Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7890514 | Concept-based searching of unstructured objects A method, operating model, system, data structure, computer program and computer program product for analyzing and categorizing and exploring or querying unstructured information and for tracking trends and exceptions. Method for analytical processing of unstructure... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7831559 | Concept-based trends and exceptions tracking A method and system for analyzing and categorizing unstructured information and for tracking trends and exceptions by using a user's selection of a key concept, wherein the key concept is one or more words or phrases present in the content of an unstructured object ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7788251 | System, method and computer program product for concept-based searching and analysis Systems, methods, and computer programs for performing concept-based searches and for creating content are described. According to one embodiment, a method is described wherein one or more concepts are identified and a search query is formed based on the identified ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7676485 | Method and computer program product for converting ontologies into concept semantic networks A method and computer program product for producing a concept semantic network (CSN) from an ontology. Each class, subclass, object, restriction, and property of the ontology is converted into a concept of the CSN. Each hierarchy in the ontology is converted to a co... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7627588 | System and method for concept based analysis of unstructured data A computer implemented system and method automates analysis and mining of concepts from unstructured data. At least one concept within at least one object is analyzed. Analysis involves: selecting an object for inclusion in an initial set of objects to be analyzed; ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7536413 | Concept-based categorization of unstructured objects A method, operating model, system, data structure, computer program and computer program product for analyzing and categorizing and exploring or querying unstructured information and for tracking trends and exceptions. Method for analytical processing of unstructure... | 05/19/2009 |
