Patents by Inventor Gregery Gene Adair

Gregery Gene Adair 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: 9230258
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for receiving a record, wherein the received record has a space-time feature, selecting candidate entities using the space time feature, performing space time analysis to determine whether the received record should be conjoined with a candidate entity from the candidate entities, and, in response to determining that the received record should be conjoined with the candidate entity, making an entity resolution assertion by conjoining the received record and the candidate entity to form a newly conjoined entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregery Gene Adair, Jeffrey James Jonas
  • Patent number: 7962486
    Abstract: Discovery and modification of data clusters such as synonyms. In one aspect, a method for clustering data includes receiving information on a system, the information manipulating one or more data attributes stored or to be stored in a database accessible by the system, where the information and manipulation does not explicitly relate to data clusters. A data cluster is automatically adjusted based on the received information, the data cluster including multiple data attributes and including at least one of the data attributes manipulated by the received information. The data cluster is adjusted dynamically and in response to the information being received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregery Gene Adair, Brand Lee Hunt
  • Publication number: 20090182755
    Abstract: Discovery and modification of data clusters such as synonyms. In one aspect, a method for clustering data includes receiving information on a system, the information manipulating one or more data attributes stored or to be stored in a database accessible by the system, where the information and manipulation does not explicitly relate to data clusters. A data cluster is automatically adjusted based on the received information, the data cluster including multiple data attributes and including at least one of the data attributes manipulated by the received information. The data cluster is adjusted dynamically and in response to the information being received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregery Gene Adair, Brand Lee Hunt