Patents by Inventor Adam Tomkins

Adam Tomkins 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: 20240005910
    Abstract: Provided is a process including obtaining a set of natural-language text documents that discuss a topic, the set of documents containing different states of knowledge about the topic at different times. The process includes selecting an ontology from among a plurality of ontologies that correspond to different domains of knowledge, the selection being based on the ontology corresponding to a domain of knowledge including the topic. The process includes identifying concepts discussed in the documents using the ontology and detecting changes in at least some of the concepts over time based on differences between discussion of the concepts in documents authored at different times. The process includes updating natural language instructions on the topic based on the detected changes in the concepts and storing the updated natural language instructions in memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Adam Tomkins, Walter Bender, Carlos Fernández Musoles
  • Patent number: 11699432
    Abstract: Provided is a method including obtaining a corpus and an associated set of domain indicators. The method includes learning a set of vectors in an embedding space based on n-grams of the corpus. The method includes updating ontology graphs comprising a set of vertices and edges associating the set of vertices with each other. The method also includes determining a vector cluster using hierarchical clustering based on distances of the set of vectors with respect to each other in the embedding space and determining a hierarchy of the ontology graphs based on a set of domain indicators of a respective set of vertices corresponding to vectors of the vector cluster. The method also includes updating an index based on the ontology graphs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Sorcero, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Bender, Unai Garay Maestre, Carlos Fernandez Musoles, Adam Tomkins
  • Patent number: 11636847
    Abstract: A process including obtaining a set of natural-language text documents that discuss a topic, the set of documents containing different states of knowledge about the topic at different times. The process includes selecting an ontology from among a plurality of ontologies that correspond to different domains of knowledge, the selection being based on the ontology corresponding to a domain of knowledge including the topic. The process includes identifying concepts discussed in the documents using the ontology and detecting changes in at least some of the concepts over time based on differences between discussion of the concepts in documents authored at different times. The process includes updating natural language instructions on the topic based on the detected changes in the concepts and storing the updated natural language instructions in memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Sorcero, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Tomkins, Walter Bender, Carlos Fernández Musoles
  • Patent number: 11557276
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining parameters and a document, determining a domain based on the parameters, where the domain maps to a first ontology, and where ontologies map n-grams onto a set of concepts. The method includes scoring a first set of n-grams of the document using a scoring model based on relations between members of the first set of n-grams, selecting sections of the text based on n-gram scores provided by the scoring model, and determining an initial n-gram set, where each respective n-gram of the initial n-gram set maps to a respective concept of the set of concepts, and where each respective n-gram is identified by an ontology other than the first ontology. The method includes determining related n-grams mapped to the set of concepts associated with the domain and generating a text summary for the document based on the sections and the related n-grams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sorcero, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Bender, Unai Garay Maestre, Carlos Fernández Musoles, Adam Tomkins
  • Publication number: 20220005463
    Abstract: Provided is a method including obtaining a corpus and an associated set of domain indicators. The method includes learning a set of vectors in an embedding space based on n-grams of the corpus. The method includes updating ontology graphs comprising a set of vertices and edges associating the set of vertices with each other. The method also includes determining a vector cluster using hierarchical clustering based on distances of the set of vectors with respect to each other in the embedding space and determining a hierarchy of the ontology graphs based on a set of domain indicators of a respective set of vertices corresponding to vectors of the vector cluster. The method also includes updating an index based on the ontology graphs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Walter Bender, Unai Garay Maestre, Carlos Fernandez Musoles, Adam Tomkins
  • Patent number: 11151982
    Abstract: Provided is a method including obtaining a corpus and an associated set of domain indicators. The method includes learning a set of vectors in an embedding space based on n-grams of the corpus. The method includes updating ontology graphs comprising a set of vertices and edges associating the set of vertices with each other. The method also includes determining a vector cluster using hierarchical clustering based on distances of the set of vectors with respect to each other in the embedding space and determining a hierarchy of the ontology graphs based on a set of domain indicators of a respective set of vertices corresponding to vectors of the vector cluster. The method also includes updating an index based on the ontology graphs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Sorcero, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Tomkins, Walter Bender, Carlos Fernández Musoles, Richard Graves, Dipanwita Das
  • Publication number: 20210294828
    Abstract: Provided is a process including obtaining a set of natural-language text documents that discuss a topic, the set of documents containing different states of knowledge about the topic at different times. The process includes selecting an ontology from among a plurality of ontologies that correspond to different domains of knowledge, the selection being based on the ontology corresponding to a domain of knowledge including the topic. The process includes identifying concepts discussed in the documents using the ontology and detecting changes in at least some of the concepts over time based on differences between discussion of the concepts in documents authored at different times. The process includes updating natural language instructions on the topic based on the detected changes in the concepts and storing the updated natural language instructions in memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Adam Tomkins, Walter Bender, Carlos Fernández Musoles
  • Publication number: 20210295822
    Abstract: Provided is a method including obtaining a corpus and an associated set of domain indicators. The method includes learning a set of vectors in an embedding space based on n-grams of the corpus. The method includes updating ontology graphs comprising a set of vertices and edges associating the set of vertices with each other. The method also includes determining a vector cluster using hierarchical clustering based on distances of the set of vectors with respect to each other in the embedding space and determining a hierarchy of the ontology graphs based on a set of domain indicators of a respective set of vertices corresponding to vectors of the vector cluster. The method also includes updating an index based on the ontology graphs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Adam Tomkins, Walter Bender, Carlos Fernández Musoles, Richard Graves, Dipanwita Das
  • Publication number: 20210294829
    Abstract: Provided is a method including obtaining parameters and a document, determining a domain based on the parameters, where the domain maps to a first ontology, and where ontologies map n-grams onto a set of concepts. The method includes scoring a first set of n-grams of the document using a scoring model based on relations between members of the first set of n-grams, selecting sections of the text based on n-gram scores provided by the scoring model, and determining an initial n-gram set, where each respective n-gram of the initial n-gram set maps to a respective concept of the set of concepts, and where each respective n-gram is identified by an ontology other than the first ontology. The method includes determining related n-grams mapped to the set of concepts associated with the domain and generating a text summary for the document based on the sections and the related n-grams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Walter Bender, Unai Garay Maestre, Carlos Fernández Musoles, Adam Tomkins