C3 AI Awarded Robust Omnibus U.S. Patent for End-to-End Enterprise AI Platform
February 25 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Patent covers powerful model-driven
architecture to develop and deploy enterprise AI applications
rapidly
Growing patent portfolio from more than a
decade of significant investment in R&D further accelerates C3
AI’s increasing leadership in enterprise AI market
C3 AI today announced that it was awarded a broad-ranging
omnibus patent for the company’s end-to-end enterprise AI solution,
C3 AI® Suite, further solidifying the company’s position as a
leading enterprise AI software provider for accelerating digital
transformation, as well as strengthening C3 AI’s intellectual
property and competitive advantage.
The newly issued U.S. patent (No.10,817,530) was granted for
“systems, methods, and devices for an enterprise AI application
development platform.” The patent encompasses not only advanced
data processing and AI application development, but also the
extensive array of techniques necessary to build an end-to-end
enterprise AI platform, including C3 AI’s unique model-driven
architecture.
“This patent is the most significant and substantial we have
been awarded to date,” said Thomas M. Siebel, CEO of C3 AI. "When
we filed years ago, no one else conceived of a comprehensive,
end-to-end solution with a model-driven architecture that
accelerates the delivery and reduces the complexity of developing
and operating enterprise AI applications. This sweeping patent
further extends our leadership and maturity in this market as well
as our commitment to protect our IP and our customers, ensuring
their ability to rapidly deploy and scale AI with confidence to
drive high-value outcomes across their business."
The comprehensive patent protects many methods and techniques
that enable the development of enterprise AI applications,
including:
- Use of a model-driven architecture for the “design,
development, deployment, and operation of next-generation
cyber-physical software applications and business processes”
- The “application of advanced data aggregation methods, data
persistence methods, data analytics, and machine learning
methods”
- Methods for “implementing abstraction and continuous processing
of the aggregated data using a model-driven architecture”
- Embedding capabilities “in a model-driven architecture type
system to recommend actions based on real-time analysis of
petabyte-scale data sets and telemetry data from millions to
billions of endpoints”
- The use of an ontology, or canonical data mode, that “comprises
conceptual domain models of various attributes and processes
related to different entities or domains,” wherein “the various
attributes and processes comprise persistence, data
representations, data interrelationships, computing processes, or
machine learning algorithms” and “is extensible to allow users of
said application development platform to integrate new data
formats”
- A standardized data format that “comprises an aggregation and
correlation of two or more data formats associated with the
plurality of data stores, while ensuring automatic and guaranteed
referential integrity of the underlying two or more data formats,”
wherein “the standardized data format is automatically exposed and
accessible through RESTful interfaces”
- “A method comprising: storing time-series data in a key-value
store and non-time-series data in a relational database;
implementing, on an application development platform, abstraction
over a plurality of data stores comprising the key-value store and
the relational database, wherein the abstraction comprises a
metadata-based mapping framework over a plurality of data formats
associated with the plurality of data stores.”
“This appears to be a seminal patent,” said Bruce Sewell, a C3
AI director, and former general counsel of Apple and Intel. “A
close reading reveals a number of fundamental concepts that appear
both necessary and sufficient to deploy an enterprise AI
application.”
C3 AI has invested over a decade building a leading platform
that brings enterprise AI solutions across industries at global,
industrial scale to drive digital transformation. The C3 AI Suite
is a scalable, production-ready enterprise AI solution that enables
organizations to rapidly design, develop, and deploy
enterprise-scale AI applications on any public, private, or hybrid
cloud environment. It allows organizations to integrate and unify
massive, fragmented data sets from disparate enterprise and
extraprise data stores and sensors, and apply machine learning
algorithms to generate predictive insights that improve efficiency,
reduce costs, increase revenue, enhance safety, and drive greater
profitability.
At the core of the C3 AI Suite is an open, model-driven
architecture that significantly simplifies and accelerates data
science and the development of enterprise AI applications – from
data integration and data management to model development,
validation, and deployment. With C3 AI’s model-driven architecture,
a small team of developers can build and deploy enterprise-class AI
applications in a matter of weeks, with up to 99 percent less code
compared to other methods, by using conceptual models of all the
elements an application requires.
C3 AI is establishing a Technology Licensing Office to enable
third parties to license C3 AI-patented technologies for use in
their own products and solutions.
This new patent follows the issue of a patent awarded for
advanced methods of data processing. C3 AI holds additional patents
in the areas of cybersecurity, fraud detection, and energy data
processing.
Patent details are available in the United States Trademark and
Patent Office database.
About C3.ai, Inc.
C3.ai, Inc. (NYSE: AI) is a leading provider of enterprise AI
software for accelerating digital transformation. C3 AI delivers a
family of fully integrated products: C3 AI® Suite, an end-to-end
platform for developing, deploying, and operating large-scale AI
applications; C3 AI Applications, a portfolio of industry-specific
SaaS AI applications; C3 AI CRM, a suite of industry-specific CRM
applications designed for AI and machine learning; and C3 AI Ex
Machina, a no-code AI solution to apply data science to everyday
business problems. The core of the C3 AI offering is an open,
model-driven AI architecture that dramatically simplifies data
science and application development. Learn more at: www.c3.ai
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