Patents by Inventor Brett L. Kessler

Brett L. Kessler 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).

  • Article and method of automatically determining text genre using surface features of untagged texts
    Patent number: 6973423
    Abstract: A processor implemented method of identifying the text genre of a machine-readable, untagged text. The processor implemented method begins by generating a cue vector from the text, which represents occurrences in the text of a first set of nonstructural, surface cues, which are easily computable. Afterward, the processor determines whether the text is an instance of a first text genre using the cue vector and a weighting vector associated with the first text genre.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Hinrich Schuetze, Jan O. Pedersen, Brett L. Kessler, Gregory Grefenstette
  • Article and method of automatically filtering information retrieval results using test genre
    Patent number: 6505150
    Abstract: A method of filtering according to text genre the results of a topic search of a heterogeneous corpus of untagged, machine-readable texts. Because each text of the corpus has a topic and a text genre, the corpus includes multiple text genres and covers multiple topics. According to the method, a processor first searches the corpus for a first multiplicity of texts that have a first topic. Next, the processor identifies a first set of texts of the first multiplicity that are instances of a first text genre and identifies a second set of texts of the first multiplicity that are instances of a second text genre. Finally, the processor identifies to a computer user the first multiplicity of texts in an order based upon the first text genre and second text genre.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Hinrich Schuetze, Jan O. Pedersen, Brett L. Kessler
  • ARTICLE AND METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY FILTERING INFORMATION RETRIEVAL RESULTS USING TEXT GENRE
    Publication number: 20020002450
    Abstract: A method of filtering according to text genre the results of a topic search of a heterogeneous corpus of untagged, machine-readable texts. Because each text of the corpus has a topic and a text genre, the corpus includes multiple text genres and covers multiple topics. According to the method, a processor first searches the corpus for a first multiplicity of texts that have a first topic. Next, the processor identifies a first set of texts of the first multiplicity that are instances of a first text genre and identifies a second set of texts of the first multiplicity that are instances of a second text genre. Finally, the processor identifies to a computer user the first multiplicity of texts in an order based upon the first text genre and second text genre.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 1998
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Applicant: Xerox Corp.
    Inventors: GEOFFREY D. NUNBERG, HINRICH SCHUETZE, JAN O. PEDERSEN, BRETT L. KESSLER