Patents by Inventor Keith Mathias

Keith Mathias 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).

  • Publication number: 20070094216
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for constructing and evaluating a story of interest. The system includes a plurality of decision algorithms. Each decision algorithm is operative to quantify at least one category of uncertainty associated with the story of interest as a set of at least one uncertainty parameter. An uncertainty management component is operative to reconcile the sets of uncertainty parameters from the plurality of decision algorithms as to produce a global uncertainty parameter for each of the plurality of uncertainty categories for the story of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2005
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Inventors: Keith Mathias, Mark Nixon, Patrick Talbot
  • Publication number: 20020116710
    Abstract: A TV viewer profile initializer for reducing the time it takes for an implicit profiler-based TV recommender to produce accurate TV recommendations. The profiles initializer utilizes stereotype profiles from a substantial pool of TV viewing behavior of a representative number of TV viewers. By applying clustering methods to such data, stereotype profiles can emerge. New viewers are then be offered a selection of stereotype profiles to choose from to initialize their own personal TV viewing profile. Thus, a single choice will suffice to provide a predictable TV show recommender that is presumably fairly close to a viewer's own preferences. After this initialization, the profile can be adapted by the user's own viewing behavior to migrate from the initial stereotype towards a more accurate profile of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Inventors: James David Schaffer, Paul John Rankin, Keith Mathias, John Milanski