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: 9588989
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Deborah A. Payne, Edwin R. Burtner, Shawn J. Bohn, Shawn D. Hampton, David S. Gillen, Michael J. Henry
  • Publication number: 20160110384
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Deborah A. Payne, Edwin R. Burtner, Shawn J. Bohn, Shawn D. Hampton, David S. Gillen, Michael J. Henry
  • Patent number: 9218439
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Deborah A. Payne, Edwin R. Burtner, Shawn J. Bohn, Shawn D. Hampton, David S. Gillen, Michael J. Henry
  • Publication number: 20140358900
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Deborah A. Payne, Edwin R. Burtner, Shawn J. Bohn, Shawn D. Hampton, David S. Gillen, Michael J. Henry
  • Publication number: 20130044114
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Edwin R. Burtner, Shawn J. Bohn, Arthur H. Bleeker, Luke J. Gosink, David S. Gillen
  • Publication number: 20120221545
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Eric B. Bell, Shawn J. Bohn, Andrew J. Cowell, Michelle L. Gregory, Eric J. Marshall, Deborah A. Payne
  • Patent number: 8239425
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Eric B. Bell, Shawn J. Bohn, Andrew J. Cowell, Michelle L. Gregory, Eric J. Marshall, Deborah A. Payne
  • Patent number: 7895210
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Shawn J. Bohn, Manoj Kumar Krishnan, Wendy E. Cowley, Jarek Nieplocha
  • Publication number: 20090287991
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: Grant C. Nakamura, Shawn J. Bohn
  • Publication number: 20080082520
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Shawn J. Bohn, Manoj Kumar Krishnan, Wendy E. Cowley, Jarek Nieplocha