Patents by Inventor Ahmed Samy Nassar

Ahmed Samy Nassar 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).

  • Generating a structure of a PDF-document
    Patent number: 11687700
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for generating a structure of a PDF-document, wherein the PDF-document comprises elements. The method comprises detecting document cells of the PDF-document dependent on commands of a page description language for printing the elements of the PDF-document. The method comprises determining parts of the PDF-document dependent on the PDF-document by a machine learning module. The determining of the respective part comprises associating a respective portion of the elements of the PDF-document with the respective part. Furthermore, a respective label may be assigned to the respective part. The method may further comprise using a symbolic artificial intelligence module, wherein rules of the symbolic AI-module for reconciling the document cells with the parts may be applied. The elements of the structure of the PDF-document may be generated and labelled dependent on a result of the reconciling and dependent on the respective label to the respective part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Birgit Monika Pfitzmann, Christoph Auer, Michele Dolfi, Peter Willem Jan Staar, Ahmed Samy Nassar