Patents by Inventor Thomas Dignan

Thomas Dignan 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: 9165061
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for identifying information about a particular entity including acquiring electronic documents having unstructured text, that are selected based on one or more search terms from a plurality of terms related to the particular entity. Tokenizing the acquired documents to form a data matrix and then calculating a plurality of eigenvectors, using the data matrix and the transpose of the data matrix. The variance is then acquired for determining the amount of intra-clustering between the documents and then the acquired documents are clustered using some of the eigenvectors and the variance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: REPUTATION.COM
    Inventors: Michael Benjamin Selkowe Fertik, Tony Scott, Thomas Dignan
  • Patent number: 8744197
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for identifying information about a particular entity including acquiring electronic documents having unstructured text, that are selected based on one or more search terms from a plurality of terms related to the particular entity. Tokenizing the acquired documents to form a data matrix and then calculating a plurality of eigenvectors, using the data matrix and the transpose of the data matrix. The variance is then acquired for determining the amount of intra-clustering between the documents and then the acquired documents are clustered using some of the eigenvectors and the variance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Reputation.Com
    Inventors: Michael Benjamin Selkowe Fertik, Tony Scott, Thomas Dignan
  • Publication number: 20120321204
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for identifying information about a particular entity including acquiring electronic documents having unstructured text, that are selected based on one or more search terms from a plurality of terms related to the particular entity. Tokenizing the acquired documents to form a data matrix and then calculating a plurality of eigenvectors, using the data matrix and the transpose of the data matrix. The variance is then acquired for determining the amount of intra-clustering between the documents and then the acquired documents are clustered using some of the eigenvectors and the variance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Michael Benjamin Selkowe Fertik, Tony Scott, Thomas Dignan
  • Publication number: 20120321202
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for identifying information about a particular entity including acquiring electronic documents having unstructured text, that are selected based on one or more search terms from a plurality of terms related to the particular entity. Tokenizing the acquired documents to form a data matrix and then calculating a plurality of eigenvectors, using the data matrix and the transpose of the data matrix. The variance is then acquired for determining the amount of intra-clustering between the documents and then the acquired documents are clustered using some of the eigenvectors and the variance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Michael Benjamin Selkowe FERTIK, Tony Scott, Thomas Dignan
  • Publication number: 20120321188
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for identifying information about a particular entity including acquiring electronic documents having unstructured text, that are selected based on one or more search terms from a plurality of terms related to the particular entity. Tokenizing the acquired documents to form a data matrix and then calculating a plurality of eigenvectors, using the data matrix and the transpose of the data matrix. The variance is then acquired for determining the amount of intra-clustering between the documents and then the acquired documents are clustered using some of the eigenvectors and the variance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Michael Benjamin Selkowe Fertik, Tony Scott, Thomas Dignan