Patents Assigned to Thomson Reuters
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Patent number: 10109023Abstract: Systems and techniques for detecting and verifying social media events are disclosed. The system and techniques allow for processing of social media data to extract potentially valuable information in a timely manner and determine the veracity of the detected information. One implementation of the disclosure relates to event detection. Event detection involves ingestion and processing of social media data. Another implementation of the disclosure relates to verification of a detected event and generating a verification score.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited CompanyInventors: Sameena Shah, Xiaomo Lu, Qi Li, Reginald Chua, Armineh Nourbakhsh, Quanzhi Li, Rui Fang
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Patent number: 10096064Abstract: The present invention provides software and a method and system of efficient source document data entry and data association. More particularly, the present invention relates to a software module which receives source documents and recognizes or extracts information from the documents or associated files for use in populating fields of related or derivative documents or screens to facilitate accurate transfer of data. The invention also allows for ease in confirming the accuracy of the extracted or imported data by comparison with the source document either directly by a person or through automated or semi-automated procedures.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2009Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited CompanyInventors: Brian D. Vroom, Jonathan Baron, Fred Leicher
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Patent number: 10073820Abstract: A method executed on an access device includes receiving a markup language file where the markup language file contains a portion of primary text and a portion of secondary text. The method also includes receiving a page number map and utilizing the page number map to render the portion of primary text associated with a print page and the portion of secondary text associated with the print page. Another exemplary method includes displaying the portion of primary text associated with a print page and the portion of secondary text associated with the print page. In yet another exemplary method, the page number map contains a first print page break lineage and a first character offset for the portion of primary text and a second print page break lineage and a second character offset for the portion of secondary text.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2010Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANYInventors: Daniel Bennett, John Scott Daup
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Patent number: 10067651Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are generally directed to navigable layering of viewable areas corresponding to a hierarchical structure of computer-readable content. In exemplary embodiments, a stack of viewable areas including a first viewable area and a second viewable area can be rendered on a display within a footprint area. An order of the viewable areas in the stack can correspond to a hierarchical relationship of computer-readable content and the viewable areas can include information associated with the hierarchical relationship. The second viewable area in the stack can be adjusted, for example, by resizing and/or repositioning the second viewable area, based on a compression criteria to accommodate the viewable areas of the stack within the footprint.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited CompanyInventors: Daniel Bennett, John Scott Daup, Aaron Cooper, Jose Hernandez
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Publication number: 20180234331Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for realistic performance testing of a computer network (e.g., a computer network of an electronic trading venue) based on a customizable test scenario, designed by users, executed using a plurality of independent computer nodes each connected to the computer network via its own physical connection to a network device (e.g., network switch) of the computer network. Using the system, developers may design a test scenario that includes testing parameters, which include computer executable code for transmission to and execution at the plurality of computer nodes. The computer executable code may simulate network traffic between devices of market participants and the electronic trading venue.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANYInventor: Hayden Paul MELTON
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Patent number: 10049100Abstract: For automated text processing, the inventors devised, among other things, an exemplary system that automatically extracts financial events from various unstructured text based sources, such as press releases and news articles. Extracted events, such as mergers & acquisitions, earnings guidance reports, and actual earnings announcements, are represented as structured data records which can be linked, searched, and displayed and used as a basis for controlling accessing to the source documents and other related financial documents for named entities.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited CompanyInventors: Frank Schilder, James Shaw
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Publication number: 20180197128Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-based system for identifying supply chain risks and generating supply chain graphs representing an interconnected network of entities. An industrial graph database application is configured to account for direct and indirect (transitive) supplier risk and importance, based on a weighted set of measures: criticality, replaceability, centrality and distance. A graph-based model serves as an interactive and visual supply chain risk and importance explorer. A supply network is induced from textual data by applying text mining techniques to news stories and used to populate the supply chain/graph database.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2017Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited CompanyInventors: Lucas Carstens, Jochen L. Leidner, Krzysztof Szymanski, Blake Howald
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Patent number: 10019442Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system delivering graph-based metric to measure a similarity between weighted sets of classifications codes (presented as nodes) defined on hierarchical taxonomy trees. The suggested method is applied to find company peers in a particular domain, e.g., the IP domain based on a company patent portfolio. The suggested method may be applied to other domains that include hierarchical classifications such as trademarks, legal documents, scientific papers, lawsuits etc.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited CompanyInventors: Nikolai Nefedov, Jan Waerniers, Ekaterina Suvorova, Brian Ulicny
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Patent number: 10021057Abstract: A computer implemented method of processing data containing information about relationships between contacts and a community of contact owners is provided, which includes the steps of: collecting data having contact information, contact owner information and one or more values related to the strength of a relationship between the contact and the contact owner; evaluating the strength of the relationship based on the one or more values; and storing the collected data and evaluated strength in a computer database.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited CompanyInventors: Geoffrey Hyatt, Michael Yoon, Wilbur Swan
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Patent number: 9978097Abstract: A facility for conveying accrual amounts through an intermediary service is described. The facility permits vendors to each upload unbilled amounts for one or more matters for a client according to vendor-specific matter identifiers. The facility maps the vendor-specific identifiers for the uploaded unbilled amounts to client-specific identifiers. When the facility receives a request from the client to be you unbilled amounts for one or more matters, the facility displays to a client user the unbilled amounts for the requested matters according to the client-specific identifiers associated with the requested matters.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2007Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited CompanyInventors: Thomas G. Melling, Ronald G. Wencel, Steven A. Jatnieks, Gregory P. Shriber, Richard D. Boone
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Patent number: 9971999Abstract: A method includes receiving a signal associated with a two dimensional code where the two dimensional code is associated with a set of data. The method further includes generating and transmitting a currentness signal associated with the set of data. Another embodiment includes the currentness signal being associated with at least one of currentness information, supplement information and a print date of supplement information, wherein the currentness information comprises a statement regarding currentness of the set of data and the supplement information comprises a statement regarding an existence of a supplement. Yet another embodiment includes receiving a download signal associated with a purchase transaction, the set of data and an electronic file and then generating and transmitting a delivery signal associated with the electronic file.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited CompanyInventors: Justin Nikolaus, Shannon O'Brien
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Publication number: 20180131654Abstract: A method of determining locations for social media postings may include: retrieving, by communicating with at least one application programming interface (API) of a social media system over one or more first communication networks, at least one social media posting; determining at least one location mention in the at least one social media posting; determining at least one location based on the at least one location mention; determining a primary location from the at least one location; storing, in at least one database on a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, at least one set of geo-coordinates for the primary location in at least one posting object for the at least one social media posting; and outputting, by communicating with a user system over one or more second communication networks, the at least one social media posting with the stored at least one set of geo-coordinates for display on the user system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANYInventors: Armineh NOURBAKHSH, Sameena SHAH
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Publication number: 20180121555Abstract: A method of detecting events in and clustering social media postings for display on a user system may include retrieving, via an application programming interface (API) of a social media system over at least one first communication network, at least one posting of the social media system; determining whether the at least one posting has content referring to a predetermined time period; upon determining that the at least one posting has content referring to the predetermined time period, determining whether the at least one posting corresponds to an existing cluster of postings related to an event; upon determining that the at least one posting corresponds to the existing cluster of postings relating to the event, storing, in at least one database on a non-transistory machine-readable storage medium, the existing cluster of postings modified to include the at least one posting; and providing, via at least one second communication network, a representation of the modified existing cluster of postings for displaType: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANYInventors: Quanzhi LI, Armineh NOURBAKHSH, Sameena SHAH
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Patent number: 9953031Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Frank Schilder, Blake Howald, Ravi Kondadadi
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Patent number: 9953021Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANYInventor: Philip Edgar Vasey
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Publication number: 20180091611Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANYInventors: Xiaomo LIU, Sameena SHAH, Xin SHUAI, Armineh NOURBAKHSH
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Publication number: 20180082390Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANYInventors: Jochen Lothar LEIDNER, Tim NUGENT, Sam CHADWICK
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Publication number: 20180082183Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Shai Hertz, Mans Olof-Ors, Enav Weinreb, Oren Hazai, Geoff Horrell, Yael Lindman, Yoni Mataraso, Phani Nivarthi
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Patent number: 9916365Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 11, 2014Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited CompanyInventors: Terry S. Dick, Jonathan J. Medin, Michael J. Krause, Daniel Bennett, Jason Rollins, Mathilda Edmunds
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Patent number: D824922Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited CompanyInventors: Bianka McGovern, Priyanka John, Sophie Kleber, Leandro Brasil, Charles Pannill FulFord, III, Nicklesh Soni, Tara Hosseinipour, Chloe Kim Wong, Judy Podraza