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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6339754 | System for automated translation of speech The present invention allows subscribers to an online information service to participate in real-time conferencing or chat sessions in which a message originating from a subscriber in accordance with a first language is translated to one or more languages... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6292770 | Japanese language user interface for messaging system A method and program for providing a Japanese language user interface for a messaging system which transfers messages among users on the system based upon addresses represented in an address format such as ASCII. The method includes the steps of storing a... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6260008 | Method of and system for disambiguating syntactic word multiples A method and system are provided for disambiguating multiples of syntactically related words automatically using the notion of semantic similarity between words. Based on syntactically related words derived from a sample text, a set is formed containing e... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6253169 | Method for improvement accuracy of decision tree based text categorization A text categorization method automatically classifies electronic documents by developing a single pooled dictionary of words for a sample set of documents, and then generating a decision tree model, based on the pooled dictionary, for classifying new docu... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6246976 | Apparatus, method and storage medium for identifying a combination of a language and its character code system The present invention is directed to identifying a language represented by a character code and its character code system. An occurrence probability table describing for each character the probability that a character code occurs is prepared for each comb... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6233544 | Method and apparatus for language translation Methods and systems for language translation are disclosed. The translator is based on finite state machines that can convert a pair of input symbol sequences to a pair of output symbol sequences. The translator includes a lexicon associating a finite sta... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6219632 | System for the facilitation of supporting multiple concurrent languages through the use of semantic knowledge representation A hierarchical knowledge representation is used in order to more efficiently support the translation and management of multiple localities. Utilizing this type of knowledge representation provides several key advantages. The first is a greater ability to ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6216102 | Natural language determination using partial words Comparing the short and truncated words of a document to word tables of most frequently used words in each of the respective candidate language to identify the language in which the document is written. First, a plurality of words from a document is read ... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6208956 | Method and system for translating documents using different translation resources for different portions of the documents A system and method for translating a document from one language to another language using different translation resources depending on the document or portion of the document being translated. The original document which is to be translated contains info... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6205418 | System and method for providing multiple language capability in computer-based applications The present invention is a system and method for providing a multiple language capability in a computer-based target application such as a personal computer-based (PC-based) attendant console for a communications switching system. The multiple language ca... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6199034 | Methods and apparatus for determining theme for discourse A content processing system determines content of input discourse. The content processing system includes a theme vector processor that determines themes in the input discourse. The theme vector processor identifies themes, including identifying the relat... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6195631 | Method and apparatus for automatic construction of hierarchical transduction models for language translation A method and apparatus for automatically constructing hierarchical transduction models for language translation is presented. The input to the construction process may be a database of examples each consisting of a transcribed speech utterance and its tra... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192333 | System for creating a dictionary A computer readable medium has computer executable components that include a morphological analyzer capable of using a corpus of words to automatically form a dictionary containing words associated with respective lemmas and respective parts of speech. Th... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6188976 | Apparatus and method for building domain-specific language models Disclosed is a method and apparatus for building a domain-specific language model for use in language processing applications, e.g., speech recognition. A reference language model is generated based on a relatively small seed corpus containing linguistic ... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6188977 | Natural language processing apparatus and method for converting word notation grammar description data A natural language processing apparatus converts word notation grammar description data, which explain the rules for the construction of words that belong to categories having a variety of notations, such as the names of product models, onomatopoeic words... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6182027 | Translation method and system A machine translation method and system for improving the accuracy of the selection of appropriate words, without incurring any deterioration of the processing efficiency, includes registering, during the translation of a document by using a compound word... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6182026 | Method and device for translating a source text into a target using modeling and dynamic programming For translating a word-organized source text into a word-organized target text through mapping of source words on target words, both a translation model and a language model are used. In particular, alignment probabilities are ascertained between various ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6178397 | System and method for using a correspondence table to compress a pronunciation guide Parsing routines extract from a conventional pronunciation dictionary an entry, which includes a dictionary word and dictionary phonemes representing the pronunciation of the dictionary word. A correspondence table is used to compress the pronunciation di... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6178396 | Word/phrase classification processing method and apparatus A token is attached to a word class sequence whose probability of appearance in text data is equal to or more than a predetermined value. A set of words and tokens included in a word/token sequence concerning the text data, is separated so that a probabil... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6169969 | Device and method for full-text large-dictionary string matching using n-gram hashing A method and apparatus providing full-text scanning for matches in a large dictionary is described. The invention is suitable for SDI (selective dissemination of information) systems, accommodating large dictionaries (104 to 105 entr... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6167366 | System and method for enhancing human communications Provided is a system and method for enhancing human communications. A user selected first language is translated to other languages, using translation rules. A language may be a visual representation, audio representation, and/or a physical form represent... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6167367 | Method and device for automatic error detection and correction for computerized text files A method and device for automatic error detection and correction for computerized text files uses a two-step segmentation method. A sentence of the computerized text file is first segmented at the first segmentation step into an original format and then c... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6167369 | Automatic language identification using both N-gram and word information The predominant language of a sample text is automatically identified using probability data that include N-gram probability data for at least one language and word probability data for at least one language. The N-gram probability data of a language indi... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6154720 | Conversational sentence translation apparatus allowing the user to freely input a sentence to be translated In a semantic feature dictionary, names of semantic features and character strings in a first language having the semantic features are stored in a mutually associated manner. In a bilingual database, information on various conversational sentence example... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6151570 | Translating apparatus, dictionary search apparatus, and translating method If a context process range extending unit cannot obtain context information required by a context processing unit, from a range to be translated, it extends the context process range. Then, the context processing unit performs a context process, and passe... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6144934 | Binary filter using pattern recognition An electronic message filtering system and method is described. A message is received as input to the filter and decomposed into a set of components. The set of components is then processed through a pattern matching algorithm to determine if the message ... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6138086 | Encoding of language, country and character formats for multiple language display and transmission A computer system is described that is capable of transmitting and displaying files containing variable locale selectors, that is, language, territory and coded character set identifiers. The system contains a code that is transmitted as part of the files... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6138085 | Inferring semantic relations The present invention provides a facility for determining, for a semantic relation that does not occur in a lexical knowledge base, whether this semantic relation should be inferred despite its absence from the lexical knowledge base. This semantic relati... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6125342 | Pronoun semantic analysis system and method A system and method of interpreting user commands for controlling a computer application. When a user command includes a pronoun such as "it", "this", "that" etc., the pronoun will be interpreted in an intuitive fashion according to the context of the com... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6122606 | System and method for enhancing human communications Provided is a system and method for enhancing human communications. A user selected first language is translated to other languages, using translation rules. A language may be a visual representation, audio representation, and/or a physical form represent... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6119078 | Systems, methods and computer program products for automatically translating web pages A Web page in a first language can be translated into a second language by interpreting the URL used to request the Web page. A character string is located that is similar to at least a portion of the URL. A translating environment is linked to the locate... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6119077 | Translation machine with format control An original text inputting portion inputs an original text into an original text storage portion and at the same time transfers it to a translating portion that in turn translates the received text referring to a dictionary in a dictionary portion and sto... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6115683 | Automatic essay scoring system using content-based techniques A system for carrying out a content-based process for automatically scoring essays is disclosed. The system includes a computer; a data storage device; a parse tree file stored in the data storage device, the parse tree file being representative of an ess... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6112168 | Automatically recognizing the discourse structure of a body of text The present invention is directed to recognizing a discourse structure of a body of text. In a preferred embodiment, a discourse structure recognition facility utilizes syntactic information associated with the body of text to generate a discourse structu... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6104990 | Language independent phrase extraction A method of extracting significant phrases from one or more documents stored in a computer-readable medium. A sequence of words is read from the one or more documents and a score is determined for each word in the sequence based on the length of the word.... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6101461 | Command inputting method The present invention comprises a Chinese character information outputting step for outputting Chinese character information corresponding to an input arbitrary character string by referring to a Chinese dictionary in which Chinese character information c... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6098046 | Frequency converter system An apparatus and method is disclosed for converting an input signal having frequency related information sustained over a first duration of time into an output signal sustained over a second duration of time at substantially the same first frequency by ad... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6098034 | Method for standardizing phrasing in a document A method for standardizing phrases in a document includes the steps of identifying phrases of a document to create a preliminary list of standard phrases; filtering the preliminary list of standard phrases to create a final list of standard phrases; ident... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6098033 | Determining similarity between words The present invention provides a facility for determining similarity between two input words utilizing the frequencies with which path patterns occurring between the words occur between words known to be synonyms. A preferred embodiment of the facility ut... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6092035 | Server device for multilingual transmission system A multilingual transmission system includes a server device and a client device. The server device analyzes the meaning and grammatical significance of a source text in a natural language. When vagueness exists in the source text, the server device displa... | 07/18/2000 |
