Patents by Inventor Christopher D. Manning

Christopher D. Manning 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query
    Patent number: 6865575
    Abstract: A system allows a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive potentially disambiguated search results. In one implementation, a search engine's conventional alphanumeric index is translated into a second index that is ambiguated in the same manner as which the user's input is ambiguated. The user's ambiguous search query is compared to this ambiguated index, and the corresponding documents are provided to the user as search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Google, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Smith, Sergey Brin, Sanjay Ghemawat, Christopher D. Manning
  • Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query
    Patent number: 6529903
    Abstract: A system allows a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive potentially disambiguated search results. In one implementation, a search engine's conventional alphanumeric index is translated into a second index that is ambiguated in the same manner as which the user's input is ambiguated. The user's ambiguous search query is compared to this ambiguated index, and the corresponding documents are provided to the user as search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Google, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Smith, Sergey Brin, Sanjay Ghemawat, Christopher D. Manning
  • Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query
    Publication number: 20020042791
    Abstract: A system allows a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive potentially disambiguated search results. In one implementation, a search engine's conventional alphanumeric index is translated into a second index that is ambiguated in the same manner as which the user's input is ambiguated. The user's ambiguous search query is compared to this ambiguated index, and the corresponding documents are provided to the user as search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2000
    Publication date: April 11, 2002
    Applicant: Google, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Smith, Sergey Brin, Sanjay Ghemawat, Christopher D. Manning