Patents by Inventor Nolan Lawson

Nolan Lawson 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).

  • Social network model for semantic processing
    Patent number: 9183535
    Abstract: A social network model, based on data relevant to a user, is used for semantic processing to enable improved entity recognition among text accessed by the user. An entity extraction module of the server, with reference to a general training corpus, general gazetteers, user-specific gazetteers, and entity models, parses text to identify entities. The entities may be, for example, people, organizations, or locations. A social network module of the server builds the social network model implicit in the data accessed by the user. The social network model includes the relationships between entities and an indication of the strength of each relationship. The social network module is also used to disambiguate names and unify entities based on the social network model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: ARO, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Francis Eustice, Nolan Lawson, Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz, Kenji Kawai, Michael Perkowitz, Patrick James Ferrel, Jonathan D. Lazarus
  • Social Network Model for Semantic Processing
    Publication number: 20100030715
    Abstract: A social network model, based on data relevant to a user, is used for semantic processing to enable improved entity recognition among text accessed by the user. An entity extraction module of the server, with reference to a general training corpus, general gazetteers, user-specific gazetteers, and entity models, parses text to identify entities. The entities may be, for example, people, organizations, or locations. A social network module of the server builds the social network model implicit in the data accessed by the user. The social network model includes the relationships between entities and an indication of the strength of each relationship. The social network module is also used to disambiguate names and unify entities based on the social network model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Kevin Francis Eustice, Nolan Lawson, Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz, Kenji Kawai, Michael Perkowitz, Patrick James Ferrel, Jonathan D. Lazarus