James D Wiley

US Patent:

8533214, Sep 10, 2013

Filed:

Jun 15, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/816109

Inventors:

Nityanand Sharma - Tampa FL, US
Sutap Chatterjee - Tampa FL, US
James M. Wiley - Bluefield WV, US
Nitesh Malviya - Tampa FL, US

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. - Basking Ridge NJ

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707763, 707769, 711118, 701409, 701446

Abstract:

An approach is provided for providing a user with a ranked list of possible physical addresses in response to an address submitted by the user. An address submitted by a user is parsed and a number of possible candidate addresses are generated from the user provided address. The quality of the candidate addresses is ranked according to the quality of their individual address elements and factors applied to these elements. An overall quality score for each candidate address is thereby derived. The list of candidate address is displayed to the user according to overall quality score ranking.

US Patent:

20110087695, Apr 14, 2011

Filed:

Dec 10, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/965653

Inventors:

Nityanand Sharma - Tampa FL, US
Sutap Chatterjee - Tampa FL, US
James M. Wiley - Bluefield WV, US
Nitesh Malviya - Tampa FL, US

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. - Basking Ridge NJ

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707769, 707E17014

Abstract:

The apparatus, methods and systems for a truncated postal code smart address parser (hereinafter, “SAP”) described herein implement a text parser whereby users may enter a text string, such as manually via an input field. The SAP processes the input address string to extract address elements for storage, display, reporting, and/or use in a wide variety of back-end applications. In various embodiments and implementations, the SAP may facilitate: separation and identification of address components regardless of the order in which they are supplied in the input address string; supplementation of missing address information; correction and/or recognition of misspelled terms, abbreviations, alternate names, and/or the like variants of address elements; recognition of unique addresses based on minimal but sufficient input identifiers; postal code identification and truncation; and/or the like

US Patent:

53587685, Oct 25, 1994

Filed:

Jun 25, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/081235

Inventors:

James M. Wiley - Bartlett TN

International Classification:

B32B 306

US Classification:

428 95

Abstract:

A two-piece mat for the floor of a vehicle. The mat includes a lower mat structure for placement on the floor of a vehicle; an upper mat structure for placement over the upper surface of the lower mat structure; and attachment structure for removably attaching the upper mat structure to the lower mat structure. The attaching structure includes first attachment structure secured to the upper surface of the lower mat structure and includes second attachment structure secured to the lower surface of the upper mat structure for coacting with the first attachment structure to removably attach the upper mat structure to the lower mat structure.