Patents by Inventor Klaus Brinker

Klaus Brinker 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: 8200592
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for determining and utilizing detection models, such as models for machine condition monitoring. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for identifying and prioritizing labeled data. The model allows a monitored system to be associated with a calibrated and ordered set of states. Further, in machine condition monitoring, the machine condition is associated with the entire set of states in a particular order with a relevance zero-point. That is, a ranked set of calibrated data describing machine conditions is augmented with an annotation indicating a cut-off between relevant and non-relevant data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Corporation
    Inventors: Klaus Brinker, Claus Neubauer
  • Patent number: 7860818
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for determining and utilizing case-based ranking methods, such as methods for machine condition monitoring. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for identifying and prioritizing labeled data. The method allows a monitored system to be associated with a calibrated and ordered set of states. Further, in machine condition monitoring, the machine condition is associated with the entire set of states in a particular order with one or more relevance zero-points. That is, a ranked set of calibrated data describing machine conditions is augmented with an annotation indicating a cut-off between relevant and non-relevant data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Corporation
    Inventors: Klaus Brinker, Claus Neubauer
  • Patent number: 7809718
    Abstract: Documents in a high density data stream are clustered. Incoming documents are analyzed to find metadata, such as words in a documents headline or abstract and people, places, and organizations discussed in the document. The metadata is emphasized as compared to other words found in the document. A single feature vector for each document determined based on the emphasized metadata will accordingly take into account the importance of such words and clustering efficacy and efficiency are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Corporation
    Inventors: Klaus Brinker, Fabian Moerchen
  • Patent number: 7797265
    Abstract: Documents from a data stream are clustered by first generating a feature vector for each document. A set of cluster centroids (e.g., feature vectors of their corresponding clusters) are retrieved from a memory based on the feature vector of the document using a locality sensitive hashing function. The centroids may be retrieved by retrieving a set of cluster identifiers from a cluster table, the cluster identifiers each indicative of a respective cluster centroid, and retrieving the cluster centroids corresponding to the retrieved cluster identifiers from a memory. Documents may then be clustered into one or more of the candidate clusters using distance measures from the feature vector of the document to the cluster centroids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Corporation
    Inventors: Klaus Brinker, Fabian Moerchen, Bernhard Glomann, Claus Neubauer
  • Patent number: 7711668
    Abstract: Documents from a data stream are clustered by first generating a feature vector for each document. A set of cluster centroids (e.g., feature vectors of their corresponding clusters) are retrieved from a memory based on the feature vector of the document and a relative age of each of the cluster centroids. The centroids may be retrieved by retrieving a set of cluster identifiers from a cluster table, the cluster identifiers each indicative of a respective cluster centroid, and retrieving the cluster centroids corresponding to the retrieved cluster identifiers from a memory. A list of cluster identifiers in the cluster table may be maintained based on the relative age of cluster centroids corresponding to the cluster identifiers. Cluster identifiers that correspond to cluster centroids with a relative age exceeding a predetermined threshold are periodically removed from the list of cluster identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Corporation
    Inventors: Klaus Brinker, Fabian Moerchen, Bernhard Glomann, Claus Neubauer
  • Publication number: 20080205775
    Abstract: Documents from a data stream are clustered by first generating a feature vector for each document. A set of cluster centroids (e.g., feature vectors of their corresponding clusters) are retrieved from a memory based on the feature vector of the document and a relative age of each of the cluster centroids. The centroids may be retrieved by retrieving a set of cluster identifiers from a cluster table, the cluster identifiers each indicative of a respective cluster centroid, and retrieving the cluster centroids corresponding to the retrieved cluster identifiers from a memory. A list of cluster identifiers in the cluster table may be maintained based on the relative age of cluster centroids corresponding to the cluster identifiers. Cluster identifiers that correspond to cluster centroids with a relative age exceeding a predetermined threshold are periodically removed from the list of cluster identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Klaus Brinker, Fabian Moerchen, Bernhard Glomann, Claus Neubauer
  • Publication number: 20080208847
    Abstract: Documents and/or document clusters are ranked with respect to their geographical locations and/or user specific (e.g., user input) relevance. Highly relevant documents and/or document clusters are assigned higher ranks than less relevant documents and/or clusters. In this way, ranked lists of documents and/or clusters, top clusters (e.g., top stories), top documents (e.g., most important articles), etc. may be served (e.g., presented, delivered, etc.) to users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Fabian Moerchen, Klaus Brinker, Claus Neubauer
  • Publication number: 20080205774
    Abstract: Documents from a data stream are clustered by first generating a feature vector for each document. A set of cluster centroids (e.g., feature vectors of their corresponding clusters) are retrieved from a memory based on the feature vector of the document using a locality sensitive hashing function. The centroids may be retrieved by retrieving a set of cluster identifiers from a cluster table, the cluster identifiers each indicative of a respective cluster centroid, and retrieving the cluster centroids corresponding to the retrieved cluster identifiers from a memory. Documents may then be clustered into one or more of the candidate clusters using distance measures from the feature vector of the document to the cluster centroids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Klaus Brinker, Fabian Moerchen, Bernhard Glomann, Claus Neubauer
  • Publication number: 20080183665
    Abstract: Documents in a high density data stream are clustered. Incoming documents are analyzed to find metadata, such as words in a documents headline or abstract and people, places, and organizations discussed in the document. The metadata is emphasized as compared to other words found in the document. A single feature vector for each document determined based on the emphasized metadata will accordingly take into account the importance of such words and clustering efficacy and efficiency are improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Klaus Brinker, Fabian Moerchen
  • Publication number: 20080010226
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for determining and utilizing case-based ranking methods, such as methods for machine condition monitoring. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for identifying and prioritizing labeled data. The method allows a monitored system to be associated with a calibrated and ordered set of states. Further, in machine condition monitoring, the machine condition is associated with the entire set of states in a particular order with one or more relevance zero-points That is, a ranked set of calibrated data describing machine conditions is augmented with an annotation indicating a cut-off between relevant and non-relevant data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventors: Klaus Brinker, Claus Neubauer
  • Publication number: 20070198507
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for determining and utilizing detection models, such as models for machine condition monitoring. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for identifying and prioritizing labeled data. The model allows a monitored system to be associated with a calibrated and ordered set of states. Further, in machine condition monitoring, the machine condition is associated with the entire set of states in a particular order with a relevance zero-point. That is, a ranked set of calibrated data describing machine conditions is augmented with an annotation indicating a cut-off between relevant and non-relevant data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventors: Klaus Brinker, Claus Neubauer