Patents by Inventor Ronald E. Daniel, JR.

Ronald E. Daniel, JR. 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: 11687734
    Abstract: A method for performing a search for a result set of documents comprises receiving, at a computing device, an electronic document, identifying a numerical value in the document, extracting the numerical value and a portion of text surrounding the numerical value from the document to obtain extracted text, creating a vector representation of the extracted text, generating a series of questions associated with the extracted text, generating answers to the series of questions based on the vector representation of the extracted text, determining a context associated with the numerical value based on the answers to the plurality of questions, and storing the numerical value and the context associated with the numerical value in a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: ELSEVIER, INC.
    Inventors: Corey A. Harper, Jessica Rose Cox, Antony Jason Scerri, Ronald E. Daniel, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20210326716
    Abstract: A system to maintain a knowledge base including a device to: (i) generate a first interface to: receive a query for transmission to a question-answer system and provide a response including one or more proposed triple in a list, (ii) after selection of a particular triple, generate a second interface to: provide at least one evidence record including a span of text in support of the particular triple, and provide one or more control element associated with each evidence record including at least one of: a first control element selectable to cite its corresponding evidence record and span of text as supporting the particular triple, or a second control element selectable to prevent its corresponding evidence record and span of text from being cited as supporting the particular triple, and (iii) generate a data structure, based on selections of the one or more control element, to update the knowledge base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Elsevier Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald E. Daniel, JR., Paul Thomas Groth, Sujit Pal
  • Publication number: 20210004540
    Abstract: A method for performing a search for a result set of documents comprises receiving, at a computing device, an electronic document, identifying a numerical value in the document, extracting the numerical value and a portion of text surrounding the numerical value from the document to obtain extracted text, creating a vector representation of the extracted text, generating a series of questions associated with the extracted text, generating answers to the series of questions based on the vector representation of the extracted text, determining a context associated with the numerical value based on the answers to the plurality of questions, and storing the numerical value and the context associated with the numerical value in a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: Elsevier, Inc
    Inventors: Corey A. Harper, Jessica Rose Cox, Antony Jason Scerri, Ronald E. Daniel, JR.