Patents Assigned to Thomson Reuters
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Patent number: 9607057Abstract: The present inventors devised, among other things, an application development system and method. One exemplary method entails providing a set of legal research application feature or functions and receiving a first configuration file from a user, selectively enabling or disabling one or more of the features to define a first legal research application on a first server for a first country. The method further entails receiving a second configuration file from a user, which similarly selectively enables or disables one or more of the features to define a second legal research application on a second server for a second country. The configuration files also customize the user interfaces accord to brand specific criteria for each of the countries.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2009Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Eamon Mason, Andre Lambrechts
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Patent number: 9600509Abstract: To facilitate access to public records, the present inventors devised, among other things, an entity resolution system. The exemplary system includes master records database of 300 million entities, which is partitioned into multiple distinct portions. The exemplary system extracts entity information from input public records and constructs one or more blocking queries against specific portions of the master records database to identify one or more sets of candidate records. Feature vectors are defined for the candidate records and machine learning techniques, such as Support Vector Machine, are used to determine which of the candidate records from the master records database match the input public records. Candidate records that match are logically associated with public records, enabling ready access via direct or indirect queries.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2008Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Jack G. Conrad, Christopher C. Dozier, Sriharsha Veeramachaneni
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Publication number: 20170076001Abstract: The present invention provides an improved docket search and analytics engine for determining the outcome of a case for a particular entity or party, for predicting the outcome of a case for a particular entity or party, or for predicting the time to resolution of a case for a particular entity or party. More specifically, the present invention provides a system and engine for accessing and retrieving docket and other data from a plurality of databases and applying by one or more engines a set of models to the retrieved data to make a determination or prediction as to the outcome of a case for an entity or party involved in the case.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Daniel F. Salas, Frank Schilder, Thomas W. Vacek
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Patent number: 9596600Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for providing one or more security measures in Bluetooth low energy protocol environment, which comprises broadcasting a beacon signal, wherein the beacon signal comprises one or more temporal attributes and a proximity range. A request from an access device is received to authenticate the access device with the beacon signal and is subsequently authenticated with the beacon signal when the access device is within the proximity range. One or more content items are the transmitted to the access device in accordance with the one or more temporal attributes while the access device is authenticated with the beacon signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources UCInventors: Jose Hernandez, Adam Hornibrook, Darren Trzynka
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Patent number: 9594887Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Robert Sturm, Richard N. Dauk
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Publication number: 20170046338Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Frank Schilder, Blake Howald, Ravi Kondadadi
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Publication number: 20170039500Abstract: A Global Supply Chain Intelligence system (“GSCF”) configured as a supply chain intelligence search engine adapted to predict, discover and verify commodity trade flows. Creating and maintaining a dataset that tracks real and near real-time commodity flows as they happen as an input to the GSCI. The dataset used in a business intelligence process within the GSCI to arrive at an output, such as a predicted price behavior, a price alert, a risk alert, etc. A Commodity Flow Intelligence (CFI) component that collects and analyzes information with the timeliness, detail and accuracy required to track, forecast and predict supply and demand imbalances at the discrete flow level to aid market participants in making operational trading and investment decisions, for example, in connection with a financial services system or offering providing enhanced data and tools to promote market transparency.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Jochen Lothar Leidner, Ole Siig
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Patent number: 9552420Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed to rank documents by analyzing a query log generated by a search engine. The query log includes data relating to user behavior, queries and documents. The systems and techniques distill query log information into surrogate documents and extract features from these surrogate documents to rank the documents.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Wenhui Liao, Khalid Al-Kofahi, Isabelle Moulinier
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Publication number: 20170017387Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for evaluating and classifying data, which comprises receiving a first signal associated with a set of user defined categories and a second signal associated with a first set of one or more data items to be analyzed. The set of categories are presented on an interface and each of the data items are to be analyzed are presented on a tile overlay on the interface. A first swipe identification signal identifying a first category to apply to a first data item and a second swipe identification signal identifying a second category to apply to a second data item are received. Based upon the swipe identification signals, a first record associating the first data item with the first category and a second record associating the second data item with the second category are generated and stored in a memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2015Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Jack G. Conrad, Mans Olof-Ors, Peter Pircher
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Patent number: 9529795Abstract: 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: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Ravi Kondadadi, Blake Howald, Frank Schilder
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Publication number: 20160371618Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-based system for generating a risk register relating to a named entity. The system comprises a computing device, a risk database accessible by the computing device and having stored therein a set of risk types based on an induced taxonomy of risk types previously derived at least in part upon operation of a machine learning module, an input adapted to receive a set of source data, the set of source data being in electronic form and representing textual content comprising potential risk phrases, a entity-risk relation classifier adapted to identify and extract entity-risk relations from the set of source data, a risk tagger adapted to identify in the set of source data a set of risk candidates (ri) based on the set of risk types, a entity tagger adapted to identify mentions of entity names (ci) in the set of source data, and a risk register aggregator adapted to generate a first risk register based on the set of tuples associated with a first entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Jochen L. Leidner, Tim Nugent, Armineh Nourbakhsh, Sameena Shah
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Publication number: 20160350294Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2015Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Nikolai Nefedov, Jan Waerniers, Ekaterina Suvorova, Brian Ulicny
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Patent number: 9501523Abstract: 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 15, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Geoffrey Hyatt, Michael Yoon, Wilbur Swan
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Patent number: 9501467Abstract: For automated text processing, the inventors devised, among other things, an exemplary system that includes an entity tagger, an entity resolver, a text segment classifier, and a relationship extractor. The entity tagger receives an input text segment, and tags named entities with the segment as being a person, company, or place. The entity resolver accesses authority files, and associates the persons and companies named in the text segment with specific entries in the files. The text segment classifier determines whether the text segment includes a relationship event, such as job-change event or merger and acquisition event, and if an event is detected, the relationship extractor determines the event role of entities named in the segment. For example, the extractor determines for a merger and acquisition event, which named company was the acquirer and which was acquired.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2010Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Marc Noel Light, Craig Alan Larson, Kevin Scott Koch, David Wayne DeMoss
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Patent number: 9495635Abstract: Systems and techniques for determining significance between entities are disclosed. The systems and techniques identify a first entity having an association with a second entity, apply a plurality of association criteria to the association, weight each of the criteria based on defined weight values, and compute a significance score for the first entity with respect to the second entity based on a sum of a plurality of weighted criteria values. The systems and techniques utilize information from disparate sources to create a uniquely powerful signal. The systems and techniques can be used to identify the significance of relationships (e.g., associations) among various entities including, but not limited to, organizations, people, products, industries, geographies, commodities, financial indicators, economic indicators, events, topics, subject codes, unique identifiers, social tags, industry terms, general term/s, metadata elements, classification codes, and combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2011Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Hassan H. Malik, Mans Olof-Ors
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Patent number: 9483472Abstract: A system and method for automatically determining a plurality of pieces of different information about a textual document from the text of the textual document are provided in which one or more particular characteristics of the text of the textual document are identified to generate a file containing the text of the textual document with the particular characteristics marked up within the text.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Forrest Rhoads, Dan Dabney, Bob Haschart, Jack G. Conrad, Howard Turtle, Kinley Larntz, Bokyung Yang-Stephens, Daniel Gannon
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Publication number: 20160314126Abstract: Systems and techniques for exploring relationships among entities are disclosed. The systems and techniques provide an entity-based information analysis and content aggregation platform that uses heterogeneous data sources to construct and maintain an ecosystem around tangible and logical entities. Entities are represented as vertices in a directed graph, and edges are generated using entity co-occurrences in unstructured documents and supervised information from structured data sources. Significance scores for the edges are computed using a method that combines supervised, unsupervised and temporal factors into a single score. Important entity attributes from the structured content and the entity neighborhood in the graph are automatically summarized as the entity fingerprint. Entities may be compared to one another based on similarity of their entity fingerprints. An interactive user interface is also disclosed that provides exploratory access to the graph and supports decision support processes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2016Publication date: October 27, 2016Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Hassan Malik, Mans Olof-Ors, Ian MacGillivray, Christy Hatch
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Patent number: 9466084Abstract: Systems and techniques for structuring and analyzing a fixed-income security are disclosed. The fixed-income security includes a coupon that provides at least a variable rate of interest payment over a time interval. The variable rate of interest payment may be based at least in part on a set of environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) goals defined for an issuer over the time interval. A set of ESG values associated with performance of the issuer and corresponding to the set of ESG goals may be reported, independently audited, and used to determine the variable rate of interest payment provided by the security.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventor: André Chanavat
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Patent number: 9466048Abstract: Legal professionals often conduct online research as part of their efforts to produce documents, such as legal briefs. The present inventor recognized that online research tools and desktop applications, such as word processors, are functionally isolated from each other, forcing users to awkwardly switch between them as they work. Accordingly, the inventor devised, among other things, an exemplary toolbar that resides adjacent an active application window, such as a word processor. In operation, a user selects one or portions of text, such as a name or fact pattern, in the window, and activates the toolbar using a right-click command. Upon activation, a customizable menu is displayed, enabling the user to select from one or more listed workflow tasks and ultimately to cause an online research system to return search results based on the task and text selections.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2006Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventor: Trace Liggett
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Patent number: D782521Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited CompanyInventor: Andre Paul Pilch