Patents by Inventor Michael A. Lamb

Michael A. Lamb 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).

  • Method and apparatus for discovering knowledge gaps between problems and solutions in text databases
    Patent number: 6804665
    Abstract: A method (and system) of determining a knowledge gap between a first database containing a set of problems records and a second database containing solutions documents, includes developing a set of clusters of the problems records of the first database, where each cluster has a centroid, developing a dictionary having entries based on the problems records in the first database, developing a vector space correlated to the solutions documents in the second database, where the vector space is based on the dictionary entries, developing a listing of distances between the cluster centroids and the vector space, and determining a knowledge gap for each cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Thomas Kreulen, Michael A. Lamb, William Scott Spangler
  • Method and apparatus for discovering knowledge gaps between problems and solutions in text databases
    Publication number: 20020169783
    Abstract: A method (and system) of determining a knowledge gap between a first database containing a set of problems records and a second database containing solutions documents, includes developing a set of clusters of the problems records of the first database, where each cluster has a centroid, developing a dictionary having entries based on the problems records in the first database, developing a vector space correlated to the solutions documents in the second database, where the vector space is based on the dictionary entries, developing a listing of distances between the cluster centroids and the vector space, and determining a knowledge gap for each cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Applicant: International Busines Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Thomas Kreulen, Michael A. Lamb, William Scott Spangler