Patents Assigned to Palantir Technologies
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Patent number: 9514205Abstract: Computer implemented systems and methods are disclosed for importing data from electronic data files. In accordance with some embodiments, source electronic data files are received at a data importation system and managed by the data importation system. The data importation system may apply detector/transformer plugins to the received source electronic data files to transform the files for importation into one or more data analysis systems and/or databases. The data importation system may also receive user inputs for mapping source electronic data files to transformation templates. The inputs may include, for example, an assignment of a file format to the source electronic data file, identification of a file type identifier associated with the source electronic data file, and a mapping of a the source electronic data file to a transformation template. The data importation system may store the received inputs as a file type profile in a database.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventors: Stephen Yazicioglu, Christopher Luck, Robert Giardina, Justin Streufert, Timothy Slatcher, Gregory O'Conner, Brandon Marc-Aurele, Olivia Zhu, Howard Schindel, Henry Tung, Lucas Ray, Christopher Leech, Eric Jeney, Stefan Negrus, Jason Lee, Alessandro Mingione, John McKinstry Doyle, Hunter Pitelka, Ethan Lozano, Joel Ossher, Matthew Fedderly
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Patent number: 9508203Abstract: A tactical security system can be used to secure a room. For example, such a security system may be contained in a housing sized for shipment to a location for placement in a room in order to secure the room. Various components may be included in the housing, such as a storage device configured to store data received from one or more audio or video recording devices; an access controller configured to interface with a badge reader associated with one or more access points to the room in order to selectively control access to the room; a switch configured to couple the one or more audio or video recording devices with the storage device and to couple the badge reader with the access controller; and/or a power supply configured to supply power to the devices in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventors: Geoff Belknap, Carl Cohen, Christopher Deringer
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Patent number: 9501552Abstract: Entity resolution in a database comprises receiving imported data comprising imported data entities each having properties each having values; receiving first user input that selects the imported data entities for resolution to existing data entities in a database; receiving second user input that specifies matching criteria for matching the imported data entities to the existing data entities, wherein each of the matching criteria comprises a matching technique; matching the imported data entities to the existing data entities using the matching criteria, resulting in creating and storing matched entity information, wherein the matched entity information is organized in matched entity data sets associated with subsets of the matching criteria that were matched; consolidating the imported data entities into the existing data entities; storing the first user input and second user input as a named criteria set for use in subsequent entity resolution operations.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert McGrew, Stephen Cohen
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Patent number: 9503844Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for collocation detection. In accordance with one implementation, a method is provided for collocation detection. The method includes obtaining a first object observation that includes a first object identifier, a first observation time, and a first observation location. The method also includes obtaining a second object observation that includes a second object identifier, a second observation time, and a second observation location. In addition, the method includes associating the first observation with a first area on a map, associating the second observation with a second area on the map, and determining whether a potential meeting occurred between objects associated with the first object identifier and the second object identifier based on the first and second observation times, and the first and second areas.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventors: Matthew Sprague, Miklos Danka, Bill Dwyer
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Patent number: 9501202Abstract: Methods and computer apparatuses are disclosed for processing genomic data in at least partially automated workflows of modules. A method comprises: specifying a source from which nucleic acid sequence(s) are to be obtained; selecting module(s) for processing data, including at least one module for processing the one or more nucleic acid sequences; presenting, in a graphical user interface, graphical components representing the source and the module(s) as nodes within a workspace; receiving, via the graphical user interface, inputs arranging the source and the module(s) as a workflow comprising a series of nodes, the series indicating, for each particular module, that output from one of the source or another particular module is to be input into the particular module; generating an output for the workflow based upon the nucleic acid sequence(s) by processing each module in an order indicated by the series.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Lekan Wang, Hyunghoon Cho, Abimanyu Raja, Elizabeth Caudill
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Patent number: 9501507Abstract: A method and apparatus for a data analysis system for analyzing data object collections that include geo-temporal data is provided. One or more temporal granularities are specified for the purpose of generating a geo-temporal data index. The time granularities correspond to temporal ranges expected to correspond to temporal ranges specified in user queries against the data. One or more temporal index bucket groups are generated based on to the specified time granularities. Geo-temporal input data is indexed based on the generated temporal index bucket groups. The system allows a data analyst to specify geo-temporal queries that include both geospatial component and a temporal component. The system transforms geo-temporal queries into one or more second queries that retrieve data items based on the temporal index bucket groups.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Michael Harris, Jeff Wang, Bobby Prochnow
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Patent number: 9501761Abstract: A computer-based investigative analysis system is disclosed in which a user can share results of an investigation with other users in a way that allows the sharing user to visualize how the results will be shared before they are shared. The results are shared in the form of a visual graph having nodes, edges, and other presentation elements. The nodes represent data objects that are the subject of the investigation and the edges represent connections between the data objects. The graph is shared in the form of an automatically generated redacted graph omitting nodes, edges, and presentation elements for which the other users do not have permission to view. Before sharing the graph, the sharing user is presented with a visualization of the automatically generated redacted graph providing the user an opportunity to confirm that sharing the redacted graph will not constitute an unauthorized information leakage.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2012Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Richards, David Cohen, Khan Tasinga
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Patent number: 9501851Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided that display various graphs in an interactive user interface in substantially real-time in response to input from a user in order to determine information related to measured data points and provide the determined information to the user in the interactive user interface. For example, a computing device may be configured to retrieve data from one or more databases and generate one or more interactive user interfaces. The one or more interactive user interfaces may display the retrieved data in one or more graphs, such as time-series or scatterplots. The user interface may be interactive in that a user may manipulate one graph, which causes an identical or nearly identical manipulation of another displayed graph in real-time. The manipulations may occur even if the displayed graphs include data across different time ranges.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventors: Daniel Cervelli, David Skiff, David Tobin, Allen Cai
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Patent number: 9495353Abstract: Computer-implemented systems and methods are disclosed for constructing a parser that parses complex data. In some embodiments, a method is provided for receiving a parser definition as an input to a parser generator and generating a parser at least in part from the parser definition. In some embodiments, the generated parser comprises two or more handlers forming a processing pipeline. In some embodiments, the parser receives as input a first string into the processing pipeline. In some embodiments, the parser generates a second string by a first handler and inputs the second string regeneratively into the parsing pipeline, if the first string matches an expression specified for the first handler in the parser definition.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventor: Mark Elliot
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Patent number: 9483162Abstract: Systems and techniques for accelerating relationship visualizations from data objects are described herein. The configuration and/or display of a relationship matrix may be automatically determined from the data objects. The relationship matrix may display relationships through gradient, hue, color, and/or saturation. The relationship matrix may be navigable and/or interactive to accelerate relationship visualizations.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventor: Alessandro Mingione
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Patent number: 9483546Abstract: Computer implemented systems and methods are disclosed for associating records across lists, wherein the lists include a plurality of records and the plurality of records is associated with a respective entity. In accordance with some embodiments, the systems and methods further comprise grouping one or more records from a first list into a first group based on fields of the records in the first list, grouping one or more records from a second list into a second group based on fields of the records in the second list, pairing a record from the first group with a record from the second group, assessing each pair of records based on an evaluation of the respective pair according to fields of the pair, and associating records from the first group and records of the second group with an entity based on the assessment.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventors: Daniel Erenrich, Christian Tessier-Lavigne
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Patent number: 9485265Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided that retrieve raw data from issuers, reorganize the raw data, analyze the reorganized data to determine whether the risky or malicious activity is occurring, and generate alerts to notify users of possible malicious activity. For example, the raw data is included in a plurality of tables. The system joins one or more tables to reorganize the data using several filtering techniques to reduce the processor load required to perform the join operation. Once the data is reorganized, the system executes one or more rules to analyze the reorganized data. Each rule is associated with a malicious activity. If any of the rules indicate that malicious activity is occurring, the system generates an alert for display to a user in an interactive user interface.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventors: Craig Saperstein, Eric Schwartz, Hongjai Cho
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Patent number: 9483506Abstract: A history preserving data pipeline computer system and method. In one aspect, the history preserving data pipeline system provides immutable and versioned datasets. Because datasets are immutable and versioned, the system makes it possible to determine the data in a dataset at a point in time in the past, even if that data is no longer in the current version of the dataset.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jacob Meacham, Michael Harris, Gustav Brodman, Lynn Cuthriell, Hannah Korus, Brian Toth, Jonathan Hsiao, Mark Elliot, Brian Schimpf, Michael Garland, Evelyn Nguyen
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Patent number: 9477372Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided that allow reviewers to quickly save, identify, retrieve, and share communications. For example, systems and methods described herein may allow a reviewer to store at least a portion of a communication, called a snippet, in a postboard. For example, a reviewer can highlight a portion of the content of a communication. Once the portion is highlighted, the reviewer can select a snippet command, which stores the highlighted portion in the postboard. Each snippet stored in a postboard includes at least a portion of the content that was highlighted and a link to the communication from which the snippet originates.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventors: Brian Lee, Joshua Goldenberg, Drew Wolpert, Dan Cervelli, Brit Yonge, Carl Freeland, Tie Zhong, Gregory Martin
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Patent number: 9471370Abstract: A batching module that inspects call stacks within a stack evaluator to identify current expressions that can be evaluated in batch with other expressions. If such expressions are identified, the corresponding stacks are blocked from further processing and a batch processing request for processing the expressions is transmitted to the application server. The application server processes the expressions in batch and generates a value for each of the expressions. The blocked stacks are then populated with the values for the expressions.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Eugene E. Marinelli, III, Yogy Namara
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Patent number: 9467455Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for network risk assessment. One of the methods includes obtaining information describing network traffic between a plurality of network devices within a network. A network topology of the network is determined based on the information describing network traffic, with the network topology including nodes connected by an edge to one or more other nodes, and with each node being associated with one or more network devices. Indications of user access rights of users are associated to respective nodes included in the network topology. User interface data associated with the network topology is generated.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2015Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Miles Seiver, Charles Rosenblum
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Patent number: 9460175Abstract: Example embodiments described herein pertain to a geographic information system (GIS), configured to obtain geospatial data representing a geographic area, assign a projection and coordinate system to the geospatial data, apply a transformation to the geospatial data, and generate a tile cache based on the transformed geospatial data, the tile cache including the determined projection and coordinate system.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventor: Peter Hong
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Patent number: 9454564Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to performing agnostic data integrity checks on source data, and based on the data integrity checks, generating a human-readable report that may be useable to identify specific errors or anomalies within the source data. Example embodiments involve systems and methods for performing the data integrity checks and generating the human-readable reports. For example, the method may include operations to ingest data from a source database through a data pipeline and into a local database, access the data from the data pipeline, determine a data type of the data, determine subtypes of data elements which make up the data, determine a count of each subtype, and generate a human-readable report, to be displayed at a client device.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventor: Gintautas Miliauskas
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Patent number: 9456000Abstract: A data analysis system receives potentially undesirable electronic communications and automatically groups them in computationally-efficient data clusters, automatically analyze those data clusters, automatically tags and groups those data clusters, and provides results of the automated analysis and grouping in an optimized way to an analyst. The automated analysis of the data clusters may include an automated application of various criteria or rules so as to generate an ordered display of the groups of related data clusters such that the analyst may quickly and efficiently evaluate the groups of data clusters. In particular, the groups of data clusters may be dynamically re-grouped and/or filtered in an interactive user interface so as to enable an analyst to quickly navigate among information associated with various groups of data clusters and efficiently evaluate those data clusters.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Ezra Spiro, Joseph Staehle, Andrew Levine, Juan Ricafort, Alvaro Morales
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Patent number: 9454281Abstract: A computer system may be configured to: execute a first query associated with a first panel; display the first panel in a user interface based on first display settings of the first panel, the first panel displaying at least a portion of the result of the first query, the result of the first query associated with a variable; execute a second query associated with a second panel, wherein the second query refers to the variable associated with the first query; display the second panel in the user interface based on second display settings of the second panel, the second panel displaying at least a portion of the result of the second query; and in response to user input changing the displayed result in the first panel: re-execute the second query; and update the display of the second panel in the user interface based on results of the re-executed second query.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventors: Lindsay Ward, Derek Cicerone, Punyashloka Biswal, Sixin Li, Geoff Cameron, Adam Storr, Ashwin Ramaswamy