Patents by Inventor Andrew William Hogue

Andrew William Hogue 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).

  • User Interface for Facts Query Engine with Snippets from Information Sources that Include Query Terms and Answer Terms
    Publication number: 20090313247
    Abstract: A method and a system for providing snippets of source documents of an answer to a fact query are disclosed. Snippets of source documents may be provided in response to a user request for the source documents from which the fact answer to a fact query was extracted. The snippets include the terms of the fact query and terms of the answer. The snippets may be displayed along with Uniform Resource Locators (URL's) of the source documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventor: Andrew William Hogue
  • User interface for facts query engine with snippets from information sources that include query terms and answer terms
    Patent number: 7587387
    Abstract: A method and a system for providing snippets of source documents of an answer to a fact query are disclosed. Snippets of source documents may be provided in response to a user request for the source documents from which the fact answer to a fact query was extracted. The snippets include the terms of the fact query and terms of the answer. The snippets may be displayed along with Uniform Resource Locators (URL's) of the source documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew William Hogue
  • Merging objects in a facts database
    Patent number: 7567976
    Abstract: A key attribute may be selected for a set of objects in a fact repository. A candidate attribute is identified and objects having an attribute-value pair with the candidate attribute are gathered. The candidate attribute is selected as a key attribute if the names of the gathered objects and the values of the objects for the candidate attribute satisfy predefined criteria. For instance, objects may be merged into one object if they have same or similar names and have the same value for a key attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan T. Betz, Andrew William Hogue