Patents by Inventor Alison E. Shapiro

Alison E. Shapiro 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).

  • Method and apparatus for storing information about and associating slot behaviors of a slot in a frame-based semantic network
    Patent number: 5208899
    Abstract: Method and apparatus are provided for use in a frame-based semantic network wherein at least one specialization slot-control frame defining a specialized behavior is linked to a base slot-control frame defining a global behavior in a hierarchical data structure. Slot behavior is attached to an occurrence of the slot in any other frame such that the slot and its behaviors are inherited to related frames as a unit. All specialized behaviors are compiled into a compact internal format and stored in a reserved space in the slot-control frame. The method and apparatus have particular utility in knowledge-based or expert systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: Carnegie Group
    Inventors: Leslie A. Wheeler, Alison E. Shapiro