Patents by Inventor Frank Schilder

Frank Schilder 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: 11568503
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for analyzing and extracting data related to a structured proceeding, and for identifying, based on the analysis, at least one outcome associated with the structured proceeding. Embodiments provide for receiving data associated with a structured proceeding involving at least one party, the data including at least one docket entry, and analyzing, by an outcome location detector, the data to identify one or more docket entries in the at least one docket entry that are likely to include evidence of an outcome. Embodiments further include analyzing, by an outcome detector, the one or more docket entries determined to be likely to include evidence of an outcome to determine outcomes. The outcomes include at least one of a final outcome and at least one party outcome. The final outcome is associated with the structured proceeding overall, and the at least one party outcome is associated with a party of the at least one party that may have been terminated early.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Vacek, Dezhao Song, Tim Nugent, Conner Cowling, Ronald Teo, Frank Schilder
  • Patent number: 11475529
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for analyzing and extracting docket data related to a structured proceeding, for identifying docket entries associated with motions and docket entries associated with orders, and for identifying motions affected by orders. Embodiments provide for receiving docket data associated with a structured proceeding, the docket data including at least one docket entry. Embodiments also include identifying, by an automated analysis, docket entries associated with motions in the structured proceeding, and docket entries associated with orders in the structured proceeding. In embodiments, identifying the docket entries associated with orders includes identifying at least one order that includes a results-affecting decision affecting at least one motion. Embodiments further include linking, by the automated analysis, the affected at least one motion to the affecting order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Vacek, Hugo Molina-Salgado, Don Teo, Frank Schilder
  • Publication number: 20220138572
    Abstract: Systems and computer implemented methods for classifying documents are provided that include: pretraining and then fine tuning a machine learning model with a domain specific dataset that includes a plurality of documents each annotated with at one label selected from a plurality of predefined labels for a given domain; and predicting using the trained/fine tuned machine learning model, at least one label from the plurality of labels for at least one other document. The machine learning model is preferably fine tuned using a label attention multi-task learning process that includes: a first task for training the machine learning model with respect to all labels used for the plurality of documents in the dataset, and a second task for training the machine learning model with respect to a subset of all of the labels used for the plurality of documents in the dataset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH
    Inventors: Dezhao SONG, Andrew VOLD, Kanika MADAN, Frank SCHILDER
  • Patent number: 11132748
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for mining risks includes providing a set of risk-indicating patterns on a computing device; querying a corpus using the computing device to identify a set of potential risks by using a risk-identification-algorithm based, at least in part, on the set of risk-indicating patterns associated with the corpus; comparing the set of potential risks with the risk-indicating patterns to obtain a set of prerequisite risks; generating a signal representative of the set of prerequisite risks; and storing the signal representative of the set of prerequisite risks in an electronic memory. A computing device or system for mining risks includes an electronic memory; and a risk-identification-algorithm based, at least in part, on the set of risk-indicating patterns associated with a corpus stored in the electronic memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Refinitiv US Organization LLC
    Inventors: Jochen Lothar Leidner, Frank Schilder
  • Patent number: 10534863
    Abstract: A computing system can receive a request to apply semantic token tagging on a specified domain, and can retrieve a set of data associated with the specified domain from a data storage facility. Canonical sequences can be formed from strings included in the data set. Each canonical sequence can be permutated to form sequence variations and each sequence variation can be verified against a generalized domain. Semantic token tagging can be applied to the specified domain using a subset of the sequence variations that are successfully verified as training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Dezhao Song, Frank Schilder
  • Publication number: 20190385084
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved docket search and analytics engine for determining the outcome of a case for a particular entity or party, for predicting the outcome of a case for a particular entity or party, or for predicting the time to resolution of a case for a particular entity or party. More specifically, the present invention provides a system and engine for accessing and retrieving docket and other data from a plurality of databases and applying by one or more engines a set of models to the retrieved data to make a determination or prediction as to the outcome of a case for an entity or party involved in the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Daniel F. Salas, Frank Schilder, Thomas W. Vacek
  • Publication number: 20190385253
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for analyzing and extracting data related to a structured proceeding, and for identifying, based on the analysis, at least one outcome associated with the structured proceeding. Embodiments provide for receiving data associated with a structured proceeding involving at least one party, the data including at least one docket entry, and analyzing, by an outcome location detector, the data to identify one or more docket entries in the at least one docket entry that are likely to include evidence of an outcome. Embodiments further include analyzing, by an outcome detector, the one or more docket entries determined to be likely to include evidence of an outcome to determine outcomes. The outcomes include at least one of a final outcome and at least one party outcome. The final outcome is associated with the structured proceeding overall, and the at least one party outcome is associated with a party of the at least one party that may have been terminated early.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Vacek, Dezhao Song, Tim Nugent, Conner Cowling, Ronald Teo, Frank Schilder
  • Publication number: 20190385254
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for analyzing and extracting docket data related to a structured proceeding, for identifying docket entries associated with motions and docket entries associated with orders, and for identifying motions affected by orders. Embodiments provide for receiving docket data associated with a structured proceeding, the docket data including at least one docket entry. Embodiments also include identifying, by an automated analysis, docket entries associated with motions in the structured proceeding, and docket entries associated with orders in the structured proceeding. In embodiments, identifying the docket entries associated with orders includes identifying at least one order that includes a results-affecting decision affecting at least one motion. Embodiments further include linking, by the automated analysis, the affected at least one motion to the affecting order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Vacek, Hugo Molina-Salgado, Don Teo, Frank Schilder
  • Patent number: 10445658
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved docket search and analytics engine for determining the outcome of a case for a particular entity or party, for predicting the outcome of a case for a particular entity or party, or for predicting the time to resolution of a case for a particular entity or party. More specifically, the present invention provides a system and engine for accessing and retrieving docket and other data from a plurality of databases and applying by one or more engines a set of models to the retrieved data to make a determination or prediction as to the outcome of a case for an entity or party involved in the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Daniel F. Salas, Frank Schilder, Thomas W. Vacek
  • Patent number: 10409846
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for querying a data repository using a flexible natural language interface, which comprises receiving an initiated user question at a graphical user interface and generating automatically one or more suggested completed questions in response to the receipt of the initiated user question. A selected completed question at the graphical user interface is received and subsequently parsed into a logic representation. The logic representation is translated into an executable query, which is executed against the data repository. One or more search results in response to the executed translated query and presented at the graphical user interface. The present invention further comprises generating one or more analytic results corresponding to the one or more search responsive to the translated query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Frank Schilder, Charese Smiley, Dezhao Song, Christopher Hardie Brew
  • Patent number: 10095692
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for bootstrapping templates for use in natural language sentence generation. More specifically, the present invention relates to identifying a set of candidate sentences from a large corpus based on a set of original templates by using a similarity measure. The set of candidate sentences are then processed or cleaned to generate a set of templates for use in natural language sentence generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Thornson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Dezhao Song, Blake Howald, Frank Schilder
  • Patent number: 10049100
    Abstract: For automated text processing, the inventors devised, among other things, an exemplary system that automatically extracts financial events from various unstructured text based sources, such as press releases and news articles. Extracted events, such as mergers & acquisitions, earnings guidance reports, and actual earnings announcements, are represented as structured data records which can be linked, searched, and displayed and used as a basis for controlling accessing to the source documents and other related financial documents for named entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Frank Schilder, James Shaw
  • Publication number: 20180225281
    Abstract: A computing system can receive a request to apply semantic token tagging on a specified domain, and can retrieve a set of data associated with the specified domain from a data storage facility. Canonical sequences can be formed from strings included in the data set. Each canonical sequence can be permutated to form sequence variations and each sequence variation can be verified against a generalized domain. Semantic token tagging can be applied to the specified domain using a subset of the sequence variations that are successfully verified as training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Dezhao Song, Frank Schilder
  • Patent number: 9953031
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a corpus comprising a set of pre-segmented texts. The method further includes creating a plurality of modified pre-segmented texts for the set of pre-segmented texts by extracting a set of semantic terms for each pre-segmented text within the set of pre-segmented texts and applying at least one domain tag for each pre-segmented text within the set of pre-segmented texts. The method further includes clustering the plurality of modified pre-segmented texts into one or more conceptual units, wherein each of the one or more conceptual units is associated with one or more templates, wherein each of the one or more templates corresponds to one of the plurality of modified pre-segmented texts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources
    Inventors: Frank Schilder, Blake Howald, Ravi Kondadadi
  • Publication number: 20170076001
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved docket search and analytics engine for determining the outcome of a case for a particular entity or party, for predicting the outcome of a case for a particular entity or party, or for predicting the time to resolution of a case for a particular entity or party. More specifically, the present invention provides a system and engine for accessing and retrieving docket and other data from a plurality of databases and applying by one or more engines a set of models to the retrieved data to make a determination or prediction as to the outcome of a case for an entity or party involved in the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global Resources
    Inventors: Daniel F. Salas, Frank Schilder, Thomas W. Vacek
  • Publication number: 20170046338
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a corpus comprising a set of pre-segmented texts. The method further includes creating a plurality of modified pre-segmented texts for the set of pre-segmented texts by extracting a set of semantic terms for each pre-segmented text within the set of pre-segmented texts and applying at least one domain tag for each pre-segmented text within the set of pre-segmented texts. The method further includes clustering the plurality of modified pre-segmented texts into one or more conceptual units, wherein each of the one or more conceptual units is associated with one or more templates, wherein each of the one or more templates corresponds to one of the plurality of modified pre-segmented texts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global Resources
    Inventors: Frank Schilder, Blake Howald, Ravi Kondadadi
  • Patent number: 9529795
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a corpus comprising a set of pre-segmented texts. The method further includes creating a plurality of modified pre-segmented texts for the set of pre-segmented texts by extracting a set of semantic terms for each pre-segmented text within the set of pre-segmented texts and applying at least one domain tag for each pre-segmented text within the set of pre-segmented texts. The method further includes clustering the plurality of modified pre-segmented texts into one or more conceptual units, wherein each of the one or more conceptual units is associated with one or more templates, wherein each of the one or more templates corresponds to one of the plurality of modified pre-segmented texts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources
    Inventors: Ravi Kondadadi, Blake Howald, Frank Schilder
  • Patent number: 9424254
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a corpus comprising a set of pre-segmented texts. The method further includes creating a plurality of modified pre-segmented texts for the set of pre-segmented texts by extracting a set of semantic terms for each pre-segmented text within the set of pre-segmented texts and applying at least one domain tag for each pre-segmented text within the set of pre-segmented texts. The method further includes clustering the plurality of modified pre-segmented texts into one or more conceptual units, wherein each of the one or more conceptual units is associated with one or more templates, wherein each of the one or more templates corresponds to one of the plurality of modified pre-segmented texts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resoures
    Inventors: Blake Howald, Ravi Kondadadi, Frank Schilder
  • Publication number: 20160239562
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for querying a data repository using a flexible natural language interface, which comprises receiving an initiated user question at a graphical user interface and generating automatically one or more suggested completed questions in response to the receipt of the initiated user question. A selected completed question at the graphical user interface is received and subsequently parsed into a logic representation. The logic representation is translated into an executable query, which is executed against the data repository. One or more search results in response to the executed translated query and presented at the graphical user interface. The present invention further comprises generating one or more analytic results corresponding to the one or more search responsive to the translated query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Frank Schilder, Charese Smiley, Dezhao Song, Christopher Hardie Brew
  • Publication number: 20150261745
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for bootstrapping templates for use in natural language sentence generation. More specifically, the present invention relates to identifying a set of candidate sentences from a large corpus based on a set of original templates by using a similarity measure. The set of candidate sentences are then processed or cleaned to generate a set of templates for use in natural language sentence generation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Dezhao Song, Blake Howald, Frank Schilder