Patents by Inventor Amy W. Chow

Amy W. Chow 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 system for knowledge repository exploration and visualization
    Patent number: 6725217
    Abstract: A computing system and method explores a knowledge repository by accepting a natural language query from a user, determining a distance between the query and every category in every partitioning of the knowledge repository, and displaying a radial graph (322) of the nearest categories. Further, in response to a user selecting a category, visually displaying matching elements in the category along with its nearest neighbor categories in a scatter plot (324).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Amy W. Chow, Jeffrey T. Kreulen, Justin T. Lessler, Larry L. Proctor, W. Scott Spangler
  • Hub for strategic intelligence
    Patent number: 6609124
    Abstract: A method and structure for searching a computerized network of databases containing documents uses a web crawler. The web crawler is provided with conceptual guidelines before the searching. The invention summarizes and performs text clustering on the summaries to produce classifications. The text clustering is performed using seeds based on the conceptual guidelines. The invention then provides, through a user interface, the classifications and a query entry to search the classifications and directs (in response to the query entry) the user to one or more of the classifications, such that the user is directed to the classifications (and hyperlinks to the documents) and the user is not provided the documents themselves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Amy W. Chow, Michael J. Danke, Julie J. Pietrzak, Larry L. Proctor, Edward L. Smierciak, Terry K. Tullis
  • Hub for strategic intelligence
    Publication number: 20030033274
    Abstract: A method and structure for searching a computerized network of databases containing documents uses a web crawler. The web crawler is provided with conceptual guidelines before the searching. The invention summarizes and performs text clustering on the summaries to produce classifications. The text clustering is performed using seeds based on the conceptual guidelines. The invention then provides, through a user interface, the classifications and a query entry to search the classifications and directs (in response to the query entry) the user to one or more of the classifications, such that the user is directed to the classifications (and hyperlinks to the documents) and the user is not provided the documents themselves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Amy W. Chow, Michael J. Danke, Julie J. Pietrzak, Larry L. Proctor, Edward L. Smierciak, Terry K. Tullis
  • Method and system for knowledge repository exploration and visualization
    Publication number: 20030004932
    Abstract: A computing system and method explores a knowledge repository by accepting a natural language query from a user, determining a distance between the query and every category in every partitioning of the knowledge repository, and displaying a radial graph (322) of the nearest categories. Further, in response to a user selecting a category, visually displaying matching elements in the category along with its nearest neighbor categories in a scatter plot (324).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2001
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Amy W. Chow, Jeffrey T. Kreulen, Justin T. Lessler, Larry L. Proctor, W. Scott Spangler