Patents by Inventor Frank Hoeppner

Frank Hoeppner 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 for capturing local and evolving clusters
    Patent number: 7885791
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of detecting the growth and development of clusters in a data set. The data set is divided into a number of slices and an algorithm is applied to the data held in each data slice set. Each slice can be compared with the subsequent slice to determine which clusters persist from slice to slice. Random data agglomerations in a single slice may give the appearance of a cluster but their random nature means that they are unlikely to persist so those clusters that persist across a number of slices, or that show the strongest measure of persistence, are most likely to represent a data cluster that represents a situation of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited company
    Inventors: Mirko Boettcher, Frank Hoeppner
  • Method for capturing local and evolving clusters
    Publication number: 20080201102
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of detecting the growth and development of clusters in a data set. The data set is divided into a number of slices and an algorithm is applied to the data held in each data slice set. Each slice can be compared with the subsequent slice to determine which clusters persist from slice to slice. Random data agglomerations in a single slice may give the appearance of a cluster but their random nature means that they are unlikely to persist so those clusters that persist across a number of slices, or that show the strongest measure of persistence, are most likely to represent a data cluster that represents a situation of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Mirko Boettcher, Frank Hoeppner