Patents by Inventor Bryan W Sparks

Bryan W Sparks 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: 20220292268
    Abstract: A system for generating smart contracts may include a first subsystem to receive a written or verbal contract, and a second subsystem to identify terms of the contract using natural language processing (NLP). The system may additionally include a third subsystem to correlate processed NLP terms of the contract with chaincode in a library, and a fourth subsystem to combine correlated NLP terms to generate a smart contract. Methods of generating a smart contract may include inputting natural language contract terms into a smart contract generation system and identifying the natural language contract terms with a natural language processing system. The method may further include correlating at least some of the contract terms to chaincodes stored in a library, generating chaincodes for any contract terms that do not correlate to any chaincodes stored in the library, and assembling the chaincodes into a smart contract.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen W. Shillingford, Bryan W. Sparks, Ryan W. McQueen
  • Publication number: 20220083561
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for creating a data object for each of a plurality of imported unstructured data files. Each data object may expressly include one of the unstructured data files. Preprocessing subsystems and/or machine learning algorithms and subsystems process the data to generate or otherwise identify structured insight features. The system updates each data object to expressly include the structured insight features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen W. Shillingford, Wacey T. Richards, Bryan W. Sparks, Michael Ephraim Kiemel, Max K. Goff, Eduardo James Sagra, Ryan W. McQueen
  • Publication number: 20210406772
    Abstract: A user may markup the training documents to identify salient terms in a set of training unstructured documents. The system may automatically generate an extraction ruleset for each salient term that can be manually modified or edited by the user. The user may also provide analysis rulesets for each of the salient terms using, for example, a no-code graphical user interface. A machine learning model can be trained to automatically extract and analyze the salient terms based on feature vectors built from the extraction rulesets and/or analysis rulesets of the salient terms. After training, the system may import a set of unstructured documents for term extraction and analysis by the trained machine learning model. The system may generate a report, such as a PDF or an interactive graphical user interface, summarizing the results of the extracted and analyzed salient terms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen W. Shillingford, Wacey T. Richards, Bryan W. Sparks
  • Patent number: 7855974
    Abstract: This is invention comprises a method an apparatus for Infinite Network Packet Capture System (INPCS). The INPCS is a high performance data capture recorder capable of capturing and archiving all network traffic present on a single network or multiple networks. This device can be attached to Ethernet networks via copper or SX fiber via either a SPAN port (101) router configuration or via an optical splitter (102). By this method, multiple sources or network traffic including gigabit Ethernet switches (102) may provide parallelized data feeds to the capture appliance (104), effectively increasing collective data capture capacity. Multiple captured streams are merged into a consolidated time indexed capture stream to support asymmetrically routed network traffic as well as other merged streams for external consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Solera Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffery V. Merkey, Bryan W. Sparks
  • Publication number: 20100195538
    Abstract: This is invention comprises a method and apparatus for Infinite Network Packet Capture System (INPCS). The INPCS is a high performance data capture recorder capable of capturing and archiving all network traffic present on a single network or multiple networks. This device can be attached to Ethernet networks via copper or SX fiber via either a SPAN port (101) router configuration or via an optical splitter (102). By this method, multiple sources or network traffic including gigabit Ethernet switches (102) may provide parallelized data feeds to the capture appliance (104), effectively increasing collective data capture capacity. Multiple captured streams are merged into a consolidated time indexed capture stream to support asymmetrically routed network traffic as well as other merged streams for external consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: JEFFREY V. MERKEY, Bryan W. Sparks
  • Patent number: 7684347
    Abstract: This is invention comprises a method and apparatus for Infinite Network Packet Capture System (INPCS). The INPCS is a high performance data capture recorder capable of capturing and archiving all network traffic present on a single network or multiple networks. This device can be attached to Ethernet networks via copper or SX fiber via either a SPAN port (101) router configuration or via an optical splitter (102). By this method, multiple sources or network traffic including gigabit Ethernet switches (102) may provide parallelized data feeds to the capture appliance (104), effectively increasing collective data capture capacity. Multiple captured streams are merged into a consolidated time indexed capture stream to support asymmetrically routed network traffic as well as other merged streams for external consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Solera Networks
    Inventors: Jeffrey V Merkey, Bryan W Sparks
  • Publication number: 20090219829
    Abstract: This is invention comprises a method and apparatus for Infinite Network Packet Capture System (INPCS). The INPCS is a high performance data capture recorder capable of capturing and archiving all network traffic present on a single network or multiple networks. This device can be attached to Ethernet networks via copper or SX fiber via either a SPAN port (101) router configuration or via an optical splitter (102). By this method, multiple sources or network traffic including gigabit Ethernet switches (102) may provide parallelized data feeds to the capture appliance (104), effectively increasing collective data capture capacity. Multiple captured streams are merged into a consolidated time indexed capture stream to support asymmetrically routed network traffic as well as other merged streams for external consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: SOLERA NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey V. Merkey, Bryan W. Sparks
  • Publication number: 20090182953
    Abstract: This is invention comprises a method and apparatus for Infinite Network Packet Capture System (INPCS). The INPCS is a high performance data capture recorder capable of capturing and archiving all network traffic present on a single network or multiple networks. This device can be attached to Ethernet networks via copper or SX fiber via either a SPAN port (101) router configuration or via an optical splitter (102). By this method, multiple sources or network traffic including gigabit Ethernet switches (102) may provide parallelized data feeds to the capture appliance (104), effectively increasing collective data capture capacity. Multiple captured streams are merged into a consolidated time indexed capture stream to support asymmetrically routed network traffic as well as other merged streams for external consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: SOLERA NETWORKS. INC.
    Inventors: JEFFREY V. MERKEY, BRYAN W. SPARKS