Patents by Inventor Andreas Neumann

Andreas Neumann 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).

  • BIVENTRICULAR HEART STIMULATOR
    Publication number: 20090163967
    Abstract: An implantable heart stimulator (10), which has a right-atrial sensing unit (62), which is connected or is to be connected to a right-atrial electrode for recording electrical potentials of the myocardium of a right atrium, and is implemented to process electrical signals recorded via the right-atrial electrode, and to detect signal features characterizing a right-atrial stimulation and contraction in the electrical signal recorded via the right-atrial electrode. The heart stimulator (10) additionally has a left-ventricular sensing unit (66), which is connected or is to be connected to a left-ventricular electrode for recording electrical potentials of the myocardium of a left ventricle of a heart and is implemented to process electrical signals recorded via the left-ventricular electrode. The left-ventricular sensing unit (66) is implemented to detect signal features in the electrical signal recorded via the left-ventricular electrode which characterize a left-atrial contraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Bruno ISMER, Thomas Koerber, Wolfgang Voss, Georg Heinrich von Knorre, Bjoern Riedel, Andreas Neumann, Ulrich Busch, Juergen Pilz, Thomas Brueggemann, Ralf Peters
  • SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR HANDLING ANCHOR TEXT
    Publication number: 20090083270
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and program for processing anchor text for information retrieval. A set of anchors that point to a target document is formed. Anchors with same anchor text are grouped together. Information is computed for each group. Context information is generated for the target document based on the computed information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reiner Kraft, Andreas Neumann
  • Method for handling anchor text
    Patent number: 7499913
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for processing anchor text for information retrieval. A set of anchors that point to a target document is formed. Anchors with same anchor text are grouped together. Information is computed for each group. Context information is generated for the target document based on the computed information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Reiner Kraft, Andreas Neumann
  • Efficient multifaceted search in information retrieval systems
    Patent number: 7496568
    Abstract: A method for querying multifaceted information. An inverted index is constructed to include unique indexed tokens associated with posting lists of one or more documents. An indexed token is either a facet token included in a document as an annotation or a path prefix of the facet token. The annotation indicates a path within a tree structure representing a facet that includes the document. The tree structure includes nodes representing categories of documents. Constructing the inverted index includes generating a full path token and an associated full path token posting list. A query is received that includes constraints on documents. The constraints are associated with indexed tokens and corresponding posting lists. An execution of the query includes identifying the corresponding posting lists by utilizing the constraints and the inverted index and intersecting the posting lists to obtain a query result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrei Z. Broder, Nadav Eiron, Felipe Marcus Fontoura, Ronny Lempel, Ning Li, John Ai McPherson, Jr., Andreas Neumann, Shila Ofek-Koifman, Runping Qi, Eugene J. Shekita
  • MEDICAL IMPLANT, IN PARTICULAR STENT FOR USE IN BODILY LUMEN
    Publication number: 20080281400
    Abstract: A medical implant, in particular a stent for insertion in a bodily lumen, having a base structure (2, 3), wherein a passive electronic oscillating circuit configuration (4), comprising at least one inductor (L) and at least one capacitor (C1 through C4), is integrated in the base structure (2, 3), whose natural frequency (fres0) in the implanted state of the implant (1) is externally detectable by exciting the oscillating circuit configuration (4) using electromagnetic radiation such that a significant identification feature or a change of the base structure (2, 3) is detectable by the value or a change of the natural frequency (fres0) of the oscillating circuit configuration (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: BIOTRONIK VI PATENT AG
    Inventors: Jens Philipp, Andreas Neumann
  • EFFICIENT MULTIFACETED SEARCH IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20080222117
    Abstract: A method and system for querying multifaceted information. An inverted index is constructed to include unique indexed tokens associated with posting lists of one or more documents. An indexed token is either a facet token included in a document as an annotation or a path prefix of the facet token. The annotation indicates a path within a tree structure representing a facet that includes the document. The tree structure includes nodes representing categories of documents. A query is received that includes constraints on documents. The constraints are associated with indexed tokens and corresponding posting lists. An execution of the query includes identifying the corresponding posting lists by utilizing the constraints and the inverted index and intersecting the posting lists to obtain a query result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Andrei Z. Broder, Nadav Eiron, Felipe Marcus Fontoura, Ronny Lempel, Ning Li, John Ai McPherson, Andreas Neumann, Shila Ofek-Koifman, Runping Qi, Eugene J. Shekita
  • Architecture for an indexer with fixed width sort and variable width sort
    Patent number: 7424467
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for indexing data. A token is received. It is determined whether a data field associated with the token is a fixed width. When the data field is a fixed width, the token is designated as one for which fixed width sort is to be performed. When the data field is a variable length, the token is designated as one for which a variable width sort is to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marcus F. Fontoura, Andreas Neumann, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Eugene J. Shekita, Jason Yeong Zien
  • GLOBAL ANCHOR TEXT PROCESSING
    Publication number: 20080162425
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for building a search index. While building the search index and using the search index to respond to one or more search requests, an anchor information store is maintained, wherein each entry of the anchor information store identifies a referring document, a target document, and anchor text associated with a link from the referring document to the target document; a document is received for processing; one or more entries in the anchor information store for which the document to be processed is identified as the target document are located; anchor text is retrieved from each of the identified entries; and the retrieved anchor text is stored in an entry of the search index for the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frederick Stephen GRENNAN, Ronny LEMPEL, Andreas NEUMANN
  • EFFICIENT MULTIFACETED SEARCH IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20080133473
    Abstract: A method for querying multifaceted information. An inverted index is constructed to include unique indexed tokens associated with posting lists of one or more documents. An indexed token is either a facet token included in a document as an annotation or a path prefix of the facet token. The annotation indicates a path within a tree structure representing a facet that includes the document. The tree structure includes nodes representing categories of documents. Constructing the inverted index includes generating a full path token and an associated full path token posting list. A query is received that includes constraints on documents. The constraints are associated with indexed tokens and corresponding posting lists. An execution of the query includes identifying the corresponding posting lists by utilizing the constraints and the inverted index and intersecting the posting lists to obtain a query result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Andrei Z. Broder, Nadav Eiron, Felipe Marcus Fontoura, Ronny Lempel, Ning Li, John Ai McPherson, Andreas Neumann, Shila Ofek-Koifman, Runping Qi, Eugene J. Shekita
  • Consistent set of interfaces derived from a business object model
    Publication number: 20080120129
    Abstract: A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Michael Seubert, Achim Heger, Adam Polly, Alexander Adam, Alexander Zaichenko, Alexandra Mark, Andre Doerfler, Andre Wachholz-Prill, Andre Wagner, Andrea Pluemper, Andreas Bold, Andreas Brossler, Andreas Huppert, Andreas Leukert-Knapp, Andreas Morsch, Andreas Neumann, Andreas Poth, Andreas Reccius, Andreas Wolber, Antje Fuchs, Antonia Gross, Arno Eifel, Artur Butucel, Arunava Banerjee, Ashwin Yeddula, Axel Kuehl, Benjamin Klehr, Bernd Schmitt, Bjoern Eike, Boris Krems, Christian Auth, Christian Fuhlbruegge, Christiane Cramer, Christiane Schauerte, Christopher Engler, Cristina Buchholz, Damian Theil, Daniel Bock, Daniel Zimmermann, Danny Pannicke, Dieter Krisch, Dietmar Nowotny, Dirk Henrich, Dirk Richtsteiger, Dirk Schindewolf, Doris Karbach, Frank Damaschke, Frank Hastrich, Frank Krueger, Frank Lindqvist, Frank Milpetz, Frank Reinemuth, Galina Pacher, Georg Dopf, Georg Podhajsky, Giovanni Deledda, Guimei Zhang, Gunther Liebich, Heike Berger, Hendrik Geipel, Horst Schaude, Ingo Bruss, Ingo Pfitzner, Jaakob Kind, Jan Hrastnik, Jan Richert, Joachim Liebler, Joachim Puteick, Jochen Steinbach, Joerg Goetting, Johannes Bechtold, Julian Schmidt-Kluegmann, Kai-Michael Roesner, Karsten Kimme, Karsten Koetter, Kathrin Nos, Klaus Herter, Klaus Reinelt, Klaus Schlappner, Kristina Grunewald, Levente Sara, Markus Juchem, Martin Gaub, Martin Hermes, Martin Rogge, Martin Schorr, Mathias Schoenecker, Matthias Asal, Matthias Heinrichs, Matthias Schmitt, Michael Bauer, Michael Conrad, Michael Hartel, Michael Jung, Michael Schier, Michael Segler, Michael Sylvester, Naci Kalyoncu, Olaf Meincke, Oliver Grande
  • Method and System for Processing a Text Search Query in a Collection of Documents
    Publication number: 20080091666
    Abstract: According to the present invention a method and an infrastructure are provided for processing a text search query in a collection of documents (100). Therefore, a full posting index (200) is generated, stored and updated for each document added to the collection (100). Said full posting index (200) comprising a set of index terms and a full posting list for each index term of said set, enumerating all occurrences of said index term in all documents of the collection (100). In addition to said full posting index (200) at least one additional posting index (400, 500, 600) is generated, stored and updated for each document added to the collection (100). Said additional posting index (400, 500, 600) is related to a defined document part and comprises a set of index terms and a restricted posting list for each index term of said set, enumerating all occurrences of said index term in said document part of all documents of the collection (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrea Baader, Jochen Doerre, Monika Matschke, Andreas Neumann, Roland Seiffert
  • Elastomeric Polyolefin Compositions
    Publication number: 20080071032
    Abstract: An olefin polymer composition comprising (by weight, unless otherwise specified): A) 60-85% of a crystalline propylene homopolymer or a crystalline copolymer of propylene containing 3% or less of ethylene or C4-C10 ?-olefin(s) or of combinations thereof, said homopolymer or copolymer having a Polydispersity Index (P.I.) value of from 4.5-6 and a content of isotactic pentads (mmmm), measured by 13C NMR on the fraction insoluble in xylene at 25° C., higher than 96%; B) 15-40% of a partially amorphous copolymer of ethylene containing from 35% to 70% of propylene or C4-C10 ?-olefin(s) or of combinations thereof, and optionally minor proportions of a diene. The said olefin polymer composition exhibits a value of elongation at break ranging from 150 to 600% according to ISO method 527.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2005
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: Basell Poliolefine Italia s.r.l.
    Inventors: Paola Massari, Andreas Neumann, Gianni Collina, Ofelia Fusco
  • Method and system for processing a text search query in a collection of documents
    Patent number: 7337165
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product implementing the method are provided to process a text search query in a collection of documents. A full posting index is generated for the documents in the collection. The full posting index comprises one or more first index terms and a full posting list for each first index term, enumerating the occurrences of the first index term in the documents. In addition to the full posting index, at least one additional posting index is generated for the documents. The additional posting index is related to a defined document part and comprises one or more second index terms and a restricted posting list for each second index term, enumerating all occurrences of the second index term in the document part of the documents of the collection. The text search query is performed using the additional posting index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrea Baader, Jochen Doerre, Monika Matschke, Andreas Neumann, Roland Seiffert
  • PIPELINED ARCHITECTURE FOR GLOBAL ANALYSIS AND INDEX BUILDING
    Publication number: 20070282829
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for building an index. A new indexi+1 is built and an anchor text tablei+1 and a duplicates tableti+1 are output using a storesi, a delta store, and previously generated global analysis computationsi, wherein the previously generated global analysis computationsi include an anchor text tablei, a rank tablei, and a duplicates tablei. New global analysis computationsi+1 are generated using the anchor text tablei+1, the duplicates tablei+1, and the previously generated global analysis computationsi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marcus Fontoura, Reiner Kraft, Tony Leung, John McPherson, Andreas Neumann, Runping Qi, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Eugene Shekita, Jason Zien
  • ARCHITECTURE FOR AN INDEXER
    Publication number: 20070271268
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for indexing data. For each token in a set of documents, a sort key is generated that includes a document identifier that indicates whether a section of a document associated with the sort key is an anchor text section or a context section, wherein the anchor text section and the context text section have a same document identifier; it is determined whether a data field associated with the token is a fixed width; when the data field is a fixed width, the token is designated as one for which fixed width sort is to be performed; and, when the data field is a variable length, the token is designated as one for which a variable width sort is to be performed. The fixed width sort and the variable width sort are performed. For each document, the sort keys are used to bring together the anchor text section and the context section of that document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marcus FONTOURA, Andreas NEUMANN, Sridhar RAJAGOPALAN, Eugene SHEKITA, Jason Zien
  • Pipelined architecture for global analysis and index building
    Patent number: 7293005
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for building an index in which global analysis computations and index creation are pipelined, wherein the global analysis computations share intermediate results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marcus F. Fontoura, Reiner Kraft, Tony K. Leung, John Ai McPherson, Jr., Andreas Neumann, Runping Qi, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Eugene J. Shekita, Jason Yeong Zien
  • Foundation layer for services based enterprise software architecture
    Publication number: 20070233728
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a services architecture design that provides enterprise services having foundation layer functionality at the level of an enterprise application. The design includes a set of service operations, process components, and optionally deployment units. Suitable business objects are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Joachim Puteick, Martin Rogge, Hendrik Geipel, Andrea Pluemper, Andreas Huppert, Kai-Uwe Pielka, Ashwin Yeddula, Matthias Schmitt, Toralf Grossmann, Andreas Neumann, Bare Said, Stefan Miller, Michael Neumann, Florian Rehfeld, Ingo Bruss, Horst Schaude, Michael Bauer, Andreas Morsch, Silke Storch, Klaus Bahr, Bernd Schmitt, Michael Meyringer, Dirk Henrich
  • Angle head
    Patent number: D567830
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Benz GmbH Werkzeug-und Maschinenbau KG
    Inventors: Andreas Neumann, Christoph Zeller
  • Angle head
    Patent number: D584750
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Benz GmbH Werkzeug- und Maschinenbau KG
    Inventors: Andreas Neumann, Christoph Zeller
  • Angle head
    Patent number: D595321
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Benz GmbH Werkzeugsysteme
    Inventors: Andreas Neumann, Christoph Zeller