Patents by Inventor Ronald Whitney

Ronald Whitney 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).

  • Method and expert system for deducing document structure in document conversion
    Patent number: 7313754
    Abstract: An expert system for more efficiently and accurately deducing document structure from document formatting, the expert system including a conversion engine for converting an unstructured file to a structured file, and a verification engine, responsive to the output of the conversion engine, for generating and displaying a representation of the structured file annotated with a visual depictions of the classified components thereof so that the annotations can be modified and/or classifications can be added and/or classifications can be suggested, and/or rules for classification can be suggested and the structured file reprocessed by the conversion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Texterity, Inc.
    Inventors: Petra McLure, Carl Scholz, Ronald Whitney
  • Method and expert system for document conversion
    Publication number: 20040181746
    Abstract: An expert system for more efficiently and accurately deducing document structure from document formatting, the expert system including a conversion engine for converting an unstructured file to a structured file, and a verification engine, responsive to the output of the conversion engine, for generating and displaying a representation of the structured file annotated with a visual depictions of the classified components thereof so that the annotations can be modified and/or classifications can be added and/or classifications can be suggested, and/or rules for classification can be suggested and the structured file reprocessed by the conversion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Petra McLure, Carl Scholz, Ronald Whitney