Patents by Inventor Nicholas A. Sinnott-Armstrong

Nicholas A. Sinnott-Armstrong 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: 9779388
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus are provided for disambiguating organization names. Selected names that are shared among multiple organizations may or may not be categorized or characterized (e.g., by industry, by size, by reach). As content items are received (e.g., news stories, magazine articles, social media content), occurrences of the selected names are identified. Each item that includes at least one name is processed to determine which of the multiple entities that have the name (if any) is the organization referenced or mentioned in the item. The same model may be applied to disambiguate all names or, depending on the name's categorization, different models or procedures may be applied to disambiguate the name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Axel R. Hansen, Jonah L. Varon, Nicholas A. Sinnott-Armstrong, Shane S. Hill