Patents by Inventor Catherine Gouttas

Catherine Gouttas 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).

  • Optimized method and system for managing proper names to optimize the management and interrogation of databases
    Patent number: 8117237
    Abstract: Optimized method and system making it possible to manage named entities or proper names that are presented in a different graphical or syntactic form and contained in a database (3), characterized in that it comprises, in combination, the implementation of the Levenshtein method by using a measurement of similarity from the Levenshtein method and of the n-grams method in order to find a canonic entity that can replace a set of named entities in a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Hamid Benhadda, Catherine Gouttas
  • Method and system for assigning scores to elements in a set of structured data
    Patent number: 8090696
    Abstract: A system for implementing a scoring method, wherein the system includes at least a data analyzer configured to: determine a plurality of scoring intervals dependent upon the data to be analyzed; assign an integer score and a decimal score within the scoring intervals to each data to be analyzed, the score dependent upon a frequency of appearance; search a database for pairings of (scored element, decimal score); and generate an alert if the pairing is found in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Catherine Gouttas, Hamid Benhadda
  • OPTIMIZED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PROPER NAMES TO OPTIMIZE THE MANAGEMENT AND INTERROGATION OF DATABASES
    Publication number: 20100217781
    Abstract: Optimized method and system making it possible to manage named entities or proper names that are presented in a different graphical or syntactic form and contained in a database (3), characterized in that it comprises, in combination, the implementation of the Levenshtein method by using a measurement of similarity from the Levenshtein method and of the n-grams method in order to find a canonic entity that can replace a set of named entities in a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: Thales
    Inventors: Hamid Benhadda, Catherine Gouttas
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSIGNING SCORES
    Publication number: 20090319514
    Abstract: A system for implementing a scoring method, wherein the system includes at least a data analyzer configured to: determine a plurality of scoring intervals dependent upon the data to be analyzed; assign an integer score and a decimal score within the scoring intervals to each data to be analyzed, the score dependent upon a frequency of appearance; search a database for pairings of (scored element, decimal score); and generate an alert if the pairing is found in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Thales
    Inventors: Catherine Gouttas, Hamid Benhada