Patents by Inventor Joseph Sill

Joseph Sill 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).

  • Method and apparatus for query and analysis
    Patent number: 8156125
    Abstract: A data handling method combines search capabilities with analytical functionality. The invention provides advantages when dealing with structured documents (such as electronic catalogs, XML documents, text documents, HTML documents, Internet documents, etc.) and other data stored in a computer system. Various embodiments include simplified ways to express search/analysis requests of a data set and also to express results to such requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas M. Annau, Joseph Sill
  • Method and Apparatus for Query and Analysis
    Publication number: 20080215549
    Abstract: A data handling method combines search capabilities with analytical functionality. The invention provides advantages when dealing with structured documents (such as electronic catalogs, XML documents, text documents, HTML documents, Internet documents, etc.) and other data stored in a computer system. Various embodiments include simplified ways to express search/analysis requests of a data set and also to express results to such requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: BEA SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas M. Annau, Joseph Sill
  • Method and apparatus for query and analysis
    Patent number: 7346608
    Abstract: A data handling method combines search capabilities with analytical functionality. The invention provides advantages when dealing with structured documents (such as electronic catalogs, XML documents, text documents, HTML documents, Internet documents, etc.) and other data stored in a computer system. Various embodiments include simplified ways to express search/analysis requests of a data set and also to express results to such requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas M. Annau, Joseph Sill
  • Method and apparatus for query and analysis
    Publication number: 20050097092
    Abstract: A data handling method combines search capabilities with analytical functionality. The invention provides advantages when dealing with structured documents (such as electronic catalogs, XML documents, text documents, HTML documents, Internet documents, etc.) and other data stored in a computer system. Various embodiments include simplified ways to express search/analysis requests of a data set and also to express results to such requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Applicant: Ripfire, Inc., a Corporation of the State of Delaware
    Inventors: Thomas Annau, Joseph Sill
  • Method and apparatus for query and analysis
    Patent number: 6804662
    Abstract: A data handling method combines search capabilities with analytical functionality. The invention provides advantages when dealing with structured documents (such as electronic catalogs, XML documents, text documents, HTML documents, Internet documents, etc.) and other data stored in a computer system. Various embodiments include simplified ways to express search/analysis requests of a data set and also to express results to such requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Plumtree Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas M. Annau, Joseph Sill
  • Incorporation of contextual information in object identification
    Patent number: 6594586
    Abstract: Analysis of white blood cells is carried out by first analyzing the sample using image processing to obtain a no-context estimate of each cell's content. Then, a post processing operation is carried out to refine the estimate to include information about neighboring white blood cells. The estimate is refined to take into account the identity of the neighboring cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Xubo Song, Yaser Abu-Mostafa, Joseph Sill, Harvey Kasdan