Patents by Inventor Blaine K. Boule

Blaine K. Boule 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: 10482179
    Abstract: A device for locating words and/or phrases in a requirement statement that cause confusion can include one or more memory devices including data defining words and/or phrases and corresponding, respective deductions for each of the words and/or phrases and processing circuitry to: receive the requirement statement that specifies requirements for a product or service, determine a count of each of the words and/or phrases that are in the requirement statement and the one or more memory devices and a location of the words and/or phrases in the requirement statement, determine a score for the requirement statement based on a maximum allowable score in the one or more memory devices, the determined count, and the deductions, and generate a report indicating the score and the location of the words and/or phrases that reduced the maximum allowable score, the score indicating the quality of the requirement document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Nicholas Wayne Barrett, Kimberly Kukurba, Daniel H. Millet, Randall J. Ramsey, George L. Ball, Abraham Wu, Blaine K. Boule
  • Publication number: 20190108219
    Abstract: A device for locating words and/or phrases in a requirement statement that cause confusion can include one or more memory devices including data defining words and/or phrases and corresponding, respective deductions for each of the words and/or phrases and processing circuitry to: receive the requirement statement that specifies requirements for a product or service, determine a count of each of the words and/or phrases that are in the requirement statement and the one or more memory devices and a location of the words and/or phrases in the requirement statement, determine a score for the requirement statement based on a maximum allowable score in the one or more memory devices, the determined count, and the deductions, and generate a report indicating the score and the location of the words and/or phrases that reduced the maximum allowable score, the score indicating the quality of the requirement document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Nicholas Wayne Barrett, Kimberly Kukurba, Daniel H. Millet, Randall J. Ramsey, George L. Ball, Abraham Wu, Blaine K. Boule
  • Patent number: 10176251
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for unstructured text analysis. A method can include deconstructing structured data to create unstructured text, creating a first word cloud using the unstructured text, creating a query based on the first word cloud, receiving data corresponding to contents of a specified number of records determined to include data most similar to the first word cloud in a database of records, creating a second word cloud for each of the specified number of records using the data from the specified number of records, determining similarity values indicating how similar the first word cloud is to each of the second word clouds, and providing a similarity indicator for each record of the specified number of records to a user interface, the similarity indicator representing a relative magnitude of the determined similarity values of the specified number of records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Blaine K. Boule, Nicholas Wayne Barrett
  • Publication number: 20170060995
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for unstructured text analysis. A method can include deconstructing structured data to create unstructured text, creating a first word cloud using the unstructured text, creating a query based on the first word cloud, receiving data corresponding to contents of a specified number of records determined to include data most similar to the first word cloud in a database of records, creating a second word cloud for each of the specified number of records using the data from the specified number of records, determining similarity values indicating how similar the first word cloud is to each of the second word clouds, and providing a similarity indicator for each record of the specified number of records to a user interface, the similarity indicator representing a relative magnitude of the determined similarity values of the specified number of records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Blaine K. Boule, Nicholas Wayne Barrett