Patents by Inventor Neil G. Bloomfield

Neil G. Bloomfield 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: 11526481
    Abstract: A contextual index compendium that includes contextual index item generation rules that define document index entry generation transforms usable to transform text of the documents into embedded document index entries of document indexes within the documents is obtained by a processor. Using the document index entry generation transforms defined within the contextual index item generation rules in association with a document that includes embedded document index entries that are both embedded at locations of associated text distributed throughout the document and added as part of a document index within the document, new text of the document is programmatically transformed into at least one new document index entry in response to determining that at least one portion of the new text includes candidate text that is not already indexed within the existing embedded document index entries and the document index within the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Neil G. Bloomfield
  • Publication number: 20200233847
    Abstract: A contextual index compendium that includes contextual index item generation rules that define document index entry generation transforms usable to transform text of the documents into embedded document index entries of document indexes within the documents is obtained by a processor. Using the document index entry generation transforms defined within the contextual index item generation rules in association with a document that includes embedded document index entries that are both embedded at locations of associated text distributed throughout the document and added as part of a document index within the document, new text of the document is programmatically transformed into at least one new document index entry in response to determining that at least one portion of the new text includes candidate text that is not already indexed within the existing embedded document index entries and the document index within the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventor: Neil G. Bloomfield
  • Patent number: 10649971
    Abstract: A contextual index compendium that includes contextual index item generation rules that define document index entry generation transforms usable to transform text of the documents into embedded document index entries of document indexes within the documents is obtained by a processor. Using the document index entry generation transforms defined within the contextual index item generation rules in association with a document that includes embedded document index entries that are both embedded at locations of associated text distributed throughout the document and added as part of a document index within the document, new text of the document is programmatically transformed into at least one new document index entry in response to determining that at least one portion of the new text includes candidate text that is not already indexed within the existing embedded document index entries and the document index within the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Neil G. Bloomfield
  • Publication number: 20160070735
    Abstract: A contextual index compendium that includes contextual index item generation rules that define document index entry generation transforms usable to transform text of the documents into embedded document index entries of document indexes within the documents is obtained by a processor. Using the document index entry generation transforms defined within the contextual index item generation rules in association with a document that includes embedded document index entries that are both embedded at locations of associated text distributed throughout the document and added as part of a document index within the document, new text of the document is programmatically transformed into at least one new document index entry in response to determining that at least one portion of the new text includes candidate text that is not already indexed within the existing embedded document index entries and the document index within the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventor: Neil G. Bloomfield
  • Patent number: 9218411
    Abstract: New text associated with an updated document is compared with existing embedded index items within the updated document and with existing contextual text within the updated document associated with the existing embedded index items. A determination is made as to whether any of the new text includes candidate text for at least one new index item that is not already indexed within the existing embedded index items using a contextual index compendium including contextual index item generation rules and the existing contextual text within the updated document associated with the existing embedded index items. At least one new index item is generated, using the contextual index item generation rules, in response to determining that at least one portion of the new text includes the candidate text that is not already indexed within the existing embedded index items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Neil G. Bloomfield
  • Publication number: 20140046949
    Abstract: New text associated with an updated document is compared with existing embedded index items within the updated document and with existing contextual text within the updated document associated with the existing embedded index items. A determination is made as to whether any of the new text includes candidate text for at least one new index item that is not already indexed within the existing embedded index items using a contextual index compendium including contextual index item generation rules and the existing contextual text within the updated document associated with the existing embedded index items. At least one new index item is generated, using the contextual index item generation rules, in response to determining that at least one portion of the new text includes the candidate text that is not already indexed within the existing embedded index items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Neil G. Bloomfield