Patents by Inventor Christopher D. Culy

Christopher D. Culy 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: 7757170
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing automatically generated recommendations. In various exemplary embodiments, a method of producing a recommendation digest for a user includes (a) generating a recommendation log for the user by storing a plurality of recommendations, one or more of the plurality of recommendations relating to a representation of a context that led to the creation of the one or more recommendations for the user, and (b) determining a subset of recommendations by using one or more statistics obtained from processing the plurality of recommendations stored in the log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel-Alexander Billsus, Christopher D. Culy, David M. Hilbert, Jonathan J. Trevor
  • Patent number: 7610190
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for segmenting text into categorized discourse constituents and attaching discourse constituents into a structural representation of discourse. Techniques for determining hybrid structural and non-structural summaries of a text are also provided. A text is segmented based on a theory of discourse analysis into at least a main discourse constituent containing spatio-temporal information about a single event in a possible world view. The discourse constituents are then inserted into a structural representation of discourse. Non-structural techniques are used to determine relevance scores and important discourse constituents are determined. Relevance scores are percolated through the structural representation of discourse to determine supporting preceding discourse constituents that preserve grammaticality. A hybrid text summary is then determined based on the structural representation of the discourse and relevance scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Livia Polanyi, Martin H. Van Den Berg, Giovanni Lorenzo Thione, Richard S. Crouch, Christopher D. Culy, David D. Ahn
  • Patent number: 7363294
    Abstract: A medium, system and method of processing content information. In one exemplary embodiment, the medium, system and method include determining associated previously accessed content information in response to an action performed on a document containing information and based on a context of the information, and indicating to a user the determined associated content information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel-Alexander Billsus, David M. Hilbert, Jonathan J. Trevor, Christopher D. Culy, Laurent Denoue, Gene Golovchinsky