Patents by Inventor Daniel E. Rose
Daniel E. Rose 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).
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Patent number: 7921092Abstract: Techniques for automatically generating and displaying topic-focused summaries for search results are disclosed. Users can “peek” inside a search result to see document excerpts that pertain specifically to a user-selected topic. Thus, a user can view the aspects of a document that are most interesting prior to deciding whether to retrieve the complete document. For each search result, a user can select from among several different available summaries, each of which focuses on a different topic of the document to which that search result refers. According to one aspect, key concepts are automatically identified in a document. For each such key concept, contextual snippets that pertain to that key concept are automatically selected. The key concepts are displayed to the user at search time. A summary that contains the contextual snippets that pertain to a user-selected key concept is displayed in response to the user's selection of that key concept.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2006Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Peter Anick, Swati Raju, Daniel E. Rose
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Patent number: 7886235Abstract: A real-time interactive document summarization system which allows the user to continuously control the amount of detail to be included in a document summary.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2002Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeremy J. Bornstein, Douglass R. Cutting, John D. Hatton, Daniel E. Rose
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Patent number: 7882450Abstract: A real-time interactive document summarization system which allows the user to continuously control the amount of detail to be included in a document summary.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeremy J. Bornstein, Douglass R. Cutting, John D. Hatton, Daniel E. Rose
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Patent number: 7849035Abstract: A method and apparatus for organizing information in a computer filing system. The method and apparatus include the creation of a pile comprising a collection of documents and displaying a graphical representation of the collection of documents. The method and apparatus further include browsing the collection of documents by pointing a cursor at a particular item in the collection of documents to reveal an indicia for the particular item in the collection of documents. The filing system can automatically divide a pile (e.g. a collection of documents from an electronic mail network) into subpiles on the basis of the content of each document in the pile, and the filing system, at the users request can automatically file away documents into existing piles in the computer system on the basis of a similarity match between the content (or other internal representation) of the document and the content (or other internal representation) of existing piles in the computer system.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Richard Mander, Daniel E. Rose, Gitta Salomon, Yin Yin Wong, Timothy Oren, Susan Booker, Stephanie Houde
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Patent number: 7693912Abstract: By varying the levels of detail associated with items in an ordered collection of information, items may be organized in a way to emphasize details about item of current interest. Displaying varying levels of detail about items in an ordered collection of information involves determining a focus, and based on their relative location to the focus adding additional detail to other items displayed from the collection of information. For instance, a user browsing a web search results list typically only sees a few essential details such as the name, link, and brief abstract about each item in the list. Providing the user with varying levels of detail about each item in the list helps them decide to where they want to navigate.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2005Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Daniel E. Rose, Raymond Chung-Man Tam, Christian Martin Riblet
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Patent number: 7647306Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for using community annotations to content items as anchortext for search and index purposes. The method according to one embodiment comprises generating one or more items of personalized information by a user for storage in a user profile, the one or more items of personalized information associated with one or more content items, the one or more content items and the one or more items of personalized information comprising one or more words. One or more items of personalized information is selected from a given user profile. The method further comprises indexing the one or more words in the one or more content items and the one or more words in the selected personalized information into an index, identifying one or more content items responsive to on or more query words in a query of the index and returning the identified content items as a result set to the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2006Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Daniel E. Rose, Jianchang Mao, Zhichen Xu, David Ku, Qi Lu, Eckart Walther, Chung-Man Tam
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Patent number: 7634466Abstract: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for searching content items indexed in real-time. The method according to one embodiment comprises generating an index of word location pairs that identifies the location of one or more words in one or more content items available on a network. One or more additional content items are received over the network. The received content items are stored in a stream search queue, the stream search queue operative to allow for a stream search of the one or more additional content items.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2006Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Daniel E. Rose, Jianchang Mao, Chad Walters
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Publication number: 20080154878Abstract: Techniques are described hereafter for diversifying search results by ranking the search results based, at least in part, on a diversifying factor. In one embodiment, the diversifying factor is used to generate diversity scores for the matching documents. Matching items that are very different from other highly-ranked matching items are assigned high diversity scores, and have their rankings improved based on their diversity scores. Conversely, matching items that are very similar to other highly-ranked matching items are assigned low diversity scores, and have their rankings reduced based on their diversity scores. Techniques are also described for re-ranking search results in response to user input without any additional interaction with the search engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2006Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventors: Daniel E. Rose, Swati Raju
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Publication number: 20080133482Abstract: Techniques for automatically generating and displaying topic-focused summaries for search results are disclosed. Users can “peek” inside a search result to see document excerpts that pertain specifically to a user-selected topic. Thus, a user can view the aspects of a document that are most interesting prior to deciding whether to retrieve the complete document. For each search result, a user can select from among several different available summaries, each of which focuses on a different topic of the document to which that search result refers. According to one aspect, key concepts are automatically identified in a document. For each such key concept, contextual snippets that pertain to that key concept are automatically selected. The key concepts are displayed to the user at search time. A summary that contains the contextual snippets that pertain to a user-selected key concept is displayed in response to the user's selection of that key concept.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2006Publication date: June 5, 2008Inventors: Peter Anick, Swati Raju, Daniel E. Rose
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Publication number: 20040128277Abstract: A method and apparatus for organizing information in a computer filing system. The method and apparatus include the creation of a pile comprising a collection of documents and displaying a graphical representation of the collection of documents. The method and apparatus further include browsing the collection of documents by pointing a cursor at a particular item in the collection of documents to reveal an indicia for the particular item in the collection of documents. The filing system can automatically divide a pile (e.g. a collection of documents from an electronic mail network) into subpiles on the basis of the content of each document in the pile, and the filing system, at the user's request can automatically file away documents into existing piles in the computer system on the basis of a similarity match between the content (or other internal representation) of the document and the content (or other internal representation) of existing piles in the computer system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Inventors: Richard Mander, Daniel E. Rose, Gitta Salomon, Yin Yin Wong, Timothy Oren, Susan Booker, Stephanie Houde
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Patent number: 6613101Abstract: A method and apparatus for organizing information in a computer filing system. The method and apparatus include the creation of a pile comprising a collection of documents and displaying a graphical representation of the collection of documents. The method and apparatus further include browsing the collection of documents by pointing a cursor at a particular item in the collection of documents to reveal an indicia for the particular item in the collection of documents. The filing system can automatically divide a pile (e.g. a collection of documents from an electronic mail network) into subpiles on the basis of the content of each document in the pile, and the filing system, at the users request can automatically file away documents into existing piles in the computer system on the basis of a similarity match between the content (or other internal representation) of the document and the content (or other internal representation) of existing piles in the computer system.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.Inventors: Richard Mander, Daniel E. Rose, Gitta Salomon, Yin Yin Wong, Timothy Oren, Susan Booker, Stephanie Houde
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Patent number: 6424362Abstract: A computer system user interface provides a document summary which allows the user to more easily identify the contents and subject matter of the document.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1999Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.Inventors: Jeremy J. Bornstein, Douglass R. Cutting, John D. Hatton, Daniel E. Rose
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Publication number: 20020080196Abstract: A computer system user interface provides a document summary which allows the user to more easily identify the contents and subject matter of the document.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 1999Publication date: June 27, 2002Inventors: JEREMY J. BORNSTEIN, DOUGLASS R. CUTTING, JOHN D. HATTON, DANIEL E. ROSE
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Publication number: 20020080180Abstract: A method and apparatus for organizing information in a computer filing system. The method and apparatus include the creation of a pile comprising a collection of documents and displaying a graphical representation of the collection of documents. The method and apparatus further include browsing the collection of documents by pointing a cursor at a particular item in the collection of documents to reveal an indicia for the particular item in the collection of documents. The filing system can automatically divide a pile (e.g. a collection of documents from an electronic mail network) into subpiles on the basis of the content of each document in the pile, and the filing system, at the users request can automatically file away documents into existing piles in the computer system on the basis of a similarity match between the content (or other internal representation) of the document and the content (or other internal representation) of existing piles in the computer system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2001Publication date: June 27, 2002Inventors: Richard Mander, Daniel E. Rose, Gitta Salomon, Yin Yin Wong, Timothy Oren, Susan Booker, Stephanie Houde
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Patent number: 6243724Abstract: A method and apparatus for organizing information in a computer filing system. The method and apparatus include the creation of a pile comprising a collection of documents and displaying a graphical representation of the collection of documents. The method and apparatus further include browsing the collection of documents by pointing a cursor at a particular item in the collection of documents to reveal an indicia for the particular item in the collection of documents. The filing system can automatically divide a pile (e.g. a collection of documents from an electronic mail network) into subpiles on the basis of the content of each document in the pile, and the filing system, at the user's request can automatically file away documents into existing piles in the computer system on the basis of a similarity match between the content (or other internal representation) of the document and the content (or other internal representation) of existing piles in the computer system.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1994Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.Inventors: Richard Mander, Daniel E. Rose, Gitta Salomon, Yin Yin Wong, Timothy Oren, Susan Booker, Stephanie Houde
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Patent number: 6202058Abstract: Information presented to a user via an information access system is ranked according to a prediction of the likely degree of relevance to the user's interests. A profile of interests is stored for each user having access to the system. Items of information to be presented to a user are ranked according to their likely degree of relevance to that user and displayed in order of ranking. The prediction of relevance is carried out by combining data pertaining to the content of each item of information with other data regarding correlations of interests between users. A value indicative of the content of a document can be added to another value which defines user correlation, to produce a ranking score for a document. Alternatively, multiple regression analysis or evolutionary programming can be carried out with respect to various factors pertaining to document content and user correlation, to generate a prediction of relevance.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 1994Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.Inventors: Daniel E. Rose, Jeremy J. Bornstein, Kevin Tiene, Dulce B. Ponceleón
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Patent number: 5870740Abstract: A method and system for retrieving information in response to a query by a user. The method includes the steps of receiving a signal s having a value corresponding to a relevance-ranking algorithm score of a retrieved document, receiving a signal q having a value corresponding to the number of words in the query and a signal v having a value corresponding to the coordination level of the retrieved document and query (i.e., the degree of overlap between the document terms and the query terms), and generating an adjusted score s1 dependent on the signal s, the signal q and the signal v. The adjusted score s1 takes the coordination level into account for small values of q and gradually decreases the importance of the coordination level as q increases. The system of this invention includes a computer-based system for carrying out the method of this invention.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1996Date of Patent: February 9, 1999Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.Inventors: Daniel E. Rose, Douglass R. Cutting
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Patent number: 5867164Abstract: A real-time interactive document summarization system which allows the user to continuously control the amount of detail to be included in a document summary.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1995Date of Patent: February 2, 1999Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.Inventors: Jeremy J. Bornstein, Douglass R. Cutting, John D. Hatton, Daniel E. Rose
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Patent number: 5864844Abstract: A method for enhancing a user interface with a computer based training tool comprising the steps of listing domain objects on a display; listing domain object values in response to a selection of one of the domain objects; generating a plurality of inquiries in response to a user selection of one of the domain object values; replying with a predetermined answer; identifying a new domain object value in the predetermined answer; and adding to the plurality of inquiries a new inquiry which incorporates both the selected domain object value and the new domain object value.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1996Date of Patent: January 26, 1999Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.Inventors: Arthur James, Catherine Anne Abbott, Michael Andrew Arent, Gregory J. Czora, James M. Laffey, William W. Luciw, Mark Leslie Miller, Daniel E. Rose, James Clinton Spohrer, James Reginald Winkles
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Patent number: RE41899Abstract: Information presented to a user via an information access system is ranked according to a prediction of the likely degree of relevance to the user's interests. A profile of interests is stored for each user having access to the system. Items of information to be presented to a user are ranked according to their likely degree of relevance to that user and displayed in order of ranking. The prediction of relevance is carried out by combining data pertaining to the content of each item of information with other data regarding correlations of interests between users. A value indicative of the content of a document can be added to another value which defines user correlation, to produce a ranking score for a document. Alternatively, multiple regression analysis or evolutionary programming can be carried out with respect to various factors pertaining to document content and user correlation, to generate a prediction of relevance.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2003Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel E. Rose, Jeremy J. Bornstein, Kevin Tiene, Dulce B. Ponceleón