Patents by Inventor Igor M. Boyko

Igor M. Boyko 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 combining text summarizations
    Patent number: 7292972
    Abstract: The method of the present invention discloses: receiving a source text having a set of source text portions; generating a set of source text summarizations, each having a set of summarization portions, from the source text; calculating a portion score for each of the source text portions based on the source text portion's appearance in the summarizations; and populating a combined text summarization with those source text portions whose portion score exceeds a predetermined threshold. The system of the present invention discloses all means for implementing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaofan Lin, Igor M. Boyko
  • System and method for combining text summarizations
    Publication number: 20040153309
    Abstract: The method of the present invention discloses: receiving a source text having a set of source text portions; generating a set of source text summarizations, each having a set of summarization portions, from the source text; calculating a portion score for each of the source text portions based on the source text portion's appearance in the summarizations; and populating a combined text summarization with those source text portions whose portion score exceeds a predetermined threshold. The system of the present invention discloses all means for implementing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Xiaofan Lin, Igor M. Boyko
  • System and method for management of synonymic searching
    Publication number: 20040064447
    Abstract: A system and method for computerized searching for desired information from a corpus of information are provided. In one embodiment, a query for desired information is received by a synonymic search application. Also received is input tuning the amount of synonymic broadening to be applied to the received query for constructing a synonymic search query to be utilized for searching for the desired information. In another embodiment, a synonymic search application performs a synonymic search query for desired information from a corpus of information, wherein the synonymic search query comprises a plurality of queries that are synonymous in meaning. Identification of resulting documents responsive to each of the plurality of queries is received, and such received documents are ranked based at least in part on a weighting assigned to each of the plurality of queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Steven J. Simske, Igor M. Boyko