Patents by Inventor Paul Justin Lloyd Compton

Paul Justin Lloyd Compton 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).

  • Knowledge based system
    Patent number: 6553361
    Abstract: A ripple down rules knowledge based system for generating an output conclusion in response to an input case, the system including a database arranged to receive and store a plurality of conclusions and a plurality of rules, each new conclusion added to the database being associated with a previously stored conclusion as a refinement of the previously stored conclusion and each new conclusion added to the database being associated with a rule, input mechanism for facilitating input of a case, and output mechanism for outputting at least one previously stored conclusion in response to the input case, the system being arranged such that when multiple identical conclusions are returned by the system in response to an input case and a new conclusion associated with the input case is added as a refinement of the identical conclusions, a list of cornerstone conflict cases associated with all of the identical conclusions is generated, and the system being arranged to receive an input rule indicative of a difference b
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Pacific Knowledge Systems Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Paul Justin Lloyd Compton, Glenn Andrew Edwards, Leslie Lazarus, Lindsay Andrew Peters, Michael Bonnell Harries