Patents by Inventor Andrew William Hogue
Andrew William Hogue has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9582548Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing geographically relevant search results. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a geotoken for a resource. The geotoken can be a resource token that references a geographic location. A semantic geotoken can be selected using the received geotoken. The semantic geotoken is a standardized representation of the geographic location that includes one or more location-specific terms. The semantic geotoken is stored with a reference to the resource. Neighboring locations for the geographic location are determined. The neighboring locations are within a predetermined distance of the geographic location. Semantic geotokens for the neighboring locations are selected and stored with the reference to the resource. Data specifying the semantic geotokens and the reference to the resource are provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Daniel Francis Lieuwen, Andrew William Hogue, Greg Morris, Denis M. Lynch
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Patent number: 9530229Abstract: A presentation engine presents facts in a UI having a graph. Through manipulation of the UI, an end-user can add or remove facts from the graph, and can sort the facts shown in the graph based on values that are shown, or not shown, in the graph. The presentation engine determines a graph type that best facilitates interpretation of the facts by the end-user and automatically creates a graph of that type. Possible graph types include bar graphs, scatter plots, timelines, and maps.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Andrew William Hogue, David J. Vespe, Alexander P. Kehlenbeck, Michael Gordon, Jeffrey C. Reynar, David B. Alpert
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Patent number: 8996470Abstract: Methods and systems for maintaining the internal consistency of a fact repository are described. Accessed objects are checked for attribute-value pairs that have links to other objects. For any link to an object, the name of the linked-to object is inserted into the attribute-value pair having the link. The accessed objects are filtered to remove attribute-value pairs meeting predefined criteria, possibly resulting in null objects. Links to null objects are identified and removed.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2005Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Andrew William Hogue, Robert Joseph Siemborski, Jonathan T. Betz
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Patent number: 8924436Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs stored on computer storage media, for populating a structured presentation with new values. One aspect can be embodied in machine-implemented methods that include the actions of obtaining a plurality of instances and a plurality of attributes; for each instance: identifying one or more documents from an unstructured document collection that are relevant to the instance, where each of the one or more documents include at least a value for an attribute in the plurality of attributes; and establishing a subset of the one or more values as characterizing the instance; and adding each instance, the respective attributes, and the respective subset of values to a structured data collection.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2013Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Vinicius J. Fortuna, Andriy Bihun, Leonardo A. Laroco, Jr., Daniel Loreto, Elena Erbiceanu, Jeffrey C. Reynar, Andrew William Hogue, Ankur Bhargava
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Publication number: 20140320499Abstract: A presentation engine presents facts in a UI having a graph. Through manipulation of the UI, an end-user can add or remove facts from the graph, and can sort the facts shown in the graph based on values that are shown, or not shown, in the graph. The presentation engine determines a graph type that best facilitates interpretation of the facts by the end-user and automatically creates a graph of that type. Possible graph types include bar graphs, scatter plots, timelines, and maps.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Andrew William Hogue, David J. Vespe, Alexander P. Kehlenbeck, Michael Gordon, Jeffrey C. Reynar, David B. Alpert
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Publication number: 20140053053Abstract: Systems and methods for real-time extraction of user-specified information are described. One method described comprises receiving a selection of a portion of a web page, wherein the selection comprises a first set of data; dynamically generating an extraction pattern based at least in part on the selection; and extracting a second set of data from the web page based at least in part on the pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2005Publication date: February 20, 2014Inventor: Andrew William Hogue
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Patent number: 8650175Abstract: A method and a system for providing snippets of source documents of an answer to a fact query are disclosed. Snippets of source documents may be provided in response to a user request for the source documents from which the fact answer to a fact query was extracted. The snippets include the terms of the fact query and terms of the answer. The snippets may be displayed along with Uniform Resource Locators (URL's) of the source documents.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Andrew William Hogue
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Patent number: 8615707Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs stored on computer storage media, for retrieval and display of information from an electronic document collection. One aspect can be embodied in machine-implemented methods that include the actions of receiving description data describing a preexisting structured presentation, comparing characteristics of the preexisting structured presentation with content of electronic documents in an unstructured collection of electronic documents to locate electronic documents that identify a new attribute that is relevant to the preexisting structured presentation, adding an identifier of the new attribute to the preexisting structured presentation to form an expanded structured presentation, and outputting instructions for presenting the expanded structured presentation.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Vinicius J. Fortuna, Andriy Bihun, Daniel Loreto, Elena Erbiceanu, Jeffrey C. Reynar, Andrew William Hogue, Ankur Bhargava
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Patent number: 8452791Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs stored on computer storage media, for retrieval and display of information from an electronic document collection. In one aspect, a machine-implemented method includes the actions of receiving description data describing a preexisting structured presentation, comparing characteristics of the preexisting structured presentation with content of electronic documents in an unstructured collection of electronic documents to locate electronic documents that identify a new instance that is relevant to the preexisting structured presentation, adding an identifier of the new instance to the preexisting structured presentation to form an expanded structured presentation, and outputting instructions for presenting the expanded structured presentation.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Vinicius J. Fortuna, Andriy Bihun, Daniel Loreto, Elena Erbiceanu, Jeffrey C. Reynar, Andrew William Hogue, Ankur Bhargava
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Patent number: 8412749Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs stored on computer storage media, for populating a structured presentation with new values. One aspect can be embodied in machine-implemented methods that include the actions of receiving description data describing a preexisting structured presentation, comparing characteristics of the preexisting structured presentation with content of electronic documents in an unstructured collection of electronic documents to locate electronic documents that identify a new value that is relevant to the preexisting structured presentation, adding the new value to the preexisting structured presentation to form a new structured presentation, and outputting instructions for visually presenting the new structured presentation.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Vinicius J. Fortuna, Andriy Bihun, Leonardo A. Laroco, Jr., Daniel Loreto, Elena Erbiceanu, Jeffrey C. Reynar, Andrew William Hogue, Ankur Bhargava
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Publication number: 20120278301Abstract: A method and a system for providing snippets of source documents of an answer to a fact query are disclosed. Snippets of source documents may be provided in response to a user request for the source documents from which the fact answer to a fact query was extracted. The snippets include the terms of the fact query and terms of the answer. The snippets may be displayed along with Uniform Resource Locators (URL's) of the source documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventor: Andrew William Hogue
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Patent number: 8224802Abstract: A method and a system for providing snippets of source documents of an answer to a fact query are disclosed. Snippets of source documents may be provided in response to a user request for the source documents from which the fact answer to a fact query was extracted. The snippets include the terms of the fact query and terms of the answer. The snippets may be displayed along with Uniform Resource Locators (URL's) of the source documents.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2011Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Andrew William Hogue
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Publication number: 20110295888Abstract: A method and a system for providing snippets of source documents of an answer to a fact query are disclosed. Snippets of source documents may be provided in response to a user request for the source documents from which the fact answer to a fact query was extracted. The snippets include the terms of the fact query and terms of the answer. The snippets may be displayed along with Uniform Resource Locators (URL's) of the source documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventor: Andrew William Hogue
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Patent number: 8065290Abstract: A method and a system for providing snippets of source documents of an answer to a fact query are disclosed. Snippets of source documents may be provided in response to a user request for the source documents from which the fact answer to a fact query was extracted. The snippets include the terms of the fact query and terms of the answer. The snippets may be displayed along with Uniform Resource Locators (URL's) of the source documents.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Andrew William Hogue
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Publication number: 20110106819Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying a group of related instance identifiers. In one aspect, a computer storage medium is encoded with a computer program. The program comprises instructions that when executed by data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations. The operations include receiving a search query at a data processing apparatus, the search query specifying attributes shared by a group of related instances, searching an electronic document collection to identify instance identifiers that are responsive to the search query, representing features of the instance identifiers in a vertex-edge graph, and scoring relevance of the instance identifiers to the search query according to the features represented in the vertex-edge graph.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Randolph G. Brown, Daniel N. Quine, Yohann R. Coppel, Daniel Loreto, John Alexander Komoroske, Andrew William Hogue, Craig Nevill-Manning
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Publication number: 20100306223Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for improving search with user corrections. In one aspect, a methods performed by a data processing apparatus include the actions of receiving a value result set, accessing historical records of user corrections stored at one or more data storage devices, the historical records describing user corrections of the characterization of instance attributes by values, determining that the historical records of user corrections describe a first user correction involving a first value in the value result set, and changing a confidence parameter embodying a confidence that the first value correctly characterizes the attribute of the instance. The value result set comprises a collection of one or more values. The values are candidates for characterizing an attribute of an instance. The first value is involved in the correction as either a corrected value or an uncorrected value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2009Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: John J. Lee, Andrew William Hogue, Dan N. Quine, Andriy Bihun, Daniel Loreto
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Publication number: 20100185653Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs stored on computer storage media, for populating a structured presentation with new values. One aspect can be embodied in machine-implemented methods that include the actions of receiving description data describing a preexisting structured presentation, comparing characteristics of the preexisting structured presentation with content of electronic documents in an unstructured collection of electronic documents to locate electronic documents that identify a new value that is relevant to the preexisting structured presentation, adding the new value to the preexisting structured presentation to form a new structured presentation, and outputting instructions for visually presenting the new structured presentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2009Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Vincius J. Fortuna, Andriy Bihun, Leonardo A. Laroco, JR., Daniel Loreto, Elena Erbiceanu, Jeffrey C. Reynar, Andrew William Hogue, Ankur Bhargava
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Publication number: 20100185934Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs stored on computer storage media, for retrieval and display of information from an electronic document collection. One aspect can be embodied in machine-implemented methods that include the actions of receiving description data describing a preexisting structured presentation, comparing characteristics of the preexisting structured presentation with content of electronic documents in an unstructured collection of electronic documents to locate electronic documents that identify a new attribute that is relevant to the preexisting structured presentation, adding an identifier of the new attribute to the preexisting structured presentation to form an expanded structured presentation, and outputting instructions for presenting the expanded structured presentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2009Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Vincius J. Fortuna, Andriy Bihun, Daniel Loreto, Elena Erbiceanu, Jeffrey C. Reynar, Andrew William Hogue, Ankur Bhargava
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Publication number: 20100185651Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs stored on computer storage media, for retrieval and display of information from an unstructured electronic document collection. One aspect can be embodied in machine-implemented methods that include the actions of receiving a machine-readable search query from a user and responding to the search query with instructions for presenting the user with a structured presentation of instances relevant to the search query. A visual presentation of the structured presentation denotes associations between the instances and values that characterize attributes of the instances by virtue of an arrangement of identifiers of the instances and the values.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2009Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Daniel N. Crow, Daniel Loreto, Bogdan Caprita, Antonella Pavese, Jeffrey C. Reynar, Andrew William Hogue, Anthony J. Aiuto, John Alexander Komoroske
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Publication number: 20100185654Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs stored on computer storage media, for retrieval and display of information from an electronic document collection. In one aspect, a machine-implemented method includes the actions of receiving description data describing a preexisting structured presentation, comparing characteristics of the preexisting structured presentation with content of electronic documents in an unstructured collection of electronic documents to locate electronic documents that identify a new instance that is relevant to the preexisting structured presentation, adding an identifier of the new instance to the preexisting structured presentation to form an expanded structured presentation, and outputting instructions for presenting the expanded structured presentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2009Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Vincius J. Fortuna, Andriy Bihun, Daniel Loreto, Elena Erbiceanu, Jeffrey C. Reynar, Andrew William Hogue, Ankur Bhargava