Patents by Inventor Scott Robert Carrier
Scott Robert Carrier 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).
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Patent number: 9552346Abstract: A visualization of literary elements of a work of literature, such as a novel or short story, is generated from meta-data records representing a digital work of literature including literary elements (humor, drama, adventure, etc.), characters, and plot devices related to a position within the work of literature where each appears. A significance level is determined for each of the elements, characters and plot devices at each position within the work of literature, and these are plotted into a sequential graph having position (e.g. timeline) axis and a significance level axis. The sequential graph is then output for printing or display. Human-generated and machine-generated meta-data may be ingested equally well by the method. Colors, line thickness, and a broken line patterns may be employed for greater visual meaning. And, the sequential graph may be annotated according to segments (e.g. chapters, sections) and dominant genre within each segment.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Eric Woods
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Patent number: 9535899Abstract: Deep semantic analysis is performed on an electronic literary work in order to detect plot elements and optional other storyline elements such as characters within the work. Multiple levels of abstract are generated into a model representing the literary work, wherein each element in each abstraction level may be independently rated for preference by a user. Through comparison of multiple abstraction models and one or more user rating preferences, one or more alternative literary works may be automatically recommended to the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Corville Orain Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Eric Woods
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Patent number: 9535901Abstract: Deep semantic analysis is performed on an electronic literary work in order to detect plot elements and optional other storyline elements such as characters within the work. Multiple levels of abstract are generated into a model representing the literary work, wherein each element in each abstraction level may be independently rated for preference by a user. Through comparison of multiple abstraction models and one or more user rating preferences, one or more alternative literary works may be automatically recommended to the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Corville Orain Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Eric Woods
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Publication number: 20160379392Abstract: A visualization of literary elements of a work of literature, such as a novel or short story, is generated from meta-data records representing a digital work of literature including literary elements (humor, drama, adventure, etc.), characters, and plot devices related to a position within the work of literature where each appears. A significance level is determined for each of the elements, characters and plot devices at each position within the work of literature, and these are plotted into a sequential graph having position (e.g. timeline) axis and a significance level axis. The sequential graph is then output for printing or display. Human-generated and machine-generated meta-data may be ingested equally well by the method. Colors, line thickness, and a broken line patterns may be employed for greater visual meaning. And, the sequential graph may be annotated according to segments (e.g. chapters, sections) and dominant genre within each segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Eric Woods
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Publication number: 20160357856Abstract: A semantic search engine is enhanced to employ user preferences to customize answer output by, for a first user, extracting user preferences and sentiment levels associated with a first question; receiving candidate answer results of a semantic search of the first question; weighting the candidate answer results according to the sentiment levels for each of the user preferences; and producing the selected candidate answers to the first user. Optionally, user preferences and sentiment levels may be accumulated over different questions for the same user, or over different users for similar questions. And, supplemental information may be retrieved relative to a user preference in order to further tune the weighting per the preferences and sentiment levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Scott N. Gerard, Sterling Richardson Smith, David Blake Styles, Eric Woods
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Patent number: 9471626Abstract: A semantic search engine is enhanced to employ user preferences to customize answer output by, for a first user, extracting user preferences and sentiment levels associated with a first question; receiving candidate answer results of a semantic search of the first question; weighting the candidate answer results according to the sentiment levels for each of the user preferences; and producing the selected candidate answers to the first user. Optionally, user preferences and sentiment levels may be accumulated over different questions for the same user, or over different users for similar questions. And, supplemental information may be retrieved relative to a user preference in order to further tune the weighting per the preferences and sentiment levels.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Scott N. Gerard, Sterling Richardson Smith, David Blake Styles, Eric Woods
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Patent number: 9369488Abstract: A term of use policy document defines permissible actions that may be implemented by a user using a computing device. A natural language processing (NLP)-based question and answer (Q&A) system is trained to understand the policy document. The device includes a management application that interacts with the Q&A system to identify a policy violation. When the user performs an action on the device, the application converts that action into an NLP query directed to the Q&A system to determine whether the action constitutes a violation. The query may be accompanied by metadata associated with the user, the device or its state. Upon receipt of the query and any associated metadata, the Q&A system determines if the user action is compliant with the policy and returns a response. Based on the response, the user's computing device may take an enforcement action, e.g., restricting or disabling functionality, or issuing a warning.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.Inventors: Eric Woods, Corville Orain Allen, Scott Robert Carrier
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Publication number: 20160103873Abstract: A semantic search engine is enhanced to employ user preferences to customize answer output by, for a first user, extracting user preferences and sentiment levels associated with a first question; receiving candidate answer results of a semantic search of the first question; weighting the candidate answer results according to the sentiment levels for each of the user preferences; and producing the selected candidate answers to the first user. Optionally, user preferences and sentiment levels may be accumulated over different questions for the same user, or over different users for similar questions. And, supplemental information may be retrieved relative to a user preference in order to further tune the weighting per the preferences and sentiment levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Scott N. Gerard, Sterling Richardson Smith, David Blake Styles, Eric Woods
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Patent number: 9311294Abstract: A semantic search engine is enhanced to employ user preferences to customize answer output by, for a first user, extracting user preferences and sentiment levels associated with a first question; receiving candidate answer results of a semantic search of the first question; weighting the candidate answer results according to the sentiment levels for each of the user preferences; and producing the selected candidate answers to the first user. Optionally, user preferences and sentiment levels may be accumulated over different questions for the same user, or over different users for similar questions. And, supplemental information may be retrieved relative to a user preference in order to further tune the weighting per the preferences and sentiment levels.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Scott N. Gerard, Sterling Richardson Smith, David Blake Styles, Eric Woods
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Patent number: 9244911Abstract: A semantic search engine is enhanced to employ user preferences to customize answer output by, for a first user, extracting user preferences and sentiment levels associated with a first question; receiving candidate answer results of a semantic search of the first question; weighting the candidate answer results according to the sentiment levels for each of the user preferences; and producing the selected candidate answers to the first user. Optionally, user preferences and sentiment levels may be accumulated over different questions for the same user, or over different users for similar questions. And, supplemental information may be retrieved relative to a user preference in order to further tune the weighting per the preferences and sentiment levels.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Scott N. Gerard, Sterling Richardson Smith, David Blake Styles, Eric Woods
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Publication number: 20150154177Abstract: Automatic semantic analysis for characterizing and correlating literary elements within a digital work of literature is accomplished by employing natural language processing and deep semantic analysis of text to create annotations for the literary elements found in a segment or in the entirety of the literature, a weight to each literary element and its associated annotations, wherein the weight indicates an importance or relevance of a literary element to at least the segment of the work of literature; correlating and matching the literary elements to each other to establish one or more interrelationships; and producing an overall weight for the correlated matches.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Corville Orain Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Eric Woods
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Publication number: 20150154179Abstract: Automatic semantic analysis for characterizing and correlating literary elements within a digital work of literature is accomplished by employing natural language processing and deep semantic analysis of text to create annotations for the literary elements found in a segment or in the entirety of the literature, a weight to each literary element and its associated annotations, wherein the weight indicates an importance or relevance of a literary element to at least the segment of the work of literature; correlating and matching the literary elements to each other to establish one or more interrelationships; and producing an overall weight for the correlated matches.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Corville Orain Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Eric Woods
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Publication number: 20150154166Abstract: A visualization of literary elements of a work of literature, such as a novel or short story, is generated from meta-data records representing a digital work of literature including literary elements (humor, drama, adventure, etc.), characters, and plot devices related to a position within the work of literature where each appears. A significance level is determined for each of the elements, characters and plot devices at each position within the work of literature, and these are plotted into a sequential graph having position (e.g. timeline) axis and a significance level axis. The sequential graph is then output for printing or display. Human-generated and machine-generated meta-data may be ingested equally well by the method. Colors, line thickness, and a broken line patterns may be employed for greater visual meaning. And, the sequential graph may be annotated according to segments (e.g. chapters, sections) and dominant genre within each segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Eric Woods
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Publication number: 20150154290Abstract: A visualization of literary elements of a work of literature, such as a novel or short story, is generated from meta-data records representing a digital work of literature including literary elements (humor, drama, adventure, etc.), characters, and plot devices related to a position within the work of literature where each appears. A significance level is determined for each of the elements, characters and plot devices at each position within the work of literature, and these are plotted into a sequential graph having position (e.g. timeline) axis and a significance level axis. The sequential graph is then output for printing or display. Human-generated and machine-generated meta-data may be ingested equally well by the method. Colors, line thickness, and a broken line patterns may be employed for greater visual meaning. And, the sequential graph may be annotated according to segments (e.g. chapters, sections) and dominant genre within each segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Scott N. Gerard, Sterling Richardson Smith, David Blake Styles, Eric Woods
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Publication number: 20150006158Abstract: A semantic search engine is enhanced to employ user preferences to customize answer output by, for a first user, extracting user preferences and sentiment levels associated with a first question; receiving candidate answer results of a semantic search of the first question; weighting the candidate answer results according to the sentiment levels for each of the user preferences; and producing the selected candidate answers to the first user. Optionally, user preferences and sentiment levels may be accumulated over different questions for the same user, or over different users for similar questions. And, supplemental information may be retrieved relative to a user preference in order to further tune the weighting per the preferences and sentiment levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Scott N. Gerard, Sterling Richardson Smith, David Blake Styles, Eric Woods
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Publication number: 20140379331Abstract: Deep semantic analysis is performed on an electronic literary work in order to detect plot elements and optional other storyline elements such as characters within the work. Multiple levels of abstract are generated into a model representing the literary work, wherein each element in each abstraction level may be independently rated for preference by a user. Through comparison of multiple abstraction models and one or more user rating preferences, one or more alternative literary works may be automatically recommended to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Corville Orain Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Eric Woods
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Publication number: 20140358964Abstract: A computing device includes a query formulation engine having a data collection component that collects metadata associated with the device or its operation. Typically, the metadata describes a characteristic about the device (e.g., which components or applications are resident, their current operating states or characteristics, what applications are active, which application has the display focus, what permissions are associated with each application, what application-specific calls are being made to the device operating system, etc.). A natural language processing (NLP)-based question and answer (Q&A) system is trained to understand natural language text queries generated by the query formulation engine. When a user performs an action on the device, the engine converts that action, preferably together with a structured form of the metadata, into an NLP query. The query is directed to the Q&A system. A response to the NLP query is received at the computing device and then acted upon.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Eric Woods, Corville Orain Allen, Scott Robert Carrier
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Publication number: 20140359691Abstract: A term of use policy document defines permissible actions that may be implemented by a user using a computing device. A natural language processing (NLP)-based question and answer (Q&A) system is trained to understand the policy document. The device includes a management application that interacts with the Q&A system to identify a policy violation. When the user performs an action on the device, the application converts that action into an NLP query directed to the Q&A system to determine whether the action constitutes a violation. The query may be accompanied by metadata associated with the user, the device or its state. Upon receipt of the query and any associated metadata, the Q&A system determines if the user action is compliant with the policy and returns a response. Based on the response, the user's computing device may take an enforcement action, e.g., restricting or disabling functionality, or issuing a warning.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2013Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Eric Woods, Corville Orain Allen, Scott Robert Carrier
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Publication number: 20140278363Abstract: A semantic search engine is enhanced to employ user preferences to customize answer output by, for a first user, extracting user preferences and sentiment levels associated with a first question; receiving candidate answer results of a semantic search of the first question; weighting the candidate answer results according to the sentiment levels for each of the user preferences; and producing the selected candidate answers to the first user. Optionally, user preferences and sentiment levels may be accumulated over different questions for the same user, or over different users for similar questions. And, supplemental information may be retrieved relative to a user preference in order to further tune the weighting per the preferences and sentiment levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Scott N. Gerard, Sterling Richardson Smith, David Blake Styles, Eric Woods
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Publication number: 20140236573Abstract: Deep semantic analysis is performed on an electronic literary work in order to detect plot elements and optional other storyline elements such as characters within the work. Multiple levels of abstract are generated into a model representing the literary work, wherein each element in each abstraction level may be independently rated for preference by a user. Through comparison of multiple abstraction models and one or more user rating preferences, one or more alternative literary works may be automatically recommended to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2013Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Corville Orain Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Eric Woods