Patents by Inventor Eric Bloedorn

Eric Bloedorn 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).

  • Method and system for finding similar records in mixed free-text and structured data
    Patent number: 7440946
    Abstract: A technique for data mining where the available data contains both structured as well as unstructured (free-text) data. The present invention combines together the information available from different types of data to provide a single similarity score indicating the degree of similarity between records. Thus, a data evaluation application selects two records from a database and compares corresponding fields from the two records. The application determines whether to apply a nominal matching process, an ordinal matching process, or a vector-space matching process depending on the type of data in each pair of corresponding fields. The application sums the matching scores for all the fields in the records to compute the similarity score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: The Mitre Corporation
    Inventor: Eric Bloedorn
  • Method and system for finding similar records in mixed free-text and structured data
    Patent number: 7076485
    Abstract: A technique for data mining where the available data contains both structured as well as unstructured (free-text) data. The present invention combines together the information available from different types of data to provide a single similarity score indicating the degree of similarity between records. Thus, a data evaluation application selects two records from a database and compares corresponding fields from the two records. The application determines whether to apply a nominal matching process, an ordinal matching process, or a vector-space matching process depending on the type of data in each pair of corresponding fields. The application sums the matching scores for all the fields in the records to compute the similarity score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventor: Eric Bloedorn
  • Method and system for finding similar records in mixed free-text and structured data
    Publication number: 20060116995
    Abstract: A technique for data mining where the available data contains both structured as well as unstructured (free-text) data. The present invention combines together the information available from different types of data to provide a single similarity score indicating the degree of similarity between records. Thus, a data evaluation application selects two records from a database and compares corresponding fields from the two records. The application determines whether to apply a nominal matching process, an ordinal matching process, or a vector-space matching process depending on the type of data in each pair of corresponding fields. The application sums the matching scores for all the fields in the records to compute the similarity score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2006
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventor: Eric Bloedorn
  • Method and system for finding similar records in mixed free-text and structured data
    Publication number: 20020152208
    Abstract: A technique for data mining where the available data contains both structured as well as unstructured (free-text) data. The present invention combines together the information available from different types of data to provide a single similarity score indicating the degree of similarity between records. Thus, a data evaluation application selects two records from a database and compares corresponding fields from the two records. The application determines whether to apply a nominal matching process, an ordinal matching process, or a vector-space matching process depending on the type of data in each pair of corresponding fields. The application sums the matching scores for all the fields in the records to compute the similarity score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Applicant: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventor: Eric Bloedorn