Patents by Inventor William Ferng
William Ferng 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: 8458117Abstract: The embodiments described herein describe a computerized system and method for retrieving and processing data to provide dependency and root cause information for a process. The computerized system and method include receiving historic data of the process, detecting temporal dependency or precedence tasks in the process from the historic data, generating a historic dependency graph, aggregating the historic dependency graph into a probabilistic precedence network (PPN), pruning the PPN, and presenting results to a user.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2009Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Haiqin Wang, Robert Cranfill, Jai Joon Choi, Changzhou Wang, Sidney Ly, William Ferng
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Patent number: 8234279Abstract: A streaming text data comparator performs real-time text data mining on streaming text data. The comparator receives a streaming text data document and generates a vector representation of the term frequencies relating to an existing document collection. The comparator then transforms the term frequency vector into a projection in a precomputed multidimensional subspace that represents the original document collection. The comparator further calculates a relationship value representing the similarities or differences between the vector representation and the subspace, and compares the relationship value to a predetermined threshold to determine whether the streaming text data document is related to the original document collection. If the streaming text data document is related, the streaming text data comparator intercalates the new document into the document collection. If the new document is not related, the comparator may store or delete the unrelated document.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2005Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Yuan-Jye Wu, Anne S-W Kao, Stephen R. Poteet, William Ferng, Robert E. Cranfill
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Patent number: 7831597Abstract: A text summarizer identifies relevant terms in a document, weights the terms and extracts one or more segments to produce a summary or abstract. The various terms in a particular are weighted in relation to an existing document collection. A term weight computer computes term weights for terms in the document, and a threshold comparator compares the term weights to determine if the corresponding terms are relevant to the document collection. Next, a term weight summer adds the term weights for each occurrence of each relevant term in the various segments of the document, and a summation comparator compares the summations to identify a text summarization segment representative of the document. Optionally, relevant terms can be highlighted in the term summarization segment.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2006Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Yuan-Jye Wu, Anne S-W Kao, Stephen R. Poteet, William Ferng, Robert E. Cranfill
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Publication number: 20100198776Abstract: The embodiments described herein describe a computerized system and method for retrieving and processing data to provide dependency and root cause information for a process. The computerized system and method include receiving historic data of the process, detecting temporal dependency or precedence tasks in the process from the historic data, generating a historic dependency graph, aggregating the historic dependency graph into a probabilistic precedence network (PPN), pruning the PPN, and presenting results to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2009Publication date: August 5, 2010Inventors: Haiqin Wang, Robert Cranfill, Jai Joon Choi, Changzhou Wang, Sidney Ly, William Ferng
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Patent number: 7752204Abstract: A text summarizer identifies relevant terms in a document, weights the terms and extracts one or more segments to produce a summary or abstract. The various terms in a particular are weighted in relation to an existing document collection. A term weight computer computes term weights for terms in the document, and a threshold comparator compares the term weights to determine if the corresponding terms are relevant to the document collection. Next, a term weight summer adds the term weights for each occurrence of each relevant term in the various segments of the document, and a summation comparator compares the summations to identify a text summarization segment representative of the document. Optionally, relevant terms can be highlighted in the term summarization segment.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2005Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Anne S-W Kao, Stephen R. Poteet, Yuan-Jye Wu, William Ferng, Robert E. Cranfill
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Patent number: 7403932Abstract: Provided are improved methods, apparatus, and computer program products for text differentiation which involves identifying differences between documents with similar content, not merely similar terms, and generating results. Text differentiation provides the ability to find non-similar, or different, content hidden within documents with similar overall content, but not exactly the same content. Text differentiation may be used to quickly identify key differences between similar documents.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2005Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Anne S-W Kao, Stephen R. Poteet, Yuan-Jye Wu, William Ferng, Robert E. Cranfill
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Publication number: 20070118506Abstract: A text summarizer identifies relevant terms in a document, weights the terms and extracts one or more segments to produce a summary or abstract. The various terms in a particular are weighted in relation to an existing document collection. A term weight computer computes term weights for terms in the document, and a threshold comparator compares the term weights to determine if the corresponding terms are relevant to the document collection. Next, a term weight summer adds the term weights for each occurrence of each relevant term in the various segments of the document, and a summation comparator compares the summations to identify a text summarization segment representative of the document. Optionally, relevant terms can be highlighted in the term summarization segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2005Publication date: May 24, 2007Inventors: Anne Kao, Stephen Poteet, Yuan-Jye Wu, William Ferng, Robert Cranfill
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Publication number: 20070118518Abstract: A text summarizer identifies relevant terms in a document, weights the terms and extracts one or more segments to produce a summary or abstract. The various terms in a particular are weighted in relation to an existing document collection. A term weight computer computes term weights for terms in the document, and a threshold comparator compares the term weights to determine if the corresponding terms are relevant to the document collection. Next, a term weight summer adds the term weights for each occurrence of each relevant term in the various segments of the document, and a summation comparator compares the summations to identify a text summarization segment representative of the document. Optionally, relevant terms can be highlighted in the term summarization segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2006Publication date: May 24, 2007Inventors: Yuan-Jye Wu, Anne Kao, Stephen Poteet, William Ferng, Robert Cranfill
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Publication number: 20070083509Abstract: A streaming text data comparator performs real-time text data mining on streaming text data. The comparator receives a streaming text data document and generates a vector representation of the term frequencies relating to an existing document collection. The comparator then transforms the term frequency vector into a projection in a precomputed multidimensional subspace that represents the original document collection. The comparator further calculates a relationship value representing the similarities or differences between the vector representation and the subspace, and compares the relationship value to a predetermined threshold to determine whether the streaming text data document is related to the original document collection. If the streaming text data document is related, the streaming text data comparator intercalates the new document into the document collection. If the new document is not related, the comparator may store or delete the unrelated document.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2005Publication date: April 12, 2007Inventors: Yuan-Jye Wu, Anne Kao, Stephen Poteet, William Ferng, Robert Cranfill
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Publication number: 20070022072Abstract: Provided are improved methods, apparatus, and computer program products for text differentiation which involves identifying differences between documents with similar content, not merely similar terms, and generating results. Text differentiation provides the ability to find non-similar, or different, content hidden within documents with similar overall content, but not exactly the same content. Text differentiation may be used to quickly identify key differences between similar documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2005Publication date: January 25, 2007Inventors: Anne Kao, Stephen Poteet, Yuan-Jye Wu, William Ferng, Robert Cranfill
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Publication number: 20060020076Abstract: There is disclosed a sealant material for providing sealing to a substrate and preferably an interface. The sealant material may also include a material, shape, ingredient or otherwise for inhibiting the flow of bubbles throught the material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2005Publication date: January 26, 2006Applicant: L&L Products, Inc.Inventors: Terry Finerman, David Carlson, Matthew Harthcock, Craig Knepper, Craig Chmielewski, William Ferng, Christopher Hable, Abraham Kassa, Blair Jensen
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Publication number: 20050159531Abstract: An adhesive material and at least one use for the adhesive material are disclosed. The material includes one or more of a polymeric admixture; a blowing agent; a curing agent; a metallic coagent and a filler.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2004Publication date: July 21, 2005Applicant: L&L Products, Inc.Inventors: William Ferng, Edward Harrison