Patents by Inventor André Carvalho

André Carvalho 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).

  • Patent number: 12254033
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for searching a graph representing content of digital objects. A set of operations for traversing the graph may be determined according to a search request. The set of operations may be executed, resulting in intermediate result vectors of nodes and a result vector of nodes, wherein the result vector of nodes is associated with a result set of one or more object units of the digital objects. Intermediate result vectors may be selected from of the intermediate result vectors. A set of result entities may be identified. The set of result entities are entities which are part of the object units and part of entities represented by nodes of said selected intermediate result vectors. The set of result entities and the result set of object units may be provided as a result of the search request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Birgit Monika Pfitzmann, Kasper Dinkla, Michele Dolfi, Christoph Auer, Peter Willem Jan Staar, André Carvalho
  • Publication number: 20220292121
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for searching a graph representing content of digital objects. A set of operations for traversing the graph may be determined according to a search request. The set of operations may be executed, resulting in intermediate result vectors of nodes and a result vector of nodes, wherein the result vector of nodes is associated with a result set of one or more object units of the digital objects. Intermediate result vectors may be selected from of the intermediate result vectors. A set of result entities may be identified. The set of result entities are entities which are part of the object units and part of entities represented by nodes of said selected intermediate result vectors. The set of result entities and the result set of object units may be provided as a result of the search request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Birgit Monika Pfitzmann, Kasper Dinkla, Michele Dolfi, Christoph Auer, Peter Willem Jan Staar, André Carvalho