Patents by Inventor Andrew Stannard

Andrew Stannard 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: 11693886
    Abstract: Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus are disclosed to map client specifications to standardized characteristics. An example apparatus includes a cluster identifier to cluster client databases into client clusters based on a threshold quantity of overlapping universal product codes (UPCs) between respective ones of the client databases, a characteristic analyzer to identify custom characteristics from the respective ones of the client clusters, ones of the custom characteristics having dissimilar nomenclature, and a graph builder to cluster the ones of the custom characteristics based on a similarity metric, and normalize the ones of the custom characteristics as a proxy characteristic, the proxy characteristic having a common nomenclature to represent the ones of the custom characteristics, the characteristic analyzer to enable improved product marketing analysis by replacing dissimilar nomenclature with the proxy characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Cesar Arocho, Jonathan Sullivan, Michael D. Morgan, Andrew Stannard, Kali Bogovich, Calvin James Bissett, Logan Thomas
  • Publication number: 20220050859
    Abstract: Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus are disclosed to map client specifications to standardized characteristics. An example apparatus includes a cluster identifier to cluster client databases into client clusters based on a threshold quantity of overlapping universal product codes (UPCs) between respective ones of the client databases, a characteristic analyzer to identify custom characteristics from the respective ones of the client clusters, ones of the custom characteristics having dissimilar nomenclature, and a graph builder to cluster the ones of the custom characteristics based on a similarity metric, and normalize the ones of the custom characteristics as a proxy characteristic, the proxy characteristic having a common nomenclature to represent the ones of the custom characteristics, the characteristic analyzer to enable improved product marketing analysis by replacing dissimilar nomenclature with the proxy characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Cesar Arocho, Jonathan Sullivan, Michael D. Morgan, Andrew Stannard, Kali Bogovich, Calvin James Bissett, Logan Thomas
  • Patent number: 11163805
    Abstract: Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus are disclosed to map client specifications to standardized characteristics. An example apparatus includes a cluster identifier to cluster client databases into client clusters based on a threshold quantity of overlapping universal product codes (UPCs) between respective ones of the client databases, a characteristic analyzer to identify custom characteristics from the respective ones of the client clusters, ones of the custom characteristics having dissimilar nomenclature, and a graph builder to cluster the ones of the custom characteristics based on a similarity metric, and normalize the ones of the custom characteristics as a proxy characteristic, the proxy characteristic having a common nomenclature to represent the ones of the custom characteristics, the characteristic analyzer to enable improved product marketing analysis by replacing dissimilar nomenclature with the proxy characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Cesar Arocho, Jonathan Sullivan, Michael D. Morgan, Andrew Stannard, Kali Bogovich, Calvin James Bissett, Logan Thomas
  • Publication number: 20210157825
    Abstract: Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus are disclosed to map client specifications to standardized characteristics. An example apparatus includes a cluster identifier to cluster client databases into client clusters based on a threshold quantity of overlapping universal product codes (UPCs) between respective ones of the client databases, a characteristic analyzer to identify custom characteristics from the respective ones of the client clusters, ones of the custom characteristics having dissimilar nomenclature, and a graph builder to cluster the ones of the custom characteristics based on a similarity metric, and normalize the ones of the custom characteristics as a proxy characteristic, the proxy characteristic having a common nomenclature to represent the ones of the custom characteristics, the characteristic analyzer to enable improved product marketing analysis by replacing dissimilar nomenclature with the proxy characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Cesar Arocho, Jonathan Sullivan, Michael D. Morgan, Andrew Stannard, Kali Bogovich, Calvin James Bissett, Logan Thomas