Patents by Inventor Bradley Hoover

Bradley Hoover 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).

  • Patent number: 10387565
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for methods and systems of grammar checking comprising a grammar checking facility and a plurality of human proofreaders in a crowd-source population for the detection and correction of grammatical errors in text as received from a computing device, wherein possible detected errors are categorized as high confidence or low confidence possible errors, and the high confidence errors are distributed to the human proofreaders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Grammarly, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Hoover, Maksym Lytvyn, Oleksiy Shevchenko
  • Publication number: 20160371248
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for methods and systems of grammar checking comprising a grammar checking facility and a plurality of human proofreaders in a crowd-source population for the detection and correction of grammatical errors in text as received from a computing device, wherein possible detected errors are categorized as high confidence or low confidence possible errors, and the high confidence errors are distributed to the human proofreaders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Bradley Hoover, Maksym Lytvyn, Oleksiy Shevchenko
  • Patent number: 9465793
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for methods and systems of grammar checking comprising a grammar checking facility and a plurality of human proofreaders in a crowd-source population for the detection and correction of grammatical errors in text as received from a computing device, wherein possible detected errors are categorized as high confidence or low confidence possible errors, and the high confidence errors may be distributed to the human proofreaders according to ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Inventors: Bradley Hoover, Maksym Lytvyn, Oleksiy Shevchenko
  • Publication number: 20160246772
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for methods and systems of grammar checking comprising a grammar checking facility for analyzing, in a cloud computing environment, a source-supplied text, wherein a source provides the grammar checking facility with the source-supplied text from a personal computing device to the grammar checking facility. The grammar checking facility performs an analysis of the source-supplied text to identify grammatical errors, and the grammar checking facility provides the source with at least one identified grammatical error along with a writing reference guide for the source which includes, for the at least one identified grammatical error, a corresponding explanation of the at least one identified grammatical error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Bradley Hoover, Maksym Lytvyn, Oleksiy Shevchenko
  • Publication number: 20150309983
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for methods and systems of grammar checking providing a web-based writing checking facility integrated into a computing environment to analyze text for writing errors, wherein a user initiates the analysis of the text through a single-action review button displayed to the user in proximity with a text box containing the text, the depressing of the single-action review button initiating writing checking of the text with the writing checking facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Bradley Hoover, Maksym Lytvyn, Oleksiy Shevchenko
  • Publication number: 20150154174
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for methods and systems of grammar checking comprising a grammar checking facility and a plurality of human proofreaders in a crowd-source population for the detection and correction of grammatical errors in text as received from a computing device through an application programming interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Bradley Hoover, Maksym Lytvyn, Oleksiy Shevchenko
  • Patent number: 9002700
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for methods and systems of grammar checking comprising a grammar checking facility and a plurality of human proofreaders in a crowd-source population for the detection and correction of grammatical errors in text as received from a computing device with input restrictions including reduced size keyboard and display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Grammarly, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Hoover, Maksym Lytvyn, Oleksiy Shevchenko
  • Publication number: 20110313757
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a method of grammar checking, comprising providing a first level of grammar checking through a computer-based grammar checking facility to grammar check a body of text provided by a source in order to improve the grammatical correctness of the text; providing an excerpt of the body of text containing an identified grammatical error as a result of the first level of automated grammar checking to a second level of human augmented grammar checking consisting of at least one human proofreader for review; incorporating the results of the human proofreader review to contribute to an at least one corrected version of the provided body of text; and sending the at least one corrected version back the source. The method of grammar checking may provide for automatic grammar correction and text enrichment, such as when text is entered via a computer device with input limitations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: APPLIED LINGUISTICS LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Hoover, Maksym Lytvyn, Oleksiy Shevchenko