Patents by Inventor Giovanni Mels

Giovanni Mels 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).

  • On-demand semantic data warehouse
    Patent number: 10936656
    Abstract: A system for creating a semantic data warehouse including a convergence service configured to execute queries to connected data sources, to convert data from source to domain semantics, and to aggregate converted data. The convergence service is configured to invoke by an entity graph service that, on demand, defines a semantic entity representation, the needed queries and data sources to be queried; and projects and makes available the resulting data in the semantic entity representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE NV
    Inventors: Kristof Depraetere, Giovanni Mels, Dirk Colaert
  • SPECIALISATION MECHANISM FOR TERMINOLOGY REASONING
    Publication number: 20170068896
    Abstract: A method for generating rules for rule-based reasoning includes the steps of starting from a set of generic reasoning rules generating a set of specific reasoning rules by substituting in at least one of the generic reasoning rules having more than one variable, at least one of the variables with (a) class(es) defined in an ontology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: AGFA Healthcare NV
    Inventors: Jos DE ROO, Giovanni MELS, Hong SUN, Dirk COLAERT
  • ON-DEMAND SEMANTIC DATA WAREHOUSE
    Publication number: 20150205886
    Abstract: A system for creating a semantic data warehouse including a convergence service configured to execute queries to connected data sources, to convert data from source to domain semantics, and to aggregate converted data. The convergence service is configured to invoke by an entity graph service that, on demand, defines a semantic entity representation, the needed queries and data sources to be queried; and projects and makes available the resulting data in the semantic entity representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Kristof Depraetere, Giovanni Mels, Dirk Colaert