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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110301934 | MACHINE BASED SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER A computer implemented method for performing sign language translation based on movements of a user is provided. A capture device detects motions defining gestures and detected gestures are matched to signs. Successive signs are detected and compared to a grammar librar... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110254776 | Method and Apparatus for Selective Suspension of Error Correction Routine During Text Input An improved portable electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display and a text input routine that employs an error correction routine. The error correction routine evaluates inputs to determine whether they are ambiguous based upon the actual location of the input... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110196666 | Systems, Methods and Automated Technologies for Translating Words into Music and Creating Music Pieces Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for translating a natural language into music. Through systematic parsing, music compositions can be created. These compositions can be created by one or more persons who do not speak the same natural language.... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110161067 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING POS TAGGING FOR SYMBOL ASSIGNMENT Systems and methods for automatically discovering and assigning symbols for identified text in a software application include identifying text for which symbol assignment is desired. The words within the identified text and selected surrounding words defining an observa... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110144971 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENTIMENT ANALYSIS A system includes one or more computer processors that are configured to receive data relating to a composition of a target group, receive logged communications of the target group, extract textual information from the logged communications, analyze the textual informat... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20100179992 | Generatiing Context Aware Data And Conversation's Mood Level To Determine The Best Method Of Communication A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for providing information related to a user address as used in a communication session. A tag processing module is implemented for processing tags related to a user. A first user selects a second user to receive ... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100179801 | Determining Phrases Related to Other Phrases Techniques for generating and providing phrases are described herein. These techniques may include analyzing one or more sources to generate a first corpus of phrases, each of the phrases for use as an identifier and/or for association with a user. Once a first corpus o... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100149107 | PREDICTIVE KEYPAD/KEYBOARD LIGHTING TO GUIDE INPUT A device receives one or more input keys via a keypad associated with the device, where the keypad is separate from a display associated with the device. The device also determines one or more predicted words based on the received one or more input keys, and illuminates... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100076745 | Apparatus and Method of Detecting Community-Specific Expression Conventional publications concerning collections of community specific expressions include collections of technical terms including nouns and compound nouns in technical fields. However, application to new expressions other than nouns is difficult. Even in the field of ... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100064210 | TEXT ABBREVIATION METHODS AND APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS USING SAME630 Text processors are configured to shorten or compact text based on one or more abbreviation libraries or rule libraries. Messaging methods include such text abbreviation processing to reduce message length based on display properties or to enhance user perception. Messa... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20090287469 | INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD, INFORMATION PROVISION PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROVISION PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM An information provision system capable of providing attribute information to a contextually appropriate portion as well as a linguistic unit including a specific character string expression is provided. The information provision system includes analysis means 21... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090248391 | Automated Many-Sorted Theorem prover The present invention is a method for automatic proving using many-sorted first-order logic. Embodiments of the invention apply a modified method of resolution of first-ordered logic. The method of resolution further comprises: processing at least one first sentence (P<... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090234632 | CHARACTER INPUT APPARATUS, CHARACTER INPUT ASSIST METHOD, AND CHARACTER INPUT ASSIST PROGRAM Disclosed herein is a character input apparatus including: a display section having a screen capable of displaying at least characters; an operation section configured to allow a user to input at least the characters; a first character input processing section configure... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090222255 | USING GENDER ANALYSIS OF NAMES TO ASSIGN AVATARS IN INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATIONS A method for displaying gender-based avatar representations of users in instant messaging communications comprises receiving a username for a first user having a first user account registered with an instant messaging system; performing an anthroponomastic analysis of t... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090177960 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF XML QUERY PROCESSING A method of processing queries, e.g., XPath expressions, related to an XML document includes generating a plurality of tokens based on the contents of the XML document. At least one query expression is compiled to a first plurality of query nodes defining a tree. A plur... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090132229 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method, and a program storage medium which enable clustering to be performed such that the number of clusters and a representative of a cluster are determined so as to conform to a human cognition ... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090119090 | Principled Approach to Paraphrasing A principled approach to paraphrasing analyzes input text and paraphrases at atomic linguistic level, instead of analyzing the input text and paraphrases as a whole set at one time. The principled approach extracts atomic linguistic elements from the input text and iden... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090112571 | METHOD FOR SEGMENTING COMMUNICATION TRANSCRIPTS USING UNSUPERVISED AND SEMI-SUPERVISED TECHNIQUES A method is provided for forming discrete segment clusters of one or more sequential sentences from a corpus of communication transcripts of transactional communications that comprises dividing the communication transcripts of the corpus into a first set of sentences sp... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090030669 | Efficient Review of Data A server may provide information to a processing device for displaying a parser user interface. The displayed parser user interface may include an input portal for inputting text input. The parser user interface may further include controls for selecting a level of comp... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20080319733 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DYNAMICALLY MANIPULATE AND DISAMBIGUATE CONFUSABLE SPEECH INPUT USING A TABLE Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for disambiguating confusable speech using a table. The method embodiment provides assigning an identifier to each of at least one portion of received speech, querying a table to determine whether at least one ... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080301129 | EXTRACTING AND DISPLAYING COMPACT AND SORTED RESULTS FROM QUERIES OVER UNSTRUCTURED OR SEMI-STRUCTURED TEXT A system for indexing unstructured or semi-structured data is disclosed. The system may identify regions within the data, such as “Abstract” or “References”. The system may identify linguistic units such as sentences, noun groups, verb groups. The system may als... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080294398 | Method and apparatus for the automated construction of models of activities from textual descriptions of the activities A method of automatically constructing a model of an activity from an unsupervised examination of a plurality of textual documents describing the activity is comprised of: extracting prototypical steps from the plurality of textual documents; sequencing the extracted st... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080195370 | System and Method For Synchronizing Sound and Manually Transcribed Text A method for synchronizing sound data and text data, said text data being obtained by manual transcription of said sound data during playback of the latter The proposed method comprises the steps of repeatedly querying said sound data and said text data to obtain a curr... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080183459 | Method of managing error risk in language translation Methods for analyzing, evaluating, and controlling risk of errors in language translation of medical device labeling are disclosed. The disclosed methods include identifying the risk level of the device; identifying the safety function(s) of the content that is translat... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080162109 | CREATING AND MANAGING A POLICY CONTINUUM A method and system for managing a policy includes a memory adapted to store at least one policy, residing at a first abstraction level, where each policy includes a plurality of language elements in a first vocabulary set and a processor communicatively coupled to the ... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080126073 | Directional Input System with Automatic Correction A system associated with a text entry application, such as email or instant messaging, comprises an optional onscreen representation of a circular keyboard, a list of potential linguistic object matches, and a message area where the selected words are entered. The circu... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080114591 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY TEXT MESSAGING USING A WIRELESS MOBILE DEVICE The illustrative embodiments provide a method and an apparatus for writing a shortened text message using a wireless mobile device. An editor receives longhand text written through a user interface for the wireless mobile device. The editor then matches the longhand tex... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080103756 | Method And Apparatus For Providing A Contextual Description Of An Object A method for providing a contextual description of an object includes receiving a first object associated with a user. The first object has a first object type representing one of a place, an event, and a person and includes a first attribute associated with the respect... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080077386 | ENHANCED LINGUISTIC TRANSFORMATION Techniques for enhanced linguistic transformation are disclosed. For example, a method of linguistic transformation includes the steps of providing at least one input to a plurality of modules, wherein at least one module has a different configuration than at least anot... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080015840 | Handheld Electronic Device and Associated Method Employing a Multiple-Axis Input Device and Reinitiating a Text Disambiguation Session Upon Returning to a Delimited Word A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a ... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20080015841 | Directional Input System with Automatic Correction A system associated with a text entry application, such as email or instant messaging, comprises an optional onscreen representation of a circular keyboard, a list of potential linguistic object matches, and a message area where the selected words are entered. The circu... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20080010054 | Handheld Electronic Device and Associated Method Employing a Multiple-Axis Input Device and Learning a Context of a Text Input for Use by a Disambiguation Routine A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that ... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20080010051 | Handheld Electronic Device and Associated Method Employing a Multiple-Axis Input Device and Providing Text Disambiguation A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a ... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20080010052 | Handheld Electronic Device and Associated Method Employing a Multiple-Axis Input Device and Using Non-Edited Characters as Context in Text Disambiguation A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a ... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20080010053 | Handheld Electronic Device and Associated Method Employing a Multiple-Axis Input Device and Outputting as Variants Textual Variants of Text Disambiguation In view of the foregoing, an improved handheld electronic device includes a keypad in the form of a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. As a user enters keystrokes, the device provides output in the form of a default output and a number ... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20080010050 | Handheld Electronic Device and Associated Method Employing a Multiple-Axis Input Device and Providing a Learning Function in a Text Disambiguation Environment A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a ... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20070281286 | System, Method, Computer Program And Data Structure Which Are Used To Facilitate Language Understanding And/Or Language Learning The present invention provides assistance for a person to better comprehend the samples of a target language and, simultaneously, it facilitates that the person learns that language better. In order to do that, some special perspectives on those language samples are pro... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070265824 | Diversified semantic mapping engine (DSME) The Diversified Semantic Mapping Engine (DSME) exploits user-defined word and document class designations to differentially formalize the semantic content of a language source. The coordination of these classes, especially when based upon naturally occurring classes in ... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070260448 | Methods of Offering Guidance On Common Language Usage Usages of language are analyzed in ways that are at least partially language independent. In preferred embodiments, portions of a document are hashed, and the resulting hash values are compared with each other and with those of other documents in real-time. Analyses can... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070255549 | Method for Creating a Character String Excluding Inhibited Term There is provided a method for transforming numeric information into a character string which is generated by a combination of characters and symbols, whereby a character string can be generated which does not make up a combination of character strings which violates th... | 11/01/2007 |
