Patents by Inventor Craig Dillon

Craig Dillon 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).

  • System and method for obtaining keyword descriptions of records from a large database
    Patent number: 7363308
    Abstract: A computerized system for augmenting data from a source database with data from a reference database to generate an augmented database that can be used for predictive modeling is disclosed. The present invention includes a method for using the Internet to obtain information, including, reading a data record stored in a field of data, searching a database for information describing the data record, condensing the information describing the data record into a value description, associating the value description with the data record, and augmenting the field of data with the value description associated with the data. The present invention also includes a computerized system for augmenting data from a source database with data from a reference database to generate an augmented database that can be used for predictive modeling and data mining to conduct searches of data in the augmented database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Fair Isaac Corporation
    Inventors: Craig Dillon, Richard Howe, Nicolaas A. van Goor, Sachin Sarnobat, Russell W. Anderson, Jason Lenderman, Gordon Cameron
  • System and method for obtaining keyword descriptions of records from a large database
    Publication number: 20030088562
    Abstract: A computerized system for augmenting data from a source database with data from a reference database to generate an augmented database that can be used for predictive modeling is disclosed. The present invention includes a method for using the Internet to obtain information, including, reading a data record stored in a field of data, searching a database for information describing the data record, condensing the information describing the data record into a value description, associating the value description with the data record, and augmenting the field of data with the value description associated with the data. The present invention also includes a computerized system for augmenting data from a source database with data from a reference database to generate an augmented database that can be used for predictive modeling and data mining to conduct searches of data in the augmented database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Inventors: Craig Dillon, Richard Howe, Nicolaas A. van Goor, Sachin Sarnobat, Russell W. Anderson, Jason Lenderman, Gordon Cameron