Patents Assigned to Kanisa, Inc.
  • Patent number: 7028250
    Abstract: A method is provided for automatically classifying text into categories. In operation, a plurality of tokens or features are manually or automatically associated with each category. A weight is then coupled to each feature, wherein the weight indicates a degree of association between the feature and the category. Next, a document is parsed into a plurality of unique tokens with associated counts, wherein the counts are indicative of the number of times the feature appears in the document. A category score representative of a sum of products of each feature count in the document times the corresponding feature weight in the category for each document is then computed. Next, the category scores are sorted by perspective, and a document is classified into a particular category, provided the category score exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Kanisa, Inc.
    Inventors: Igor Ukrainczyk, Max Copperman, Scott B. Huffman
  • Patent number: 6980984
    Abstract: This document discusses, among other things, systems, devices, and methods for implementing a content provider using at least one structured data attribute, with an integer, float, string, or date value or the like. One or more such structured data attributes is obtained from a user query, a user attribute, a user selection, a document or other content resource, or an instance within an interactive user-provider dialog. One or more such structured data attributes is auto-mapped to a set of ordered concepts in an at least partially ordered taxonomy of a knowledge map representing a multidimensional organization of such concepts. A structured data attribute and/or an ordered concept is used to control the dialog, constrain a user's search, or order and present search results, either alone, or in combination with nonstructured (e.g., textual) data and/or one or more concepts that is not ordered using a structured data parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Kanisa, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott B. Huffman, David B. Kay
  • Patent number: 6711585
    Abstract: A method and system organize and retrieve information using taxonomies, a document classifier, and an autocontextualizer. Documents (or other knowledge containers) in an organization and retrieval subsystem may be manually or automatically classified into taxonomies. Documents are transformed from clear text into a structured record. Automatically constructed indexes help identify when the structured record is an appropriate response to a query. An automatic term extractor creates a list of terms indicative of the documents' subject matter. A subject matter expert identifies the terms relevant to the taxonomies. A term analysis system assigns the relevant terns to one or more taxonomies, and a suitable algorithm is then used to determine the relatedness between each list of terms and its associated taxonomy. The system then clusters documents for each taxonomy in accordance with the weights ascribed to the terms in the taxonomy's list and a directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure is created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Kanisa Inc.
    Inventors: Max Copperman, Mark Angel, Jeffrey H. Rudy, Scott B. Huffman, David B. Kay, Raya Fratkina
  • Publication number: 20040024739
    Abstract: A method and system organize and retrieve information using taxonomies, a document classifier, and an autocontextualizer. Documents (or other knowledge containers) in an organization and retrieval subsystem may be manually or automatically classified into taxonomies. Documents are transformed from clear text into a structured record. Automatically constructed indexes help identify when the structured record is an appropriate response to a query. An automatic term extractor creates a list of terms indicative of the documents' subject matter. A subject matter expert identifies the terms relevant to the taxonomies. A term analysis system assigns the relevant terms to one or more taxonomies, and a suitable algorithm is then used to determine the relatedness between each list of terms and its associated taxonomy. The system then clusters documents for each taxonomy in accordance with the weights ascribed to the terms in the taxonomy's list and a directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure is created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: Kanisa Inc.
    Inventors: Max Copperman, Mark Angel, Jeffrey H. Rudy, Scott B. Huffman, David B. Kay, Raya Fratkina