Patents by Inventor Robert FLAGG

Robert FLAGG 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: 20170286837
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for performing automated discovery of new topics from unlimited documents related to any subject domain, employing a multi-component extension of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (MC-LDA) topic models, to discover related topics in a corpus. The resulting data may contain millions of term vectors from any subject domain identifying the most distinguished co-occurring topics that users may be interested in, for periodically building new topic ID models using new content, which may be employed to compare one by one with existing model to measure the significance of changes, using term vectors differences with no correlation with a Periodic New Model, for periodic updates of automated discovery of new topics, which may be used to build a new topic ID model in-memory database to allow query-time linking on massive data-set for automated discovery of new topics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Scott LIGHTNER, Franz WECKESSER, Sanjay BODDHU, Robert FLAGG
  • Publication number: 20170124090
    Abstract: Methods and systems for discovering and exploring feature knowledge included in large corpora are disclosed. The described systems and methods may include the application of in-memory analytics to records, where the analytic methods applied to the records and the level of precision of the methods may be dynamically selected by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Scott LIGHTNER, Sanjay BODDHU, Robert FLAGG
  • Publication number: 20170116203
    Abstract: A computer system and method for automated discovery of topic relatedness are disclosed. According to an embodiment, topics within documents from a corpus may be discovered by applying multiple topic identification (ID) models, such as multi-component latent Dirichlet allocation (MC-LDA) or similar methods. Each topic model may differ in a number of topics. Discovered topics may be linked to the associated document. Relatedness between discovered topics may be determined by analyzing co-occurring topic IDs from the different models, assigning topic relatedness scores, where related topics may be used for matching/linking a feature of interest. The disclosed method may have an increased disambiguation precision, and may allow the matching and linking of documents using the discovered relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Scott LIGHTNER, Franz WECKESSER, Sanjay BODDHU, Rakesh DAVE, Robert FLAGG
  • Publication number: 20170116054
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting events based on input data from a plurality of sources. The system may receive input from a plurality of sources containing information about possible events. A method for event detection involves pre-processing and normalizing a data input from a plurality of sources, extracting and disambiguating events and entities, associate event and entities, correlate events and entities associated from a data input to results from a different data source to determine if an event has occurred, and store the detected events in a data storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Sanjay BODDHU, Robert FLAGG, Rakesh DAVE, Scott LIGHTNER
  • Patent number: 9626623
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for performing automated discovery of new topics from unlimited documents related to any subject domain, employing a multi-component extension of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (MC-LDA) topic models, to discover related topics in a corpus. The resulting data may contain millions of term vectors from any subject domain identifying the most distinguished co-occurring topics that users may be interested in, for periodically building new topic ID models using new content, which may be employed to compare one by one with existing model to measure the significance of changes, using term vectors differences with no correlation with a Periodic New Model, for periodic updates of automated discovery of new topics, which may be used to build a new topic ID model in-memory database to allow query-time linking on massive data-set for automated discovery of new topics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: QBase, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Sanjay Boddhu, Robert Flagg
  • Patent number: 9547701
    Abstract: Methods and systems for discovering and exploring feature knowledge included in large corpora are disclosed. The described systems and methods may include the application of in-memory analytics to records, where the analytic methods applied to the records and the level of precision of the methods may be dynamically selected by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: QBase, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Lightner, Sanjay Boddhu, Robert Flagg
  • Patent number: 9542477
    Abstract: A computer system and method for automated discovery of topic relatedness are disclosed. According to an embodiment, topics within documents from a corpus may be discovered by applying multiple topic identification (ID) models, such as multi-component latent Dirichlet allocation (MC-LDA) or similar methods. Each topic model may differ in a number of topics. Discovered topics may be linked to the associated document. Relatedness between discovered topics may be determined by analyzing co-occurring topic IDs from the different models, assigning topic relatedness scores, where related topics may be used for matching/linking a feature of interest. The disclosed method may have an increased disambiguation precision, and may allow the matching and linking of documents using the discovered relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: QBase, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Sanjay Boddhu, Rakesh Dave, Robert Flagg
  • Publication number: 20160110446
    Abstract: A method for disambiguating features in unstructured text is provided. The disclosed method may not require pre-existing links to be present. The method for disambiguating features in unstructured text may use co-occurring features derived from both the source document and a large document corpus. The disclosed method may include multiple modules, including a linking module for linking the derived features from the source document to the co-occurring features of an existing knowledge base. The disclosed method for disambiguating features may allow identifying unique entities from a knowledge base that includes entities with a unique set of co-occurring features, which in turn may allow for increased precision in knowledge discovery and search results, employing advanced analytical methods over a massive corpus, employing a combination of entities, co-occurring entities, topic IDs, and other derived features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: QBASE, LLC
    Inventors: Scott LIGHTNER, Franz WECKESSER, Sanjay BODDHU, Rakesh DAVE, Robert FLAGG
  • Publication number: 20160042276
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for performing automated discovery of new topics from unlimited documents related to any subject domain, employing a multi-component extension of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (MC-LDA) topic models, to discover related topics in a corpus. The resulting data may contain millions of term vectors from any subject domain identifying the most distinguished co-occurring topics that users may be interested in, for periodically building new topic ID models using new content, which may be employed to compare one by one with existing model to measure the significance of changes, using term vectors differences with no correlation with a Periodic New Model, for periodic updates of automated discovery of new topics, which may be used to build a new topic ID model in-memory database to allow query-time linking on massive data-set for automated discovery of new topics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: QBASE, LLC
    Inventors: Scott LIGHTNER, Franz WECKESSER, Sanjay BODDHU, Robert FLAGG
  • Publication number: 20160019466
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting events based on input data from a plurality of sources. The system may receive input from a plurality of sources containing information about possible events. A method for event detection involves pre-processing and normalizing a data input from a plurality of sources, extracting and disambiguating events and entities, associate event and entities, correlate events and entities associated from a data input to results from a different data sources to determine if an event has occurred, and store the detected events in a data storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: QBASE, LLC
    Inventors: Scott LIGHTNER, Rakesh DAVE, Sanjay BODDHU, Robert FLAGG
  • Publication number: 20160019470
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting events based on input data from a plurality of sources. The system may receive input from a plurality of sources containing information about possible events. A method for event detection involves pre-processing and normalizing a data input from a plurality of sources, extracting and disambiguating events and entities, associate event and entities, correlate events and entities associated from a data input to results from a different data sources to determine if an event has occurred, and store the detected events in a data storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: QBASE, LLC
    Inventors: Scott LIGHTNER, Rakesh DAVE, Sanjay BODDHU, Robert FLAGG
  • Patent number: 9239875
    Abstract: A method for disambiguating features in unstructured text is provided. The disclosed method may not require pre-existing links to be present. The method for disambiguating features in unstructured text may use co-occurring features derived from both the source document and a large document corpus. The disclosed method may include multiple modules, including a linking module for linking the derived features from the source document to the co-occurring features of an existing knowledge base. The disclosed method for disambiguating features may allow identifying unique entities from a knowledge base that includes entities with a unique set of co-occurring features, which in turn may allow for increased precision in knowledge discovery and search results, employing advanced analytical methods over a massive corpus, employing a combination of entities, co-occurring entities, topic IDs, and other derived features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: QBASE, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Sanjay Boddhu, Rakesh Dave, Robert Flagg
  • Patent number: 9177254
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting events based on input data from a plurality of sources. The system may receive input from a plurality of sources containing information about possible events. A method for event detection involves pre-processing and normalizing a data input from a plurality of sources, extracting and disambiguating events and entities, associate event and entities, correlate events and entities associated from a data input to results from a different data sources to determine if an event has occurred, and store the detected events in a data storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: QBASE, LLC
    Inventors: Sanjay Boddhu, Robert Flagg, Rakesh Dave, Scott Lightner
  • Patent number: 9177262
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for performing automated discovery of new topics from unlimited documents related to any subject domain, employing a multi-component extension of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (MC-LDA) topic models, to discover related topics in a corpus. The resulting data may contain millions of term vectors from any subject domain identifying the most distinguished co-occurring topics that users may be interested in, for periodically building new topic ID models using new content, which may be employed to compare one by one with existing model to measure the significance of changes, using term vectors differences with no correlation with a Periodic New Model, for periodic updates of automated discovery of new topics, which may be used to build a new topic ID model in-memory database to allow query-time linking on massive data-set for automated discovery of new topics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: QBase, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Sanjay Boddhu, Robert Flagg
  • Publication number: 20150154305
    Abstract: A computer system and method for automated discovery of topic relatedness are disclosed. According to an embodiment, topics within documents from a corpus may be discovered by applying multiple topic identification (ID) models, such as multi-component latent Dirichlet allocation (MC-LDA) or similar methods. Each topic model may differ in a number of topics. Discovered topics may be linked to the associated document. Relatedness between discovered topics may be determined by analyzing co-occurring topic IDs from the different models, assigning topic relatedness scores, where related topics may be used for matching/linking a feature of interest. The disclosed method may have an increased disambiguation precision, and may allow the matching and linking of documents using the discovered relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: QBASE, LLC
    Inventors: Scott LIGHTNER, Franz WECKESSER, Sanjay BODDHU, Rakesh DAVE, Robert FLAGG
  • Publication number: 20150154148
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for performing automated discovery of new topics from unlimited documents related to any subject domain, employing a multi-component extension of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (MC-LDA) topic models, to discover related topics in a corpus. The resulting data may contain millions of term vectors from any subject domain identifying the most distinguished co-occurring topics that users may be interested in, for periodically building new topic ID models using new content, which may be employed to compare one by one with existing model to measure the significance of changes, using term vectors differences with no correlation with a Periodic New Model, for periodic updates of automated discovery of new topics, which may be used to build a new topic ID model in-memory database to allow query-time linking on massive data-set for automated discovery of new topics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: QBASE, LLC
    Inventors: Scott LIGHTNER, Franz WECKESSER, Sanjay BODDHU, Robert FLAGG
  • Publication number: 20150154268
    Abstract: Methods and systems for discovering and exploring feature knowledge included in large corpora are disclosed. The described systems and methods may include the application of in-memory analytics to records, where the analytic methods applied to the records and the level of precision of the methods may be dynamically selected by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: QBASE, LLC
    Inventors: Scott LIGHTNER, Sanjay BODDHU, Robert FLAGG
  • Publication number: 20150154263
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting events based on input data from a plurality of sources. The system may receive input from a plurality of sources containing information about possible events. A method for event detection involves pre-processing and normalizing a data input from a plurality of sources, extracting and disambiguating events and entities, associate event and entities, correlate events and entities associated from a data input to results from a different data sources to determine if an event has occurred, and store the detected events in a data storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: QBASE, LLC
    Inventors: Sanjay BODDHU, Robert FLAGG, Rakesh DAVE, Scott LIGHTNER
  • Publication number: 20150154286
    Abstract: A method for disambiguating features in unstructured text is provided. The disclosed method may not require pre-existing links to be present. The method for disambiguating features in unstructured text may use co-occurring features derived from both the source document and a large document corpus. The disclosed method may include multiple modules, including a linking module for linking the derived features from the source document to the co-occurring features of an existing knowledge base. The disclosed method for disambiguating features may allow identifying unique entities from a knowledge base that includes entities with a unique set of co-occurring features, which in turn may allow for increased precision in knowledge discovery and search results, employing advanced analytical methods over a massive corpus, employing a combination of entities, co-occurring entities, topic IDs, and other derived features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: QBASE, LLC
    Inventors: Scott LIGHTNER, Franz Weckesser, Sanjay Boddhu, Rakesh Dave, Robert Flagg
  • Patent number: 7912088
    Abstract: A system and method for providing session admission control are provided. Generally, a source of a communication request and a session director are utilized. The session director allocates bandwidth to accommodate a bandwidth allocation request from the source, ensures that quantity of the allocated bandwidth is appropriate for transmission of multimedia packets from the source to the session director, and ensures that quality of service of the allocated bandwidth is appropriate to provide a flow of the multimedia packets via the allocated bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Acme Packet, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick John MeLampy, Robert Flagg Penfield, Kevin P. Klett