Patents by Inventor Eric H. Nyberg

Eric H. Nyberg 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: 6658627
    Abstract: The present invention is a system of integrated, computer-based processes for monolingual information development and multilingual translation. An interactive text editor enforces lexical and grammatical constraints on a natural language subset used by the authors to create their text, which they help disambiguate to ensure translatability. The resulting translatable source language text undergoes machine translation into any one of a set of target languages, without the translated text requiring any postediting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc
    Inventors: Sharlene L. Gallup, Peggy M. Andersen, Philip J. Hayes, Eric H. Riebling, Teruko Mitamura, Eric H. Nyberg, III
  • Patent number: 6163785
    Abstract: The present invention is a system of integrated, computer-based processes for monolingual information development. and multilingual translation. An interactive text editor enforces lexical and grammatical constraints on a natural language subset used by the authors to create their text, which they help disambiguate to ensure translatability. The resulting translatable source language text undergoes machine translation into any one of a set of target languages, without the translated text requiring any postediting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime G. Carbonell, Sharlene L. Gallup, Timothy J. Harris, James W. Higdon, Dennis A. Hill, David C. Hudson, David Nasjleti, Mervin L. Rennich, Peggy M. Andersen, Michael M. Bauer, Roy F. Busdiecker, III, Philip J. Hayes, Alison K. Huettner, Bruce M. McLaren, Irene Nirenburg, Eric H. Riebling, Linda M. Schmandt, John F. Sweet, Kathryn L. Baker, Nicholas D. Brownlow, Alexander M. Franz, Susan E. Holm, John Robert Russell Leavitt, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Teruko Mitamura, Eric H. Nyberg, 3rd
  • Patent number: 6139201
    Abstract: The present invention is a system of integrated, computer-based processes for monolingual information development and multilingual translation. An interactive text editor enforces lexical and grammatical constraints on a natural language subset used by the authors to create their text, which they help disambiguate to ensure translatability. The resulting translatable source language text undergoes machine translation into any one of a set of target languages, without the translated text requiring any postediting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime G. Carbonell, Sharlene L. Gallup, Timothy J. Harris, James W. Higdon, Dennis A. Hill, David C. Hudson, David Nasjleti, Mervin L. Rennich, Peggy M. Andersen, Michael M. Bauer, Roy F. Busdiecker, Philip J. Hayes, Alison K. Huettner, Bruce M. McLaren, Irene Nirenburg, Eric H. Riebling, Linda M. Schmandt, John F. Sweet, Kathryn L. Baker, Nicholas D. Brownlow, Susan E. Holm, John Robert Russell Leavitt, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Teruko Mitamura, Eric H. Nyberg, 3rd
  • Patent number: 5995920
    Abstract: A computer-based method and system for monolingual document development, which includes the steps of entering into a text editor input text in a source language, checking the input text against vocabulary source language constraints, and providing interactive feedback relating to the input text if non-constrained source language is present. The method and system also includes the steps of checking for syntactic grammatical errors and semantic ambiguities in the source text, and providing interactive feedback to remove syntactic grammatical errors and semantic ambiguities in the source text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime G. Carbonell, Sharlene L. Gallup, Timothy J. Harris, James W. Higdon, Dennis A. Hill, David C. Hudson, David Nasjleti, Mervin L. Rennich, Peggy M. Andersen, Michael M. Bauer, Roy F. Busdiecker, Philip J. Hayes, Alison K. Huettner, Bruce M. McLaren, Irene Nirenburg, Eric H. Riebling, Linda M. Schmandt, John F. Sweet, Kathryn L. Baker, Nicholas D. Brownlow, Alexander M. Franz, Susan E. Holm, John Robert Russell Leavitt, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Teruko Mitamura, Eric H. Nyberg, 3rd
  • Patent number: 5920303
    Abstract: pe1A dynamic keyboard includes a plurality of keys, each with an associated symbol, which are dynamically redefinable to provide access to higher level keyboards. Based on sequenced symbols of keys sequentially activated, certain dynamic categories and subcategories can be accessed and keys corresponding thereto dynamically redefined. Dynamically redefined keys can include embellished symbols and/or newly displayed symbols. These dynamically redefined keys can then provide the user with the ability to easily access both core and fringe vocabulary words in a speech synthesis system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Assignee: Semantic Compaction Systems
    Inventors: Bruce R. Baker, Brian Yoder, David Hershberger, Barry Romich, Eric H. Nyberg, III, Robert V. Conti
  • Patent number: 5748177
    Abstract: A dynamic keyboard includes a plurality of keys, each with an associated symbol, which are dynamically redefinable to provide access to higher level keyboards. Based on sequenced symbols of keys sequentially activated, certain dynamic categories and subcategories can be accessed and keys corresponding thereto dynamically redefined. Dynamically redefined keys can include embellished symbols and/or newly displayed symbols. These dyanmically redefined keys can then provide the user with the ability to easily access both core and fringe vocabulary words in a speech synthesis system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Semantic Compaction Systems
    Inventors: Bruce R. Baker, Brian Yoder, David Hershberger, Barry Romich, Eric H. Nyberg, III, Robert V. Conti
  • Patent number: 5677835
    Abstract: The present invention is a system of integrated, computer-based processes for monolingual information development and multilingual translation. An interactive text editor enforces lexical and grammatical constraints on a natural language subset used by the authors to create their text, which they help disambiguate to ensure translatability. The resulting translatable source language text undergoes machine translation into any one of a set of target languages, without the translated text requiring any postediting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime G. Carbonell, Sharlene L. Gallup, Timothy J. Harris, James W. Higdon, Dennis A. Hill, David C. Hudson, David Nasjleti, Mervin L. Rennich, Peggy M. Andersen, Michael M. Bauer, Roy F. Busdiecker, Philip J. Hayes, Alison K. Huettner, Bruce M. McLaren, Irene Nirenburg, Eric H. Riebling, Linda M. Schmandt, John F. Sweet, Kathryn L. Baker, Nicholas D. Brownlow, Alexander M. Franz, Susan E. Holm, John Robert Russell Leavitt, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Teruko Mitamura, Eric H. Nyberg, 3rd
  • Patent number: 5299125
    Abstract: A Natural Language Processing System utilizes a symbol parsing layer in combination with an intelligent word parsing layer to produce a syntactically or pragmatically correct output sentence or other word message. Initially, a plurality of polysemic symbol sequences are input through a keyboard segmented into a plurality of semantic, syntactic, or pragmatic segments including agent, action and patient segments, for example. One polysemic symbol sequence, including a plurality of polysemic symbols, is input from each of the three segments of the keyboard. A symbol parsing device, in a symbol parsing layer, then parses each of the plurality of symbols in each polysemic symbol sequence to access a previously stored word, morpheme, or phrase. The word, morpheme, or phrase is accessed which corresponds to the polysemic symbol sequence and further corresponds to one of the designated agent, action or patient segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Semantic Compaction Systems
    Inventors: Bruce R. Baker, Eric H. Nyberg