Patents by Inventor Mabry W. Tyson

Mabry W. Tyson 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).

  • Apparatus and method for personalized delivery of content from multiple data sources
    Patent number: 8935189
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes instructions to collect explicit feedback from a user regarding user content preferences. Multiple data sources are monitored. Topics associated with the multiple data sources are classified. The importance of the topics to the user is characterized. Content is delivered to the user when a selected topic exceeds an importance threshold for the user. Implicit feedback from the user that characterizes refined user content preferences is tracked. The instructions to characterize the importance of topics evaluates the explicit feedback and the implicit feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Mabry W. Tyson, Douglas E. Appelt, Min Yin, William Jarrold
  • Apparatus and method for improved classifier training
    Patent number: 8645290
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes instructions to maintain an original training set of labeled documents, where the labeled documents correspond to a variety of topics. A new labeled document corresponding to a new topic is received. The original training set of labeled documents is modulated such that the new labeled document is over-represented with respect to the original training set. This results in a modulated training set. A classifier is trained with the modulated training set to form a trained classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Mabry W. Tyson, Douglas E. Appelt, Min Yin, Yasmina Chitti
  • Apparatus and Method for Personalized Delivery of Content from Multiple Data Sources
    Publication number: 20110295780
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes instructions to collect explicit feedback from a user regarding user content preferences. Multiple data sources are monitored. Topics associated with the multiple data sources are classified. The importance of the topics to the user is characterized. Content is delivered to the user when a selected topic exceeds an importance threshold for the user. Implicit feedback from the user that characterizes refined user content preferences is tracked. The instructions to characterize the importance of topics evaluates the explicit feedback and the implicit feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Mabry W. Tyson, Douglas E. Appelt, Min Yin, William Jarrold
  • Apparatus and Method for Improved Classifier Training
    Publication number: 20110295781
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes instructions to maintain an original training set of labeled documents, where the labeled documents correspond to a variety of topics. A new labeled document corresponding to a new topic is received. The original training set of labeled documents is modulated such that the new labeled document is over-represented with respect to the original training set. This results in a modulated training set. A classifier is trained with the modulated training set to form a trained classifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Mabry W. Tyson, Douglas E. Appelt, Min Yin, Yasmina Chitti