Patents by Inventor Garg Ashutosh

Garg Ashutosh 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).

  • System and method for disambiguating entities in a web page search
    Patent number: 7386545
    Abstract: A system and method of disambiguating entities in a computerized web search includes identifying a set of potential meanings for an entity; retrieving at least one web page having descriptions referencing the entity; establishing a base web page having a selected context for the entity; attributing dimensions of a vector space attributed to domains in the retrieved web page; and computing a probability of similarity between the referenced entity in the retrieved web page and the entity in the base web page. The method includes corresponding a similarity measure between the dimensions of the vector space attributed to domains in the retrieved web page and a likelihood of the retrieved web page referring to the entity in the base web page. The method further includes ranking web pages based on the computed probability of similarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Garg Ashutosh, Ramanathan Guha
  • System and method for disambiguating entities in a web page search
    Publication number: 20060224565
    Abstract: A system and method of disambiguating entities in a computerized web search comprises identifying a set of potential meanings for an entity; retrieving at least one web page comprising descriptions referencing the entity; establishing a base web page comprising a selected context for the entity; attributing dimensions of a vector space attributed to domains in the retrieved web page; and computing a probability of similarity between the referenced entity in the retrieved web page and the entity in the base web page. The method includes corresponding a similarity measure between the dimensions of the vector space attributed to domains in the retrieved web page and a likelihood of the retrieved web page referring to the entity in the base web page. The method further comprises ranking web pages based on the computed probability of similarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Garg Ashutosh, Guha Ramanathan