Patents by Inventor Barry Schiffman

Barry Schiffman 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: 20150032645
    Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter provides techniques for the automation of legal document review and creation of summary documents. The disclosed subject matter can be operated in training mode or classification mode. A preprocessor generates candidate items and associated features from input documents. Candidate items can be presented to a machine learning classifier, which classifies them as relevant or not relevant to a given legal category. A summary document can be provided including the relevant candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: KATHLEEN R. MCKEOWN, JACOB MUNDT, BARRY SCHIFFMAN
  • Publication number: 20120240032
    Abstract: System for generating a summary of a plurality of documents is provided. The system includes a computer readable document collection containing a plurality of related documents stored in electronic form therein, a plurality of forms of multiple document summarization engines, and a router for determining a temporal relationship of at least a subset of the documents in the collection and selecting one of the plurality of forms of multiple document summarization engines for generating a summary of the subset of documents based on the temporal relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Kathleen R. McKeown, Regina Barzilay, Dave Evans, Vasileios Hatziv Assiloglou, Judith Klavans, Ani Nenkova, Barry Schiffman
  • Publication number: 20120240020
    Abstract: Computer-based method of generating a summary of one or more documents comprises identifying content including text having a measurable quality from a predetermined location, evaluating the content, using a computer processor, to determine whether the content represents a document of interest, and preparing a summary of the content if the content represents document of interest. A computer-based method of generating a summary of one or more documents, each including two or more sentences, is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Kathleen R. McKeown, Regina Barzilay, Dave Evans, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Judith Klavans, Ani Nenkova, Barry Schiffman
  • Patent number: 8176418
    Abstract: A system for generating a summary of a plurality of documents and presenting the summary information to a user is provided which includes a computer readable document collection containing a plurality of related documents stored in electronic form. Documents can be pre-processed to group documents into document clusters. The document clusters can also be assigned to predetermined document categories for presentation to a user. A number of multiple document summarization engines are provided which generate summaries for specific classes of multiple documents clusters. A summarizer router is employed to determining a relationship of the documents in a cluster and select one of the document summarization engines for use in generating a summary of the cluster. A single event engine is provided to generate summaries of documents which are closely related temporally and to a specific event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Kathleen R. McKeown, Regina Barzilay, Dave Evans, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Judith Klavans, Ani Nenkova, Barry Schiffman
  • Publication number: 20050203970
    Abstract: A system for generating a summary of a plurality of documents and presenting the summary information to a user is provided which includes a computer readable document collection containing a plurality of related documents stored in electronic form. Documents can be pre-processed to group documents into document clusters. The document clusters can also be assigned to predetermined document categories for presentation to a user. A number of multiple document summarization engines are provided which generate summaries for specific classes of multiple documents clusters. A summarizer router is employed to determining a relationship of the documents in a cluster and select one of the document summarization engines for use in generating a summary of the cluster. A single event engine is provided to generate summaries of documents which are closely related temporally and to a specific event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventors: Kathleen McKeown, Regina Barzilay, Dave Evans, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Judith Klavans, Ani Nenkova, Barry Schiffman