Patents by Inventor Joshua Z. Howes

Joshua Z. Howes 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: 9531743
    Abstract: According to an example, a method for data trend analysis may include retrieving data from data sources, associating the data with a time, and identifying co-occurrences of terms and concepts within the data. In response to determining that co-occurrences of term and concept pairs reach a predefined threshold, the method may include adding the term and concept pairs to an ontology. The method may include logging occurrences of terms in the ontology within the data with respect to associated data times, identifying a plurality of time periods, and for one of the plurality of time periods and for the logged terms, determining a first score indicative of a weighted term frequency metric for a logged term within the data during the one time period, and determining a second score indicative of a commonality of a presence of the logged term within the data among the plurality of time periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Joshua Z. Howes, James Solderitsch, Ryan M. Lasalle, David W. Rozmiarek, Eric A. Ellett
  • Publication number: 20160248793
    Abstract: According to an example, a method for data trend analysis may include retrieving data from data sources, associating the data with a time, and identifying co-occurrences of terms and concepts within the data. In response to determining that co-occurrences of term and concept pairs reach a predefined threshold, the method may include adding the term and concept pairs to an ontology. The method may include logging occurrences of terms in the ontology within the data with respect to associated data times, identifying a plurality of time periods, and for one of the plurality of time periods and for the logged terms, determining a first score indicative of a weighted term frequency metric for a logged term within the data during the one time period, and determining a second score indicative of a commonality of a presence of the logged term within the data among the plurality of time periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Joshua Z. HOWES, James SOLDERITSCH, Ryan M. LASALLE, David W. ROZMIAREK, Eric A. ELLETT
  • Patent number: 9369481
    Abstract: An incident triage engine performs incident triage in a system by prioritizing responses to incidents within the system. One prioritization method may include receiving attributes of incidents and assets in the system, generating cumulative loss forecasts for the incidents, and prioritizing the responses to the incidents based on the cumulative loss forecasts for the incidents. Another prioritization method may include determining different arrangements of incidents within a response queue, calculating cumulative queue loss forecasts for the different arrangements of incidents within the response queue, and arranging the incidents in the response queue based on the arrangement of incidents that minimizes the total loss to the system over the resolution of all of the incidents present in the response queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Joshua Z. Howes, Walid Negm, James J. Solderitsch, Ashish Jotwani, Matthew Carver
  • Patent number: 9355172
    Abstract: According to an example, a method for data trend analysis may include retrieving data from data sources, associating the data with a time, and identifying co-occurrences of terms and concepts within the data. In response to determining that co-occurrences of term and concept pairs reach a predefined threshold, the method may include adding the term and concept pairs to an ontology. The method may include logging occurrences of terms in the ontology within the data with respect to associated data times, identifying a plurality of time periods, and for one of the plurality of time periods and for the logged terms, determining a first score indicative of a weighted term frequency metric for a logged term within the data during the one time period, and determining a second score indicative of a commonality of a presence of the logged term within the data among the plurality of time periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Joshua Z. Howes, James Solderitsch, Ryan M. LaSalle, David W. Rozmiarek, Eric A. Ellett
  • Publication number: 20140283048
    Abstract: According to an example, a method for data trend analysis may include retrieving data from data sources, associating the data with a time, and identifying co-occurrences of terms and concepts within the data. In response to determining that co-occurrences of term and concept pairs reach a predefined threshold, the method may include adding the term and concept pairs to an ontology. The method may include logging occurrences of terms in the ontology within the data with respect to associated data times, identifying a plurality of time periods, and for one of the plurality of time periods and for the logged terms, determining a first score indicative of a weighted term frequency metric for a logged term within the data during the one time period, and determining a second score indicative of a commonality of a presence of the logged term within the data among the plurality of time periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Joshua Z. Howes, James Solderitsch, Ryan M. LaSalle, David W. Rozmiarek, Eric A. Ellett
  • Publication number: 20140223567
    Abstract: An incident triage engine performs incident triage in a system by prioritizing responses to incidents within the system. One prioritization method may include receiving attributes of incidents and assets in the system, generating cumulative loss forecasts for the incidents, and prioritizing the responses to the incidents based on the cumulative loss forecasts for the incidents. Another prioritization method may include determining different arrangements of incidents within a response queue, calculating cumulative queue loss forecasts for the different arrangements of incidents within the response queue, and arranging the incidents in the response queue based on the arrangement of incidents that minimizes the total loss to the system over the resolution of all of the incidents present in the response queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Joshua Z. HOWES, Walid NEGM, James J. SOLDERITSCH, Ashish JOTWANI, Matthew CARVER
  • Patent number: 8732840
    Abstract: An incident triage engine performs incident triage in a system by prioritizing responses to incidents within the system. One prioritization method may include receiving attributes of incidents and assets in the system, generating cumulative loss forecasts for the incidents, and prioritizing the responses to the incidents based on the cumulative loss forecasts for the incidents. Another prioritization method may include determining different arrangements of incidents within a response queue, calculating cumulative queue loss forecasts for the different arrangements of incidents within the response queue, and arranging the incidents in the response queue based on the arrangement of incidents that minimizes the total loss to the system over the resolution of all of the incidents present in the response queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Joshua Z. Howes, Walid Negm, James J. Solderitsch, Ashish Jotwani, Matthew Carver
  • Publication number: 20130091574
    Abstract: An incident triage engine performs incident triage in a system by prioritizing responses to incidents within the system. One prioritization method may include receiving attributes of incidents and assets in the system, generating cumulative loss forecasts for the incidents, and prioritizing the responses to the incidents based on the cumulative loss forecasts for the incidents. Another prioritization method may include determining different arrangements of incidents within a response queue, calculating cumulative queue loss forecasts for the different arrangements of incidents within the response queue, and arranging the incidents in the response queue based on the arrangement of incidents that minimizes the total loss to the system over the resolution of all of the incidents present in the response queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Inventors: Joshua Z. Howes, Walid Negm, James J. Solderitsch, Ashish Jotwani, Matthew Carver