Patents by Inventor Eric E. Altendorf

Eric E. Altendorf 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).

  • Patent number: 10460229
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for disambiguating word sense. One of the methods includes maintaining a respective word sense numeric representation of each of a plurality of word senses of a particular word; receiving a request to determine the word sense of the particular word when included in a particular text sequence, the particular text sequence comprising one or more context words and the particular word; determining a context numeric representation of the context words in the particular text sequence; and selecting a word sense of the plurality of word senses having a word sense numeric representation that is closest to the context numeric representation as the word sense of the particular word when included in the particular text sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Dayu Yuan, Ryan P. Doherty, Colin Hearne Evans, Julian David Christian Richardson, Eric E. Altendorf
  • Patent number: 8977612
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying one or more second documents related to one or more first documents. Strength of relationship scores between candidate documents in a group of candidate documents and each first document are determined by aggregating user selection data for users, the user selection data indicating, for each user, whether the user viewed the candidate document during a window of time after the first document is presented to the user on a search results web page in response to a query. An aggregate strength of relationship score is calculated for each candidate document from the strength of relationship scores for the candidate document. Second documents are selected from the candidate documents according to the aggregate strength of relationship scores for the candidate documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Tong, Benjamin N. Lee, Eric E. Altendorf
  • Patent number: 8972394
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying one or more second documents related to one or more first documents. Strength of relationship scores between candidate documents in a group of candidate documents and each first document are determined by aggregating user selection data for users, the user selection data indicating, for each user, whether the user viewed the candidate document during a window of time after the first document is presented to the user on a search results web page in response to a query. An aggregate strength of relationship score is calculated for each candidate document from the strength of relationship scores for the candidate document. Second documents are selected from the candidate documents according to the aggregate strength of relationship scores for the candidate documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Tong, Benjamin N. Lee, Eric E. Altendorf
  • Patent number: 8447760
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying one or more second documents related to one or more first documents. Strength of relationship scores between candidate documents in a group of candidate documents and each first document are determined by aggregating user selection data for users, the user selection data indicating, for each user, whether the user viewed the candidate document during a window of time after the first document is presented to the user on a search results web page in response to a query. An aggregate strength of relationship score is calculated for each candidate document from the strength of relationship scores for the candidate document. Second documents are selected from the candidate documents according to the aggregate strength of relationship scores for the candidate documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Tong, Benjamin N. Lee, Eric E. Altendorf