Patents by Inventor Robert W. Stephenson

Robert W. Stephenson 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: 9672247
    Abstract: In order to facilitate the requesting of desired information from a graph database that stores a graph, a system may translate an initial query into a query that can be executed against the graph database. In particular, using primitives, the system may translate a query associated with a type of database (such as a relational database) into the query. The graph may include nodes, edges between the nodes, and predicates to represent and store data with index-free adjacency. Moreover, the primitives may include: a rule based on edges in the graph that expresses a relational schema in the type of database, and information associated with a compound key that specifies a relationship between nodes, edges and predicates in the graph corresponding to a table in the type of database. Then, the system may execute the query against the graph database, and may receive a result that includes a subset of the graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Srinath Shankar, Huaxin Liu, Robert W. Stephenson, Scott M. Meyer
  • Publication number: 20170083571
    Abstract: In order to facilitate the requesting of desired information from a graph database that stores a graph, a system may translate an initial query into a query that can be executed against the graph database. In particular, using primitives, the system may translate a query associated with a type of database (such as a relational database) into the query. The graph may include nodes, edges between the nodes, and predicates to represent and store data with index-free adjacency. Moreover, the primitives may include: a rule based on edges in the graph that expresses a relational schema in the type of database, and information associated with a compound key that specifies a relationship between nodes, edges and predicates in the graph corresponding to a table in the type of database. Then, the system may execute the query against the graph database, and may receive a result that includes a subset of the graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Srinath Shankar, Huaxin Liu, Robert W. Stephenson, Scott M. Meyer
  • Patent number: 9535963
    Abstract: In order to request desired information from a graph database, a system executes a query against the graph database. The graph database may store a graph that includes nodes, edges between the nodes, and predicates to represent and store data with index-free adjacency. Moreover, the query may identify a first edge associated with a predicate that specifies one or more of the nodes in the graph. In response to the query, the system receives a result that includes a subset of the graph. In particular, the subset of the graph may include the desired information expressed within an associated structure of the graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Srinath Shankar, Robert W. Stephenson, Andrew J. Carter, Maverick Shu-Bun Lee, Scott M. Meyer
  • Patent number: 9378241
    Abstract: In order to request desired information from a graph database, a system executes a query against the graph database. The graph database may store a graph that includes nodes, edges between the nodes, and predicates to represent and store data with index-free adjacency. Moreover, the query may identify a first edge associated with a predicate that specifies one or more of the nodes in the graph. In response to the query, the system receives a result that includes a subset of the graph. Then, the system may use the result of the query in a concatenated set of queries. In particular, the system may execute a second query against the subset of the graph. Furthermore, in response to the second query, the system may receive a second result that includes a second subset of the graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Srinath Shankar, Robert W. Stephenson, Andrew J. Carter, Scott M. Meyer
  • Patent number: 9330138
    Abstract: In order to facilitate the requesting of desired information from a graph database that stores a graph, a system may translate an initial query into a query that can be executed against the graph database. In particular, using primitives, the system may translate a query associated with a type of database (such as a relational database) into the query. The graph may include nodes, edges between the nodes, and predicates to represent and store data with index-free adjacency. Moreover, the primitives may include: a rule based on edges in the graph that expresses a relational schema in the type of database, and information associated with a compound key that specifies a relationship between nodes, edges and predicates in the graph corresponding to a table in the type of database. Then, the system may execute the query against the graph database, and may receive a result that includes a subset of the graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Srinath Shankar, Huaxin Liu, Robert W. Stephenson, Scott M. Meyer
  • Patent number: 5170103
    Abstract: An active vibration control device for controlling vibration in a cantilevered member and a method for the same are disclosed. The device is comprised of a cantilevered member having a longitudinal axis comprising a sensor mounted near the free end of the member to measure motion of the member in a transverse direction and to produce a corresponding signal. A force generating assembly is mounted to the member near the free end to oppose the measured motion with a force thereby minimizing subsequent motion along the transverse axis caused by vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventors: Keith E. Rouch, Sanjiv Tewani, Bruce L. Walcott, Ted R. Massa, Robert W. Stephenson, L. Scott Stephens