Patents by Inventor KENT AARON OTIS

KENT AARON OTIS 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).

  • Trending topic extraction from social media
    Patent number: 10095686
    Abstract: Real-time topic analysis for social listening is performed to help users and organizations in discovering and understanding trending topics in varying degrees of granularity. A density-based sampling method is employed to reduce data input. A lightweight NLP method is utilized for topic extraction which provides an efficient mechanism for handling dynamically-changing content. In embodiments, the social analytics system further helps users understand the topics by ranking topics by relevance, labeling topic categories, and grouping semantically-similar topics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Paul Jones, Kent Aaron Otis, Jonathan Gale, Evelyn Chan
  • TRENDING TOPIC EXTRACTION FROM SOCIAL MEDIA
    Publication number: 20160292157
    Abstract: Real-time topic analysis for social listening is performed to help users and organizations in discovering and understanding trending topics in varying degrees of granularity. A density-based sampling method is employed to reduce data input. A lightweight NLP method is utilized for topic extraction which provides an efficient mechanism for handling dynamically-changing content. In embodiments, the social analytics system further helps users understand the topics by ranking topics by relevance, labeling topic categories, and grouping semantically-similar topics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: LEI ZHANG, PAUL JONES, KENT AARON OTIS, JONATHAN GALE, EVELYN CHAN