Patents by Inventor Steven M. Banks

Steven M. Banks 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).

  • Apparatus and method for probabilistic population size and overlap determination, remote processing of private data and probabilistic population size and overlap determination for three or more data sets
    Patent number: 7139675
    Abstract: The invention determines the population size and population overlap in data containing records on the unique entities without unique identifiers for the unique entities and having at least one common type of information with a known distribution of finite expectation by decomposing probabilistic calculations. The computer determines population overlap of unique entities between the data sets by subtracting a probabilistic incremental number of unique entities needed for a larger total number of values of the information with the known distribution from the data sets. The invention can also maintain the security of private data by allowing a remote computer where the original data is stored to download diagnostic and aggregation procedures from another computer over a network. The remote computer performs the functions on the data and forwards the results to the estimate processor computer over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: The Bristol Observatory, Ltd
    Inventors: Steven M. Banks, John A. Pandiani
  • Apparatus and method for probabilistic population size and overlap determination, remote processing of private data and probabilistic population size and overlap determination for three or more data sets
    Publication number: 20030101028
    Abstract: The invention determines the population size and population overlap in data containing records on the unique entities without unique identifiers for the unique entities and having at least one common type of information with a known distribution of finite expectation by decomposing probabilistic calculations. The computer determines population overlap of unique entities between the data sets by subtracting a probabilistic incremental number of unique entities needed for a larger total number of values of the information with the known distribution from the data sets. The invention can also maintain the security of private data by allowing a remote computer where the original data is stored to download diagnostic and aggregation procedures from another computer over a network. The remote computer performs the functions on the data and forwards the results to the estimate processor computer over the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Applicant: Bristol Observatory, LTD
    Inventors: Steven M. Banks, John A. Pandiani
  • Apparatus and method for probabilistic population size and overlap determination
    Patent number: 6470298
    Abstract: The invention is an apparatus and method for probabilistic determination of population size and population overlap in data containing records on the unique entities without unique identifiers for the unique entities and having at least one common type of information with a known distribution of finite expectation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: The Bristol Observatory, LTD
    Inventors: Steven M. Banks, John A. Pandiani