Patents by Inventor Andrew J. Bentley

Andrew J. Bentley 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).

  • Upper merged ontology for it architecture
    Patent number: 9183501
    Abstract: An information technology (IT) architecture upper merged ontology which includes an upper merged ontology that is a representation framework for combined knowledge sources that are used in business and information technology; an upper merged ontology knowledge base containing information derived from an analysis of business and technical services pertaining to the IT architecture application; a plurality of semantic web application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow access to the upper merged ontology as a semantic web; a reasoning and constraint language (RaCL) that is a scripting language having the capabilities of model creation, automated reasoning and search and query operations such that scripts developed in the reasoning and constraint language can execute using the semantic web APIs; and a computer processor for representing and performing execution tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Bentley, Rhonda L. Childress, Christopher J. De Vaney, Steven O. Twist
  • UPPER MERGED ONTOLOGY FOR IT ARCHITECTURE
    Publication number: 20140337273
    Abstract: An information technology (IT) architecture upper merged ontology which includes an upper merged ontology that is a representation framework for combined knowledge sources that are used in business and information technology; an upper merged ontology knowledge base containing information derived from an analysis of business and technical services pertaining to the IT architecture application; a plurality of semantic web application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow access to the upper merged ontology as a semantic web; a reasoning and constraint language (RaCL) that is a scripting language having the capabilities of model creation, automated reasoning and search and query operations such that scripts developed in the reasoning and constraint language can execute using the semantic web APIs; and a computer processor for representing and performing execution tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Bentley, Rhonda L. Childress, Christopher J. De Vaney, Steven O. Twist