Reasoning engine services

• US 9,576,242 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2016
• Issued: 02/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC (NantWorks, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Patrick Soon-Shiong
• Inventors: Soon-Shiong, Patrick
• Primary Examiner(s): Hill, Stanley K
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kim, David H
• Application Number:
  US14/989,746
• Publication Number:
  US 20160224894A1
• Time in Patent Office: 412 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/022 Knowledge engineering; Knowledge acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/025 Extracting rules from data
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/04 Inference or reasoning models
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/041 Abduction
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/043 Distributed expert systems; Blackboards
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/046 Forward inferencing; Production systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 9/00 Image coding bandwidth or redundancy reduction for static pictures H04N1/41; coding or decoding of static colour picture signals H04N1/64; methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/00 Scenes; Scene-specific elements control of digital cameras H04N23/60
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/50 Systems or methods supporting the power network operation or management, involving a certain degree of interaction with the load-side end user applications

Abstract

A reasoning engine is disclosed. Contemplated reasoning engines acquire data relating to one or more aspects of various environments. Inference engines within the reasoning engines review the acquire data, historical or current, to generate one or more hypotheses about how the aspects of the environments might be correlated, if at all. The reasoning engine can attempt to validate the hypotheses through controlling acquisition of the environment data.

Claims

1. A computer-based reasoning service platform comprising:

an inquiry interface configured to receive an inquiry over a network, the inquiry associated with data objects of a data space; and

at least one inference engine coupled with the inquiry interface and configured to;

receive the inquiry from the inquiry interface;

recognize at least two data objects of the data space based, at least in part, from the inquiry;

select at least one reasoning rules set from available reasoning rules sets as a function of the data space and object attributes of the recognized at least two data objects;

establish a hypothesized conclusion according to the at least one selected reasoning rules set, the hypothesized conclusion representing that the at least two data objects have a suspected correlation; and

present the hypothesized conclusion and an associated advertisement to a user via a presentation module.

2. The platform of claim 1, wherein the inquiry interface comprises a search engine.

3. The platform of claim 1, wherein the inquiry interface comprises at least one of the following:

a mobile computing device, a gaming system, a device controller, an appliance, a garment, and a web page.

4. The platform of claim 1, wherein the data space includes a medical data space.

5. The platform of claim 4, wherein the at least two data objects include a treatment protocol and an outcome.

6. The platform of claim 4, wherein the at least two data objects include a change in a patient'"'"'s biometrics.

7. The platform of claim 1, wherein the data space includes a goods and services data space.

8. The platform of claim 1, wherein the at least two data objects include a virtual object.

9. The platform of claim 1, wherein the presentation module comprises a browser-enabled computer.

10. The platform of claim 1, wherein the presentation module comprises a mobile device.

11. The platform of claim 1, wherein the hypothesized conclusion comprises a merit score.

12. The platform of claim 1, wherein the associated advertisement comprises a validation of the hypothesized conclusion.

13. The platform of claim 1, wherein the associated advertisement comprises a for-pay advertisement.

14. The platform of claim 13, wherein the for-pay advertisement is associated with the at least one selected reasoning rules set.

15. The platform of claim 13, wherein the for-pay advertisement is associated with a topic of the inquiry.

16. The platform of claim 1, wherein the inquiry comprises at least one of the following types of data:

text data, audio data, image data, video data, and sensor data.

17. The platform of claim 1, wherein the at least one inference engine comprises at least one cloud-based server.

18. The platform of claim 1, wherein the at least one inference engine comprises at least one virtual server.

19. The platform of claim 1, wherein the at least one inference engine comprises a search engine.

20. The platform of claim 1, wherein the available reasoning rules sets include at least one of the following types of reasoning rules:

inductive rules, deductive rules, abductive rules, ampliative reasoning rules, case-based reasoning rules, metaphorical mapping rules, forward chaining rules, backward chaining rules, analogical reasoning rules, cause-and-effect reasoning rules, defeasible reasoning rules, indefeasible reasoning rules, comparative reasoning rules, conditional reasoning rules, modal logic rules, set-based reasoning rules, systemic reasoning rules, syllogistic reasoning rules, probabilistic reasoning rules, and paraconsistent reasoning rules.