Twitris system developed by Kno.e.sis gets patent

Wright State has been assigned a patent for core techniques of the Twitris system developed at Kno.e.sis, the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing, according to Amit Sheth, Ph.D., the center’s director. The patent, titled “Methods and Systems for Analysis of Real-time User-generated Text Messages,” lists Sheth as co-inventor with Kno.e.sis alumni Karthik Gomadam, Ph.D., and Meenakshi Nagarajan, Ph.D. Sheth is also the LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar and professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Twitris is a Web 3.0 or semantic web application designed to draw collective meaning about major events from huge numbers of public messages as they are posted on the Internet via Twitter and other social media. (from Wright State Newsroom)