Patents by Inventor Paul A. Lewis

Paul A. Lewis 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: 20210397782
    Abstract: Embodiments include cross-document propagation of entity metadata. Aspects include identifying a set of documents from a plurality of documents, the set of documents being related to one another and identifying a concept in a first document of the set of documents and creating an annotation corresponding to the concept. Aspects also include evaluating the annotation from the first document against all of the documents in the set of documents and identifying a concept match between the annotation and a mention discovered in a second document in the set of documents. Aspects further include creating a metadata linkage between the concept in the first document to the mention in the second document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: SCOTT CARRIER, DWI SIANTO MANSJUR, PAUL LEWIS FELT, BRENDAN BULL
  • Patent number: 11200376
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for expanded concept matching are provided. Aspects include receiving an ontology, determining a set of target concepts, building a cache from the ontology, the cache comprising a set of expressions extracted from the ontology for each target concept in the set of target concepts, receiving a document, determining a first segment of text in the document based on the set of target concepts, and annotating the first segment of text by comparing the set of target concepts to the set of expressions in the cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brendan Bull, Paul Lewis Felt
  • Publication number: 20210383072
    Abstract: Techniques for concept disambiguation for natural language processing are described herein. An aspect includes receiving a message from a user. Another aspect includes identifying an ambiguous concept in the message. Another aspect includes determining a plurality of concept candidates corresponding to the ambiguous concept. Another aspect includes determining, for each of the plurality of concept candidates, a respective similarity score based on user-specific concept metrics corresponding to the user. Another aspect includes ranking the plurality of concept candidates based on the respective similarity scores. Another aspect includes determining that the ambiguous concept corresponds to a top-ranked concept candidate of the ranked plurality of concept candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Brendan Bull, Scott Carrier, Paul Lewis Felt, Dwi Sianto Mansjur
  • Publication number: 20210356086
    Abstract: A luminaire including a housing, a light emitter supported by the housing, and a cover removably coupled to the housing, where the cover includes a lens substantially covering the light emitter. An end cap is removably coupled to the housing and positioned substantially flush with the lens. A coupling mechanism couples the end cap to the housing, where the end cap substantially covers the coupling mechanism while coupled to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Kevin Lu, Syed Raza, Dean Dal Ponte, Steve Eastwood, George Guerra, Paul Lewis, Prathika Appaiah
  • Patent number: 11176320
    Abstract: Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes receiving a ground truth associated with a domain cartridge, the domain cartridge comprising a plurality of hierarchical layers. The method further includes analyzing annotation blocks in relation to data present in the ground truth to detect any errors in a set of natural language processing annotators. The analyzing includes computing a recall score, a precision score, and an F1 score for each annotation block in a lowest level layer of the plurality of hierarchical layers. The analyzing further includes determining whether an error is detected at the lowest level layer of the plurality of hierarchical layers based at least in part on the recall score, the precision score, and the F1 score. The analyzing further includes terminating the analyzing responsive to determining that the error is detected at the lowest level layer of the plurality of hierarchical layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott Carrier, Brendan Bull, Dwi Sianto Mansjur, Paul Lewis Felt
  • Patent number: 11176311
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include converting text from a first image file into a first machine-encodable text, wherein the image file includes a first section of text that is offset from a second section of text. Analyzing the first image file to detect a position of the first section of text. Embedding a first section of the first machine encodable-text with metadata describing the position of the first section of text. Reformatting the first section of the first machine encodable-text to conform to the position of the first section of text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mario J. Lorenzo, Scott Carrier, Paul Lewis Felt, Brendan Bull
  • Patent number: 11169319
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a housing with a cavity, a non-planar lens, and a light emitter. The non-planar lens is coupled to the housing. The lens defines a generally circular footprint and a concavo-convex shape. The light emitter is positioned proximate an edge of the cavity and is configured to emit light into an edge of the lens and toward a center of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Qianshan Li, Michael Neuer, Tomi Lin, Syed Raza, Dean Dal Ponte, Prathika Appaiah, Paul Lewis, Kevin Lu
  • Patent number: 11163954
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include systems and methods for the propagation of annotation metadata to overlapping annotations of a synonymous type. A non-limiting example computer-implemented method includes performing a comparison of a set of annotations to detect a subset of annotations that are candidates of being synonymous based on a first analysis. Whether a first annotation of the subset of annotations is synonymous with a second annotation of the subset of annotations is determined based on a second analysis. Distinct annotation metadata of the first annotation are cross-propogated with annotation metadata of the second annotation based on the second analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott Carrier, Brendan Bull, Dwi Sianto Mansjur, Paul Lewis Felt
  • Patent number: 11146642
    Abstract: To reduce As difficulties associated with sub-site collaboration in hydrocarbon recovery, exploration, operation, or services environments, on-site collaboration between users is provided by including a multi-location virtual collaboration and monitoring system that enables multi-location virtual collaboration, monitoring, and data sharing, between users at sub-sites In hydrocarbon recovery, exploration operation, or services environments. A user may access real-time and stored data using one or more wearable or portable devices. Further, a user may configure data provision and data provision preferences for consumption of data In a variety of formats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Edward Blaschke, Paul Lewis Mendenall
  • Publication number: 20210297252
    Abstract: The invention relates to rapid cryptography methods and devices for secure data access. A private key is temporarily created for a cryptography use on a computer for decrypting a document. A device comprising a second data matrix, which is external to the computer, is read by the computer, which processes the second data matrix using a first data matrix already present on the computer. Then, the first data matrix provides the means for stepping through the second data matrix to create a private key. Next, the private key is erased immediately after the private key is created and used in a cryptography process for accessing secure data. The first and second data matrices are hidden by the user, and the private key is not stored, but instead is temporarily re-created as needed only for rapidly accessing secure data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Princeton Biocode Inc.
    Inventors: D.C. Licciardello, Robert H. Austin, Johannes Dapprich, Paul Lewis, Glenn Paul
  • Publication number: 20210286884
    Abstract: A cloud-based system for securely storing data, the system having a processor which obtains a source data file; splits it into at least three fragments; and uses an encryption key associated with the fragments to encrypt the fragments and distributes the encrypted fragments among at least three cloud storage providers, creates a pointer file containing information for retrieving the encrypted fragments. When a system user requests access to the data, the system uses the information stored in the pointer file to retrieve the stored encrypted fragments from the plurality of clouds; decrypts the fragments and reconstructs the data, and provides data access to the system user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: CALAMU TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Paul Lewis
  • Patent number: 11106907
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, system and computer program products for processing a scanned document. Aspects include obtaining an image of the scanned document and identifying a boundary of a portion of the scanned document, wherein the portion includes at least partially obscured text. Aspects also include performing optical character recognition on the image of the scanned document to extract text from the document. Aspects further include performing additional processing on the text extracted from inside the portion of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brendan Bull, Scott Carrier, Paul Lewis Felt
  • Publication number: 20210234911
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments disclose a system and method, a computer program product, and a computer system for modifying multimedia. The exemplary embodiments may include receiving a multimedia and one or more inputs, determining a required amount of modification to the multimedia based on the one or more inputs, generating a literary parse tree based on the multimedia, extracting one or more node features from one or more nodes of the parse tree, determining a node importance of the one or more nodes based on applying a model to the one or more node features, and modifying one or more portions of the multimedia corresponding to the one or more nodes based on the node importance and the required amount of multimedia modification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Scott Carrier, Andrew G. Hicks, BRENDAN Bull, Dwi Sianto Mansjur, Paul Lewis Felt
  • Publication number: 20210189836
    Abstract: A virtual presence may be established to provide engagement with equipment and operators at a hydrocarbon recovery, exploration, operation, or services environments in order to reduce the expense associated with having knowledge experts, or other personnel, travel to and work at remote hydrocarbon recovery, exploration, operation, or services environments. For example, a wearable device may allow a user, such as a subject matter expert, at a virtual real time operation center to view data from equipment located at the site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Troy D. Bachman, III, Craig A. Sneed, Keith Edward Blaschke, Paul Lewis Mendenall, Charles Edward Neal, III, Derek Ray Williams, Stanley C. Combs, Derek J. Abel
  • Publication number: 20210182340
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments disclose a system and method, a computer program product, and a computer system for resolving the intents of user expression. The exemplary embodiments may include receiving a user expression, receiving a first resolver having an input class and an output class based on the user expression, determining whether the first resolver can be resolved based on the user expression, and based on determining that the first resolver can be resolved based on the user expression, resolving the first resolver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Scott Carrier, BRENDAN BULL, Dwi Sianto Mansjur, Andrew G. Hicks, Paul Lewis Felt
  • Publication number: 20210182339
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments disclose a system and method, a computer program product, and a computer system for determining the intents of user expression. The exemplary embodiments may include receiving a user expression, extracting one or more entities from the user expression, gathering one or more resolvers associated with the one or more entities, identifying a first resolver of the one or more resolvers based on the user expression and the one or more training expressions, and resolving the first resolver to generate a first output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Scott Carrier, Brendan Bull, Paul Lewis Felt, Dwi Sianto Mansjur
  • Publication number: 20210183551
    Abstract: An assembly having a cylindrical structure supported by a support structure having at least one support element, the support structure being cradle shaped, such that vertical and horizontal loads are taken largely as shear forces by respective interface surfaces which are substantially parallel to the direction of the respective load, and vertical loads are taken in a direction substantially tangential to the cylindrical surface of the cylindrical structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: William James Bickell, Ashley Fulham, Martin Gambling, Martin Howard Hempstead, Graeme Hyson, Paul Lewis, Nicholas Mann, Michael Simpkins
  • Publication number: 20210149990
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include a method for iteratively expanding concepts. The method includes building a set of expressions extracted from an ontology to form a cache, the set of expressions based at least in part on respective target concepts. Receiving a document and performing a first traversal of the document to identify first surface forms related to the respective target concepts. Performing a second traversal of the document to identify second surface forms that modify the first surface forms. Annotating the document by comparing the modifying surface forms to target concepts and the set of expressions in the cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Paul Lewis Felt, Brendan Bull
  • Publication number: 20210126975
    Abstract: To reduce As difficulties associated with sub-site collaboration in hydrocarbon recovery, exploration, operation, or services environments, on-site collaboration between users is provided by including a multi-location virtual collaboration and monitoring system that enables multi-location virtual collaboration, monitoring, and data sharing, between users at sub-sites In hydrocarbon recovery, exploration operation, or services environments. A user may access real-time and stored data using one or more wearable or portable devices. Further, a user may configure data provision and data provision preferences for consumption of data In a variety of formats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Keith Edward Blaschke, Paul Lewis Mendenall
  • Patent number: D923859
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Qianshan Li, Michael Neuer, Tomi Lin, Syed Raza, Dean Dal Ponte, Prathika Appaiah, Paul Lewis, Kevin Lu