Patents Assigned to TextDigger, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9928299
    Abstract: A search system and method for searching for electronic documents, and providing a search result in response to a search query. In one embodiment, the search system includes a processor, a user interface module adapted to receive a search query from a user that includes a search query term, a search engine that electronically searches for electronic documents that satisfy the search query term, and a query processing module that identifies at least one alternative term for the search query term, and provides the alternative term to the user interface module for display to the user, and also provides the alternative term to the search engine to search for electronic documents that satisfy the alternative term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: TEXTDIGGER, INC.
    Inventor: Timothy A. Musgrove
  • Patent number: 9400838
    Abstract: A search system for searching for electronic documents, and providing a search result in response to a search query is provided. The search system includes a processor, a user interface module adapted to receive a search query from a user, the search query having at least one search query term, and a query processing module that analyzes the search query term to identify candidate synonym words. The query processing module also determines which of the candidate synonym words are equivalent terms to the search query term, and in a same sense as the search query term. In addition, the search system includes a search engine that executes a search based on the search query term and the equivalent terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: TEXTDIGGER, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy A. Musgrove, Robin H. Walsh
  • Patent number: 9245029
    Abstract: A search system and method for searching for electronic documents, and providing a search result in response to a search query. In one embodiment, the search system includes a processor, a user interface module adapted to receive a search query from a user that includes a search query term, a search engine that electronically searches for electronic documents that satisfy the search query term, and a query processing module that identifies at least one alternative term for the search query term, and provides the alternative term to the user interface module for display to the user, and also provides the alternative term to the search engine to search for electronic documents that satisfy the alternative term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: TEXTDIGGER, INC.
    Inventor: Timothy A. Musgrove
  • Patent number: 8862573
    Abstract: A search system with a user interface module that generates a search engine results page including a listing of reference documents, each with a hyperlink to at least one secondary document relevant to the reference document. The search system also includes a text function tagger that parses text excerpts of the documents, and applies text function tags thereto. A secondary processing module is provided which identifies those secondary documents that have a text function tag that matches a text function tag of a reference document, so that selection of the hyperlink generates a display of secondary documents that are determined to at least have a text function tag that matches a text function tag of the reference document for which corresponding hyperlink was selected. A method and computer readable medium are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Textdigger, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy A. Musgrove
  • Publication number: 20140207751
    Abstract: A search system and method for searching for electronic documents, and providing a search result in response to a search query. In one embodiment, the search system includes a processor, a user interface module adapted to receive a search query from a user that includes a search query term, a search engine that electronically searches for electronic documents that satisfy the search query term, and a query processing module that identifies at least one alternative term for the search query term, and provides the alternative term to the user interface module for display to the user, and also provides the alternative term to the search engine to search for electronic documents that satisfy the alternative term.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: TextDigger, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy A. Musgrove
  • Patent number: 8694530
    Abstract: A search system and method for searching for electronic documents, and providing a search result in response to a search query. In one embodiment, the search system includes a processor, a user interface module adapted to receive a search query from a user that includes a search query term, a search engine that electronically searches for electronic documents that satisfy the search query term, and a query processing module that identifies at least one alternative term for the search query term, and provides the alternative term to the user interface module for display to the user, and also provides the alternative term to the search engine to search for electronic documents that satisfy the alternative term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: TextDigger, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy A. Musgrove
  • Publication number: 20090254540
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically generating tags for digital content are provided. The method is adapted to be run on a computer, which is an example of the type of apparatus which may generate the tags. The generated tags describe the digital content, and may be used as topics for the content to organize, retrieve, and process the content. The tag generation begins by accessing content from a content collection unit and a tags candidate tag database unit, which are then processed using techniques from computational linguistics in a multi-pass process that generates sets of tags, then refines and normalizes them. Finally, scores are generated and stored along with the tags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: TextDigger, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy A. MUSGROVE, Robin H. WALSH
  • Publication number: 20080059451
    Abstract: A search system with a user interface module that generates a search engine results page including a listing of reference documents, each with a hyperlink to at least one secondary document relevant to the reference document. The search system also includes a text function tagger that parses text excerpts of the documents, and applies text function tags thereto. A secondary processing module is provided which identifies those secondary documents that have a text function tag that matches a text function tag of a reference document, so that selection of the hyperlink generates a display of secondary documents that are determined to at least have a text function tag that matches a text function tag of the reference document for which corresponding hyperlink was selected. A method and computer readable medium are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: TextDigger, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy Musgrove
  • Publication number: 20070011154
    Abstract: A search system for searching for electronic documents, and providing a search result in response to a search query is provided. The search system includes a processor, a user interface module adapted to receive a search query from a user, the search query having at least one search query term, and a query processing module that analyzes the search query term to identify candidate synonym words. The query processing module also determines which of the candidate synonym words are equivalent terms to the search query term, and in a same sense as the search query term. In addition, the search system includes a search engine that executes a search based on the search query term and the equivalent terms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Applicant: TextDigger, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Musgrove, Robin Walsh
  • Publication number: 20060235843
    Abstract: A system and method for semantic search for electronic documents stored on a computer readable media, and providing a search result in response to a query. The system includes a corpus including a plurality of electronic documents that are domain tagged at a document level and analyzed based on the tags to identify word usage patterns. An index of word usage patterns is provided that indexes the plurality of documents in the corpus according to their word usage patterns. The system also includes a query pre-processing module that receives a query from a user, and analyzes the query to determine probable word usage patterns in the query. The system further includes a processor that uses the index to identify documents having word usage patterns that matches the probable word usage patterns in the query as a candidate electronic document, and retrieves the candidate electronic document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Applicant: TextDigger, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Musgrove, Robin Walsh