Patents by Inventor Eric William Brown

Eric William Brown 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).

  • Patent number: 11977505
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with an embedded data center asset client module and a passthrough device; establishing a secure communication channel between the embedded data center asset client module and a connectivity management system; exchanging information between the embedded data center asset client module and the connectivity management system via the secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system, the information including an operating system image; and, provisioning an operating system to the data center asset via the embedded data center asset client module and the passthrough device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher Atkinson, Eric Williams, Michael E. Brown, Jason Shaw
  • Patent number: 11943124
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with a data center asset client module and a host operating system agent; establishing a secure communication channel between the data center asset client module and a connectivity management system, the connectivity management system comprising a service mesh proxy; exchanging information between the data center asset and the connectivity management system via the secure communication channel between the data center asset and the connectivity management system; and, remotely executing a workload on the data center asset via a workload orchestration operation, the service mesh proxy communicating with the host operating system agent when performing the workload orchestration operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Anurag Sharma, Michael E. Brown, Dominique Prunier, Eric Williams
  • Patent number: 11924285
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with a connectivity management system client; establishing a secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and a connectivity management system; exchanging information between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system via the secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system, the information including a provisioning request; and, providing provisioning information to the data center asset via the secure communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Elie A. Jreij, Eric Williams, Dominique Prunier, Michael E. Brown, Kirk Frey, Sudhir V. Shetty, Christopher Atkinson
  • Patent number: 8972440
    Abstract: A semantic query over a corpus of data is constructed using a graphical user interface to create an aggregation of graphical representations of annotations associated with a plurality of data elements contained within the corpus of data and graphical representations of search terms contained within the plurality of data elements. The aggregation includes at least one annotation and at least one search term. The relative positions of the graphical representations of the annotations and the search terms are manipulated within the aggregation within the graphical user interface to express relationships among the annotations and search terms, yielding a visual spatial representation of the semantic query. The annotations, search terms and expressed relationships define the semantic query that is used to search the corpus of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Branimir Konstantinov Boguraev, Eric William Brown, Youssef Drissi, David Angelo Ferrucci, Paul Turquand Keyser, Anthony Tom Levas, Dafna Sheinwald
  • Publication number: 20130290370
    Abstract: A semantic query over a corpus of data is constructed using a graphical user interface to create an aggregation of graphical representations of annotations associated with a plurality of data elements contained within the corpus of data and graphical representations of search terms contained within the plurality of data elements. The aggregation includes at least one annotation and at least one search term. The relative positions of the graphical representations of the annotations and the search terms are manipulated within the aggregation within the graphical user interface to express relationships among the annotations and search terms, yielding a visual spatial representation of the semantic query. The annotations, search terms and expressed relationships define the semantic query that is used to search the corpus of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Branimir Konstantinov BOGURAEV, Eric William BROWN, Youssef DRISSI, David Angelo FERRUCCI, Paul Turquand KEYSER, Anthony Tom LEVAS, Dafna SHEINWALD
  • Patent number: 8510327
    Abstract: A semantic query over a corpus of data is constructed using a graphical user interface to create an aggregation of graphical representations of annotations associated with a plurality of data elements contained within the corpus of data and graphical representations of search terms contained within the plurality of data elements. The aggregation includes at least one annotation and at least one search term. The relative positions of the graphical representations of the annotations and the search terms are manipulated within the aggregation within the graphical user interface to express relationships among the annotations and search terms, yielding a visual spatial representation of the semantic query. The annotations, search terms and expressed relationships define the semantic query that is used to search the corpus of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machinees Corporation
    Inventors: Branimir Konstantinov Boguraev, Eric William Brown, Youssef Drissi, David Angelo Ferrucci, Paul Turquand Keyser, Anthony Tom Levas, Dafna Sheinwald
  • Publication number: 20120078955
    Abstract: A semantic query over a corpus of data is constructed using a graphical user interface to create an aggregation of graphical representations of annotations associated with a plurality of data elements contained within the corpus of data and graphical representations of search terms contained within the plurality of data elements. The aggregation includes at least one annotation and at least one search term. The relative positions of the graphical representations of the annotations and the search terms are manipulated within the aggregation within the graphical user interface to express relationships among the annotations and search terms, yielding a visual spatial representation of the semantic query. The annotations, search terms and expressed relationships define the semantic query that is used to search the corpus of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: BRANIMIR KONSTANTINOV BOGURAEV, ERIC William BROWN, YOUSSEF DRISSI, DAVID ANGELO FERRUCCI, PAUL TURQUAND KEYSER, ANTHONY TOM LEVAS, DAFNA SHEINWALD
  • Patent number: 6922809
    Abstract: A method for capitalizing text in a document includes processing a reference corpus to construct a plurality of dictionaries of capitalized terms, where the plurality of dictionaries include a singleton dictionary and a phrase dictionary. Each record in the singleton dictionary contains a word in lowercase, a range of phrase lengths m:n for capitalized phrases that the word begins, where m is a minimum phrase length and n is a maximum phrase length, and where each record in the phrase dictionary includes a multi-word phrase in lowercase. The method adds proper capitalization to an input monocase document by capitalizing words found in mandatory capitalization positions; and by looking up each word in the singleton dictionary and, if the word is found in the singleton dictionary, testing the corresponding phrase length range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anni Rosa Coden, Eric William Brown
  • Patent number: 6816858
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for performing Automatic Stream Analysis for Broadcast Information which takes speech audio as input, converts the audio stream into text using a speech recognition system, applies a variety of analyzers to the text stream to identify information elements, automatically generates queries from these information elements, and extracts data from search results that is relevant to a current program. The data is multiplexed into the broadcast signal and transmitted along with the original audio/video program. The system is fully automatic and operates in real time, allowing broadcasters to add relevant collateral information to live programming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anni Rosa Coden, Eric William Brown
  • Patent number: 6665666
    Abstract: The present invention is a system, method, and program product that comprises a computer with a collection of documents to be searched. The documents contain free form (natural language) text. We define a set of labels called QA-Tokens, which function as abstractions of phrases or question-types. We define a pattern file, which consists of a number of pattern records, each of which has a question template, an associated question word pattern, and an associated set of QA-Tokens. We describe a query-analysis process which receives a query as input and matches it to one or more of the question templates, where a priority algorithm determines which match is used if there is more than one. The query-analysis process then replaces the associated question word pattern in the matching query with the associated set of QA-Tokens, and possibly some other words. This results in a processed query having some combination of original query tokens, new tokens from the pattern file, and QA-Tokens, possibly with weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric William Brown, Anni R. Coden, John Martin Prager, Dragomir Radkov Radev
  • Publication number: 20020099744
    Abstract: A method for capitalizing text in a document includes processing a reference corpus to construct a plurality of dictionaries of capitalized terms, where the plurality of dictionaries include a singleton dictionary and a phrase dictionary. Each record in the singleton dictionary contains a word in lowercase, a range of phrase lengths m:n for capitalized phrases that the word begins, where m is a minimum phrase length and n is a maximum phrase length, and where each record in the phrase dictionary includes a multi-word phrase in lowercase. The method adds proper capitalization to an input monocase document by capitalizing words found in mandatory capitalization positions; and by looking up each word in the singleton dictionary and, if the word is found in the singleton dictionary, testing the corresponding phrase length range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anni Rosa Coden, Eric William Brown
  • Patent number: 5913208
    Abstract: A computer system has a document collection of one or more documents and one or more indexes that each include an inverted file with one or more terms. Each of the terms is associated with one or more document identifiers. The index further includes a document catalog that associates each of the document identifiers with one or more attributes, either intrinsic or non intrinsic. A search engine process produces a hit list having one or more hit list entries. Each hit list entry, with one or more hit list attributes, is associated with one of the documents that is determined by the search engine to be relevant to the query. A formatter processor selects one or more of the hit list attributes, identified by a hit list attribute selector and then compares the selected attributes of two or more entries on the hit list to determine whether or not documents associated with these entries are duplicate instances of one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric William Brown, John Martin Prager
  • Patent number: 5875446
    Abstract: Topically relevant objects in an object database are first identified using any generally known methods to obtain a set of topically relevant objects (topically relevant set). Parents, and in alternative embodiments other ancestors, of one or more of the topically relevant objects are identified according to directional structural relationships that the parents have with respect to the topically relevant objects. These objects form a set of structurally relevant objects (structurally relevant set). In some embodiments, the user query identifies one or more of these structural relationships. The topically relevant objects are then organized under one or more of their respective parents to form a hierarchy level of both (topically relevant and structurally relevant) sets of objects. In some preferred embodiments, the process can iterate to create more than one hierarchy level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric William Brown, Rong Nickle Chang, Hamed Abdelfattah Ellozy, John Martin Prager, Edward Cholchin So