Patents Assigned to Elsevier, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11704922
    Abstract: A method of extracting information from a flowchart image comprising a plurality of closed-shaped data nodes having text enclosed within, connecting lines connecting the plurality of closed-shaped data nodes and free text adjacent to the connecting lines includes receiving the flowchart image, detecting the closed-shaped data nodes, localizing the text enclosed within the closed-shaped data nodes, and masking the localized text.to generate an annotated image. Lines in the annotated image are the detected to reconstruct them as closed-shaped data nodes and connecting lines. A tree frame with the plurality of closed-shaped data nodes and the connecting lines is extracted. The free text is then localized. Chunks of the free text oriented and positioned proximally together are assembled into text blocks using an orientation-based two-dimensional clustering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: ELSEVIER, INC.
    Inventors: Atul Kakrana, Kaushik Raha
  • Patent number: 11687734
    Abstract: A method for performing a search for a result set of documents comprises receiving, at a computing device, an electronic document, identifying a numerical value in the document, extracting the numerical value and a portion of text surrounding the numerical value from the document to obtain extracted text, creating a vector representation of the extracted text, generating a series of questions associated with the extracted text, generating answers to the series of questions based on the vector representation of the extracted text, determining a context associated with the numerical value based on the answers to the plurality of questions, and storing the numerical value and the context associated with the numerical value in a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: ELSEVIER, INC.
    Inventors: Corey A. Harper, Jessica Rose Cox, Antony Jason Scerri, Ronald E. Daniel, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11682029
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for scoring an individual interaction session between a user and a software program are disclosed. A method includes recording, by a processing device, one or more actions undertaken by the user with the software program to obtain recorded session data, determining, by the processing device in real-time, one or more metrics that correspond to at least one of the one or more actions undertaken by the user with the software program, measuring, by the processing device, the one or more actions undertaken by the user based on the one or more metrics to obtain metric data, and providing, by the processing device, the recorded session data and the metric data as an input for one or more of a machine learning algorithm and a predictive analytic algorithm. The one or more of the machine learning algorithm and the predictive analytic algorithm scores the individual interaction session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay Sharma, Vaqar Khamisani, Michael Sluterbeck, Gabriel Hughes, Ray Daley, Jamie Buckley
  • Patent number: 11550835
    Abstract: A method of automatically generating content summaries for topics includes receiving a taxonomy for a concept and a text corpus. The method further includes generating an annotated dataset having term annotations corresponding to the concept from the text corpus based on the taxonomy, parsing the annotated dataset into a custom generated document object having a structured layout, determining features for the term annotations, and extracting snippets from the custom generated document object, where each of the snippets corresponds to a section of the custom generated document object. The method further includes scoring the snippets based on the features such that each of the snippets corresponds to a score, filtering one or more snippets from the snippets when one or more snippet filtering conditions is met, ranking the snippets into an ordered list for the concept based on the score, and providing, to a user computing device, the ordered list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ELSEVIER, INC.
    Inventors: Marius Doornenbal, Srinivasa Satya Sameer Kumar Chivukula, Judson Dunham, Rick Misra, Michelle Gregory
  • Patent number: 11550828
    Abstract: Systems and methods for indexing geological features are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for indexing geological features includes accessing a database storing a plurality of map objects that originate from documents. Each map object includes a map defined by a geographical boundary and a text caption. The method includes, for each map object, determining a plurality of geohashes within the geographical boundary, and includes, for each map object, comparing terms of the text caption with a list of geological keywords. For each map object, the method includes identifying one or more geological noun phrases within the text caption that match one or more geological noun phrases of the list. The method includes determining, for each geological noun phrase, one or more geohashes associated with the geological noun phrase and, for each geohash, determining a frequency that the geohash is associated with the geological noun phrase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ELSEVIER INC.
    Inventors: Corey A. Harper, Chi Yeung Cheung, Sandra Merten, Antony Jason Scerri
  • Patent number: 11537788
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory media for training a chemical entity recognition system to extract chemical compounds from a patent document and determine a relevance of the chemical compounds to the patent document are disclosed. A method includes obtaining patent documents from patent databases, normalizing each patent document into a unified format, and generating a chemical patent corpus. The chemical patent corpus includes chemical entities, each having relevancy annotations that indicate a relevance to the patent document from which the chemical entity is extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: Elsevier, Inc.
    Inventors: Saber A. Akhondi, Hinnerk Rey, Markus Schwoerer, Heike Nau, Gabriele Ilchmann, Matthias Irmer, Claudia Bobach
  • Patent number: 11474696
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing automatic document filling functionality are described. A method includes providing, by a processing device, an integrated interface that includes a document editing component having a document display area for displaying a document and one or more document editing features for editing a document and a document fill component having contents that elicit one or more inputs that are used to fill the document. The method further includes receiving, via the document fill component of the integrated interface, one or more inputs that correspond to data to be inputted into the document, determining, by the processing device, one or more locations within the document to input the data, and inserting the data into the one or more locations within the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.
    Inventor: Eric Platow
  • Patent number: 11366814
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving at a computing device, a search query, performing, by the computing device, a semantic analysis of the search query to identify one or more semantic concepts contained within the query, selecting, by the computing device, one or more corpora, or portions thereof, based on the identified semantic concepts, and performing, by the computing device, a search of the one or more corpora based on the search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ELSEVIER, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith Gutfreund
  • Patent number: 11226999
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and readable memory for providing recommendations. A method includes receiving data corresponding to one or more user interactions with a user interface, where the one or more user interactions indicate a research topic, searching one or more databases for references relating to the research topic, extracting names from the references, the names corresponding to potential collaborators, placing the names into a ranked list, where the names are arranged in the ranked list according to a predicted relevance to a user, and providing the ranked list via the user interface to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: ELSEVIER, INC.
    Inventors: Antonio Gulli, Maya Hristakeva, Kris Jack
  • Publication number: 20210365679
    Abstract: A method of extracting information from a flowchart image comprising a plurality of closed-shaped data nodes having text enclosed within, connecting lines connecting the plurality of closed-shaped data nodes and free text adjacent to the connecting lines includes receiving the flowchart image, detecting the closed-shaped data nodes, localizing the text enclosed within the closed-shaped data nodes, and masking the localized text.to generate an annotated image. Lines in the annotated image are the detected to reconstruct them as closed-shaped data nodes and connecting lines. A tree frame with the plurality of closed-shaped data nodes and the connecting lines is extracted. The free text is then localized. Chunks of the free text oriented and positioned proximally together are assembled into text blocks using an orientation-based two-dimensional clustering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Elsevier Inc.
    Inventors: Atul KAKRANA, Kaushik RAHA
  • Patent number: 11176315
    Abstract: A system including an authoring assistance system to: i) receive a node element selected within a content creation user interface (UI) associated with a user device, ii) receive one or more suggested annotation from a content enrichment system based on the selected node element, iii) integrate a UI tagging pane within the content creation UI, the UI tagging pane including: a) one or more annotation control element to textually depict each of the one or more suggested annotation, each annotation control element defining: a first portion configured to enter the associated annotation into an annotation entry box and a second portion configured to reject the associated annotation, and b) an add control element configured to accept all annotations entered in the annotation entry box, and iv) transmit at least one of each annotation accepted or each annotation rejected via the UI tagging pane to a data store system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: ELSEVIER INC.
    Inventors: Hans-Frederick Brown, Jamie Hall, Yekta Gurel, Nicolas Goller, Iris Amaris Mack, Engin Erdogan, Craig Lee Moon, Susanne Marcy Cohen, Ghazal Badiozamani
  • Publication number: 20210326716
    Abstract: A system to maintain a knowledge base including a device to: (i) generate a first interface to: receive a query for transmission to a question-answer system and provide a response including one or more proposed triple in a list, (ii) after selection of a particular triple, generate a second interface to: provide at least one evidence record including a span of text in support of the particular triple, and provide one or more control element associated with each evidence record including at least one of: a first control element selectable to cite its corresponding evidence record and span of text as supporting the particular triple, or a second control element selectable to prevent its corresponding evidence record and span of text from being cited as supporting the particular triple, and (iii) generate a data structure, based on selections of the one or more control element, to update the knowledge base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Elsevier Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald E. Daniel, JR., Paul Thomas Groth, Sujit Pal
  • Patent number: 11151372
    Abstract: A method of extracting information from a flowchart image comprising a plurality of closed-shaped data nodes having text enclosed within, connecting lines connecting the plurality of closed-shaped data nodes and free text adjacent to the connecting lines includes receiving the flowchart image, detecting the closed-shaped data nodes, localizing the text enclosed within the closed-shaped data nodes, and masking the localized text.to generate an annotated image. Lines in the annotated image are the detected to reconstruct them as closed-shaped data nodes and connecting lines. A tree frame with the plurality of closed-shaped data nodes and the connecting lines is extracted. The free text is then localized. Chunks of the free text oriented and positioned proximally together are assembled into text blocks using an orientation-based two-dimensional clustering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: ELSEVIER, INC.
    Inventors: Atul Kakrana, Kaushik Raha
  • Publication number: 20210303604
    Abstract: Systems and methods for indexing geological features are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for indexing geological features includes accessing a database storing a plurality of map objects that originate from documents. Each map object includes a map defined by a geographical boundary and a text caption. The method includes, for each map object, determining a plurality of geohashes within the geographical boundary, and includes, for each map object, comparing terms of the text caption with a list of geological keywords. For each map object, the method includes identifying one or more geological noun phrases within the text caption that match one or more geological noun phrases of the list. The method includes determining, for each geological noun phrase, one or more geohashes associated with the geological noun phrase and, for each geohash, determining a frequency that the geohash is associated with the geological noun phrase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Elsevier, Inc.
    Inventors: Corey A. Harper, Chi Yeung Cheung, Sandra Merten, Antony Jason Scerri
  • Patent number: 11061873
    Abstract: Systems and methods for normalizing and searching electronic data, such as chemical material property data, are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving electronic data from a source. The electronic data is formatted in a source format. The method further includes converting the source data into a normalized format, and storing normalized electronic data in levels of a nested model. The method further includes receiving a search or browse query directed toward normalized properties in a first level of the nested model or a second level of the nested model, in any non-hierarchical order. The method also includes searching the nested model and causing for display on an electronic display one or more entities satisfying the query and maintaining the integrity of all parameters of the query across all selected properties queried in any non-hierarchical order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ELSEVIER, INC.
    Inventors: Venkatesh Natarajan, Yusufee Nathani, Avin Sijariya, Chi Yeung Cheung
  • Patent number: 11061940
    Abstract: Systems and methods for indexing geological features are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for indexing geological features includes accessing a database storing a plurality of map objects that originate from documents. Each map object includes a map defined by a geographical boundary and a text caption. The method includes, for each map object, determining a plurality of geohashes within the geographical boundary, and includes, for each map object, comparing terms of the text caption with a list of geological keywords. For each map object, the method includes identifying one or more geological noun phrases within the text caption that match one or more geological noun phrases of the list. The method includes determining, for each geological noun phrase, one or more geohashes associated with the geological noun phrase and, for each geohash, determining a frequency that the geohash is associated with the geological noun phrase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ELSEVIER, INC.
    Inventors: Corey A. Harper, Chi Yeung Cheung, Sandra Merten, Antony Jason Scerri
  • Patent number: 10997678
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for searching for drawings found in a set of patent-related documents includes receiving a search query, and searching a parts index for part names matching one or more terms in the search query. The method further includes displaying one or more drawings, wherein the one or more drawings include at least one part name within the search query and the part name is stored within the parts index. In another embodiment, a method for searching for drawings includes receiving a request to search for drawings relating to a select drawing of a patent-related document, extracting parts information from the select drawing, and comparing the extracted parts information with parts information stored in a parts index. The method further includes determining that one or more drawings are similar to the select drawing, and displaying the one or more drawings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Elias, Matthew C. Morrise, Ray Daley
  • Publication number: 20210109607
    Abstract: A method of generating a user affect prediction includes receiving a label for a user-reported affect corresponding to interactions with the user interface, receiving events corresponding to the interactions with the user interface, identifying one or more patterns of the events as one or more gestures and extracting one or more features of the gestures. The method uses a machine learning model to generate a user affect prediction based on the training features. The user affect prediction represents a predicted user affect corresponding to the interactions with the user interface. The machine learning model may be trained by modifying one or more parameters of the machine learning model using a difference between the label and the generated user affect prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: Elsevier, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Stalzer, Paul D. Crockett, Gabriel Gabra Zaccak
  • Publication number: 20210110150
    Abstract: A method of extracting information from a flowchart image comprising a plurality of closed-shaped data nodes having text enclosed within, connecting lines connecting the plurality of closed-shaped data nodes and free text adjacent to the connecting lines includes receiving the flowchart image, detecting the closed-shaped data nodes, localizing the text enclosed within the closed-shaped data nodes, and masking the localized text.to generate an annotated image. Lines in the annotated image are the detected to reconstruct them as closed-shaped data nodes and connecting lines. A tree frame with the plurality of closed-shaped data nodes and the connecting lines is extracted. The free text is then localized. Chunks of the free text oriented and positioned proximally together are assembled into text blocks using an orientation-based two-dimensional clustering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: Elsevier, Inc.
    Inventors: Atul KAKRANA, Kaushik RAHA
  • Publication number: 20210004586
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory media for training a chemical entity recognition system to extract chemical compounds from a patent document and determine a relevance of the chemical compounds to the patent document are disclosed. A method includes obtaining patent documents from patent databases, normalizing each patent document into a unified format, and generating a chemical patent corpus. The chemical patent corpus includes chemical entities, each having relevancy annotations that indicate a relevance to the patent document from which the chemical entity is extracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: Elsevier, Inc.
    Inventors: Saber A. AKHONDI, Hinnerk REY, Markus SCHWOERER, Heike NAU, Gabriele ILCHMANN, Matthias IRMER, Claudia BOBACH