Bradley B Allen

US Patent:

7146362, Dec 5, 2006

Filed:

Aug 26, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/650200

Inventors:

Bradley P. Allen - Manhattan Beach CA, US
Cormac Tworney - Marina Del Rey CA, US
John B. Jensen - Hermosa Beach CA, US

Assignee:

Bpallen Technologies LLC - Los Angeles CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 5, 707 4, 707 10

Abstract:

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that uses faceted metadata to facilitate navigation through information resources. During operation, the system receives a query from a client at a server. The system then performs the query on metadata, wherein the metadata contains facets that describe characteristics of the information resources. While performing the query, the system generates results that identify information resources that satisfy the query. Next, the system constructs a response containing the results, the query, and suggestions on how to refine the query. The system then sends the response to the client, thereby allowing the client to refine the query. In this way, the client and server can work together in a stateless manner to refine the query without having to maintain state information about the query on the server.

US Patent:

20010051978, Dec 13, 2001

Filed:

Oct 13, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/417953

Inventors:

BRADLEY P. ALLEN - MANHATTAN BEACH CA, US
JOHN B. JENSEN - HERMOSA BEACH CA, US
JEFFREY M. GREIF - VENICE CA, US
LAWRENCE POYNTER - MARINA DEL REY CA, US

International Classification:

G06F015/16

US Classification:

709/203000, 709/217000, 709/229000

Abstract:

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for producing personalized web site content to be presented to a user of a content provider web site based upon information gathered regarding the user. The system operates by receiving data sent from a remote browser to a personalization server. This data is sent by a web page on the remote browser and includes an identifier for the user. This web page was previously sent from the content provider web site to the remote browser while the remote browser was navigating through the content provider web site. The personalization server uses the identifier to look up information related to the user in a database associated with the personalization server. This information is used to produce personalized web site content for the user based upon the interests of the user. For example, personalized web site content can include hypertext markup language (HTML) code, images or navigational options to other web locations. Next, the system sends personalized web site content from the personalization server to the remote browser so that the personalized web site content can be presented to the user.

US Patent:

20020062247, May 23, 2002

Filed:

Jun 4, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/874948

Inventors:

Bradley Allen - Manhattan Beach CA, US

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705/014000, 705/010000

Abstract:

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system dynamically selects a content option from a plurality of content options in order to display the content option to a user who is browsing through a web site. The system operates by receiving a request for content from a web browser that is being operated by the user. In response to this request, the system calculates a probability distribution across the plurality of content options that can be sent to the web browser, and then selects the content option at random from the plurality of content options based upon the calculated probability distribution. Next, the system sends the selected content option to the web browser and then allows the web browser to display the selected content option to the user of the web browser. The system then receives a response to the selected content option from the user of the web browser, and uses this response to update a future probability distribution across the plurality of content options.

US Patent:

58528148, Dec 22, 1998

Filed:

Dec 10, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/763005

Inventors:

Bradley P. Allen - Hermosa Beach CA

Assignee:

Inference Corporation - Novato CA

International Classification:

G06F 1518

US Classification:

706 13

Abstract:

A software agent which performs autonomous learning in a real-world environment, implemented in a case-based reasoning system and coupled to a sensor for gathering information from, and to an effector for manipulating, its environment. A case base which is tuned in response to an evaluation of how well the agent is operating in that environment. A memory of cases, the contents of that memory being determined by a genetic technique, including producing new cases which may never have been encountered in the environment, evaluating cases in response to a history of previous matches and in response to an external stimulus, and selecting a limited set of cases which provides a preferred model of the environment. A selection technique based on multiple measures, such as match quality, case accuracy, or case utility, which may induce experimentation by the autonomous agent, such as by employing a random or pseudorandom effect in selecting cases, and which may also distinguish between those actions which solve problems and those actions which gather further information so as to better solve problems. Multiple autonomous agents may form a collective entity and may cooperate to select an action to be performed by that collective entity.

US Patent:

55816649, Dec 3, 1996

Filed:

May 23, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/247630

Inventors:

Bradley P. Allen - Hermosa Beach CA
S. Daniel Lee - San Gabriel CA

Assignee:

Inference Corporation - Novato CA

International Classification:

G06F 1518

US Classification:

395 51

Abstract:

A case-based reasoning system which is smoothly integrated into a rule-based reasoning system, thus coordinating case-based reasoning techniques and rule-based reasoning techniques in a unified automated reasoning system, in which an automated processor may proceed by inferential reasoning on the facts of the problem and the cases by means of rule-based reasoning techniques or based on procedural directives supplied by a human programmer, and may select the case which is the best match for the problem, but may act differently from the precise action prescribed for that case. A technique for dynamically adapting the case base to the problems which the automated reasoning system encounters, in which the processor may create additional cases which may exemplify the problem or which may be useful for future problems, or may remove cases from the case base which it determines from experience are poor or obsolete. A technique in which the processor may be set to work with a limited case base, and may solicit human advice for treatment of new problems which are not already well-treated by the case base.

US Patent:

55862187, Dec 17, 1996

Filed:

Aug 24, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/518850

Inventors:

Bradley P. Allen - Hermosa Beach CA

Assignee:

Inference Corporation - Novato CA

International Classification:

G06F 1518

US Classification:

395 10

Abstract:

A software agent which performs autonomous learning in a real-world environment, implemented in a case-based reasoning system and coupled to a sensor for gathering information from, and to an effector for manipulating, its environment. A case base which is tuned in response to an evaluation of how well the agent is operating in that environment. A memory of cases, the contents of that memory being determined by a genetic technique, including producing new cases which may never have been encountered in the environment, evaluating cases in response to a history of previous matches and in response to an external stimulus, and selecting a limited set of cases which provides a preferred model of the environment. A selection technique based on multiple measures, such as match quality, case accuracy, or case utility, which may induce experimentation by the autonomous agent, such as by employing a random or pseudorandom effect in selecting cases, and which may also distinguish between those actions which solve problems and those actions which gather further information so as to better solve problems. Multiple autonomous agents may form a collective entity and may cooperate to select an action to be performed by that collective entity.

US Patent:

60789182, Jun 20, 2000

Filed:

Apr 2, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/054178

Inventors:

Bradley P. Allen - Manhattan Beach CA
Jeffrey M. Greif - Venice CA
David L. Adam - San Francisco CA
John B. Jensen - Hermosa Beach CA
Michael W. Lo - Marina Del Rey CA
Cormac Twomey - Marina Del Rey CA

Assignee:

Trivada Corporation - Culver City CA

International Classification:

G06F 1700

US Classification:

707 6

Abstract:

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for making predictions about data records from an incoming stream of data records. This system operates by discovering predictive relationships in an online manner between fields in records in the incoming stream of data records as the incoming stream of data records is received. These predictive relationships can used to predict values in fields based on other field values in the same record. This facilitates cleansing of data by allowing transaction values to be validated based upon predictions made from other field values in the same transaction record. It also allows missing field values to be predicted based upon the other field values. A variation of this embodiment provides for filtering transaction records based upon discovered predictive relationships and routing the transaction records to other servers in real-time. Another embodiment forms association rules between fields in records in the incoming stream of records, and outputs these association rules for viewing by a human decision-maker.