Patents by Inventor Brent Edward Stephens

Brent Edward Stephens 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).

  • Publication number: 20140074960
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for compacting a non-biased results multiset are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A set of references and a multiset of values are identified. The multiset includes a first and a second set of values, each set including a first value. A first reference in the set of references refers to the first set of values and a second reference in the set of references refers to the second set of values. The values in the first and second set of values are re-arranged to form permuted first and second sets of values. The multiset is compacted by overlaying the permuted first and second sets of values in a portion such that the permuted first set of values and the permuted second set of values share a single instance of the first value in a portion of the compacted multiset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Bruce Carter, Colin Kimm Dixon, Wesley Michael Felter, Brent Edward Stephens, James Xenidis