Patents by Inventor Gordon S. Linoff

Gordon S. Linoff 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 compressing inverted index files in document search/retrieval system
    Patent number: 5953723
    Abstract: A document query processing system comprising a document database and a document query processor. The document database includes a document text base, an encoded index file, and a dictionary. The document text base includes document text in which each have an associated location identifier in the document. The encoded index file including a plurality of encoded records, each for a different word in the document text base. Each record has a locator entry associated with each instance in the document text base of the word associated with the record, the locator entries containing encoded locator values identifying locations of instances of the word in the document text base. The dictionary includes record location identifiers pointing to the location in the encoded index file of each encoded record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: T.M. Patents, L.P.
    Inventors: Gordon S. Linoff, Craig W. Stanfill