Distributed relationship reasoning engine for generating hypothesis about relations between aspects of objects in response to an inquiry

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10762433-B2
Application number	US-201916512296-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 15, 2019
Priority date	Mar 22, 2011
Publication date	Sep 1, 2020
Grant date	Sep 1, 2020

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-based distributed reasoning system comprising:
a plurality of networking nodes each having a non-transitory computer readable memory storing local data and a processor that generates hypotheses based on the local data; and
software instructions stored in at least one of the memories that, when executed by the system, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving an inquiry that relates to a relationship between aspects of a set of objects;
searching at least one of the memories for data objects that are related to objects in the set of objects, the at least one of the memories containing relational information and data objects, wherein each one of the data objects has data object attributes;
selecting one or more reasoning rules sets from a plurality of reasoning rules sets as a function of data object attributes of the data objects that are related to aspects of the set of objects;
generating at least one hypothesis with respect to relations between at least one pair of aspects of the set of objects, the at least one hypothesis being generated by applying the one or more selected reasoning rules sets to the data objects obtained as a result of searching based on the received inquiry, wherein the at least one hypothesis is generated based on an inference with respect to relations between the set of objects; and
initiating presentation of a response to the inquiry, wherein the response is based on the at least one hypothesis.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one hypothesis relates to a physical relationship between the at least one pair of aspects of the set of objects.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one hypothesis relates to a behavior of the set of objects over time.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one hypothesis relates to a behavior of a moving object over time.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one hypothesis relates to a relative position of one object of the set of objects with respect to another object of the set of objects.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one hypothesis relates to a relationship between different mental representations.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one hypothesis is based on a context of an environment.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one hypothesis relates to a derived relationship.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one hypothesis is generated based on a priori knowledge.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one hypothesis is generated based on a previously generated hypothesis.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the set of objects comprises one or more physical objects, virtual objects, or 3D-rendered objects.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the set of objects comprises a moving object.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the set of objects comprises one or more events.

14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the inquiry comprises a relational attribute.

15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the inquiry comprises at least one relational attribute and at least one non-relational attribute.

16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the inquiry comprises at least one of text data, audio data, image data, video data, and sensor data.

17. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system comprises a cloud-based service.

18. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise requesting, via an inquiry interface, updated data associated with the at least one hypothesis and according to a validation plan.

19. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise changing the at least one hypothesis as a function of updates to the data objects.

20. The system of claim 1 , wherein the inquiry is received via an inquiry interface comprising a mobile device interface.

21. The system of claim 20 , wherein the mobile device interface comprises at least one of a mobile phone, a portable computer, and a computing tablet.

22. The system of claim 1 , wherein the data objects include at least one of visual data, text-based data, video data, identity data, demographic data, and sensor data.

23. The system of claim 1 , wherein the data objects comprise an observed change in an object of a set of objects.

24. The system of claim 1 , wherein the presentation includes reasons or additional information supporting the at least one hypothesis.

25. The system of claim 24 , wherein the reasons include a type of reasoning or reason steps supporting the at least one hypothesis.

26. The system of claim 25 , wherein the type of reasoning includes at least one of deductive reasoning, adductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, amplitative reasoning, case-based reasoning, metaphorical mapping, forward chaining reasoning, backward chaining reasoning, analogical reasoning, cause-and-effect reasoning, defeasible or indefeasible reasoning, comparative reasoning, conditional reasoning, decompositional reasoning, exemplar reasoning, modal logic, set-based reasoning, systemic reasoning, syllogistic reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, and paraconsistent reasoning.

27. The system of claim 1 , wherein the presentation comprises a web page within a browser operating on a computing device.

28. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise generating the at least one hypothesis in real-time relative to changes in the data objects.

29. A computer-based distributed reasoning method comprising:
receiving an inquiry that relates to a relationship between aspects of a set of objects;
searching at least one non-transitory computer readable memory storing local data at a networking node for data objects that are related to objects in the set of objects, the at least one memory containing relational information and data objects, wherein each one of the data objects has data object attributes;
selecting one or more reasoning rules sets from a plurality of reasoning rules sets as a function of data object attributes of the data objects that are related to aspects of the set of objects;
generating at least one hypothesis with respect to relations between at least one pair of aspects of the set of objects, the at least one hypothesis being generated by applying the one or more selected reasoning rules sets to the data objects obtained as a result of searching based on the received inquiry, wherein the at least one hypothesis is generated based on an inference with respect to relations between the set of objects; and
initiating presentation of a response to the inquiry, wherein the response is based on the at least one hypothesis.

30. A computer program product embedded in a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising distributed reasoning instructions executable by a computer processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving an inquiry that relates to a relationship between aspects of a set of objects;
searching at least one non-transitory computer readable memory storing local data at a networking node for data objects that are related to objects in the set of objects, the at least one memory containing relational information and data objects, wherein each one of the data objects has data object attributes;
selecting one or more reasoning rules sets from a plurality of reasoning rules sets as a function of data object at

Assignees

• Soon Shiong Patrick
• Nant Holdings Ip Llc

Inventors

• Soon-Shiong Patrick

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