Battelle Memorial Institute

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Edwin R Burtner

Shawn D Hampton

Deborah A Payne

Shawn J Bohn

David S Gillen

Michael J Henry

V Kevin Russ

Scott T Dowson

Luke J Gosink

Nicholas O Cramer

Kristin A Cook

Jodi H Obradovich

Alexander Endert

Ralph J Perko, Iii

John A Snavely

Ian M Sands

Apparatus and methods are disclosed for a monitoring system that integrates multi-domain data from weather, power, cyber, and/or social media sources to greatly increase situation awareness and drive more accurate assessments of reliability, sustainability, and efficiency in infrastructure environments, such as power grids. In one example of the disclosed technology, a method includes receiving real-time data from two or more different domains relevant to an infrastructure system, aggregating the real-time data into a unified representation relevant to the infrastructure system, and providing the unified representation to one or more customizable graphical user interfaces.

Multi-domain situational awareness for infrastructure monitoring

The visual analytic system enables information retrieval within large text collections. Typically, users have to directly and explicitly query information to retrieve it. With this system and process, the reasoning of the user is inferred from the user interaction they perform in a visual analytic tool, and the appropriate information to query, process, and visualize is systematically determined.

Method and system for information retrieval and aggregation from inferred user reasoning

Search systems and computer-implemented search methods are described. In one aspect, a search system includes a communications interface configured to access a plurality of data items of a collection, wherein the data items include a plurality of image objects individually comprising image data utilized to generate an image of the respective data item. The search system may include processing circuitry coupled with the communications interface and configured to process the image data of the data items of the collection to identify a plurality of image content facets which are indicative of image content contained within the images and to associate the image objects with the image content facets and a display coupled with the processing circuitry and configured to depict the image objects associated with the image content facets.

Search systems and computer-implemented search methods

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Edwin R Burtner