Patents by Inventor Herschel J. R. Weintraub

Herschel J. R. Weintraub 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 using text analytics to identify a set of related documents from a source document
    Patent number: 9495349
    Abstract: A system and method for processing a document to generate a set of related documents. A system is provided that includes a textual analytics system that analyzes unstructured data contained in a source document and extracts a set of structured information about the source document; and a compare system that identifies a set of related documents by comparing the set of structured information with metadata indexed from a set of publications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert L. Angell, Stephen K. Boyer, James W. Cooper, Richard A. Hennessy, Tapas Kanungo, Jeffrey T. Kreulen, David C. Martin, James J. Rhodes, W. Scott Spangler, Herschel J. R. Weintraub
  • Creation and retrieval of global annotations
    Patent number: 8751919
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for managing global annotations made for data elements that may be instantiated (e.g., displayed) by a variety of different type applications are provided. By anchoring the global annotations to the data element, rather than the particular data source containing the data element at the time the data element was annotated, the annotation may be retrieved from any application that instantiates or displays it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jordi Albornoz, Avijit Chatterjee, Lee D. Feigenbaum, Sean J. Martin, Lonnie A. McCullough, Herschel J. R. Weintraub
  • Method and system for creation and retrieval of global annotations
    Patent number: 7669117
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for managing global annotations made for data elements that may be instantiated (e.g., displayed) by a variety of different type applications are provided. By anchoring the global annotations to the data element, rather than the particular data source containing the data element at the time the data element was annotated, the annotation may be retrieved from any application that instantiates or displays it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jordi Albornoz, Avijit Chatterjee, Lee D. Feigenbaum, Sean J. Martin, Lonnie A. McCullough, Herschel J. R. Weintraub