Patents by Inventor Barry Gw. Lloyd

Barry Gw. Lloyd 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: 20100070512
    Abstract: A data handling device has access to a store of existing metadata pertaining to existing documents having associated metadata terms. It selects metadata assigned to documents deemed to be of interest to a user and analyses the metadata to generate statistical data as to the co-occurrence of pairs of terms in the metadata of one and the same document. When a fresh document is received, it is analysed to assign to it a set of terms and determine for each a measure of their strength of association with the document. Then, a score is generated for the document, for each term of the set, the score being a monotonically increasing function of (a) the strength of association with the document and of (b) the relative frequency of co-occurrence of that term and another term that occurs in the set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: Ian Thurlow, Richard Weeks, Barry Gw. Lloyd