Patents by Inventor JohnPaul Burbank

JohnPaul Burbank 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: 9299041
    Abstract: Techniques for obtaining data from unstructured data for a structured data collection include receiving unstructured data that includes text; identifying an attribute associated with a structured data collection; obtaining at least one of historical data associated with the attribute or additional data associated with a user of the computing system; identifying one or more terms from the unstructured data as being associated with the attribute based on at least one of the historical data or the additional data; and storing the identified one or more terms in a data record of the unstructured data collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Tsumura, Yuru Wang, JohnPaul Burbank, Jennifer Sam, George Sun
  • Patent number: 9262550
    Abstract: Techniques for processing semi-structured data include receiving semi-structured data, a value of the semi-structured data being associated with a key; identifying a structured data collection, the structured data collection being associated with a category and having a plurality of attributes; obtaining at least one of historical data associated with the plurality of attributes or additional data associated with a user of the computing system; mapping the key to an attribute of the plurality of attributes based on at least one of the historical data or the additional data; and storing the value in a cell of a data record of the structured data collection, the cell being associated with the attribute that was mapped to the key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Jennifer Sam, Yuru Wang, George Sun, JohnPaul Burbank, Michael Tsumura
  • Patent number: 9218568
    Abstract: Techniques for disambiguating data using contextual and historical information include determining that data is potentially associated with two or more classifications of a plurality of classifications; obtaining contextual information associated with the data; obtaining historical information associated with a user of the computing system; and determining that the data is more likely associated with one classification of the two or more classifications than other classifications of the two or more classifications based on the contextual information and the historical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: JohnPaul Burbank, Jennifer Sam, Michael Tsumura, George Sun, Yuru Wang
  • Publication number: 20140280352
    Abstract: Techniques for processing semi-structured data include receiving semi-structured data, a value of the semi-structured data being associated with a key; identifying a structured data collection, the structured data collection being associated with a category and having a plurality of attributes; obtaining at least one of historical data associated with the plurality of attributes or additional data associated with a user of the computing system; mapping the key to an attribute of the plurality of attributes based on at least one of the historical data or the additional data; and storing the value in a cell of a data record of the structured data collection, the cell being associated with the attribute that was mapped to the key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Jennifer Sam, Yuru Wang, George Sun, JohnPaul Burbank, Michael Tsumura
  • Publication number: 20140279803
    Abstract: Techniques for disambiguating data using contextual and historical information include determining that data is potentially associated with two or more classifications of a plurality of classifications; obtaining contextual information associated with the data; obtaining historical information associated with a user of the computing system; and determining that the data is more likely associated with one classification of the two or more classifications than other classifications of the two or more classifications based on the contextual information and the historical information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: JohnPaul Burbank, Jennifer Sam, Michael Tsumura, George Sun, Yuru Wang
  • Publication number: 20140278406
    Abstract: Techniques for obtaining data from unstructured data for a structured data collection include receiving unstructured data that includes text; identifying an attribute associated with a structured data collection; obtaining at least one of historical data associated with the attribute or additional data associated with a user of the computing system; identifying one or more terms from the unstructured data as being associated with the attribute based on at least one of the historical data or the additional data; and storing the identified one or more terms in a data record of the unstructured data collection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Tsumura, Yuru Wang, JohnPaul Burbank, Jennifer Sam, George Sun