Patents by Inventor Edward A. Lessman

Edward A. Lessman 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).

  • Automated configuration system and method
    Patent number: 7461049
    Abstract: An automated configuration system (and method) is provided for facilitating the configuration of desired products, services, or other assemblages that require users to gather and assimilate disparate knowledge of makes, models, types, features, codes, and prices of the desired product/service to be configured. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, configuration is facilitated through interaction of a user with a frame engine that performs frame-based inferences to discern stored knowledge of a product (or the like), as supplemented by a rules-based inference system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Edgenet, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph H. Thompson, Randy J. Weems, Edward A. Lessman
  • Automated configuration system and method
    Patent number: 6810401
    Abstract: An automated configuration system (and method) is provided for facilitating the configuration of desired products, services, or other assemblages that require users to gather and assimilate disparate knowledge of makes, models, types, features, codes, and prices of the desired product/service to be configured. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, configuration is facilitated through interaction of a user with a frame engine that performs frame-based inferences to discern stored knowledge of a product (or the like), as supplemented by a rules-based inference system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Edgenet Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph H. Thompson, Randy J. Weems, Edward A. Lessman
  • Automated configuration system and method
    Publication number: 20040068485
    Abstract: An automated configuration system (and method) is provided for facilitating the configuration of desired products, services, or other assemblages that require users to gather and assimilate disparate knowledge of makes, models, types, features, codes, and prices of the desired product/service to be configured. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, configuration is facilitated through interaction of a user with a frame engine that performs frame-based inferences to discern stored knowledge of a product (or the like), as supplemented by a rules-based inference system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Inventors: Joseph H. Thompson, Randy J. Weems, Edward A. Lessman