Patents by Inventor Scott Conrad Oveson

Scott Conrad Oveson 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: 9495775
    Abstract: Distribution displays for categories are provided which illuminate the distribution of continuous attributes over all cases in a category, and which provide a histogram of the population of the different states of categorical attributes. An array of such displays by attribute (in one dimension) and category (in another dimension) may be provided. Category diagram displays are also provided for visualizing the different categories, and their distributions, populations, and similarities. These are displayed through different shading of nodes and edges representing categories and the relationship between two categories, and through proximity of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Maxwell Chickering, Zhaohui Tang, David Earl Heckerman, Robert L. Rounthwaite, Alexei V. Bocharov, Scott Conrad Oveson
  • Patent number: 7953738
    Abstract: Distribution displays for categories are provided which illuminate the distribution of continuous attributes over all cases in a category, and which provide a histogram of the population of the different states of categorical attributes. An array of such displays by attribute (in one dimension) and category (in another dimension) may be provided. Category diagram displays are also provided for visualizing the different categories, and their distributions, populations, and similarities. These are displayed through different shading of nodes and edges representing categories and the relationship between two categories, and through proximity of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Maxwell Chickering, Zhaohui Tang, David Earl Heckerman, Robert L. Rounthwaite, Alexei V. Bocharov, Scott Conrad Oveson
  • Patent number: 7640252
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating prediction queries to help a user build and execute prediction queries. A user interface (UI) is provided that is easy to use and understand in connection with the generation of a prediction query for data mining. The UI can be instantiated from a variety of disparate sources that may request query building services. While prediction queries and relational queries are quite different, the UI enables prediction queries to be built in a manner that is similar to the way relational queries are built. In one embodiment, the main screen of the UI includes four main components: (1) a table column mapping area, (3) a selection grid area, (4) a query text display area and (5) a query result grid area. In one embodiment, the query text display area and the query result grid area are initially not presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Zhaohui Tang, Rong Jian Guan, Amir M. Netz, Scott Conrad Oveson
  • Patent number: 7342582
    Abstract: Distribution displays for categories are provided which illuminate the distribution of continuous attributes over all cases in a category, and which provide a histogram of the population of the different states of categorical attributes. An array of such displays by attribute (in one dimension) and category (in another dimension) may be provided. Category diagram displays are also provided for visualizing the different categories, and their distributions, populations, and similarities. These are displayed through different shading of nodes and edges representing categories and the relationship between two categories, and through proximity of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Maxwell Chickering, Zhaohui Tang, David Earl Heckerman, Robert L. Rounthwaite, Alexei V. Bocharov, Scott Conrad Oveson
  • Patent number: 7124054
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for producing displays of the accuracy of data mining or statistical models that produce associative predictions. For all cases in a testing data set, the model makes predictions and provides associated probabilities. The cases are sorted by their probability of making accurate predictions and a graph is made of the accuracy of the model over various subsets containing the highest probability cases as evaluated by the model. Where a number of probabilities are presented for the predictions in a basket of predictions, those probabilities are combined to yield a probability score for the entire basket. Additionally, the accuracy of a model over different basket sizes may be graphed. The accuracy graph may also be produced for any models making a prediction, by graphing the probability of making accurate predictions and a graph made of the accuracy of the model over various subsets of the data containing the highest probability cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Pyungchul Kim, Zhaohui Tang, David Earl Heckerman, Scott Conrad Oveson
  • Patent number: 7028036
    Abstract: Distribution displays for categories are provided which illuminate the distribution of continuous attributes over all cases in a category, and which provide a histogram of the population of the different states of categorical attributes. An array of such displays by attribute (in one dimension) and category (in another dimension) may be provided. Category diagram displays are also provided for visualizing the different categories, and their distributions, populations, and similarities. These are displayed through different shading of nodes and edges representing categories and the relationship between two categories, and through proximity of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Maxwell Chickering, Zhaohui Tang, David Earl Heckerman, Robert L. Rounthwaite, Alexei V. Bocharov, Scott Conrad Oveson
  • Patent number: 6931391
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating prediction queries to help a user build and execute prediction queries. A user interface (UI) is provided that is easy to use and understand in connection with the generation of a prediction query for data mining. The UI can be instantiated from a variety of disparate sources that may request query building services. While prediction queries and relational queries are quite different, the UI enables prediction queries to be built in a manner that is similar to the way relational queries are built. In one embodiment, the main screen of the UI includes four main components: (1) a table column mapping area, (3) a selection grid area, (4) a query text display area and (5) a query result grid area. In one embodiment, the query text display area and the query result grid area are initially not presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Zhaohui Tang, Rong Jian Guan, Amir M. Netz, Scott Conrad Oveson
  • Publication number: 20040002929
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for producing displays of the accuracy of data mining or statistical models that produce associative predictions. For all cases in a testing data set, the model makes predictions and provides associated probabilities. The cases are sorted by their probability of making accurate predictions and a graph is made of the accuracy of the model over various subsets containing the highest probability cases as evaluated by the model. Where a number of probabilities are presented for the predictions in a basket of predictions, those probabilities are combined to yield a probability score for the entire basket. Additionally, the accuracy of a model over different basket sizes may be graphed. The accuracy graph may also be produced for any models making a prediction, by graphing the probability of making accurate predictions and a graph made of the accuracy of the model over various subsets of the data containing the highest probability cases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Pyungchul Kim, Zhaohui Tang, David Earl Heckerman, Scott Conrad Oveson
  • Publication number: 20040001063
    Abstract: Distribution displays for categories are provided which illuminate the distribution of continuous attributes over all cases in a category, and which provide a histogram of the population of the different states of categorical attributes. An array of such displays by attribute (in one dimension) and category (in another dimension) may be provided. Category diagram displays are also provided for visualizing the different categories, and their distributions, populations, and similarities. These are displayed through different shading of nodes and edges representing categories and the relationship between two categories, and through proximity of nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Maxwell Chickering, Zhaohui Tang, David Earl Heckerman, Robert L Rounthwaite, Alexei V. Bocharov, Scott Conrad Oveson
  • Publication number: 20030236784
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating prediction queries to help a user build and execute prediction queries. A user interface (UI) is provided that is easy to use and understand in connection with the generation of a prediction query for data mining. The UI can be instantiated from a variety of disparate sources that may request query building services. While prediction queries and relational queries are quite different, the UI enables prediction queries to be built in a manner that is similar to the way relational queries are built. In one embodiment, the main screen of the UI includes four main components: (1) a table column mapping area, (3) a selection grid area, (4) a query text display area and (5) a query result grid area. In one embodiment, the query text display area and the query result grid area are initially not presented to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Inventors: Zhaohui Tang, Rong Jian Guan, Amir M. Netz, Scott Conrad Oveson