Patents by Inventor Khai Peter B. Tran

Khai Peter B. Tran 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: 8224472
    Abstract: A system for managing a project that includes multiple tasks and a plurality of workers. Input information includes characterizations based upon a human model, a team model and a product model. Periodic reports, such as one or more of a monthly report, a task plan report, a schedule report, a budget report and a risk management report, are generated and made available for display or further analysis or collection into a customized report template. An extensible database allows searching for information based upon context and upon content. Seven different types of project risks are addressed, including non-availability of required skill mix of workers. The system can be configured to exchange data and results with corresponding portions of similar project analyses, and to provide user-specific access to specified information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by he United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
    Inventors: David A. Maluf, Chen-Jung Hsu, Hemil N. Patel, Jairon C. Moh Hashim, Khai Peter B. Tran
  • Patent number: 6968338
    Abstract: Method and system for querying a collection of Unstructured or semi-structured documents to identify presence of, and provide context and/or content for, keywords and/or keyphrases. The documents are analyzed and assigned a node structure, including an ordered sequence of mutually exclusive node segments or strings. Each node has an associated set of at least four, five or six attributes with node information and can represent a format marker or text, with the last node in any node segment usually being a text node. A keyword (or keyphrase) is specified, and the last node in each node segment is searched for a match with the keyword. When a match is found at a query node, or at a node determined with reference to a query node, the system displays the context and/or the content of the query node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: Yuri O. Gawdiak, Tracy T. La, Shu-Chun Y. Lin, David A. Maluf, Khai Peter B. Tran