Patents by Inventor George Beskales

George Beskales 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: 11782966
    Abstract: Given a number of records and a number of target classes to which these records belong to, a (weakly) supervised machine learning classification method leverages known possibly dirty classification rules, efficiently and accurately learns a classification model from training data, and applies the learned model to the data records to predict their classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: TAMR, INC.
    Inventors: George Beskales, John Kraemer, Ihab F. Ilyas, Liam Cleary, Paul Roome
  • Patent number: 11500818
    Abstract: An end-to-end data curation system and the various methods used in linking, matching, and cleaning large-scale data sources. The goal of this system is to provide scalable and efficient record deduplication. The system uses a crowd of experts to train the system. The system operator can optionally provide a set of hints to reduce the number of questions send to the experts. The system solves the problem of schema mapping and record deduplication a holistic way by unifying these problems into a unified linkage problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TAMR, INC.
    Inventors: Nikolaus Bates-Haus, George Beskales, Daniel Meir Bruckner, Ihab F. Ilyas, Alexander Richter Pagan, Michael Ralph Stonebraker
  • Patent number: 11232143
    Abstract: Given a number of records and a number of target classes to which these records belong to, a (weakly) supervised machine learning classification method leverages known possibly dirty classification rules, efficiently and accurately learns a classification model from training data, and applies the learned model to the data records to predict their classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: TAMR, INC.
    Inventors: George Beskales, John Kraemer, Ihab F. Ilyas, Liam Cleary, Paul Roome
  • Patent number: 11204707
    Abstract: Fast record deduplication is accomplished by providing as an input, data records having multiple attributes, and local similarity functions of individual attributes with local similarity thresholds. Bin IDs are then generated based on the local similarity functions and the local similarity thresholds. The Bin IDs are unique identifiers of a respective bin of records, and the bin of records is a set of records that are possibly pairwise similar. Local candidate pairs are identified based on data records that share Bin IDs. The local candidate pairs are aggregated to produce a set of global candidate pairs. The set of global candidate pairs are filtered by deciding whether a pair of data records represents a duplicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: TAMR, INC.
    Inventors: George Beskales, Ihab F. Ilyas
  • Patent number: 11042523
    Abstract: A data curation system is provided that includes various methods to enable efficient reuse of human and machine effort. To reuse effort, various facilities are presented that model, save, and allow for querying of provenance and state information of a curation workflow and allow for incremental, stateful transitions of the data and metadata thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: TAMR, INC.
    Inventors: Vladimir Gluzman Peregrine, Ihab F. Ilyas, Michael Ralph Stonebraker, Stan Zdonik, Andrew H. Palmer, Alexander Richter Pagan, Daniel Meir Bruckner, George Beskales, Aizana Turmukhametova, Tianyu Zhu, Kanak Kshetri, Jason Liu, Nikolaus Bates-Haus
  • Publication number: 20210173817
    Abstract: An end-to-end data curation system and the various methods used in linking, matching, and cleaning large-scale data sources. The goal of this system is to provide scalable and efficient record deduplication. The system uses a crowd of experts to train the system. The system operator can optionally provide a set of hints to reduce the number of questions send to the experts. The system solves the problem of schema mapping and record deduplication a holistic way by unifying these problems into a unified linkage problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Nikolaus BATES-HAUS, George BESKALES, Daniel Meir BRUCKNER, Ihab F. ILYAS, Alexander Richter PAGAN, Michael Ralph STONEBRAKER
  • Patent number: 10929348
    Abstract: An end-to-end data curation system and the various methods used in linking, matching, and cleaning large-scale data sources. The goal of this system is to provide scalable and efficient record deduplication. The system uses a crowd of experts to train the system. The system operator can optionally provide a set of hints to reduce the number of questions sent to the experts. The system solves the problem of schema mapping and record deduplication in a holistic way by unifying these problems into a unified linkage problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: TAMR, INC.
    Inventors: Nikolaus Bates-Haus, George Beskales, Daniel Meir Bruckner, Ihab F. Ilyas, Alexander Richter Pagan, Michael Ralph Stonebraker
  • Patent number: 10803105
    Abstract: Given a number of records and a number of target classes to which these records belong to, a (weakly) supervised machine learning classification method leverages known possibly dirty classification rules, efficiently and accurately learns a classification model from training data, and applies the learned model to the data records to predict their classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Tamr, Inc.
    Inventors: George Beskales, John Kraemer, Ihab F. Ilyas, Liam Cleary, Paul Roome
  • Publication number: 20200233597
    Abstract: Fast record deduplication is accomplished by providing as an input, data records having multiple attributes, and local similarity functions of individual attributes with local similarity thresholds. Bin IDs are then generated based on the local similarity functions and the local similarity thresholds. The Bin IDs are unique identifiers of a respective bin of records, and the bin of records is a set of records that are possibly pairwise similar. Local candidate pairs are identified based on data records that share Bin IDs. The local candidate pairs are aggregated to produce a set of global candidate pairs. The set of global candidate pairs are filtered by deciding whether a pair of data records represents a duplicate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: George BESKALES, Ihab F. ILYAS
  • Publication number: 20200117643
    Abstract: A data curation system is provided that includes various methods to enable efficient reuse of human and machine effort. To reuse effort, various facilities are presented that model, save, and allow for querying of provenance and state information of a curation workflow and allow for incremental, stateful transitions of the data and metadata thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Vladimir Gluzman PEREGRINE, Ihab F. ILYAS, Michael Ralph STONEBRAKER, Stan ZDONIK, Andrew H. PALMER, Alexander Richter PAGAN, Daniel Meir BRUCKNER, George BESKALES, Aizana TURMUKHAMETOVA, Tianyu ZHU, Kanak KSHETRI, Jason LIU, Nikolaus BATES-HAUS
  • Patent number: 10613785
    Abstract: A very efficient computer system is presented to generate all pairs of records that have a certain similarity. Similarity is defined in terms of the textual similarity of the record attributes and/or absolute difference for numeric record attributes. Software assigns each record to a number of bins, and then compares pairs of records that belong to the same bin. This is more efficient than comparing all pairs of records since the number of records compared to each other is much smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Tamr, Inc.
    Inventors: George Beskales, Ihab F. Ilyas
  • Publication number: 20180341667
    Abstract: A data curation system that includes various methods to enable efficient reuse of human and machine effort. To reuse effort, various facilities are presented that model, save, and allow the querying of provenance and state information of a curation workflow and allow for incremental, stateful transitions of the data and the metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Vladimir Gluzman Peregrine, Ihab F. Ilyas, Michael Ralph Stonebraker, Stan Zdonik, Andrew H. Palmer, Alexander Richter Pagan, Daniel Meir Bruckner, George Beskales, Aizana Turmukhametova, Tianyu Zhu, Kanak Kshetri, Jason Liu, Nikolaus Bates-Haus
  • Patent number: 9720986
    Abstract: A method for integrating data into a database comprises storing data comprising a plurality of records which each comprise a plurality of attributes; analyzing a sample of records from the plurality of records by: identifying duplicate pairs of records in the sample records; analyzing each attribute of each record of the duplicate pairs of records to identify a respective attribute condition which is indicative that the pairs of records are duplicates; wherein the method further comprises: comparing each attribute of a record with the respective attribute condition and, if the attribute satisfies the attribute condition, allocating the record to a disjoint group which comprises records with an attribute that satisfies the same respective attribute condition; identifying duplicate pairs of records in the records in each disjoint group; identifying duplicate pairs of records in records that are not allocated to a disjoint group; and consolidating each duplicate pair of records into one consolidated record and s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: QATAR FOUNDATION
    Inventors: George Beskales, Ihab Francis Ilyas Kaldas
  • Publication number: 20170075918
    Abstract: An end-to-end data curation system and the various methods used in linking, matching, and cleaning large-scale data sources. The goal of this system is to provide scalable and efficient record deduplication. The system uses a crowd of experts to train the system. The system operator can optionally provide a set of hints to reduce the number of questions sent to the experts. The system solves the problem of schema mapping and record deduplication in a holistic way by unifying these problems into a unified linkage problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Nikolaus Bates-Haus, George Beskales, Daniel Meir Bruckner, Ihab F. Ilyas, Alexander Richter Pagan, Michael Ralph Stonebraker
  • Patent number: 9542412
    Abstract: An end-to-end data curation system and the various methods used in linking, matching, and cleaning large-scale data sources. The goal of this system is to provide scalable and efficient record deduplication. The system uses a crowd of experts to train the system. The system operator can optionally provide a set of hints to reduce the number of questions send to the experts. The system solves the problem of schema mapping and record deduplication a holistic way by unifying these problems into a unified linkage problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Tamr, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikolaus Bates-Haus, George Beskales, Daniel Meir Bruckner, Ihab F. Ilyas, Alexander Richter Pagan, Michael Ralph Stonebraker
  • Publication number: 20160048542
    Abstract: A data curation system that includes various methods to enable efficient reuse of human and machine effort. To reuse effort, various facilities are presented that model, save, and allow the querying of provenance and state information of a curation workflow and allow for incremental, stateful transitions of the data and the metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Vladimir Gluzman Peregrine, Ihab F. Ilyas, Michael Ralph Stonebraker, Stan Zdonik, Andrew H. Palmer, Alexander Richter Pagan, Daniel Meir Bruckner, George Beskales, Aizana Turmukhametova, Tianyu Zhu, Kanak Kshetri, Jason Liu, Nikolaus Bates-Haus
  • Publication number: 20150278241
    Abstract: An end-to-end data curation system and the various methods used in linking, matching, and cleaning large-scale data sources. The goal of this system is to provide scalable and efficient record deduplication. The system uses a crowd of experts to train the system. The system operator can optionally provide a set of hints to reduce the number of questions send to the experts. The system solves the problem of schema mapping and record deduplication a holistic way by unifying these problems into a unified linkage problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: DATATAMER, INC.
    Inventors: Nikolaus Bates-Haus, George Beskales, Daniel Meir Bruckner, Ihab F. Ilyas, Alexander Richter Pagan, Michael Ralph Stonebraker
  • Patent number: 8805798
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising partitioning data representing an input instance of a database including multiple tuples into multiple fragments of tuples, detecting tuples which violate a data quality specification in respective ones of the fragments, selecting a data cleaning asset on the basis of characteristics of errors in detected tuples for a fragment and based on declared asset capabilities, assigning a selected data cleaning asset to the fragment, the selected data cleaning asset to provide a set of candidate corrections for the detected tuples in the fragment, providing data representing an output instance of the database in which detected tuples are replaced with selected candidate corrections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Qatar Foundation
    Inventors: Ihab Francis Ilyas Kaldas, George Beskales, Ahmed Elmagarmid
  • Publication number: 20140156606
    Abstract: A method for integrating data into a database comprises storing data comprising a plurality of records which each comprise a plurality of attributes; analysing a sample of records from the plurality of records by: identifying duplicate pairs of records in the sample records; analysing each attribute of each record of the duplicate pairs of records to identify a respective attribute condition which is indicative that the pairs of records are duplicates; wherein the method further comprises: comparing each attribute of a record with the respective attribute condition and, if the attribute satisfies the attribute condition, allocating the record to a disjoint group which comprises records with an attribute that satisfies the same respective attribute condition; identifying duplicate pairs of records in the records in each disjoint group; identifying duplicate pairs of records in records that are not allocated to a disjoint group; and consolidating each duplicate pair of records into one consolidated record and s
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventors: George BESKALES, Ihab Francis IIyas KALDAS
  • Publication number: 20130275393
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising partitioning data representing an input instance of a database including multiple tuples into multiple fragments of tuples, detecting tuples which violate a data quality specification in respective ones of the fragments, selecting a data cleaning asset on the basis of characteristics of errors in detected tuples for a fragment and based on declared asset capabilities, assigning a selected data cleaning asset to the fragment, the selected data cleaning asset to provide a set of candidate corrections for the detected tuples in the fragment, providing data representing an output instance of the database in which detected tuples are replaced with selected candidate corrections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Qatar Foundation
    Inventors: Ihab Francis Ilyas Kaldas, George Beskales, Ahmed Elmagarmid