Patents by Inventor Shawn J. Bohn
Shawn J. Bohn 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: 9588989Abstract: Search systems and computer-implemented search methods are described. In one aspect, a search system includes a communications interface configured to access a plurality of data items of a collection, wherein the data items include a plurality of image objects individually comprising image data utilized to generate an image of the respective data item. The search system may include processing circuitry coupled with the communications interface and configured to process the image data of the data items of the collection to identify a plurality of image content facets which are indicative of image content contained within the images and to associate the image objects with the image content facets and a display coupled with the processing circuitry and configured to depict the image objects associated with the image content facets.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Deborah A. Payne, Edwin R. Burtner, Shawn J. Bohn, Shawn D. Hampton, David S. Gillen, Michael J. Henry
-
Publication number: 20160110384Abstract: Search systems and computer-implemented search methods are described. In one aspect, a search system includes a communications interface configured to access a plurality of data items of a collection, wherein the data items include a plurality of image objects individually comprising image data utilized to generate an image of the respective data item. The search system may include processing circuitry coupled with the communications interface and configured to process the image data of the data items of the collection to identify a plurality of image content facets which are indicative of image content contained within the images and to associate the image objects with the image content facets and a display coupled with the processing circuitry and configured to depict the image objects associated with the image content facets.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Deborah A. Payne, Edwin R. Burtner, Shawn J. Bohn, Shawn D. Hampton, David S. Gillen, Michael J. Henry
-
Patent number: 9218439Abstract: Search systems and computer-implemented search methods are described. In one aspect, a search system includes a communications interface configured to access a plurality of data items of a collection, wherein the data items include a plurality of image objects individually comprising image data utilized to generate an image of the respective data item. The search system may include processing circuitry coupled with the communications interface and configured to process the image data of the data items of the collection to identify a plurality of image content facets which are indicative of image content contained within the images and to associate the image objects with the image content facets and a display coupled with the processing circuitry and configured to depict the image objects associated with the image content facets.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Deborah A. Payne, Edwin R. Burtner, Shawn J. Bohn, Shawn D. Hampton, David S. Gillen, Michael J. Henry
-
Publication number: 20140358900Abstract: Search systems and computer-implemented search methods are described. In one aspect, a search system includes a communications interface configured to access a plurality of data items of a collection, wherein the data items include a plurality of image objects individually comprising image data utilized to generate an image of the respective data item. The search system may include processing circuitry coupled with the communications interface and configured to process the image data of the data items of the collection to identify a plurality of image content facets which are indicative of image content contained within the images and to associate the image objects with the image content facets and a display coupled with the processing circuitry and configured to depict the image objects associated with the image content facets.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2013Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventors: Deborah A. Payne, Edwin R. Burtner, Shawn J. Bohn, Shawn D. Hampton, David S. Gillen, Michael J. Henry
-
Publication number: 20130044114Abstract: Visual representations having visual nodes that can each show up to two levels of an abstraction hierarchy of data, extracted elements of the data, and/or categories thereof, with the optional ability to explode the data, the extracted elements, and/or the categories into additional visual nodes provide capability for deeper composition exploration. Relationships among the data, the extracted elements, and/or the categories can be represented via lines within and across visual nodes. The visual representation can provide an user with awareness of different attributes of the data, the extracted elements, and/or the categories in context even for large, complex corpora of data. The representations of the data, the extracted elements, and/or the categories in the visual representation can be sorted, can depict relative size or quantity across various attributes, and can provide insight into relationships based on metadata and/or content.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2011Publication date: February 21, 2013Applicant: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTEInventors: Edwin R. Burtner, Shawn J. Bohn, Arthur H. Bleeker, Luke J. Gosink, David S. Gillen
-
Publication number: 20120221545Abstract: Desired content, metadata, or both can be isolated from the full content of social media websites having content-rich pages. Achieving this can include obtaining from the content-rich pages a language-independent representation having a hierarchical structure of nodes and then generating a node representation for each node. Feature vectors for the nodes are generated and a label is assigned to each node representation according to a schema. Assignment can occur by executing a trained classification algorithm on the feature vectors. The schema has schema elements and each schema element corresponds to a label. For each schema element, all node representations having matching labels are gathered and then one node representation is elected from among those with matching labels to be assigned to a schema element field in a template. The template can be applied to extract desired content, metadata, or both according to the schema from all the content-rich pages.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2011Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTEInventors: Eric B. Bell, Shawn J. Bohn, Andrew J. Cowell, Michelle L. Gregory, Eric J. Marshall, Deborah A. Payne
-
Patent number: 8239425Abstract: Desired content, metadata, or both can be isolated from the full content of social media websites having content-rich pages. Achieving this can include obtaining from the content-rich pages a language-independent representation having a hierarchical structure of nodes and then generating a node representation for each node. Feature vectors for the nodes are generated and a label is assigned to each node representation according to a schema. Assignment can occur by executing a trained classification algorithm on the feature vectors. The schema has schema elements and each schema element corresponds to a label. For each schema element, all node representations having matching labels are gathered and then one node representation is elected from among those with matching labels to be assigned to a schema element field in a template. The template can be applied to extract desired content, metadata, or both according to the schema from all the content-rich pages.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2011Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Eric B. Bell, Shawn J. Bohn, Andrew J. Cowell, Michelle L. Gregory, Eric J. Marshall, Deborah A. Payne
-
Patent number: 7895210Abstract: Apparatuses and computer-implemented methods for analyzing, on shared and distributed computing systems, information comprising one or more documents are disclosed according to some aspects. In one embodiment, information analysis can comprise distributing one or more distinct sets of documents among each of a plurality of processes, wherein each process performs operations on a distinct set of documents substantially in parallel with other processes. Operations by each process can further comprise computing term statistics for terms contained in each distinct set of documents, thereby generating a local set of term statistics for each distinct set of documents. Still further, operations by each process can comprise contributing the local sets of term statistics to a global set of term statistics, and participating in generating a major term set from an assigned portion of a global vocabulary.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Shawn J. Bohn, Manoj Kumar Krishnan, Wendy E. Cowley, Jarek Nieplocha
-
Publication number: 20090287991Abstract: Methods, computer-executable instructions on computer-readable media, and systems for generating fusible signatures for information contained in two or more corpora of data. The fusible signatures can allow the information from the separate corpora of data to be merged, or fused, into a single information space that allows information analysts to explore, analyze, and/or further process the fused data. Prior to manipulation by the embodiments of the present invention, the information contained in at least one of the individual corpora of data is typically represented by initial signatures that are not directly fusible with information in the other corpora of data because of differences, for example, in dimensionality, source, data type, basis, and/or the space in which the initial signatures reside.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2008Publication date: November 19, 2009Inventors: Grant C. Nakamura, Shawn J. Bohn
-
Publication number: 20080082520Abstract: Apparatuses and computer-implemented methods for analyzing, on shared and distributed computing systems, information comprising one or more documents are disclosed according to some aspects. In one embodiment, information analysis can comprise distributing one or more distinct sets of documents among each of a plurality of processes, wherein each process performs operations on a distinct set of documents substantially in parallel with other processes. Operations by each process can further comprise computing term statistics for terms contained in each distinct set of documents, thereby generating a local set of term statistics for each distinct set of documents. Still further, operations by each process can comprise contributing the local sets of term statistics to a global set of term statistics, and participating in generating a major term set from an assigned portion of a global vocabulary.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2006Publication date: April 3, 2008Inventors: Shawn J. Bohn, Manoj Kumar Krishnan, Wendy E. Cowley, Jarek Nieplocha