Patents by Inventor Wolf-Tilo Balke

Wolf-Tilo Balke 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).

  • Personalized discovery of services
    Patent number: 8086658
    Abstract: A method of discovering at least one service being advertised in a communication system using at least one service ontology describing service characteristics with service attributes supports user-centered and personalized discovery of services. A discovery statement is formulated as a function of the query term and services with service attributes matching the discovery statement are discovered using the structure implied by the service ontology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthias Wagner, Wolf-Tilo Balke
  • Device, storage medium and a method for detecting objects strongly resembling a given object
    Publication number: 20030109940
    Abstract: Methods are described with which, from a large number of objects and in an efficient way, a search can be made for the objects which best resemble a sample object. For this purpose, the number of objects to be considered is restricted via efficiently calculated limiting values. In addition, the methods have search strategies which use the values of the characteristics of the objects considered for an efficient search strategy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventors: Ulrich Guntzer, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Werner Kiessling