Patents by Inventor Thomas E. Chivers

Thomas E. Chivers 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).

  • Rule-based item classification
    Patent number: 9483741
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for rule-based item classification. The methods include receiving, by a computing device, an item record for analysis. The computing device may determine ranked lists of item types using rule-based classifiers and machine learning-based classifiers. Then, the computing device may aggregate the ranked lists of item types to generate a combined ranked list of item types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
    Inventors: Chong Sun, Fan Yang, Narasimhan Rampalli, Digvijay Singh Lamba, Jun Xie, Thomas E. Chivers, Gokul Kavaturi, Tracy ThuTrang Phung
  • RULE-BASED ITEM CLASSIFICATION
    Publication number: 20140372351
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for rule-based item classification. The methods include receiving, by a computing device, an item record for analysis. The computing device may determine ranked lists of item types using rule-based classifiers and machine learning-based classifiers. Then, the computing device may aggregate the ranked lists of item types to generate a combined ranked list of item types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Chong Sun, Fan Yang, Narasimhan Rampalli, Digvijay Singh Lamba, Jun Xie, Thomas E. Chivers, Gokul Kavaturi, Tracy ThuTrang Phung