Anticipated meaning natural language interface

Patent 5682539 Issued on October 28, 1997. Estimated Expiration Date:

October 28, 2014. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 315240 filed on 09/29/1994

US Classes:

704/9Natural language

Examiners

Primary: Weinhardt, Robert A.
Assistant: Shingala, Gita D.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP

International Class

G06F 017/28

Abstract

An anticipated meaning natural language interface system for computer applications. A knowledge engineer anticipates the general meaning of each sentence that a user is likely to enter and builds a structure of general meaning nodes. For each node, the knowledge engineer enters one or more typical sentences to represent the general meaning. A knowledge engineer abstracts the typical sentences and stores the abstractions in a knowledge base. When a user enters a sentence, it is abstracted by the system and compared to abstracted typical sentences in the knowledge base. This information, and other available information, is used by an algorithm to determine which of the general meaning nodes is intended by the user.