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).
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Patent number: 10359501Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLGY CORPORATIONInventors: Evan Eaves, Eric Chartier, William Colligan, Paul C. Davis, Andrew Murphy, Douglas Sweet
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Publication number: 20190213894Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2019Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicant: Architecture Technology CorporationInventors: William Colligan, Eric R Chartier, Paul Davis, Andrew Murphy, Douglas Sweet
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Publication number: 20190213250Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2019Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicant: Architecture Technology CorporationInventors: Andrew Murphy, Eric R Chartier, Evan Eaves, William Colligan
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Patent number: 10235892Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 5, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: William Colligan, Eric R. Chartier, Paul Davis, Andrew Murphy, Douglas Sweet
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Patent number: 10235894Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Eric R. Chartier, Evan Eaves, William Colligan, Andrew Murphy
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Patent number: 10235357Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 4, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew Murphy, Eric Chartier, Evan Eaves, William Colligan
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Publication number: 20180357911Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2018Publication date: December 13, 2018Applicant: Architecture Technology CorporationInventors: Eric R. Chartier, Evan Eaves, William Colligan, Andrew Murphy
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Publication number: 20180285340Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2017Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Andrew Murphy, Eric Chartier, Evan Eaves, William Colligan
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Publication number: 20180260827Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2017Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Drew Sullivan, Evan Eaves, William Colligan
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Patent number: 10043405Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Eric R. Chartier, Evan Eaves, William Colligan, Andrew Sullivan
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Publication number: 20180180709Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2016Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Evan Eaves, Eric Chartier, William Colligan, Paul C. Davis, Andrew Murphy, Douglas Sweet