Patents

At last count (2022),  I had 47 granted U.S. patents. In addition, a few of the patent applications we applied for in the U.S. and in other countries (ranging from Australia to China to Europe) granted abroad but not (yet?) in the United States.  

Almost all of my patents are in machine learning and related applications, resulting from a very productive collaboration with George Forman, Evan Kirshenbaum, and other members of our team in the Data Mining & Machine Learning group at HP Labs starting in 1997.  A few are on storage and memory-related technologies, driven by the work with Kave Eshghi and Mark Lillibridge, whose vision and tenacity led to breakthrough work in "chunk stores," intrinsic references, and the StoreOnce product line.  And the rest are from a range of areas ranging from health tech (smart beds, patient alarm tablets, etc.), IT operations management, security, to telecommunications. 

You can see my granted patents on the US Patent and Trademark Office site or on Google Patents. Despite best efforts by patent attorneys, on two (!!) granted patents, they misspelled my last name to "Suemondt" so you can search for that too.

I try to keep track of and cross-reference my patents on LinkedIn as well.

But here is a text list of them (last updated July 2022):

1. Lyon, GM, Shah, AJ, Sang Jr, HW, Suermondt, HJ. Data Porch for Throttling Data Access. US Patent 11,042,656 (2021). European Patent EP3262558B1 (2019). China Patent CN107636673B (2020).

2. Lyon, GM, Shah, AJ, Sang Jr, HW, Suermondt, HJ. Throttled Data Memory Access. US Patent 10,496,553 (2019). European Patent EP3259672B1 (2020). China Patent CN107466399B (2020).

3. Kirshenbaum, ER, Suermondt, HJ, Forman, GH. Providing Training Information for Training a Categorizer. US Patent 9,792,359 (2017).

4. Beinlich, I., Rolia, J., Suermondt, HJ, Willis, C. Visual Call Apparatus and Method. Australia Patent 2012393561 (2017).

5. Kirshenbaum, ER, Suermondt, HJ, Forman, GH. Computing A Quantification Measure Associated With Cases In A Category. US Patent 9,047,290 (2015).

6. Forman, GH, Suermondt, HJ, Kirshenbaum, ER. Count Estimation Via Machine Learning. US Patent 8,744,987 (2014).

7. Beinlich, I, Suermondt, HJ, Willis, C, and Rolia, J. Display screen with icon set. US Patent D704,214 (2014).

8. Kirshenbaum, ER, Suermondt, HJ, Forman, GH. Producing A Measure Regarding Cases Associated With An Issue After One Or More Events Have Occurred. US Patent 8,719,073 (2014).

9. Kirshenbaum, ER, Suermondt, HJ, Lillibridge, MD, Yuasa, K, Eshghi, K, and Forman, GH. Policy Applicability Determination. US Patent 8,627,403 (2014)

10. Eshgi, K, Suermondt, HJ, Kirshenbaum, ER. Finding Matching Locations, Trajectories Or Attributes While Maintaining Privacy Of Non-matching Information. US Patent 8,560,512 (2013)

11. Shan, JZ, Lukose, R, Suermondt, HJ, and Kirshenbaum, ER. System And Method For Constructing Forecasting Models. US Patent 8,374,982 (2013)

12. Forman, GF, Suermondt, HJ. A Method Of, And System For, Classification Count Adjustment. US Patent 8,260,730 (2012).

13. Shan, JZ, Kirshenbaum, ER, Suermondt, HJ, Beyer, D, and Chen, C. Techniques for Monitoring a Data Stream. US Patent 8,185,348 (2012).

14. Forman, GH, Suermondt, HJ, and Stinger, JR. Determining A Feature Related To An Indication Of A Concept Using A Classifier. US Patent 8,165,972 (2012).

15. Suermondt, HJ and Eshghi, K. Identifying characteristics in sets of organized items. US Patent 7,908,254 (2011);

16. Forman, GH, Suermondt, HJ, and Stinger; JR. System and method for minimally predictive feature identification. US Patent 7,836,059 (2010).

17. Kirshenbaum, ER, Forman, GH, and Suermondt, HJ. System and Method for Modifying a Training Set. US Patent 7,797,282 (2010).

18. Forman, GH, and Suermondt, HJ. Retraining a Machine-Learning Classifier Using Re-labeled Training Samples. US Patent 7,792,353 (2010).

19. Kirshenbaum ER, Beyer, DM, Suermondt, HJ. Methods and Sytems for a Prediction Model. US Patent 7,778,715 (2010).

20. Kirshenbaum, ER, Suermondt, HJ, Lillibridge, MD. Providing an Index for a Data Store. US Patent 7,725,437 (2010).

21. Suermondt, HJ, Forman, GH, Mishra, N. Predicting Parts Needed for an Onsite Repair Using Expected Waste Derived From Repair History. US Patent 7,707,058 (2010).

22. Eshghi, K, Tangh, HK, Suermondt, HJ. Method for Creating Sketches of Sets to Permit Comparison. US Patent 7,668,852 (2010).

23. Forman, GH, Kirshenbaum, ER, Suermondt, HJ, Lillibridge, M. Comparing Distributions of Cases over Groups of Categories. US Patent 7,668,789 (2010).

24. Fawcett, T, Forman, GH, Suermondt, HJ. Identifying Exceptional Managed Systems. US Patent 7,640,217 (2009).

25. Kirshenbaum, ER, Suermondt, HJ, Forman, GH, Tripp, TM. Effecting Action to Address an Issue Associated with a Category Based on Information that Enables Ranking of Categories. US Patent 7,593,904 (2009).

26. Forman, GH, and Suermondt, HJ. Computing a count of cases in a class. US Patent 7,502,767 (2009).

27. Forman, GH, Suermondt, HJ and Kirshenbaum, ER. Providing Information Regarding A Trend Based On Output Of A Categorizer. US Patent 7,437,338 (2008).

28. Goin, T, Campbell, K, Stinger, J, Fawcett, T, Steele, D, Mishra, N, Suermondt, HJ. A Method And System For Comparing Individual Computers To Cluster Representations Of Their Peers. US Patent 7,380,177 (2008).

29. Kirshenbaum, ER, and Suermondt HJ. Customer-Side Market Segmentation. US Patent 7,353,184 (2008).

30. Forman, GH and Suermondt, HJ. Hierarchical Categorization Method And System With Automatic Local Selection Of Classifiers. US Patent 7,349,917 (2008).

31. Forman, GH, Suermondt, HJ and Stinger, J. System and Method for Category Discovery. US Patent 7,325,005 (2008).

32. Suermondt, HJ, Forman, GH and Stinger, J. System and Method for Category Organization. US Patent 7,325,006 (2008).

33. Suermondt, HJ, and Kirshenbaum, ER. Predicting the health of a system that would result from the application of a proposed intervention to an existing system. US Patent 7,246,229 (2007). 

34. Suermondt, HJ, Eshghi, K, Kirshenbaum, ER. Consumer Product Status Monitoring. US Patent 7,212,955 (2007) 

35. Goin, T, Campbell, K, Stinger, J, Fawcett, T, Steele, D, Mishra, N, Suermondt, HJ. A method and system for clustering computers into peer groups and comparing individual computers to their peers. US Patent 7,203,864 (2007).

36. Forman, GH and Suermondt, HJ. Telecommunications services and apparatus regarding lost connectivity events. US Patent 7,130,620 (2006).

37. Forman, GH and Suermondt, HJ. Reverse caller-identification. US Patent 7,116,773 (2006).

38. Suermondt, HJ, and Hsu, M., Automatic hierarchical classifications of temporal ordered case log documents for detection of changes. US Patent 7,051,009 (2006). 

39. Forman, GH, Fawcett, T, Suermondt, HJ. Method and system for measuring the quality of a hierarchy. US Patent 7,043,468 (2006).

40. Forman, GH, and Suermondt, HJ. System and method for inducing top-down hierarchical categorizer. US Patent 6,990,485 (2006).

41. Suermondt, HJ, and Fawcett, T. Determining accuracy of a classifier. US Patent 6,950,812 (2005).

42. Suermondt, HJ, and Forman, GH. Method for a topic hierarchy classification system. US Patent 6,947,936 (2005).

43. Suermondt, HJ, and Kirshenbaum, EK. Predicting the health of a computer system by determining a set of modifications involved in a proposed intervention to an existing system. US Patent 6,826,683 (2004).

44. Forman, GH, and Suermondt, HJ. Automated Classification Method and Apparatus. US Patent 6,823,323 (2004).

45. Skaanning, C, Suermondt, HJ, and Jensen, FV. Validation of Probabilistic Troubleshooters and Diagnostic Systems. US Patent 6,820,072 (2004)

46. Forman, GH, and Suermondt, HJ. Continuous Language-Based Troubleshooting Tool. US Patent 6,772,374 (2004).

47. Suermondt, HJ, and Forman, GH. Method of efficient migration from one categorization hierarchy to another hierarchy. US Patent 6,701,333 (2004).

48. Kirshenbaum, ER, Eshghi, K, and Suermondt, HJ. Automatic gathering and analysis of data on commute paths. US Patent 6,584,401 (2003).