Patents by Inventor Xavier F. Llorà

Xavier F. Llorà 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).

  • Methods and systems for interactive computing
    Patent number: 7979365
    Abstract: Methods and systems for creating a synthetic surrogate fitness function. User decisions are received representing fitness for a plurality of solutions. A partial ordering of the plurality of solutions is provided based on the received user decisions, wherein at least some of the plurality of solutions are represented to have a greater relative fitness than other of the plurality of solutions. A complete order of at least the plurality of solutions is induced based on the normalized partial ordering. A synthetic surrogate fitness function is generated using the induced complete order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: David E. Goldberg, Kumara Sastry, Xavier F. Llorá
  • Methods and systems for computer based collaboration
    Patent number: 7904512
    Abstract: An exemplary method for computer based collaboration between a plurality of participants communicating over a data network comprises steps of receiving communications data with the computer, using a text analysis tool to identify at least a plurality of k-words from the communications data and a plurality of relations linking at least a portion of the plurality of k-words, and displaying the k-words and relations to the plurality of participants over the computer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: David E. Goldberg, Michael E. Welge, Xavier F. Llorà
  • Methods and systems for interactive computing
    Publication number: 20080183648
    Abstract: Methods and systems for creating a synthetic surrogate fitness function. User decisions are received representing fitness for a plurality of solutions. A partial ordering of the plurality of solutions is provided based on the received user decisions, wherein at least some of the plurality of solutions are represented to have a greater relative fitness than other of the plurality of solutions. A complete order of at least the plurality of solutions is induced based on the normalized partial ordering. A synthetic surrogate fitness function is generated using the induced complete order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: David E. Goldberg, Kumara Sastry, Xavier F. Llora