Patents by Inventor Kevin Troy Safford

Kevin Troy Safford 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).

  • Systems and methods of using a bitmap index to determine bicliques
    Patent number: 10467294
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a computing device comprising a processor, a request to determine bicliques in a graph, where the graph includes a first set of nodes, a second set of nodes, and a set of edges, each edge in the set of edges connecting a node in the first set of nodes to a node in the second set of nodes. The method also includes determining at least one biclique based on querying a bitmap index representing the graph, where the bitmap index includes a plurality of bit strings corresponding to the first set of nodes, and where a value stored in a particular location in each bit string indicates whether an edge connects a first node corresponding to the bit string to a second node corresponding to the particular location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Pilosa Corp.
    Inventors: Travis Turner, Ryan Edward Ebanks, Kevin Troy Safford, Matthew Isaac Jaffee, Todd Wesley Gruben, Cody Stephen Soyland, Higinio O. Maycotte, Charles Martin
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING A BITMAP INDEX TO DETERMINE BICLIQUES
    Publication number: 20170316111
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a computing device comprising a processor, a request to determine bicliques in a graph, where the graph includes a first set of nodes, a second set of nodes, and a set of edges, each edge in the set of edges connecting a node in the first set of nodes to a node in the second set of nodes. The method also includes determining at least one biclique based on querying a bitmap index representing the graph, where the bitmap index includes a plurality of bit strings corresponding to the first set of nodes, and where a value stored in a particular location in each bit string indicates whether an edge connects a first node corresponding to the bit string to a second node corresponding to the particular location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Travis Turner, Ryan Edward Ebanks, Kevin Troy Safford, Matthew Isaac Jaffee, Todd Wesley Gruben, Cody Stephen Soyland, Higinio O. Maycotte, Charles Martin
  • Systems and methods of using a bitmap index to determine bicliques
    Patent number: 9607104
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a computing device comprising a processor, a request to determine bicliques in a graph, where the graph includes a first set of nodes, a second set of nodes, and a set of edges, each edge in the set of edges connecting a node in the first set of nodes to a node in the second set of nodes. The method also includes determining at least one biclique based on querying a bitmap index representing the graph, where the bitmap index includes a plurality of bit strings corresponding to the first set of nodes, and where a value stored in a particular location in each bit string indicates whether an edge connects a first node corresponding to the bit string to a second node corresponding to the particular location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: UMBEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Travis Turner, Ryan Edward Ebanks, Kevin Troy Safford, Matthew Isaac Jaffee, Todd Wesley Gruben, Cody Stephen Soyland, Higinio O. Maycotte, Charles Martin