Patents by Inventor Jeffrey B. NOWICKI

Jeffrey B. NOWICKI 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).

  • Criteria modification to improve analysis
    Patent number: 10083161
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving a policy document specifying a plurality of criteria, identifying, in a segment of unstructured text in the policy document, a criteria delimiter, creating a first portion and a second portion of the segment of unstructured text, wherein the first and second portions are created based on the criteria delimiter, wherein the first and second portions comprise a first criterion and a second criterion, respectively, and responsive to identifying an anaphora in the second portion of the segment of unstructured text that is related to a term in the first portion of the segment of unstructured text, combining the first criterion and the second criterion into a composite criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew R. Freed, Mario J. Lorenzo, Jeffrey B. Nowicki, Daniel Z. Pierce, Jerry L. Von Berge
  • CRITERIA MODIFICATION TO IMPROVE ANALYSIS
    Publication number: 20170109333
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving a policy document specifying a plurality of criteria, identifying, in a segment of unstructured text in the policy document, a criteria delimiter, creating a first portion and a second portion of the segment of unstructured text, wherein the first and second portions are created based on the criteria delimiter, wherein the first and second portions comprise a first criterion and a second criterion, respectively, and responsive to identifying an anaphora in the second portion of the segment of unstructured text that is related to a term in the first portion of the segment of unstructured text, combining the first criterion and the second criterion into a composite criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Andrew R. FREED, Mario J. LORENZO, Jeffrey B. NOWICKI, Daniel Z. PIERCE, Jerry L. VON BERGE