Patents by Inventor Brian J. Simpson

Brian J. Simpson 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: 9817908
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods for organizing and/or searching news events. In one or more embodiments, a method can include encoding a news event based on named entities, actors, and actions mentioned in the news event, calculating a locality sensitive hash (LSH) key on the news event encoding, comparing the calculated LSH key to a plurality of LSH keys of respective stories, wherein each story of the respective stories comprises one or more associated news events that include LSH keys that are within a specified distance from each other, and associating the news event with a story of the respective stories that includes an LSH key that has a smallest distance from the LSH key of the received news event and is less than the specified distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignees: Raytheon Company, The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Robert J. Cole, Brian J. Simpson, Clyde Lee Giles, Zhaohui Wu, Chen Liang
  • Publication number: 20160188590
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods for organizing and/or searching news events. In one or more embodiments, a method can include encoding a news event based on named entities, actors, and actions mentioned in the news event, calculating a locality sensitive hash (LSH) key on the news event encoding, comparing the calculated LSH key to a plurality of LSH keys of respective stories, wherein each story of the respective stories comprises one or more associated news events that include LSH keys that are within a specified distance from each other, and associating the news event with a story of the respective stories that includes an LSH key that has a smallest distance from the LSH key of the received news event and is less than the specified distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Robert J. Cole, Brian J. Simpson, Lee Giles, Zhaohui Wu, Chen Liang
  • Patent number: 8402046
    Abstract: A method for multilingual data querying comprises sending one or more words in an original language to a word ontology. The method further comprises receiving sense descriptions of the one or more words from the word ontology, and selecting one or more sense descriptions of the one or more words and a language for querying. The method further comprises translating the one or more sense descriptions into the language for querying, and also translating the one or more sense descriptions back into the original language for verification. The method further comprises selecting at least one of the one or more sense descriptions to use in a query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Bruce E. Peoples, Brian J. Simpson, Michael R. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20090222409
    Abstract: A method for multilingual data querying comprises sending one or more words in an original language to a word ontology. The method further comprises receiving sense descriptions of the one or more words from the word ontology, and selecting one or more sense descriptions of the one or more words and a language for querying. The method further comprises translating the one or more sense descriptions into the language for querying, and also translating the one or more sense descriptions back into the original language for verification. The method further comprises selecting at least one of the one or more sense descriptions to use in a query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Bruce E. Peoples, Brian J. Simpson, Michael R. Johnson