Director, New Product Development at Thomson Reuters
Location:
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Industry:
Law Practice
Work:
Thomson Reuters - Eagan, MN since Nov 2008
Director, New Product Development
Fish & Richardson, P.C. - Minneapolis, MN Sep 2003 - Oct 2008
Patent Attorney
GE Capital Financial 1997 - 2000
Risk Manager
Americ Disc 1995 - 1997
Production Manager
Shell Oil 1991 - 1995
Refinery Chemist
Education:
University of Iowa 2000 - 2003
JD, Law
Brigham Young University 1998 - 2000
MBA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1985 - 1991
B.S., Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1985 - 1991
B.S., Management Science
Texas811 - Dallas/Fort Worth Area since Mar 2012
DPA
Private Consultant - Dallas/Fort Worth Area since May 2009
Consultant
Encore Payment Systems Oct 2010 - Feb 2012
Senior Recruiter
SuperMedia LLC May 2010 - Sep 2010
Media Consultant
First American Payment Systems Aug 2009 - May 2010
Recruiting Supervisor
Education:
USAREC
Skills:
Training Recruiting Human Resources Marketing Market Penetration Damage Control Customer Service Advertising Intelligence Analysis Marketing Research Social Media Marketing Engineering Management Infantry Tactics Technical Recruiting College Recruiting Recruitment Advertising Global Recruiting Command & Control Counterintelligence Counterterrorism Equal Opportunities Security Management
Interests:
Recruiting, new technologies, soccer, kayaking, film, music, training and mentoring, learning, oil/gas. Started Six Sigma Lean
Honor & Awards:
Top Small station commander, top small station, top new recruiter, expert infantry badge, 5 Army Commendation Medals, 7 Army Achievement Medals, Morrell Award. Honor Grad Primary Leadership, Basic Non-commissioned, recruiter course, station commander course. Honorary Navy recruiter.
2008 to 2000 Director of New Product Development, Westlaw IPFISH & RICHARDSON Minneapolis, MN 2003 to 2008 AssociateGE CAPITAL Salt Lake City, UT 1997 to 2000 Risk Manager for Travel and Purchasing CardsAMERIC DISC Modesto, CA 1995 to 1997 Production Manager for CD-Rom and CD-Audio ProductionSHELL OIL COMPANY
1995 to 1995 Tax AdvisorSHELL OIL COMPANY Houston, TX 1991 to 1995 Laboratory Lead
Education:
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW Iowa City, IA 2003 J.D.BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY Provo, UT 2000 M.B.A.MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Cambridge, MA 1991 BS in Management ScienceMASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Cambridge, MA 1991 BS in Chemistry
Apr 2014 to 2000 Assistant Store Manager/SoftlinesSchwan's Home Service, Inc Billings, MT Mar 2006 to Apr 2014 Customer Service Manager/Depot Sales TrainerThe Home Depot, Inc Alpena, MI Nov 1995 to Dec 2005 Store ManagerUnited States Air Force Hill AFB, UT Dec 1985 to Nov 1995 Emergency Actions/Operations Supervisor
Education:
Park University 1995 Associates of Science in Business Management/Business EconomicsCommand Control Communications Technical School Oct 1990 Air Force Training
Brigham Young University, M.B.A., 2000; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., 1991; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., 1991; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., 1991; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., 1991
Wenhui Liao - Minneapolis MN, US Sriharsha Veeramachaneni - St. Paul MN, US Gary Quick - Eagan MN, US Arun Vachher - West Henrietta NY, US
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
US Classification:
707706, 707728, 707E17108, 707723
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method and system for re-ranking search results in a patent retrieval system where the query text is derived in whole or in part from a patent claim, which may be from an existing patent or a prospective claim. The re-ranking is based on several features of the candidate patent, such as the text similarity to the claim, international patent code or other classification or subject matter relatedness or overlap, and internal citation structure of the candidates. One alternative aspect provides a re-ranker that is trained on automatically generated training data, thus obviating the expensive and time-intensive step of expert annotation.