Patents by Inventor BARNEY D. PELL

BARNEY D. PELL 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).

  • Publication number: 20150019558
    Abstract: Methods and computer-readable media for associating words or groups of words distilled from content, such as reported speech or an attitude report, of a document to form semantic relationships collectively used to generate a semantic representation of the content are provided. Semantic representations may include elements identified or parsed from a text portion of the content, the elements of which may be associated with other elements that share a semantic relationship, such as an agent, location, or topic relationship. Relationships may also be developed by associating one element that is in relation to, or is about, another element, thereby allowing for rapid and effective comparison of associations found in a semantic representation with associations derived from queries. The semantic relationships may be determined based on semantic information, such as potential meanings and grammatical functions of each element within the text portion of the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: RICHARD S. CROUCH, MARTIN HENK VAN DEN BERG, DAVID AHN, OLGA GUREVICH, BARNEY D. PELL, LIVIA POLANYI, SCOTT A. PREVOST, GIOVANNI LORENZO THIONE
  • Publication number: 20090070322
    Abstract: Computer-readable media and computer systems for conducting semantic processes to facilitate navigation of search results that include sets of tuples representing facts associated with content of documents in response to queries for information. Content of documents is accessed and semantic structures are derived by distilling linguistic representations from the content. Groups of two or more related words, called tuples, are extracted from the documents or the semantic structures. Tuples can be stored at a tuple index. Representations of the relational tuples are displayed in addition to documents retrieved in response to a query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: Powerset, Inc.
    Inventors: FRANCO SALVETTI, GIOVANNI LORENZO THIONE, RICHARD S. CROUCH, DAVID AHN, LUKAS A. BIEWALD, BRENDAN O'CONNOR, BARNEY D. PELL
  • Publication number: 20090063550
    Abstract: Computer-readable media and a computer system for implementing a natural language search using fact-based structures and for generating such fact-based structures are provided. A fact-based structure is generated using a semantic structure, which represents information, such as text, from a document, such as a web page. Typically, a natural language parser is used to create a semantic structure of the information, and the parser identifies terms, as well as the relationship between the terms. A fact-based structure of a semantic structure allows for a linear structure of these terms and their relationships to be created, while also maintaining identifiers of the terms to convey the dependency of one fact-based structure on another fact-based structure. Additionally, synonyms and hypernyms are identified while generating the fact-based structure to improve the accuracy of the overall search.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: POWERSET, INC.
    Inventors: MARTIN HENK VAN DEN BERG, DANIEL BOBROW, ROBERT D. CHESLOW, BARNEY D. PELL, GIOVANNI LORENZO THIONE, CHAD WATERS
  • Publication number: 20090063426
    Abstract: Methods and computer-readable media for associating words or groups of words distilled from content, such as reported speech or an attitude report, of a document to form semantic relationships collectively used to generate a semantic representation of the content are provided. Semantic representations may include elements identified or parsed from a text portion of the content, the elements of which may be associated with other elements that share a semantic relationship, such as an agent, location, or topic relationship. Relationships may also be developed by associating one element that is in relation to, or is about, another element, thereby allowing for rapid and effective comparison of associations found in a semantic representation with associations derived from queries. The semantic relationships may be determined based on semantic information, such as potential meanings and grammatical functions of each element within the text portion of the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: POWERSET, INC.
    Inventors: RICHARD S. CROUCH, MARTIN HENK VAN DEN BERG, DAVID AHN, OLGA GUREVICH, BARNEY D. PELL, LIVIA POLANYI, SCOTT A. PREVOST, GIOVANNI LORENZO THIONE