Patents Assigned to Thomson Reuters Global Resources
  • Patent number: 9953021
    Abstract: The invention improves document generation systems in which data is collected to enable automated, customised document generation. initially, a questionnaire which defines a dataset is completed. The system then determines which variables are relevant, and then determines whether all relevant variables are in the dataset. Finally, the system generates a fully customised document if the dataset is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventor: Philip Edgar Vasey
  • Patent number: 9953031
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a corpus comprising a set of pre-segmented texts. The method further includes creating a plurality of modified pre-segmented texts for the set of pre-segmented texts by extracting a set of semantic terms for each pre-segmented text within the set of pre-segmented texts and applying at least one domain tag for each pre-segmented text within the set of pre-segmented texts. The method further includes clustering the plurality of modified pre-segmented texts into one or more conceptual units, wherein each of the one or more conceptual units is associated with one or more templates, wherein each of the one or more templates corresponds to one of the plurality of modified pre-segmented texts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources
    Inventors: Frank Schilder, Blake Howald, Ravi Kondadadi
  • Publication number: 20180091611
    Abstract: A method of identifying and presenting accounts and postings of a social media system may include: retrieving, via at least one communication interface of the social media system, account information for a plurality of social media accounts; classifying, based on the retrieved account information, the plurality of social media accounts according to account type; ranking, based on the retrieved account information, the plurality of social media accounts according to perceived importance or influence; storing, in an account database, a representation of a subset of the plurality of social media accounts having a ranking greater than a predetermined threshold; retrieving, via the at least one API, postings of the stored social media accounts; and generating, for display on a user system, a user interface to present the retrieved social media postings for the stored accounts organized according to at least one of: account type, or ranking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Xiaomo LIU, Sameena SHAH, Xin SHUAI, Armineh NOURBAKHSH
  • Publication number: 20180082390
    Abstract: Intervention in the operation of a smart contract in a distributed ledger system may include: launching execution of the smart contract; upon launching execution of the smart contract, executing a judgment checking function to determine whether a judgment against the smart contract exists in a judgment database; in response to a judgment against the smart contract existing in the judgment database, intervening in the operation of the smart contract to prevent the execution of the smart contract; and in response to no judgment against the smart contract existing in the judgment database, continuing execution of the smart contract.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Jochen Lothar LEIDNER, Tim NUGENT, Sam CHADWICK
  • Publication number: 20180082183
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for determining relationships and association significance between entities are disclosed. The systems and techniques automatically identify supply chain relationships between companies based on unstructured text corpora. The system combines Machine Learning models to identify sentences mentioning supply chain between two companies (evidence), and an aggregation layer to take into account the evidence found and assign a confidence score to the relationship between companies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global Resources
    Inventors: Shai Hertz, Mans Olof-Ors, Enav Weinreb, Oren Hazai, Geoff Horrell, Yael Lindman, Yoni Mataraso, Phani Nivarthi
  • Patent number: 9916365
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for linking documents that refer to other documents through implicit linkages. A first document is identified. The first document comprises an authoritative comment regarding a second document and has been explicitly linked to the second document. Then, one or more third documents are identified. The second document cites or is being cited by the one or more third documents and shares common information. Based upon the authoritative comment, the first document is implicitly linked to the one or more third documents via the common information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Terry S. Dick, Jonathan J. Medin, Michael J. Krause, Daniel Bennett, Jason Rollins, Mathilda Edmunds
  • Publication number: 20180068097
    Abstract: An embodiment of a method of providing identity assurance for a decentralized application (DApp) includes executing, by at least one distributed node of a blockchain system, an entitlement contract stored on the blockchain to perform a read call from a DApp contract stored on the blockchain, the read call including an address signing a transaction to the DApp contract. Performing the read call may include reading a list of registered addresses stored on the blockchain, determining whether the list includes the signing address; and providing an output indicating whether the list includes the signing address. The method may further include executing, by the at least one distributed node, a registry contract stored on the blockchain to perform a read call from the DApp contract, the read call including an identifier of the decentralized application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Richard COLLIN, Robert John LUNDIE HILL, Mihai CIMPOESU
  • Patent number: 9904712
    Abstract: Systems, methods, interfaces, and software can facilitate identification of law firms and/or legal professionals. For example, an informational retrieval system may include a database comprising information regarding lawyers and a server is configured to: receive a query regarding a legal issue from at least one client access device; associate the query with a corresponding legal context; generate a list of lawyer names contained in the database; calculate at least one legal experience indicator for each of the lawyer names; and rank the lawyer names in the list according to the calculated legal experience indicator associated with each of the lawyer names and according to the corresponding legal context associated with the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Kevin L. Ritchey, Charles Vanek
  • Patent number: 9898595
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention provides a computer system having processing and memory means operable to provide a monetized online content system. The computer system is coupled to one or more resource modules each having data in the memory means and includes: an interceptor module configured to receive a request from a client for one or more resources available from one or more resource modules, refer the request to one or more of the resource modules configured to fulfill the request, receive one or more responses from one or more of the resource modules, at least one of said one or more responses having one or more events associated therewith, and transform the one or more responses by removing the one or more events associated with the one or more responses prior to presentation of the one or more responses to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Robert Sturm, Richard N. Dauk
  • Patent number: 9881343
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for performing updates in a distributed environment, which comprises receiving a platform product and a plurality of supporting products at a server, the server being accessible by one or more access devices and receiving a plurality of modified supporting products at the server, a given modified supporting product corresponding to a given supporting product. A determination is made as to whether a given one of the plurality of supporting products is in use by the one or more access devices. If the given one of the plurality of supporting products is not in use, the given one of the plurality of supporting products is overwritten with the corresponding modified supporting platform product. If the given one of the plurality of supporting products is in use, the given one of the plurality of supporting products is locked until its use terminates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventor: Kevin Patrick Kostrzewa
  • Publication number: 20170372421
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for incentivizing participants on an electronic trading venue to post competitively priced bids or offers onto that venue. Participants that post such bids and offers are rewarded by a venue implementing the invention by being sent more frequent (and/or enhanced) market data updates over participants who do not, while those bids and offers remain active and competitive. Participants that receive more frequent market data updates from a venue may have an informational advantage in their trading over those participants that receive less frequent updates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventor: Hayden Paul MELTON
  • Patent number: 9846743
    Abstract: A method includes aggregating a set of analyzed webpage portions from at least two unaffiliated websites. The method also includes transmitting an aggregated result, the aggregated result associated with an aggregated set of analyzed webpage portions. Another embodiment includes the set of analyzed webpage portions being associated with a topic. Yet another embodiment includes receiving an indication of an occurrence of a browser event and analyzing, in response to receiving the indication, a webpage portion then storing an analyzed webpage portion and the browser event in a database. Yet another embodiment includes analyzing the webpage portion by downloading a webpage portion from at least one website, extracting a text portion from the webpage portion and associating, in response to extracting the text portion, at least one topic from the text portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Alexander Ellis, Linda Birbara, Thomas Tague
  • Publication number: 20170353311
    Abstract: An embodiment of a method of providing identity services includes receiving identity data from an identity user, the identity data related to an identity of the identity user; receiving validation data from an identity provider, the validation data related to the identity data; if the validation data indicates that the identity data is valid, generating a transaction to store data related to the identity of the identity user on a blockchain of a blockchain system, the data to be stored including a representation of at least one of: the identity data, or the validation data; and transmitting the transaction to at least one distributed node of the blockchain system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Robert Joseph SCHUKAI, Scott Ryan MANUEL
  • Publication number: 20170352031
    Abstract: An embodiment of a method of recording transactions conducted in a public distributed ledger system using a personal distributed ledger system includes: generating, by a wallet distributed application, an address in the public distributed ledger system and a private key; signing, by the wallet distributed application, a transaction to a distributed application in the public distributed ledger system using the generated address and private key; generating, by the wallet distributed application, a transaction to the personal distributed ledger system, the generated transaction containing information identifying the signed transaction to the public distributed ledger system, such as the private key used to sign the transaction; and transmitting, by the wallet distributed application, the transaction to at least one distributed node of the personal distributed ledger system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventor: Richard COLLIN
  • Patent number: 9836436
    Abstract: An exemplary method includes accessing a source document where the source document is associated with a citation and copying a selected portion of the source document. Then, in response to copying the selected portion, the method includes generating a referenced element where the referenced element consists of the selected portion and a hyperlink associated with the citation. Finally, the method includes accessing a destination document and inserting the referenced element into the destination document. An additional exemplary method further includes storing a copy of the referenced element in a memory of an access device. Another exemplary method includes annotating the destination document and generating an annotated destination document. Another exemplary method includes printing, within a single print session, the annotated destination document and the source document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Craig Alan Larson, Kevin Scott Koch, David Wayne DeMoss
  • Patent number: 9830366
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, a system and method are shown for receiving data that include a time stamp. The system and method also include building an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cube that includes a dimension, the dimension acting as a schema for the data that include the time stamp. The system and method may also include populating the OLAP cube with an object, the object including the data and the time stamp as at least one attribute. The system and method may also include storing the OLAP cube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources
    Inventor: Steven Wagner
  • Patent number: 9811518
    Abstract: Exemplary systems for processing a corpus of documents, such as legal contracts or agreements, are disclosed. The systems include a phrase discovery engine which derives statistics and phrase equivalence classes, groups of phrase equivalence classes, and uberphrases (clauses) bounded by phrases. These can be used to determine origins of phrases or clauses within given legal contract or to suggest alternative phrases and clauses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources
    Inventors: Jochen L. Leidner, Kingsley Martin, Trace Liggett, Gary Berosik, Thomas Zielund
  • Patent number: 9805416
    Abstract: A system to determine the tax consequences for one or several special apportionment accounts is described. The example system may include a data collector and an optimizer. The data collector may be configured to obtain information associated with one or more accounts, and a selection of one or more jurisdictions. The optimizer may be configured to automatically determine a suggested combination of special apportionment methods for each jurisdiction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources
    Inventors: Irish X. McIntyre, Alexandre Ziegler
  • Patent number: 9792583
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed that provide a comprehensive and integrated professional education and training platform, especially in the areas of tax, financial auditing and reporting, and planning and risk assessment. The systems and techniques allow an administrator to identify a subset of learning courses from a set of available learning courses for association with an educational product, and to assign individuals to each of the subset of learning courses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen G. Perreault, Stephanie J. Black, Todd R. Denlinger, Kenneth A. Koskay, Gregory J. Poirier
  • Patent number: D811476
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventor: Linda Lusk