Patents by Inventor Charity A. Rieck

Charity A. Rieck 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).

  • Term expansion using associative matching of labeled term pairs
    Patent number: 7685084
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a system and method providing associative matching of terms. Candidate terms are selected for building one or more associative matching models from one or more selected candidate sources. Associativity is defined to give editors the ability to label sample associative term pairs from the one or more candidate sources. The editors label sample candidate term pairs as being related. Features are determined that can differentiate associative from non-associative pairs. The selected features are used to build a model. The model is applied to determine whether a received query-candidate pair are associative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Sisk, Heidi Eldenburg Bramlet, Daniel C. Fain, Jianchang Mao, Charity A. Rieck
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATIVE MATCHING
    Publication number: 20080195596
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a system and method providing associative matching of terms. Candidate terms are selected for building one or more associative matching models from one or more selected candidate sources. Associativity is defined to give editors the ability to label sample associative term pairs from the one or more candidate sources. The editors label sample candidate term pairs as being related. Features are determined that can differentiate associative from non-associative pairs. The selected features are used to build a model. The model is applied to determine whether a received query-candidate pair are associative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Jacob Sisk, Heidi Eldenburg Bramlet, Daniel C. Fain, Jianchang Mao, Charity A. Rieck