Patents by Inventor Robert Cranfill

Robert Cranfill 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: 8458117
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein describe a computerized system and method for retrieving and processing data to provide dependency and root cause information for a process. The computerized system and method include receiving historic data of the process, detecting temporal dependency or precedence tasks in the process from the historic data, generating a historic dependency graph, aggregating the historic dependency graph into a probabilistic precedence network (PPN), pruning the PPN, and presenting results to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Haiqin Wang, Robert Cranfill, Jai Joon Choi, Changzhou Wang, Sidney Ly, William Ferng
  • Publication number: 20100198776
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein describe a computerized system and method for retrieving and processing data to provide dependency and root cause information for a process. The computerized system and method include receiving historic data of the process, detecting temporal dependency or precedence tasks in the process from the historic data, generating a historic dependency graph, aggregating the historic dependency graph into a probabilistic precedence network (PPN), pruning the PPN, and presenting results to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Haiqin Wang, Robert Cranfill, Jai Joon Choi, Changzhou Wang, Sidney Ly, William Ferng
  • Publication number: 20070118506
    Abstract: A text summarizer identifies relevant terms in a document, weights the terms and extracts one or more segments to produce a summary or abstract. The various terms in a particular are weighted in relation to an existing document collection. A term weight computer computes term weights for terms in the document, and a threshold comparator compares the term weights to determine if the corresponding terms are relevant to the document collection. Next, a term weight summer adds the term weights for each occurrence of each relevant term in the various segments of the document, and a summation comparator compares the summations to identify a text summarization segment representative of the document. Optionally, relevant terms can be highlighted in the term summarization segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Anne Kao, Stephen Poteet, Yuan-Jye Wu, William Ferng, Robert Cranfill
  • Publication number: 20070118518
    Abstract: A text summarizer identifies relevant terms in a document, weights the terms and extracts one or more segments to produce a summary or abstract. The various terms in a particular are weighted in relation to an existing document collection. A term weight computer computes term weights for terms in the document, and a threshold comparator compares the term weights to determine if the corresponding terms are relevant to the document collection. Next, a term weight summer adds the term weights for each occurrence of each relevant term in the various segments of the document, and a summation comparator compares the summations to identify a text summarization segment representative of the document. Optionally, relevant terms can be highlighted in the term summarization segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Yuan-Jye Wu, Anne Kao, Stephen Poteet, William Ferng, Robert Cranfill
  • Publication number: 20070083509
    Abstract: A streaming text data comparator performs real-time text data mining on streaming text data. The comparator receives a streaming text data document and generates a vector representation of the term frequencies relating to an existing document collection. The comparator then transforms the term frequency vector into a projection in a precomputed multidimensional subspace that represents the original document collection. The comparator further calculates a relationship value representing the similarities or differences between the vector representation and the subspace, and compares the relationship value to a predetermined threshold to determine whether the streaming text data document is related to the original document collection. If the streaming text data document is related, the streaming text data comparator intercalates the new document into the document collection. If the new document is not related, the comparator may store or delete the unrelated document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Inventors: Yuan-Jye Wu, Anne Kao, Stephen Poteet, William Ferng, Robert Cranfill
  • Publication number: 20070022072
    Abstract: Provided are improved methods, apparatus, and computer program products for text differentiation which involves identifying differences between documents with similar content, not merely similar terms, and generating results. Text differentiation provides the ability to find non-similar, or different, content hidden within documents with similar overall content, but not exactly the same content. Text differentiation may be used to quickly identify key differences between similar documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Inventors: Anne Kao, Stephen Poteet, Yuan-Jye Wu, William Ferng, Robert Cranfill