Patents
US 10445331 B1: Systems and methods for electronically mining intellectual property
- Granted
- 2019-10-15
- Filed
- 2018-01-04 application 15861848
- Type
- Utility · 20 claims
- Elsewhere
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Abstract
A method for electronically mining intellectual property using an associative discovery process may include determining a set of documents containing keywords and/or phrases associated with an industry trend of interest and, for each document, assigning a weight. The method may also include selecting a subset of the documents based at least upon the assigned weights, and determining a feedback score for each document in the subset. The method may further include determining an optimal weighing scheme for the determined keywords and/or phrases using a statistical learning model and the feedback scores, ranking all documents in the set of documents according to the optimal weighing scheme, and providing results of the associative discovery process to a user.
Source: PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 (ipg191015.xml).
Assignees
| Assignee | Type | Place | Also on furp.org | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company 2,604 patents | US company or organization | Bloomington, IL | STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO Form D issuer FUZZY medium confidence: same name (legal endings aside) and state | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Inventors
| Inventor | Place | Patents | Person page | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Mark Fields | Normal, IL | 287 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Jufeng Peng | Avon, CT | 26 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Jason Freeck | Gurnee, IL | 5 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| James Maxwell McWilliams | Rolling Meadows, IL | 3 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Mark O'Flaherty | Champaign, IL | 9 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Pat J. Johnson | Champaign, IL | 4 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
CPC categories
| Subclass | Category | First group | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| G06Q | Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes; systems or methods specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes, not otherwise provided for | G06Q10/10 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| G06F | Electric digital data processing | G06F16/24578 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Cooperative Patent Classification, as currently assigned (one row per subclass).
Assignments and security interests
| Recorded | What | From | To | Reel/frame | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-04 | Assignment Assignment of assignor's interest | PENG, JUFENG signed 2014-10-10 O'FLAHERTY, MARK signed 2015-01-20 FREECK, JASON signed 2015-01-25 JOHNSON, PAT J. signed 2015-03-20 FIELDS, BRIAN MARK signed 2015-03-25 MCWILLIAMS, JAMES MAXWELL signed 2015-03-25 | STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY BLOOMINGTON, IL | 44534/838 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
Documents recorded with the USPTO Assignment Recordation Branch that list this patent. A security interest is a lender’s claim on the patent as collateral; a release ends it.
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