Patents by Inventor William Colligan

William Colligan 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: 10359501
    Abstract: A mobile emergency perimeter system includes one or more fixed radio frequency (RF) sensors, and one or more moving RF sensors; a wireless mesh network coupling together each of the sensors; and a central processor system coupled to the wireless mesh network. The central processor system executes machine instructions stored on a computer-readable storage medium to control each of the RF sensors to receive time of arrival data for a RF signal transmitted by an emitter and received at each of the RF sensors, receive location information for each of the RF sensors and determine a three-dimensional (3-D) estimate of the geographical location of the emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Evan Eaves, Eric Chartier, William Colligan, Paul C. Davis, Andrew Murphy, Douglas Sweet
  • Publication number: 20190213894
    Abstract: A method, executed by a processor, includes the processor receiving signals information from a device located on a departing airplane; verifying an identification of the airplane and identifying an expected departure sequence of aircraft surface states; monitoring and identifying additional signals information received from the mobile device, including comparing the additional signals information to known data; logging the additional signals information, and processing the additional signals information, and determining the logged data corresponds to events indicative of an aircraft surface state; sending an aircraft surface state reached message to Local and Center flight management; and executing a statistical routine and providing statistical data from the execution relating to an occurrence of upcoming aircraft surface state event and sending the statistical data with the aircraft surface state message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Architecture Technology Corporation
    Inventors: William Colligan, Eric R Chartier, Paul Davis, Andrew Murphy, Douglas Sweet
  • Publication number: 20190213250
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for analyzing documents includes a processor receiving one or more documents, from a community-based document delivery system, related to a domain of interest; the processor identifying and extracting one or more data items from the one or more documents; determining if an identified and extracted data item comprises a true mention of a named entity; analyzing a context of the true mention of the named entity in the document; and determining, based on the analyzed context, if the document is a true document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Architecture Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Murphy, Eric R Chartier, Evan Eaves, William Colligan
  • Patent number: 10235892
    Abstract: A method, executed by a processor, includes the processor receiving signals information from a device located on a departing airplane; verifying an identification of the airplane and identifying an expected departure sequence of aircraft surface states; monitoring and identifying additional signals information received from the mobile device, including comparing the additional signals information to known data; logging the additional signals information, and processing the additional signals information, and determining the logged data corresponds to events indicative of an aircraft surface state; sending an aircraft surface state reached message to Local and Center flight management; and executing a statistical routine and providing statistical data from the execution relating to an occurrence of upcoming aircraft surface state event and sending the statistical data with the aircraft surface state message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: William Colligan, Eric R. Chartier, Paul Davis, Andrew Murphy, Douglas Sweet
  • Patent number: 10235894
    Abstract: An advisor system includes a computer-readable storage medium having encoded thereon a program of instructions. Execution of the instructions causes a processor to determine a current state of a first aircraft operating on a movement area of an airport including determining a path vector for the first aircraft. The path vector includes a speed and direction of travel of the first aircraft and identification of a runway intersection the first aircraft is projected to enter. The processor processes a surveillance signal transmitted from a second aircraft operating on the movement area, including determining a quality of the surveillance signal. The processor further determines a movement vector of the second aircraft, and compares the path vector and the movement vector to identify possible interference. Finally, the processor provides an advisory at the first aircraft based on the compared path vector and the movement vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric R. Chartier, Evan Eaves, William Colligan, Andrew Murphy
  • Patent number: 10235357
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for analyzing documents includes a processor receiving one or more documents, from a community-based document delivery system, related to a domain of interest; the processor identifying and extracting one or more data items from the one or more documents; determining if an identified and extracted data item comprises a true mention of a named entity; analyzing a context of the true mention of the named entity in the document; and determining, based on the analyzed context, if the document is a true document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Murphy, Eric Chartier, Evan Eaves, William Colligan
  • Publication number: 20180357911
    Abstract: An advisor system includes a computer-readable storage medium having encoded thereon a program of instructions. Execution of the instructions causes a processor to determine a current state of a first aircraft operating on a movement area of an airport including determining a path vector for the first aircraft. The path vector includes a speed and direction of travel of the first aircraft and identification of a runway intersection the first aircraft is projected to enter. The processor processes a surveillance signal transmitted from a second aircraft operating on the movement area, including determining a quality of the surveillance signal. The processor further determines a movement vector of the second aircraft, and compares the path vector and the movement vector to identify possible interference. Finally, the processor provides an advisory at the first aircraft based on the compared path vector and the movement vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Architecture Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Eric R. Chartier, Evan Eaves, William Colligan, Andrew Murphy
  • Publication number: 20180285340
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for analyzing documents includes a processor receiving one or more documents, from a community-based document delivery system, related to a domain of interest; the processor identifying and extracting one or more data items from the one or more documents; determining if an identified and extracted data item comprises a true mention of a named entity; analyzing a context of the true mention of the named entity in the document; and determining, based on the analyzed context, if the document is a true document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Andrew Murphy, Eric Chartier, Evan Eaves, William Colligan
  • Publication number: 20180260827
    Abstract: A product obsolescence forecast system comprises machine instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. A processor executes the machine instructions to access data items related to a first product and one or more second products designated as similar to the first product, the first product and each of the one or more second products belonging to a same class of products; extract data elements from the data items; reformat the data elements as analyzable data elements and store the analyzable data elements in an analyzable data structure; apply a probabilistic model to selected ones of the analyzable data elements to provide a forecast obsolescence date for the first product; and using the forecast obsolescence date, determine one or more impacts based on the forecast obsolescence date.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Drew Sullivan, Evan Eaves, William Colligan
  • Patent number: 10043405
    Abstract: An advisor system includes a computer-readable storage medium having encoded thereon a program of instructions. Execution of the instructions causes a processor to determine a current state of a first aircraft operating on a movement area of an airport including determining a path vector for the first aircraft. The path vector includes a speed and direction of travel of the first aircraft and identification of a runway intersection the first aircraft is projected to enter. The processor processes a surveillance signal transmitted from a second aircraft operating on the movement area, including determining a quality of the surveillance signal. The processor further determines a movement vector of the second aircraft, and compares the path vector and the movement vector to identify possible interference. Finally, the processor provides an advisory at the first aircraft based on the compared path vector and the movement vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric R. Chartier, Evan Eaves, William Colligan, Andrew Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20180180709
    Abstract: A mobile emergency perimeter system includes one or more fixed radio frequency (RF) sensors, and one or more moving RF sensors; a wireless mesh network coupling together each of the sensors; and a central processor system coupled to the wireless mesh network. The central processor system executes machine instructions stored on a computer-readable storage medium to control each of the RF sensors to receive time of arrival data for a RF signal transmitted by an emitter and received at each of the RF sensors, receive location information for each of the RF sensors and determine a three-dimensional (3-D) estimate of the geographical location of the emitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Evan Eaves, Eric Chartier, William Colligan, Paul C. Davis, Andrew Murphy, Douglas Sweet