Patents by Inventor Richard Scot Wallace

Richard Scot Wallace 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: 8818926
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically building chat bot content from scripts of conversations. A script is parsed into query-response pairs, so that a computerized device may be programmed to give the same responses when given similar queries. Each query is converted into canonical form and then matched against patterns, as in prior art chat bots. The response is then linked to the matched pattern. A new chat bot is constructed out of the canonical form conversions and the set of pattern-response links. The chat bot is further improved by adding interactive human conversations, provided that those conversations are rated highly. The resulting chat bot can run on a computer server that responds to public queries, and the server can also display context-sensitive advertisements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Inventor: Richard Scot Wallace
  • Publication number: 20110078105
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically building chat bot content from scripts of conversations. A script is parsed into query-response pairs, so that a computerized device may be programmed to give the same responses when given similar queries. Each query is converted into canonical form and then matched against patterns, as in prior art chat bots. The response is then linked to the matched pattern. A new chat bot is constructed out of the canonical form conversions and the set of pattern-response links. The chat bot is further improved by adding interactive human conversations, provided that those conversations are rated highly. The resulting chat bot can run on a computer server that responds to public queries, and the server can also display context-sensitive advertisements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventor: Richard Scot Wallace
  • Patent number: 5642167
    Abstract: Many-to-one and one-to-many digital image transformations play a significant role in a variety of imaging communications, visualization, and robotic applications. A method is presented for forwarding mapping frames of TV images in a many-to-one mapping using run length encoding. A digital computer system includes a look-up table memory having the address of each input run-length of pixels (a series of side-by-side pixels) and the address of the single output pixel corresponding thereto. An example is a 512.times.512 pixel TV frame which, in real time, is mapped onto a log polar coordinate TV frame of 2000-3000 pixels. This method can be used with existing low-cost general purpose computers providing a speed advantage approximating five-hundred percent, and a memory savings of between 10 and 100,000 times, relative to the current art. As a result, electronic imaging systems employing many-to-one or one-to-many image warps may be built in significantly smaller, cheaper, faster and lower power implementations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Inventors: Richard Scot Wallace, Benjamin Boris Bederson, Eric Schwartz