Patents by Inventor Robert F. Richardson

Robert F. Richardson 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: 8005665
    Abstract: A method of extracting significant phrases from one or more documents stored in a computer-readable medium. A sequence of words is read from the one or more documents and a score is determined for each word in the sequence based on the length of the word. The score for each word in the sequence is compared against a threshold score. The sequence of words is indicated to be a significant phrase if the number of words in the sequences that have a score greater than the threshold score equals or exceeds a predetermined number. A sentence containing the sequence of words is retrieved from the document, if the sequence of words is a significant phrase. An abstract of the document is searched to determine if the sentence has been previously included in the abstract. If not, the sentence is added to the abstract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Schukhaus Group GmbH, LLC
    Inventors: Garnet R. Chaney, Robert F. Richardson, Seymour I. Rubinstein
  • Publication number: 20100305942
    Abstract: A method of extracting significant phrases from one or more documents stored in a computer-readable medium. A sequence of words is read from the one or more documents and a score is determined for each word in the sequence based on the length of the word. The score for each word in the sequence is compared against a threshold score. The sequence of words is indicated to be a significant phrase if the number of words in the sequences that have a score greater than the threshold score equals or exceeds a predetermined number. A sentence containing the sequence of words is retrieved from the document, if the sequence of words is a significant phrase. An abstract of the document is searched to determine if the sentence has been previously included in the abstract. If not, the sentence is added to the abstract.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Garnet R. Chaney, Robert F. Richardson, Seymour I. Rubinstein
  • Patent number: 7792667
    Abstract: A method of extracting significant phrases from one or more documents stored in a computer-readable medium. A sequence of words is read from the one or more documents and a score is determined for each word in the sequence based on the length of the word. The score for each word in the sequence is compared against a threshold score. The sequence of words is indicated to be a significant phrase if the number of words in the sequences that have a score greater than the threshold score equals or exceeds a predetermined number. A sentence containing the sequence of words is retrieved from the document, if the sequence of words is a significant phrase. An abstract of the document is searched to determine if the sentence has been previously included in the abstract. If not, the sentence is added to the abstract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Inventors: Garnet R. Chaney, Robert F. Richardson, Seymour I. Rubinstein
  • Publication number: 20090182553
    Abstract: A method of extracting significant phrases from one or more documents stored in a computer-readable medium. A sequence of words is read from the one or more documents and a score is determined for each word in the sequence based on the length of the word. The score for each word in the sequence is compared against a threshold score. The sequence of words is indicated to be a significant phrase if the number of words in the sequences that have a score greater than the threshold score equals or exceeds a predetermined number. A sentence containing the sequence of words is retrieved from the document, if the sequence of words is a significant phrase. An abstract of the document is searched to determine if the sentence has been previously included in the abstract. If not, the sentence is added to the abstract.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: UDICO HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Garnet R. Chaney, Robert F. Richardson, Seymour I. Rubinstein
  • Patent number: 7447626
    Abstract: A method of extracting significant phrases from one or more documents stored in a computer-readable medium. A sequence of words is read from the one or more documents and a score is determined for each word in the sequence based on the length of the word. The score for each word in the sequence is compared against a threshold score. The sequence of words is indicated to be a significant phrase if the number of words in the sequences that have a score greater than the threshold score equals or exceeds a predetermined number. A sentence containing the sequence of words is retrieved from the document, if the sequence of words is a significant phrase. An abstract of the document is searched to determine if the sentence has been previously included in the abstract. If not, the sentence is added to the abstract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: UDICO Holdings
    Inventors: Garnet R. Chaney, Robert F. Richardson, Seymour I. Rubinstein
  • Patent number: 6104990
    Abstract: A method of extracting significant phrases from one or more documents stored in a computer-readable medium. A sequence of words is read from the one or more documents and a score is determined for each word in the sequence based on the length of the word. The score for each word in the sequence is compared against a threshold score. The sequence of words is indicated to be a significant phrase if the number of words in the sequences that have a score greater than the threshold score equals or exceeds a predetermined number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Prompt Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Garnet R. Chaney, Robert F. Richardson
  • Patent number: 5966684
    Abstract: A system involving method and apparatus for cancelling a periodic electrical interference signal from a signal of interest is disclosed. The system of the invention creates an estimate of the periodic noise component in an electrical signal by sampling the electrical signal at intervals locked to the period of the source of the electrical interference signal. The system analyzes the sampled signal to isolate periodically repeating portions of the signal characteristic of noise. The system inverts the estimate of the noise component and constructs a continuous repeating waveform which is added to the electrical signal. The system does not eliminate transient features of the signal of interest, even when those transient features have frequency components which overlap with frequencies present in the electrical interference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Inventors: Thomas L. Richardson, Robert F. Richardson