertion of a cooling device and determining where at least some of the plurality of 3D objects are to be printed in the 3D printing medium such that none of the at least some of the plurality of 3D objects, when printed, intersect the identified unprinted area for the insertion of the cooling device. The method further includes printing, using a 3D printer, the at least some of the plurality of 3D objects in accordance with the plan and, after the printing, inserting the cooling device into the unprinted area of the 3D printing medium and cooling the 3D printing medium using the cooling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Shapeways, Inc.
    Inventor: William Carter Davis
  • Patent number: D990479
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: United States Postal Service
    Inventors: Dean S. Edmonds, III, David S. Dao, William Carter, II, Daniel J. Widdershoven, David William Cerutti