Patents by Inventor Douglas G. Bond

Douglas G. Bond 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).

  • Natural language sentence parser
    Patent number: 7233891
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and apparatus for parsing consecutive sentences which includes tokenizing the words of the sentence and putting them through an iterative inductive processor. The processor has access to at least a first and second set of rules. The rules narrow the possible syntactic interpretations for the words in the sentence. After exhausting application of the first set of rules, the program moves to the second set of rules. The program reiterates back and forth between the sets of rules until no further reductions in the syntactic interpretation can be made. Thereafter, deductive token merging is performed if needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Virtural Research Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas G. Bond, Churl Oh
  • Natural language sentence parser
    Publication number: 20030233225
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and apparatus for parsing a sentence which includes tokenizing the words of the sentence and putting them through an iterative inductive processor. The processor has access to at least a first and second set of rules. The rules narrow the possible syntactic interpretations for the words in the sentence. After exhausting application of the first set of rules, the program moves to the second set of rules. The program reiterates back and forth between the sets of rules until no further reductions in the syntactic interpretation can be made. Thereafter, deductive token merging is performed if needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Applicant: Virtual Research Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas G. Bond, Churl Oh
  • Systems and methods for parsing a natural language sentence
    Patent number: 6539348
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and apparatus for parsing a sentence which includes tokenizing the words of the sentence and putting them through an iterative inductive processor. The processor has access to at least a first and second set of rules. The rules narrow the possible syntactic interpretations for the words in the sentence. After exhausting application of the first set of rules, the program moves to the second set of rules. The program reiterates back and forth between the sets of rules until no further reductions in the syntactic interpretation can be made. Thereafter, deductive token merging is performed if needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Virtual Research Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas G. Bond, Churl Oh