Patents by Inventor James D. Buntrock

James D. Buntrock 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).

  • CONTEXT-SENSITIVE TERM EXPANSION WITH MULTIPLE LEVELS OF EXPANSION
    Publication number: 20100057811
    Abstract: Articles of manufacture and systems for searching collections of data using context sensitive expanded term searching are provided. The collection of data may be a relational database, text document, or any other type of searchable collection of data. In either case, a query including a search condition based on a specified search term may be modified to include additional conditions based on a set of expanded (e.g., conceptually-related) search terms. For some embodiments, a user may be given the ability to control the level of expansion and the context in which the terms may be expanded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicants: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
    Inventors: Richard D. Dettinger, David G. Herbeck, Jeffrey W. Tenner, Eric W. Will, Christopher G. Chute, James D. Buntrock, Serguei V. Pakhomov
  • Context-sensitive term expansion with multiple levels of expansion
    Patent number: 7617196
    Abstract: Methods, articles of manufacture, and systems for searching collections of data using context sensitive expanded term searching are provided. The collection of data may be a relational database, text document, or any other type of searchable collection of data. In either case, a query including a search condition based on a specified search term may be modified to include additional conditions based on a set of expanded (e.g., conceptually-related) search terms. For some embodiments, a user may be given the ability to control the level of expansion and the context in which the terms may be expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard D. Dettinger, David G. Herbeck, Jeffrey W. Tenner, Eric W. Will, Christopher G. Chute, James D. Buntrock, Serguei V. Pakhomov