TOKYO, May 25, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UBIC, Inc. (Nasdaq:UBIC) (TSE:2158) ("UBIC" or "the Company"), a leading provider of international litigation support and big-data analysis services, announced today that the Japan Patent Office has recently issued a Notification of Decision of Grant to the Company for a new technology, which allows for an AI-based monitoring system to scan online posts to identify potential risks.
The necessary procedures for patent registration have already been executed, and the patent is currently pending issuance.
Patent application number: 2015-558255
Registration number: Pending issuance
Patent application filing date: November 27, 2015
Priority date: December 26, 2014
Companies are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of monitoring user activities, including posts on corporate blogs or social network services as well as product reviews, in recent years. This is largely due to a growing number of malicious comments on their websites that serve to incite hostile exchanges, or to mislead customers about products and services, which result in damage to the companies' public images.
To mitigate the risk posed by these malicious comments, UBIC developed a social media analytics system called “Lit i View SNS MONITORING”, powered by UBIC’s AI “KIBIT”. The system is now in the testing stage and soon will be able to accurately detect signs of potentially malicious activity within online posts. UBIC aims to launch this next-generation service in collaboration with another partner firms.
The innovative technology covered by this patent enables KIBIT to accurately learn the features of information that need to be monitored based on a small amount of training data, and extract sentences whose nuances match the features learned. Thus the technology enables identifying online content containing potential signs of malicious intent.
"We believe that this patent is a testament to the superior innovation that underlies the highly accurate document analysis provided by UBIC," stated UBIC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Masahiro Morimoto. "In this advanced digital age, when the processing of vast volumes of data is necessary, our cutting-edge technology is able to open up new business frontiers, such as corporate fraud investigation and email auditing. UBIC aims to provide data analysis solutions in a broad range of new fields, including cyber security – which this patent is primarily related – health care, marketing, and business intelligence. By further honing our AI-based technologies and expanding our portfolio of intellectual properties, UBIC will continue to provide additional value-added eDiscovery services to customers worldwide."
About UBIC, Inc.
UBIC, Inc. (Nasdaq:UBIC) (TSE:2158) supports the analysis of big data based on behavior informatics by utilizing its technology, KIBIT. UBIC's KIBIT technology is driven by UBIC’s AI based on knowledge acquired through its litigation support services. The KIBIT incorporates experts' tacit knowledge, including their experiences and intuitions, and utilizes that knowledge for big data analysis. UBIC continues to expand its business operations by applying KIBIT to new fields such as healthcare and marketing.UBIC was founded in 2003 as a provider of e-discovery and international litigation support services. These services include the preservation, investigation and analysis of evidence materials contained in electronic data, and computer forensic investigation. UBIC provides e-discovery and litigation support by making full use of its data analysis platform, "Lit i View®", and its Predictive Coding technology adapted to Asian languages.
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