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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7398467 | Method and apparatus for providing spelling analysis A method, an article of manufacture and apparatus for providing user-specific error analysis for a document. Specifically, the invention provides for identifying user-specific proclivities for confusing particular words which, while grammatically correct, are not us... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7370274 | System and method for formatting objects on a page of an electronic document by reference A method and system can format objects on a first page of an electronic document being created by applying the formatting from corresponding objects contained in a separate formatting source where these objects have been formatted using the existing tools of the app... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366500 | SMS shorthand dictionary service The present invention provides a lookup service for shorthand terms directly from within an application. A lookup pane is provided to the user from which they can lookup a definition for the shorthand term. The lookup pane provides a consistent user interface for lo... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366726 | Method and apparatus for retrieving data representing a postal address from a plurality of postal addresses A method for retrieving a desired postal address from a plurality of postal addresses. The invention can feature receiving input data having input terms for finding the desired postal address from a first database of postal addresses where each postal address is for... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366654 | Learning translation relationships among words A parallel bilingual training corpus is parsed into its content words. Word association scores for each pair of content words consisting of a word of language L1 that occurs in a sentence aligned in the bilingual corpus to a sentence of language L2 in ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366983 | Spell checker with arbitrary length string-to-string transformations to improve noisy channel spelling correction A spell checker based on the noisy channel model has a source model and an error model. The source model determines how likely a word w in a dictionary is to have been generated. The error model determines how likely the word w was to have been incorrectly entered a... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363222 | Method for searching data in at least two databases A method and database system is disclosed for searching data in at least two databases (Dn), particularly for searching telephone directories or the like. To allow simultaneous access to two or more databases by means of speech recognition in order to per... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358965 | Tapping to create writing The present invention provides a method and system for tapping to create document structure, such as writing. A tapping gesture received from the user is interpreted by a writing application to indicate that the user is about to write in a certain location on the pa... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356457 | Machine translation using learned word associations without referring to a multi-lingual human authored dictionary of content words A method and computer-readable medium are provided that perform a series of steps associated with machine translation. These steps include using a first text in a first language and a second text in a second language, to produce an association list where words in th... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356187 | Method and apparatus for adjusting the model threshold of a support vector machine for text classification and filtering An information need can be modeled by a binary classifier such as support vector machine (SVM). SVMs can exhibit very conservative precision oriented behavior when modeling information needs. This conservative behavior can be overcome by adjusting the position of th... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356527 | Lossy index compression An apparatus and method is provided for pruning an index of a corpus of text documents by creating an inverted index of terms appearing in the documents, wherein the index includes postings of the terms in the documents, ranking the postings in the index, and prunin... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349840 | Memory system for storing and retrieving experience and knowledge with natural language utilizing state representation data, word sense numbers, function codes, directed graphs and/or context memory A memory system for storing and retrieving experience and knowledge with natural language through methods and apparatus is disclosed. The primary components of this memory system include syntactic processes, function word processes, ellipsis processes, morphology pr... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349924 | Colloquium prose interpreter for collaborative electronic communication A method, system and apparatus for processing colloquialisms in message text. A method of processing colloquialisms in message text can include detecting a colloquialism in message text, locating a universal form for the detected colloquialism, and transmitting the ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350145 | Methods and systems for providing technology-assisted content development A computerized system and method for personalizing a document. In one embodiment, a user at a computer retrieves a first message comprising at least one change point from memory. A change point is a word or phrase which may be substituted for other words/phrases by ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343372 | Direct navigation for information retrieval A method of document retrieval is provided. The method includes assigning concept labels to documents contained in a collection according to grammar rules, receiving a query, converting the query to a query concept using the grammar rules, and mapping the query conc... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340466 | Topic identification and use thereof in information retrieval systems A technique to determine topics associated with, or classifications for, a data corpus uses an initial domain-specific word list to identify word combinations (one or more words) that appear in the data corpus significantly more often than expected. Word combination... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340470 | Retrieving and providing contextual information An electronic dictionary may be created by receiving a data request action for a word appearing in an electronic document, accessing information regarding the context of the word derived from within the electronic document in which the word appears, storing the defi... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7313516 | Electronic dictionary client connectable to an electronic dictionary server to search a dictionary on the electronic dictionary server In dictionary retrieval processing by the electronic dictionary, if a headword matching a retrieval object word is not stored in a built-in dictionary data, the retrieval object word is registered in the form of a network-dictionary retrieval object listing. If a ne... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7308648 | Method, system, and computer-readable medium for filtering harmful HTML in an electronic document A method and system are provided for filtering harmful HTML content from an electronic document. An application program interface (API) examines the fundamental structure of the HTML content in the document. The HTML content in the electronic document is parsed into... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7296031 | Auto playlist generator A system and method for generating a list is provided. The system includes a seed item input subsystem, an item identifying subsystem, a descriptive metadata similarity determining subsystem and a list generating subsystem that builds a list based, at least in part,... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296229 | Method and apparatus for providing a central dictionary and glossary server A master dictionary or glossary is updated at a server, and the update to the master dictionary or glossary is served to the application on the client to update a local copy of the dictionary or glossary. A datastream may also be processed by automatically scanning ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293231 | Data entry for personal computing devices In one aspect of the invention, the user can rapidly enter and search for text through a combination of entering one or more characters (a partial text entry) on a digitally displayed keyboard with a pointing device and using a search list to display a list of selec... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286977 | Intentional-stance characterization of a general content stream or repository Starting with a dictionary including concepts and chains, a subset of the chains is selected as intentional stance basis chains (ISBCs). Concepts in the dictionary are chosen and mapped to state vectors using the ISBCs. The state vectors are assembled into a templat... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283992 | Media agent to suggest contextually related media content The described arrangements and procedures provide an intelligent media agent to autonomously collect semantic multimedia data text descriptions on behalf of a user whenever and wherever the user accesses media content. The media agent analyzes these semantic multime... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284200 | Organization of handwritten notes using handwritten titles A system and method for associating an ink title with a note is described. A user may hand write a title for a document or note and have the handwritten ink title be displayed when interacting with the system when, for example, viewing the contents of a directory, r... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284196 | Vocabulary and syntax based data transformation A framework for accomplishing vocabulary-based data transformations, for interfacing systems of disparate data formats. The framework is layered to separate the terms of documents form the underlying concepts corresponding thereto. The layers include an ontology lay... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281001 | Data quality system A system (1) generates an output indicating scores for the extent of matching of pairs of data records. Thresholds may be set for the scores for decision-making or human review. A vector extraction module (12) measures similarity of pairs of fields in ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280957 | Method and apparatus for generating overview information for hierarchically related information A method is provided for digesting the content of hierarchically related information. The method, which obtains relatively short overviews, selects a proportion of representative nodes and then extracts and organizes one or more sentences from the text associated wi... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277858 | Client/server rendering of network transcoded sign language content A method and system is provided for communicating a interpreted sign-language communication in a communication system having a plurality of nodes including at least a source node, a destination node, and a network node. To facilitate communicating the interpreted si... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277883 | Information management system This writing discloses a computerized tool to enhance the output of a user. The tool has a number of databases against which the input entered by the user is reviewed. In specificity, this tool can be used for creating songs. It offers to the user dictionaries inclu... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275115 | Cable modem system and method for supporting packet PDU compression A cable modem system and method are provided for using a data compression dictionary to transmit compressed payload data in a DOCSIS network while utilizing conventional cable modem termination system (CMTS) equipment. A cable modem system in accordance with the inv... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269546 | System and method of finding documents related to other documents and of finding related words in response to a query to refine a search A computer-implemented system and method is disclosed for retrieving documents using context-dependant probabilistic modeling of words and documents. The present invention uses multiple overlapping vectors to represent each document. Each vector is centered on each ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269787 | Multi-document context aware annotation system A method for document annotation includes providing a contextual framework extending over multiple electronic documents. Annotations are input to a computer by a user with respect to two or more of the documents, while the user views the documents on a computer scre... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269789 | Document information processing apparatus A document information processing apparatus includes a form element analyzer (12) for performing a form element analysis on a plain document inputted from a plain document input unit (10) by using a dictionary stored in a dictionary storage unit so as ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266548 | Automated taxonomy generation In a hierarchical taxonomy of document, the categories of information may be structured as a binary tree with the nodes of the binary tree containing information relevant to the search. The binary tree may be ‘trained’ or formed by examining a training set of do... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263657 | Correction widget A correction tool that displays a correction widget when a user acts to correct text is provided. More particularly, if the user places an insertion point in or to the immediate left of the text, or selects the text, the tool displays the correction widget immediate... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260570 | Retrieving matching documents by queries in any national language Search time is reduced with a search engine that includes a bi-directional inverted index facility which can be accessed with a keyword search in one of a number of languages and provide a listing of documents contained in all of those languages. The keywords in all... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259752 | Method and system for editing electronic ink A computer-implemented method and system for erasing and editing an electronic document. A goal for computing devices that support the use of a stylus that can record handwriting strokes and present them in an electronic document is to present electronic ink that be... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254773 | Automated spell analysis An apparatus, program product and method utilize automated analysis techniques to assist in the determination of acceptable usages of linguistic terms (e.g., words, phrases, acronyms, etc.). In particular, an acceptable usage of a linguistic term may be determined b... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251637 | Context vector generation and retrieval A system and method for generating context vectors for use in storage and retrieval of documents and other information items. Context vectors represent conceptual relationships among information items by quantitative means. A neural network operates on a training co... | 07/31/2007 |
