Bizarre Patents
An armor with rollers is provided that enables a user to move in all positions by rolling on a hard and smooth surface while constantly varying his bearing points on the ground.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7328199 | Componentized slot-filling architecture The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for performing natural language processing in which tokens are mapped to task slots. The system includes a mapper component that generates a lattice representing possible interpretations of the tokens, a decoder... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328146 | Spoken language understanding that incorporates prior knowledge into boosting A system for understanding entries, such as speech, develops a classifier by employing prior knowledge with which a given corpus of training entries is enlarged threefold. A rule is created for each of the labels employed in the classifier, and the created rules are... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328156 | Computational linguistic statements for providing an autonomic computing environment A method for autonomic computing using a relational grammar represented in a mark-up language. In response to a system input change, the autonomic relational grammar and the autonomic system input is parsed to form an autonomic derivation tree representing autonomic... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328147 | Automatic resolution of segmentation ambiguities in grammar authoring A rules-based grammar is generated. Segmentation ambiguities are identified in training data. Rewrite rules for the ambiguous segmentations are enumerated and probabilities are generated for each. Ambiguities are resolved based on the probabilities. In one embodimen... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328193 | Summary evaluation apparatus and method, and computer-readable recording medium in which summary evaluation program is recorded The apparatus according to the present invention stores examples constituted by an article, a summary of the article and an evaluation of the summary in a solution data storage unit. Groups of sets of solutions and features are extracted from the stored examples and... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324083 | Handheld electronic device with 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 tha... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325194 | Method, system, and apparatus for converting numbers between measurement systems based upon semantically labeled strings Number conversion between different units of measurement in a document is enabled. A string of text entered into an application program is analyzed to determine whether it includes a number having an associated unit name. Found numbers with associated unit names are... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324927 | Fast feature selection method and system for maximum entropy modeling A method to select features for maximum entropy modeling in which the gains for all candidate features are determined during an initialization stage and gains for only top-ranked features are determined during each feature selection stage. The candidate features are... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324936 | Creation of structured data from plain text A method and system for converting plain text into structured data. Parse trees for the plain text are generated based on the grammar of a natural language, the parse trees are mapped on to instance trees generated based on an application-specific model. The best ma... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324986 | Automatically facilitated support for complex electronic services Systems for an automatically facilitated support for complex electronic services include a plurality of databases having customer records and problem solving information to assist a user with problem resolution and a cycler module configured to access the databases.... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321850 | Language transference rule producing apparatus, language transferring apparatus method, and program recording medium A language transferring apparatus is provided. A language rule producing section statistically automatically trains grammatical or semantic restriction rules for a partial word or a word string from a parallel-translation corpus. The rules are described such that a ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321885 | Product framework for managing test systems, supporting customer relationships management and protecting intellectual knowledge in a manufacturing testing environment A software framework for centralizing the management of test plans, test configurations, test sources, debug information for testing electrical devices in a manufacturing testing environment is presented. A three-tier software architecture is defined that allows one... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321861 | Automation oriented healthcare delivery system and method based on medical scripting language A medical record management system administrator comprising: (a) a data receiver to selectively receive one or more medical files pertaining to a first patient, each file represented in a medical scripting language having predetermined syntactical and semantic const... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319951 | Application of category theory and cognitive science to design of semantic descriptions for content data Instead of focusing on specific, static semantic description schemes, emphasis and focus is placed on determining what is necessary and needed to create any type or kind of semantic description for content data in various applications such as MPEG-7. In particular, ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319952 | Ranking parser for a natural language processing system A natural language parse ranker of a natural language processing (NLP) system employs a goodness function to rank the possible grammatically valid parses of an utterance. The goodness function generates a statistical goodness measure (SGM) for each valid parse. The ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318019 | Word output device and matrix keyboard for use therein A keyboard utilizing a matrix arrangement of word, character, numerical (print medium) keys to enhance a standard print medium keyboard. Instead of utilizing keys with letters and numbers, and instead of utilizing iconic symbols (or for use in combination with iconi... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318144 | Apparatus and method for interconnecting a processor to co-processors using shared memory An apparatus and method for interfacing a processor to one or more co-processors interface provides a dual ported memory to be used as a message passing buffer between the processor and the co-processors. Both the processor and co-processors can connect asynchronous... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318053 | Indexing system and method for nearest neighbor searches in high dimensional data spaces Vectors representing objects in n-dimensional space are approximated by local polar coordinates on partitioned cells of the data space in response to a query, e.g., a query data vector entered with a request to find âkâ nearest neighbors to the query vector. A s... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318021 | Machine translation system, method and program A translated text creator translates a text in which an unknown word is left in an original language representation without being translated, while known words are translated. Translated text created by the translated text creator is displayed. A link setter sets a ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318022 | Method and apparatus for training a translation disambiguation classifier A method of training a classifier includes applying a first classifier to a first set of unlabeled data to form a first set of labeled data. The first classifier is able to assign data to classes in a first set of classes. A second classifier is applied to a second ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315982 | User-tailorable romanized Chinese text input systems and methods Methods and systems for romanizing Chinese ideograms allow a user to create a personalized spelling dictionary that converts a user's desired roman-alphabet spelling to an equivalent Chinese character. A phonetic combination from a standard Chinese dialect is select... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315811 | System and method for accented modification of a language model A system and method for a speech recognition technology that allows language models for a particular language to be customized through the addition of alternate pronunciations that are specific to the accent of the dictator, for a subset of the words in the language... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315902 | Compression and abbreviation for fixed length messaging A method, computer program product, and data processing system for compressing and abbreviating text messages at a first text messaging device for transport and subsequent interpretation at a second text messaging device is disclosed. A user-defined message length r... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315809 | Computer-aided reading system and method with cross-language reading wizard A computer-aided reading system offers assistance to a user who is reading in a non-native language, as the user needs help, without requiring the user to divert attention away from the text. In one implementation, the reading system is implemented as a reading wiza... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315810 | Named entity (NE) interface for multiple client application programs The present invention is a named entity (NE) interface to a linguistic analysis layer. The interface exposes each input sentence to the NE recognizers of all applications and returns all recognized NEs. Thus, the present invention can accommodate NEs which dynamical... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313513 | Method for editing and enhancing readability of authored documents Various methods are disclosed for improving the readability of authored documents. The methods generally involve scanning a sentence to check for specific signs of potential writing problems, and applying associated sign-dependent decision logic to assess whether pa... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313523 | Method and apparatus for assigning word prominence to new or previous information in speech synthesis A method and apparatus is provided for generating speech that sounds more natural. In one embodiment, word prominence and latent semantic analysis are used to generate more natural sounding speech. A method for generating speech that sounds more natural may comprise... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313556 | System and method for dynamically evaluating latent concepts in unstructured documents A system and method for dynamically evaluating latent concepts in unstructured documents is disclosed. A multiplicity of concepts are extracted from a set of unstructured documents into a lexicon. The lexicon uniquely identifies each concept and a frequency of occur... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313562 | Rhetorical content management system and methods The present disclosure is directed generally to a method of content management. The method includes receiving a user input entered in a plurality of grammatical structured text entry elements associated with a content subject, each of the plurality of grammatical st... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313515 | Systems and methods for detecting entailment and contradiction Techniques are provided for detecting entailment and contradiction. Packed knowledge representations for a premise and conclusion text are determined comprising facts about the relationships between concept and/or context denoting terms. Concept and context alignmen... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313552 | Boolean network rule engine A Boolean Network rule engine for evaluation of rules is described that comprises: a rules interface for receiving a set of rules, each rule having at least one condition; a network builder for building a Boolean Network representation of the set of rules including ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310053 | Compressed standardized keyboard A keyboard of reduced size is provided in which multiple characters are assigned to each of the primary keys. The selection of the characters to be assigned to each specific primary key is based on the touch typing rules associated with a specific standardized keybo... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310599 | Removing noise from feature vectors A method and computer-readable medium are provided for identifying clean signal feature vectors from noisy signal feature vectors. Aspects of the invention use mixtures of distributions of noise feature vectors and/or channel distortion feature vectors when identify... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310624 | Methods and apparatus for generating decision trees with discriminants and employing same in data classification Methods and apparatus are provided for generating a decision trees using linear discriminant analysis and implementing such a decision tree in the classification (also referred to as categorization) of data. The data is preferably in the form of multidimensional obj... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310629 | Method and apparatus for controlling file sharing of multimedia files over a fluid, de-centralized network Communication is established between a first client and a central index server in a fluid, de-centralized network. The central index server searches the memory of the first client for usable data files which lack authentication certificates issued by the central ind... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308084 | Method and apparatus of associating file description during a browser-initiated download A method for providing additional descriptive information about a file during a download to a local computer so that functional and descriptive aspects of the file may easily be reviewed without having to open the file. A software application is provided that enhanc... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7308400 | Adaptation of statistical parsers based on mathematical transform An arrangement for adapting statistical parsers to new data using a mathematical transform, particularly a Markov transform. In particular, it is assumed that an initial statistical parser is available and a batch of new data is given. The initial model is mapped to... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305372 | Enhanced artificial intelligence language A method of determining an appropriate response to an input includes linking a plurality of attributes to a plurality of response templates using a plurality of Boolean expressions. Each attribute is associated with a set of patterns. Each pattern within the set of ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305385 | N-gram based text searching N-grams (i.e., N character sequences) are used to identify documents that potentially satisfy a search query. The documents that potentially satisfy the query are then searched (e.g., using a full text search) to determine which documents actually satisfy the query.... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305413 | Semantic authoring, runtime and training environment A system for developing semantic schema for natural language processing has a semantic runtime engine and a semantic authoring tool. The semantic runtime engine is adapted to map a natural language input to a semantic schema and to return the mapped results to an ap... | 12/04/2007 |
