Patents by Inventor Frederick Stephen Grennan

Frederick Stephen Grennan 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).

  • Global anchor text processing
    Patent number: 7788253
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for building a search index. While building the search index and using the search index to respond to one or more search requests, an anchor information store is maintained, wherein each entry of the anchor information store identifies a referring document, a target document, and anchor text associated with a link from the referring document to the target document; a document is received for processing; one or more entries in the anchor information store for which the document to be processed is identified as the target document are located; anchor text is retrieved from each of the identified entries; and the retrieved anchor text is stored in an entry of the search index for the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick Stephen Grennan, Ronny Lempel, Andreas Neumann
  • GLOBAL ANCHOR TEXT PROCESSING
    Publication number: 20080162425
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for building a search index. While building the search index and using the search index to respond to one or more search requests, an anchor information store is maintained, wherein each entry of the anchor information store identifies a referring document, a target document, and anchor text associated with a link from the referring document to the target document; a document is received for processing; one or more entries in the anchor information store for which the document to be processed is identified as the target document are located; anchor text is retrieved from each of the identified entries; and the retrieved anchor text is stored in an entry of the search index for the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frederick Stephen GRENNAN, Ronny LEMPEL, Andreas NEUMANN