Patents by Inventor Anthony Scriffignano

Anthony Scriffignano 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).

  • System and method for searching and matching data having ideogrammatic content
    Patent number: 7584188
    Abstract: A method of searching and matching non-phonetic or ideogrammatic input data to stored data, including the steps of receiving input data comprising a search string having a plurality of elements, converting a subset of the elements into a set of terms, generating an optimized plurality of keys from the set of terms, retrieving stored data based on the optimized keys corresponding to most likely candidates for match, and selecting a best match from the plurality of candidates. At least some of the ideogrammatic elements form part of an ideogrammatic writing system. The method may also include dividing the search string into a plurality of overlapping sub-segments and identifying sub-segments having inferred semantic meaning as well as sub-segments having no semantic meaning in the ideogrammatic writing system, and using the various sub-segments to generate the optimized keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Dun and Bradstreet
    Inventors: Anthony Scriffignano, Kevin Nedd, Peihsin Shao, Simpeng Gan, Sarah Lu, Masayuki Okada, Mayako Kasai, Julian N. N. Prower, Nicholas Teoh, Jeremy Sy, Warwick Matthews
  • System and method for searching and matching data having ideogrammatic content
    Publication number: 20070162445
    Abstract: A method of searching and matching non-phonetic or ideogrammatic input data to stored data, including the steps of receiving input data comprising a search string having a plurality of elements, converting a subset of the elements into a set of terms, generating an optimized plurality of keys from the set of terms, retrieving stored data based on the optimized keys corresponding to most likely candidates for match, and selecting a best match from the plurality of candidates. At least some of the ideogrammatic elements form part of an ideogrammatic writing system. The method may also include dividing the search string into a plurality of overlapping sub-segments and identifying sub-segments having inferred semantic meaning as well as sub-segments having no semantic meaning in the ideogrammatic writing system, and using the various sub-segments to generate the optimized keys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Anthony Scriffignano, Kevin Nedd, Peihsin Shao, Gan Simpeng, Sarah Lu, Masayuki Okada, Mayako Kasai, Julian Prower, Nicholas Teoh, Jeremy Sy, Warwick Matthews