Patents by Inventor Stephan Alexander

Stephan Alexander 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).

  • Publication number: 20110251989
    Abstract: The apparatus computes classification scores based on parameters that have been determined from documents. Each score is compared with a first and second threshold. Definite classifications are assigned when the score is above the highest threshold or below the lowest threshold and the documents are processed accordingly. If the score is between the thresholds the document is singled out for further inspection, for example by a human arbitrator, to assign a class. The first and second threshold are adapted automatically based on specified a minimum accuracy level for the classification and a training set. The apparatus uses this specified accuracy in a search for a combination of threshold values that optimizes classifier yield, in terms of a maximized fraction of patterns in a training set that need not be turned over for further inspection without definite classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventors: Wessel Kraaij, Stephan Alexander Raaijmakers
  • Publication number: 20100280979
    Abstract: A method of determining hyperparameters (HP) of a classifier (1) in a machine learning system (10) iteratively produces an estimate of a target hyperparameter vector. The method comprises the steps of selecting from the random sample the hyperparameter vector producing the best result in the present and any previous iterations, and updating the estimate of the target hyperparameter vector by using said selected hyperparameter vector. The random sample may be restricted by using the hyperparameter vector producing the best result in the present and any previous iterations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventor: Stephan Alexander Raaijmakers
  • Publication number: 20030033187
    Abstract: A computer-based construction project management system, for use in controlling the assembly of structures, including three software sub-systems; a first sub-system that receives data relating to an individual task of a construction project; a second sub-system, for project scheduling, that allows a planner to view and modify the timing and inter-relation of key events and a third sub-system that converts data from the first and/or second sub-systems into a visual three dimensional graphical representation which allocates space in a three dimensional model of the structure to the task, as an event in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Applicant: Start-global Ltd.
    Inventors: Huw Benjamin Jones, Stephan Alexander Lewry Jones, Richard Gareth James Oatridge, Paul Hadleigh Jackson