OUR CAPABILITIES ARE BUILT ON DOZENS OF UNIQUE PIECES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Each one of these inventions represents a transformative new innovation in the areas of text analytics, entity disambiguation, knowledge discovery, search, in-memory computing, and data compression.
These inventions are reflected in an IP portfolio of more than two dozen patents, filed in December 2014. To date, 30 of these patents have already been either issued or allowed – an astonishingly fast progression from their initial filing.
Below is an inventory of the individual pieces of intellectual property we’ve developed, the teams that developed them and their status.
Big Data Compression
Category: Compression
Description: Dramatically compressing the size of a dataset while preserving the ability to decompress a single record or field.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Bryan Zimmerman
Status: Issued: US Patents #9,025,892, #9,710,517
Automated Discovery of New Topics
Category: Entity Disambiguation & Knowledge Discovery
Description: Using co-occurring topics from different topic models to aid in entity disambiguation; extending conventional LDA topic modeling in so that each component is treated as conditionally-independent.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Sanjay Boddhu, Robert Flagg
Status: Issued: US Patents #9,177,262 and #9,626,623
Automated Discovery of New Topics
Category: Entity Disambiguation & Knowledge Discovery
Description: Using co-occurring topics from different topic models to aid in entity disambiguation; extending conventional LDA topic modeling in so that each component is treated as conditionally-independent.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Sanjay Boddhu, Robert Flagg
Status: Issued: US Patents #9,177,262 and #9,626,623
Event Detection through Text Analysis via Trained Template Modes
Category: Text Analysis
Description: Using topic models to develop relationships between topics, events and entities; and further use of that data to detect and capture events.
Inventors: Sanjay Boddhu, Robert Flagg, Rakesh Dave, Scott Lightner
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,177,254
Event Detection through Text Analysis via Trained Template Modes
Category: Text Analysis
Description: Using topic models to develop relationships between topics, events and entities; and further use of that data to detect and capture events.
Inventors: Sanjay Boddhu, Robert Flagg, Rakesh Dave, Scott Lightner
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,177,254
Search Suggestions Via Fuzzy-Score Matching and Co-Occurrence
Category: Search
Description: Employing a co-occurrence knowledge base to allow a user to submit partial or complete queries, which are processed on-the-fly to detect entities, their misspelled variations, and other conceptual features.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Rakesh Dave, Sanjay Boddhu, Joe Becknell
Status: Issued: US Patents #9,208,204 and #9,507,834
Search Suggestions Via Fuzzy-Score Matching and Co-Occurrence
Category: Search
Description: Employing a co-occurrence knowledge base to allow a user to submit partial or complete queries, which are processed on-the-fly to detect entities, their misspelled variations, and other conceptual features.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Rakesh Dave, Sanjay Boddhu, Joe Becknell
Status: Issued: US Patents #9,208,204 and #9,507,834
Search Suggestions Via Fuzzy-Score Matching and Population Frequencies
Category: Search
Description: Extending existing search suggestion mechanisms to employ an entity co-occurrence knowledge base, a trends co-occurrence knowledge base, fuzzy matching modules and entity extraction modules.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Rakesh Dave, Sanjay Boddhu
Status: Issued: US Patent # 9,201,931
Search Suggestions Via Fuzzy-Score Matching and Population Frequencies
Category: Search
Description: Extending existing search suggestion mechanisms to employ an entity co-occurrence knowledge base, a trends co-occurrence knowledge base, fuzzy matching modules and entity extraction modules.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Rakesh Dave, Sanjay Boddhu
Status: Issued: US Patent # 9,201,931
In-Loop, Human Validation of Disambiguated Features
Category: Entity Disambiguation & Knowledge Discovery
Description: Extending traditional feature disambiguation systems by providing a feedback mechanism to take human verification of the disambiguated results and update the knowledge base on-the-fly.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Rakesh Dave, Sanjay Boddhu
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,223,833
In-Loop, Human Validation of Disambiguated Features
Category: Entity Disambiguation & Knowledge Discovery
Description: Extending traditional feature disambiguation systems by providing a feedback mechanism to take human verification of the disambiguated results and update the knowledge base on-the-fly.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Rakesh Dave, Sanjay Boddhu
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,223,833
Fault-Tolerant Architecture for Distributed Systems
Category: In-Memory DBMS Technology
Description: Providing fault-tolerance in a distributed system by automatically detecting failures and recovering from them by moving processing modules and their dependencies to other nodes in the system.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,201,744, #9,785,521
Fault-Tolerant Architecture for Distributed Systems
Category: In-Memory DBMS Technology
Description: Providing fault-tolerance in a distributed system by automatically detecting failures and recovering from them by moving processing modules and their dependencies to other nodes in the system.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,201,744, #9,785,521
Real-Time, Distributed In-Memory Search Architecture
Category: In-Memory DBMS Technology
Description: A system of multiple network segments with bandwidth and latency tiers, applied to a distributed in-memory data platform.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,223,875
Real-Time, Distributed In-Memory Search Architecture
Category: In-Memory DBMS Technology
Description: A system of multiple network segments with bandwidth and latency tiers, applied to a distributed in-memory data platform.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,223,875
Search Suggestions Via Co-Occurrence
Category: Search
Description: A search suggestion generation mechanism that employs a co-occurrence knowledge base to suggest new search queries and possible search expansions or suggestions.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Sanjay Boddhu
Status: Issued: US Patents # 9,230,041, #9,613,166
Search Suggestions Via Co-Occurrence
Category: Search
Description: A search suggestion generation mechanism that employs a co-occurrence knowledge base to suggest new search queries and possible search expansions or suggestions.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Sanjay Boddhu
Status: Issued: US Patents # 9,230,041, #9,613,166
Disambiguating Features in Unstructured Text
Category: Entity Disambiguation & Knowledge Discovery
Description: Employing an evolving and efficiently linkable feature knowledge base capable of storing secondary features to disambiguate entities.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Sanjay Boddhu, Rakesh Dave, Robert Flagg
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,239,875
Disambiguating Features in Unstructured Text
Category: Entity Disambiguation & Knowledge Discovery
Description: Employing an evolving and efficiently linkable feature knowledge base capable of storing secondary features to disambiguate entities.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Sanjay Boddhu, Rakesh Dave, Robert Flagg
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,239,875
Entity-Driven Alerts Based on Disambiguated Features
Category: Entity Disambiguation & Knowledge Discovery
Description: An alert mechanism based on user-specified disambiguated features, providing a framework to support collaborative knowledge sharing among different users.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,336,280
Entity-Driven Alerts Based on Disambiguated Features
Category: Entity Disambiguation & Knowledge Discovery
Description: An alert mechanism based on user-specified disambiguated features, providing a framework to support collaborative knowledge sharing among different users.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,336,280
Alerting System Based on Newly Disambiguated Features
Category: Entity Disambiguation & Knowledge Discovery
Description: Leveraging user-specified disambiguated features to provide better relevance and precision than traditional systems, as well as the ability to build alert specifications around secondary features.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,317,565
Alerting System Based on Newly Disambiguated Features
Category: Entity Disambiguation & Knowledge Discovery
Description: Leveraging user-specified disambiguated features to provide better relevance and precision than traditional systems, as well as the ability to build alert specifications around secondary features.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,317,565
Dependency Manager for Databases
Category: In-Memory DBMS Technology
Description: Technology to automate the deployment, installation and configuration of data, metadata and software of the primary data store of a distributed database.
Inventors: Franz Weckesser, Scott Lightner
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,348,573
Dependency Manager for Databases
Category: In-Memory DBMS Technology
Description: Technology to automate the deployment, installation and configuration of data, metadata and software of the primary data store of a distributed database.
Inventors: Franz Weckesser, Scott Lightner
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,348,573
Entity Enrichment Enabling Search Functionality
Category: Search
Description: Extending the search capabilities of contentment management systems with additional managed properties obtained through natural language processing of the underlying unstructured text content.
Inventors: Birali Hakizumwami, Scott Lightner
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,361,317
Entity Enrichment Enabling Search Functionality
Category: Search
Description: Extending the search capabilities of contentment management systems with additional managed properties obtained through natural language processing of the underlying unstructured text content.
Inventors: Birali Hakizumwami, Scott Lightner
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,361,317
Non-Exclusionary Search in IMDBMSs
Category: In-Memory DBMS Technology
Description: Granting users the ability to specify a query and a detailed scoring/ranking specification as separate aspects in a search request.
Inventors: Franz Weckesser, Scott Lightner
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,355,152
Faceted Search and Search Suggestion Method
Category: Search
Description: Generating facets and corresponding frequency counts as part of the search process by running them as part of the query in an in-memory database.
Inventors: Franz Weckesser, Scott Lightner
Status: Issued: US Patents #9,424,294, #9,720,944
Faceted Search and Search Suggestion Method
Category: Search
Description: Generating facets and corresponding frequency counts as part of the search process by running them as part of the query in an in-memory database.
Inventors: Franz Weckesser, Scott Lightner
Status: Issued: US Patents #9,424,294, #9,720,944
Extracting Facts from Unstructured Text
Category: Text Analysis
Description: Associating extracted facts with other features retrieved from the text and employing a fact-template store containing commonly used fact-sentence structures.
Inventors: Rakesh Dave, Sanjay Boddhu
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,424,524
Extracting Facts from Unstructured Text
Category: Text Analysis
Description: Associating extracted facts with other features retrieved from the text and employing a fact-template store containing commonly used fact-sentence structures.
Inventors: Rakesh Dave, Sanjay Boddhu
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,424,524
Design and Implementation of Clustered IMDBMSs
Category: In-Memory DBMS Technology
Description: Broad system architecture of our in-memory computing platform, FinchDB.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Telford Berkey, Joe Becknell, Bryan Zimmerman, Mats Persson
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,430,547
Design and Implementation of Clustered IMDBMSs
Category: In-Memory DBMS Technology
Description: Broad system architecture of our in-memory computing platform, FinchDB.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Telford Berkey, Joe Becknell, Bryan Zimmerman, Mats Persson
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,430,547
Event Detection through Text Analysis via Dynamic, Self Learning Module
Category: Text Analysis
Description: Learning different event types by extracting entities and topic vectors and comparing them to existing entities and topic vectors; developing new knowledge base entries as new entities and topic vectors are discovered.
Inventors: Sanjay Boddhu, Rakesh Dave
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,544,361
Event Detection through Text Analysis via Dynamic, Self Learning Module
Category: Text Analysis
Description: Learning different event types by extracting entities and topic vectors and comparing them to existing entities and topic vectors; developing new knowledge base entries as new entities and topic vectors are discovered.
Inventors: Sanjay Boddhu, Rakesh Dave
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,544,361
Discovering and Exploring a Feature Knowledge Base
Category: Entity Disambiguation & Knowledge Discovery
Description: An on-the-fly, analytics-based search mechanism for live and large data streams.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Sanjay Boddhu, Robert Flagg
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,547,701
Automated Discovery of Topic Relatedness
Category: Entity Disambiguation & Knowledge Discovery
Description: Computing topic relatedness based on topic models and using those relationships as a supplementary feature in various data and text analytics.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Sanjay Boddhu, Rakesh Dave, Robert Flagg
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,542,477
Automated Discovery of Topic Relatedness
Category: Entity Disambiguation & Knowledge Discovery
Description: Computing topic relatedness based on topic models and using those relationships as a supplementary feature in various data and text analytics.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Sanjay Boddhu, Rakesh Dave, Robert Flagg
Status: Issued: US Patent #9,542,477
Searching Via Co-Occurrence
Category: Search
Description: Granting users the ability to find entities of interest via entity co-occurrence, even as the data is updated and new information is discovered.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Sanjay Boddhu
Status: Issued: U.S. Patent #9,619,571
Pluggable Architecture for Embedding Analytics in Clustered IMDBMSs
Category: In-Memory DBMS Technology
Description: Ensuring each database query can specify which analytics modules and parameters are to be applied on-the-fly to intermediate query answers without having to first retrieve data out of the database.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser
Status: Issued: U.S. Patent #9,659,108
Pluggable Architecture for Embedding Analytics in Clustered IMDBMSs
Category: In-Memory DBMS Technology
Description: Ensuring each database query can specify which analytics modules and parameters are to be applied on-the-fly to intermediate query answers without having to first retrieve data out of the database.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser
Status: Issued: U.S. Patent #9,659,108
Feature Co-Occurrence
Category: Search
Description: A feature co-occurrence knowledge base that exploits the full range of state-of-the-art natural language process tools.
Inventors: Scott Lightner, Rakesh Dave, Sanjay Boddhu
Status: Pending
Data Ingestion Module for Event Detection
Category: Text Analysis
Description: A generalizable framework to train customized and source-specific event templates and models for different input data streams.
Inventors: Rakesh Dave, Sanjay Boddhu
Status: Pending
