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Patent No. 5687752

Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher

A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.

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Assignee: Invention Machine Corporation


Location: Boston, MA
No. of patents: 12

NumberTitleIssue Date
7962326Semantic answering system and method
Answering System enables a user to input a query and responds with answers. Server stores an indexed database of a plurality of S-A-O's (subject-action-object). User generates the query that includes query elements (A-O), (S-A), or (S-X-O), or element (S). The serve...
06/14/2011
7805455System and method for problem analysis
Problem analysis system, given either half of a cause-effect relationship, automatically formulates a natural language or Boolean query that is automatically submitted via a knowledge search tool to a database of cause-effect relationships, and responses to this que...
09/28/2010
7672831System and method for cross-language knowledge searching
A system and method for cross-language knowledge searching. The system has a Semantic Analyzer, a natural language user request/document search pattern/semantic index Generator, a user request search pattern Translator and a Knowledge Base Searcher. The system also ...
03/02/2010
7536368Method for problem formulation and for obtaining solutions from a database
Problem analysis tool automatically reformulates a problem statement into a natural language or Boolean query that is automatically submitted via a knowledge search tool to a database, and responses to this query from the database are automatically provided. ...
05/19/2009
7251781Computer based summarization of natural language documents
A system and method for summarizing the contents of a natural language document provided in electronic or digital form includes preformatting the document, performing linguistic analysis, weighting each sentence in the document as a function of quantitative importan...
07/31/2007
7120574Synonym extension of search queries with validation
A computer search involves expanding a user query with two synonym dictionaries—actions and object—and then validating the expanded queries by comparison with entries in a Subject-Action-Object Knowledge Database (SAO KB) in a discipline corresponding to the que...
10/10/2006
6202043Computer based system for imaging and analyzing a process system and indicating values of specific design changes
A computer system for analyzing and automatically modifying existing process system models that includes (i) an Initial Data stage that prompts the user to enter qualitative and quantitative objectives in designing or re-designing a Process System, (ii) a...
03/13/2001
6167370Document semantic analysis/selection with knowledge creativity capability utilizing subject-action-object (SAO) structures
A computer based software system and method for semantically processing a user entered natural language request to identify and store linguistic subject-action-object (SAO) structures, using such structures as key words/phrases to search local and web-bas...
12/26/2000
6056428Computer based system for imaging and analyzing an engineering object system and indicating values of specific design changes
A software system includes an engineering analysis system (EAS) for analyzing an engineering object system and for recommending elimination of object system components. The EAS includes a functional model unit responsive to user entry for generating image...
05/02/2000
5901068Computer based system for displaying in full motion linked concept components for producing selected technical results
A digital computer-based concept engineering system (CES) that includes a data base of concept components (Y=f(x)) of which includes input, output and control parameters, text descriptions, and full motion graphics of a device or system that functions as ...
05/04/1999
5709257Removing bark from wood chips
A method of crushed ground-wood processing comprises charging the input between two relatively revolving and displaced conical surfaces with simultaneous dimension separation variation by circulating vibrations causing the surfaces to apply variable squee...
01/20/1998
5423477Pizza box
A pizza box having a top and bottom each formed of a single layer of biodegradable, insulating material, such as molded fiber. The bottom provides an insulating airspace between the hot pizza product and the bottom major surface area and another insulatin...
06/13/1995
 
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