Steinar R Flatland from 1 Carrington Ct, Clifton Park Center, NY 12065, age 56, Phone: 205 413-5893

Method And System For Document Component Importation And Reconciliation
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US Patent:

7178105, Feb 13, 2007
Filed:

Feb 4, 2000
Appl. No.:

09/497800
Inventors:

David Angelo Ferrucci - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Steinar Flatland - Clifton Park NY, US
Adam Patrick Lally - Troy NY, US
Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:

G06F 17/24
US Classification:

715530
Abstract:

A system and method for importing and reconciling component variables with container variables in a document, includes identifying variables in a component, for each of these variables determining if there is a variable in the container that refers to a same domain concept, and, if an identification occurs, associating the variable in the component with the variable in the container.

Estimation Of Postings List Length In A Search System Using An Approximation Table
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US Patent:

20110040761, Feb 17, 2011
Filed:

Aug 11, 2010
Appl. No.:

12/854726
Inventors:

Steinar Flatland - Clifton Park NY, US
Jeff J. Dalton - Northampton MA, US
Assignee:

GLOBALSPEC, INC. - East Greenbush NY
International Classification:

G06F 17/30
US Classification:

707737, 707769, 707802, 707E17014, 707E17089
Abstract:

The present invention provides a method of minimizing accesses to secondary storage when searching an inverted index for a search term. The method comprises automatically obtaining a predetermined size of a posting list for the search term, the predetermined size based on document frequency for the search term, wherein the posting list is stored in secondary storage, and reading at least a portion of the posting list into memory based on the predetermined size. Corresponding computer system and program products are also provided.

Segmenting Postings List Reader
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US Patent:

20110040762, Feb 17, 2011
Filed:

Aug 11, 2010
Appl. No.:

12/854775
Inventors:

Steinar Flatland - Clifton Park NY, US
Jeff J. Dalton - Northampton MA, US
Assignee:

GLOBALSPEC, INC. - East Greenbush NY
International Classification:

G06F 17/30
US Classification:

707737, 707E17089, 707749
Abstract:

A size of a posting list is determined as part of searching an inverted index. The posting list is segmented for reading into a plurality of segments based on the size. For example, the segmenting may be performed if the size is larger than a predetermined size. Finally, each of the plurality of segments is read into memory.

Method And System For Loose Coupling Of Document And Domain Knowledge In Interactive Document Configuration
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US Patent:

7131057, Oct 31, 2006
Filed:

Feb 4, 2000
Appl. No.:

09/497801
Inventors:

David Angelo Ferrucci - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Steinar Flatland - Clifton Park NY, US
Adam Patrick Lally - Troy NY, US
Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:

G06F 17/21
US Classification:

7155011
Abstract:

A system (and method) for assembly process includes rendering document knowledge as textual components with variable fields, building an object-oriented domain model including domain knowledge, and linking the document knowledge to the domain knowledge.

Steinar R Flatland