Patents by Inventor Norm Adams

Norm Adams 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: 8589415
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for reducing false positives during the linking of data records are disclosed herein. Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present invention may be used in the generation of an overall weight from the comparison of various attributes of data records, where the linking of the data records is dependent on the overall weight. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention may calculate a false positive penalty based on a set of results, each of the set of results based on a comparison of an attribute. The false positive penalty may be subtracted from the overall weight generated from the comparison of the attributes of data records to adjust the overall weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Norm Adams, Scott Ellard, Scott Schumacher
  • Patent number: 8370366
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for comparing attributes of a data record are presented herein. Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present invention generate a weight based on a comparison of the name (or other) attributes of data records. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention generate a weight based on a comparison of name attributes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention may calculate an information score for each of two name attributes to be compared to get an average information score for the two name attributes. The two name attributes may then be compared against one another to generate a weight between the two attributes. This weight can then be normalized to generate a final weight between the two business name attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Norm Adams, Scott Ellard, Scott Schumacher
  • Patent number: 8359339
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an interface for the configuration of a system for the association of data records are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention provide a graphical interface for manipulating a representation of an algorithm for the configuration of such a system, including the configuration of how a system transforms data records from their native format to a standard data format, selects set of candidates and associates data records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Norm Adams, Scott Schumacher, Doug Spelce, Jason Woods, Brad S. Jacobs
  • Publication number: 20110010401
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an interface for the configuration of a system for the association of data records are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention provide a graphical interface for manipulating a representation of an algorithm for the configuration of such a system, including the configuration of how a system transforms data records from their native format to a standard data format, selects set of candidates and associates data records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: Norm Adams, Scott Schumacher, Doug Spelce, Jason Woods, Brad S. Jacobs
  • Publication number: 20100174725
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for comparing attributes of a data record are presented herein. Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present invention generate a weight based on a comparison of the name (or other) attributes of data records. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention generate a weight based on a comparison of name attributes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention may calculate an information score for each of two name attributes to be compared to get an average information score for the two name attributes. The two name attributes may then be compared against one another to generate a weight between the two attributes. This weight can then be normalized to generate a final weight between the two business name attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: Initiate Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Norm Adams, Scott Ellard, Scott Schumacher
  • Publication number: 20100114877
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for reducing false positives during the linking of data records are disclosed herein. Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present invention may be used in the generation of an overall weight from the comparison of various attributes of data records, where the linking of the data records is dependent on the overall weight. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention may calculate a false positive penalty based on a set of results, each of the set of results based on a comparison of an attribute. The false positive penalty may be subtracted from the overall weight generated from the comparison of the attributes of data records to adjust the overall weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Initiate Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Norm Adams, Scott Ellard, Scott Schumacher
  • Patent number: 7698268
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may be used in the generation of an overall weight from the comparison of various attributes of data records, where the linking of the data records is dependent on the overall weight. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention may calculate a false positive penalty based on a set of results, each of the set of results based on a comparison of an attribute. The false positive penalty may be subtracted from the overall weight generated from the comparison of the attributes of data records to adjust the overall weight. By configuring which attributes of the data records are used as the set of attributes for generating the false positive penalty, and the penalties associated with a particular combination of results for the comparisons of these attributes, the incidence of false positives in the linking of data records may be significantly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Initiate Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Norm Adams, Scott Ellard, Scott Schumacher
  • Patent number: 7685093
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for comparing attributes of a data record are presented herein. Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present invention generate a weight based on a comparison of the name (or other) attributes of data records. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention generate a weight based on a comparison of name attributes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention may calculate an information score for each of two name attributes to be compared to get an average information score for the two name attributes. The two name attributes may then be compared against one another to generate a weight between the two attributes. This weight can then be normalized to generate a final weight between the two business name attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Initiate Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Norm Adams, Scott Ellard, Scott Schumacher
  • Patent number: 7627550
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for comparing attributes of a data record are presented herein. Embodiments of the present invention generate a weight based on a comparison of attributes of data records. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention may compare each of the tokens of one name to each of the tokens of the other name. Each of these comparisons may generate a match score. These match scores can then be summed to generate the weight for the two names. Specific embodiments may adjust the weight based on various criteria such as the position of the tokens which match or subtracting a mismatch penalty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Initiate Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Norm Adams, Scott Ellard, Scott Schumacher