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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2008
Robert G. Jaros, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dileep George, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Robert G. Jaros, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dileep George, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Numenta, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
A node, a computer program storage medium, and a method for a hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) network where at least one of its nodes generates a top-down message and sends the top-down message to one or more children nodes in the HTM network. The first top-down message represents information about the state of a node and functions as feedback information from a current node to its child node. The node may also maintain history of the input patterns or co-occurrences so that temporal relationships between input patterns or co-occurrences may be taken into account in an inference stage. By providing the top-town message and maintaining history of previous input patterns, the HTM network may, among others, (i) perform more accurate inference based on temporal history, (ii) make predictions, (iii) discriminate between spatial co-occurrences with different temporal histories, (iv) detect 'surprising' temporal patterns, (v) generate examples from a category, and (vi) fill in missing or occluded data.