Patents by Inventor Patrick E. Hoffman

Patrick E. Hoffman 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).

  • Publication number: 20030030637
    Abstract: The invention, in one embodiment, is directed to a system and related methods of data analysis. According to one aspect, the invention processes a plurality of records, each of the records having an associated plurality of attributes, the plurality of records being divisible into at least two categories. More particularly, the invention provides a multidimensional array having intersecting first and second axes; assigns each of the attributes as a one dimensional vector aligned along the first axis, and each of the records as a one dimensional vector aligned along the second axis; displays a graphical indication of an occurrence and/or a value of each attribute for each record at an intersection of each record vector with each attribute vector; and manipulates the record vectors and/or the attribute vectors to produce a graphical pattern representative of the at least two categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Georges G. Grinstein, Patrick E. Hoffman, Alexander G. Gee, Philip J. O'Neil
  • Publication number: 20030014420
    Abstract: The invention, in one embodiment, is directed to a system and related methods of data analysis. According to one aspect, the invention processes a plurality of records, each of the records having an associated plurality of attributes, the plurality of records being divisible into at least two categories. More particularly, the invention assigns an attribute position to each of the plurality of attributes on a locus defined on a multi-dimensional representation; assigns a record position on the multidimensional representation to each of the plurality of records, the record position being dependent at least in part an occurrence and/or a value, of at least one of the plurality of attributes; and reassigns the attribute position of at least one of the plurality of attributes on the locus to divide the plurality of records into at least two categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Charles B. Jessee, Alexander G. Gee, Philip O'Neil, Patrick E. Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20020188424
    Abstract: The invention, in one embodiment, processes a plurality of records, each of the records having an associated plurality of attributes, the plurality of records being divisible into at least two categories. More particularly, the invention assigns as a class of one dimensional vectors the records and/or the attributes; employs an maximum number K of uncorrelated vectors to be identified from the class of one-dimensional vectors; employs a threshold value; chooses a first vector from the class of one-dimensional vectors as a member of an uncorrelated vector set; and performs iteratively the steps of selecting an additional vector from the class of vectors, computing a correlation parameter using the first vector and the additional vector, comparing the correlation parameter to the threshold value, and adding the additional vector to the uncorrelated set of vectors if the correlation parameter is not greater than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventors: Georges G. Grinstein, Patrick E. Hoffman, Alexander G. Gee, Philip O'Neil