Patents by Inventor William F. Punch, III

William F. Punch, III 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 product for determining salient features for use in information searching
    Patent number: 5924105
    Abstract: A method and product are provided for generating a word set for use in locating a document having a type similar to a type of document in a document collection. The method includes selecting multiple documents from the document collection, each document selected including multiple words, and stemming the words in each document selected to obtain multiple stem words. The method also includes determining a word count for each stem word in each document, and clustering the stem words based on the word count of each stem word in each document to obtain a word set. The product includes a storage medium having programmed instructions recorded thereon for performing the method steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Michigan State University
    Inventors: William F. Punch, III, Marilyn R. Wulfekuhler, Erik D. Goodman