Patent 6782376 Issued on August 24, 2004. Estimated Expiration Date: January 8, 2021. 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.
A reasoning method for determining similar cases by executing a case-similarity calculation step and utilizing a distribution of values of fields for calculation of reasoning results of cases having high similarities. Since the similar cases are determined taking a peripheral distribution of a new case into consideration, suitable similar cases can be selected for reasoning even when the case distribution is not uniform.
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