Patents by Inventor David Steiner
David Steiner 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).
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Patent number: 10474710Abstract: Systems and methods for generating issue networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of generating an issue network from a document corpus includes searching, using a computer, the document corpus for a set of documents discussing a starting issue, wherein the starting issue is one of a plurality of normalized issues defined by the document corpus. The method further includes determining a set of normalized issues discussed by the set of documents discussing the starting issue, wherein the set of normalized issues also includes the starting issue, and determining instances of co-occurrences of individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues within individual cases of the set of documents. The method also includes linking individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues based on their co-occurrences within the set of documents, wherein the linked individual normalized issues at least in part define the issue network.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: RELX, Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Sanjay Sharma, Mark Wasson, Harry R. Silver, David Steiner
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Publication number: 20190297139Abstract: Systems and methods for managing the processing of information acquired by sensors within an environment are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a system includes multiple sensors configured to acquire information about an environment. The system may also include computing devices that are each operatively connected to a respective one of the sensors. Further, each computing device may be configured to determine an object and/or action within the environment based on the acquired information. The system may include a processing manager configured to determine whether a first computing device among the plurality of computing devices does not have predetermined resource availability for determining the object and/or action. The processing manager may control the first computing device to communicate the information to a second computing device for determining the one of the object and action in response to determining that the first computing device does not have the predetermined resource availability.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2018Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: David Bernath, Phuc Do, Dean Herring, Abhishekh Padmanabhan, Adrian Rodriguez, David Steiner, Jonathan Waite
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Publication number: 20180268067Abstract: Computer programs for searching a collection of electronic documents are disclosed. A computer program for searching a collection of electronic documents, includes instructions that cause the computer to carry out steps of: replacing a set of synonymous terms appearing in a paragraph with a set of standardized paragraph terms, where each standardized paragraph term has an associated term weight and generating standardized search terms in response to a search query, generating paragraph scores for paragraphs of a document based at least in part on the associated weights of standardized paragraph terms that match one or more of the standardized search terms. The computer program further includes determining overall document scores for the electronic documents based at least in part on a combination of the paragraph scores, and determining a set of matching documents, wherein the set of matching documents is ordered using the overall document scores.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, David Steiner
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Publication number: 20180189386Abstract: Systems and methods for generating issue networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of generating an issue network from a document corpus includes searching, using a computer, the document corpus for a set of documents discussing a starting issue, wherein the starting issue is one of a plurality of normalized issues defined by the document corpus. The method further includes determining a set of normalized issues discussed by the set of documents discussing the starting issue, wherein the set of normalized issues also includes the starting issue, and determining instances of co-occurrences of individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues within individual cases of the set of documents. The method also includes linking individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues based on their co-occurrences within the set of documents, wherein the linked individual normalized issues at least in part define the issue network.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Sanjay Sharma, Mark Wasson, Harry R. Silver, David Steiner
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Patent number: 10002196Abstract: A computerized method of searching a collection of electronic documents may include comparing search terms to sets of paragraph terms associated with paragraphs in the documents. Search terms and paragraph terms may be standardized, prior to the comparison. The method may also include generating paragraph scores for the paragraphs using term weight values associated with paragraph terms that match search terms, generating paragraph scores for the paragraphs, and using the paragraph scores to generate overall document scores. The method may also include using the overall document scores to determine a set of search results and providing the search results to a display.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, David Steiner
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Patent number: 9940389Abstract: Systems and methods for generating issue networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of generating an issue network from a document corpus includes searching, using a computer, the document corpus for a set of documents discussing a starting issue, wherein the starting issue is one of a plurality of normalized issues defined by the document corpus. The method further includes determining a set of normalized issues discussed by the set of documents discussing the starting issue, wherein the set of normalized issues also includes the starting issue, and determining instances of co-occurrences of individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues within individual cases of the set of documents. The method also includes linking individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues based on their co-occurrences within the set of documents, wherein the linked individual normalized issues at least in part define the issue network.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: LexisNexis, A Division of Reed Elsevier, Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Sanjay Sharma, Mark Wasson, Harry R. Silver, David Steiner
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Publication number: 20170060991Abstract: Systems and method for generating concepts from a document corpus are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for generating concepts from a document includes retrieving, a plurality of terms stored within a first lexicon. The method further includes, for individual terms stored within the first lexicon: determining a first frequency of the term within the document corpus, and determining a second frequency of the term within a comparison document corpus including a plurality of comparison documents, wherein the comparison document corpus is different from the document corpus. The method further includes, for individual terms within the first lexicon: determining a difference between the first frequency and the second frequency, comparing the difference between the first frequency and the second frequency to a comparison metric, and, when the difference between the first frequency and the second frequency satisfies the comparison metric, storing the term as a concept within a second lexicon.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Sanjay Sharma, David Steiner, Mark David Wasson, Harry R. Silver, Robin Warling
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Publication number: 20160217208Abstract: Systems and methods for generating issue networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of generating an issue network from a document corpus includes searching, using a computer, the document corpus for a set of documents discussing a starting issue, wherein the starting issue is one of a plurality of normalized issues defined by the document corpus. The method further includes determining a set of normalized issues discussed by the set of documents discussing the starting issue, wherein the set of normalized issues also includes the starting issue, and determining instances of co-occurrences of individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues within individual cases of the set of documents. The method also includes linking individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues based on their co-occurrences within the set of documents, wherein the linked individual normalized issues at least in part define the issue network.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Sanjay Sharma, Mark Wasson, Harry R. Silver, David Steiner
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Patent number: 9336305Abstract: Systems and methods for generating issue networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of generating an issue network from a document corpus includes searching, using a computer, the document corpus for a set of documents discussing a starting issue, wherein the starting issue is one of a plurality of normalized issues defined by the document corpus. The method further includes determining a set of normalized issues discussed by the set of documents discussing the starting issue, wherein the set of normalized issues also includes the starting issue, and determining instances of co-occurrences of individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues within individual cases of the set of documents. The method also includes linking individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues based on their co-occurrences within the set of documents, wherein the linked individual normalized issues at least in part define the issue network.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Lexis Nexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Sanjay Sharma, Mark Wasson, Harry R. Silver, David Steiner
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Publication number: 20150294017Abstract: A computerized method of searching a collection of electronic documents may include comparing search terms to sets of paragraph terms associated with paragraphs in the documents. Search terms and paragraph terms may be standardized, prior to the comparison. The method may also include generating paragraph scores for the paragraphs using term weight values associated with paragraph terms that match search terms, generating paragraph scores for the paragraphs, and using the paragraph scores to generate overall document scores. The method may also include using the overall document scores to determine a set of search results and providing the search results to a display.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, David Steiner
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Patent number: 9098570Abstract: A computerized method of searching a collection of electronic documents may include comparing search terms to sets of paragraph terms associated with paragraphs in the documents. Search terms and paragraph terms may be standardized, prior to the comparison. The method may also include generating paragraph scores for the paragraphs using term weight values associated with paragraph terms that match search terms, generating paragraph scores for the paragraphs, and using the paragraph scores to generate overall document scores. The method may also include using the overall document scores to determine a set of search results and providing the search results to a display.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, David Steiner
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Publication number: 20150178281Abstract: Embodiments of the invention determine whether a user has seen a content item based on at least two factors: a measure of the area of a content item that has been displayed on a screen of the user's device and a length of time that the content item has been displayed on the screen of the user's device. The area of a content item that has been displayed is detected, and the length of time that the content item has been displayed is detected. An aggregate score for the content item is determined based at least in part on the detected area and the detected length of time. Responsive to the aggregate score exceeding a threshold, it is determined that the content item has been seen by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: David Steiner, Mehul Agarwal, Imad Jureidini
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Publication number: 20150160629Abstract: Systems and methods for initiating predetermined software function for a computing device based on orientation and movement are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method comprises detecting a change in movement of a computing device to substantially zero velocity for a predetermined period of time. The method further detects a predetermined orientation of the computing device. The method further initiates a predetermined operation of the computing device in response to detecting the decrease in movement for the predetermined period of time and detecting the predetermined orientation of the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: June 11, 2015Inventors: J. David Landers, JR., David Steiner, Paul Wilson, Kimberly Wood
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Publication number: 20140337318Abstract: Systems and methods for generating issue networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of generating an issue network from a document corpus includes searching, using a computer, the document corpus for a set of documents discussing a starting issue, wherein the starting issue is one of a plurality of normalized issues defined by the document corpus. The method further includes determining a set of normalized issues discussed by the set of documents discussing the starting issue, wherein the set of normalized issues also includes the starting issue, and determining instances of co-occurrences of individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues within individual cases of the set of documents. The method also includes linking individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues based on their co-occurrences within the set of documents, wherein the linked individual normalized issues at least in part define the issue network.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2013Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Sanjay Sharma, Mark Wasson, Harry R. Silver, David Steiner
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Patent number: 8732194Abstract: A computer-implemented method of generating an issue library from a corpus of documents defining a citation network includes semantically linking, by a computing device, electronic documents within the corpus of documents by pairing reasons-for-citing in citing documents with cited-text-areas in cited documents and storing citation entries associated with the semantically-linked electronic documents in a citation-pairing metadata file. The method may further include searching the citation-pairing metadata file for reasons-for-citing and cited-text-areas that are semantically similar to at least one issue to thereby group similar documents and reasons-for-citing by issue, and storing information regarding groups of semantically-similar reasons-for-citing and cited-text-areas in a plurality of issue library metadata entities. Each issue library metadata entity is associated with an individual issue.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2013Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: LexisNexis, a Division of Reed Elsevier, Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Harry Silver, David Steiner
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Patent number: 8396882Abstract: A computer-implemented method of generating an issue library from a corpus of documents defining a citation network includes semantically linking, by a computing device, electronic documents within the corpus of documents by pairing reasons-for-citing in citing documents with cited-text-areas in cited documents and storing citation entries associated with the semantically-linked electronic documents in a citation-pairing metadata file. The method may further include searching the citation-pairing metadata file for reasons-for-citing and cited-text-areas that are semantically similar to at least one issue to thereby group similar documents and reasons-for-citing by issue, and storing information regarding groups of semantically-similar reasons-for-citing and cited-text-areas in a plurality of issue library metadata entities. Each issue library metadata entity is associated with an individual issue.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Harry Silver, David Steiner
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Publication number: 20120254161Abstract: A computerized method of searching a collection of electronic documents may include comparing search terms to sets of paragraph terms associated with paragraphs in the documents. Search terms and paragraph terms may be standardized, prior to the comparison. The method may also include generating paragraph scores for the paragraphs using term weight values associated with paragraph terms that match search terms, generating paragraph scores for the paragraphs, and using the paragraph scores to generate overall document scores. The method may also include using the overall document scores to determine a set of search results and providing the search results to a display.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2011Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.Inventors: Paul Zhang, David Steiner
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Publication number: 20120054221Abstract: A computer-implemented method of generating an issue library from a corpus of documents defining a citation network includes semantically linking, by a computing device, electronic documents within the corpus of documents by pairing reasons-for-citing in citing documents with cited-text-areas in cited documents and storing citation entries associated with the semantically-linked electronic documents in a citation-pairing metadata file. The method may further include searching the citation-pairing metadata file for reasons-for-citing and cited-text-areas that are semantically similar to at least one issue to thereby group similar documents and reasons-for-citing by issue, and storing information regarding groups of semantically-similar reasons-for-citing and cited-text-areas in a plurality of issue library metadata entities. Each issue library metadata entity is associated with an individual issue.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2010Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Harry Silver, David Steiner
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Patent number: 8055948Abstract: Method and computer program product for identifying a primary disk storage medium that is higher in a boot order than a secondary disk storage medium in a software RAID, and testing for a hardware failure of the primary disk storage medium during the BIOS power-on self test. The boot order of the disk storage mediums in the software RAID is automatically changed to position the secondary disk storage medium in the RAID higher in the boot order than the primary disk storage medium in response to detecting a hardware failure in the primary disk storage medium. The operating system is then booted from the disk storage medium that is highest in the boot order. A hardware failure may be detected by reading and verifying a predetermined portion of the boot partition of the disk storage medium.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2009Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Justin Pierce, David Steiner, Richard W. Vanderpool, III
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Publication number: 20110066881Abstract: Method and computer program product for identifying a primary disk storage medium that is higher in a boot order than a secondary disk storage medium in a software RAID, and testing for a hardware failure of the primary disk storage medium during the BIOS power-on self test. The boot order of the disk storage mediums in the software RAID is automatically changed to position the secondary disk storage medium in the RAID higher in the boot order than the primary disk storage medium in response to detecting a hardware failure in the primary disk storage medium. The operating system is then booted from the disk storage medium that is highest in the boot order. A hardware failure may be detected by reading and verifying a predetermined portion of the boot partition of the disk storage medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2009Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Justin Pierce, David Steiner, Richard W. Vanderpool, III