Patents by Inventor Jay C Nolan

Jay C Nolan 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).

  • Patent number: 8892906
    Abstract: Methods and systems for analyzing an image, such as a newspaper or magazine pager or the like including text by mapping the image to determine regions of text and analyzing portions of the image in accordance with characteristics of selected regions of the text to develop a desired ordering of at least the selected regions in accordance with a textual relationship between the selected regions. The desired order may be related to the order in which the selected regions, and or words therein, are to be presented in a different format appropriate for a specific use, such by a human reader, for transferring the text over a network, for use in a database or by a search function, word processor or printer. Normalizing, columnizing, regionalizing, frameset building and article tracing functions may be used to develop the desired order in related regions in an article within the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Ebrary
    Inventors: Christopher M Warnock, Richard M Holzgrafe, Tom J Santos, Jay C Nolan, Ken Abrams
  • Patent number: 8280878
    Abstract: An end user, by way of a submission interface, instructs an engine to select particular collections of documents to process. The engine processes all the text from within all the documents from within the selected collections. The result of the processing of such text is a distilled data set. Such distillate data set is accessed through APIs by a browser. Different views of the accessed distillate data set may be presented to the end user via the browser allowing them to more effectively assess the utility of the presented data and thereby responsively tune the presented data set with regard to their particular research task. One or more of such views may be used to create a new document from sentences, paragraphs, chapters or documents from the distillate data set that correspond to the one or more views for presentation to the end user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Ebrary, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Warnock, Tom J. Santos, Richard M. Holzgrafe, Jay C. Nolan
  • Publication number: 20110302482
    Abstract: Methods and systems for analyzing an image, such as a newspaper or magazine pager or the like including text by mapping the image to determine regions of text and analyzing portions of the image in accordance with characteristics of selected regions of the text to develop a desired ordering of at least the selected regions in accordance with a textual relationship between the selected regions. The desired order may be related to the order in which the selected regions, and or words therein, are to be presented in a different format appropriate for a specific use, such by a human reader, for transferring the text over a network, for use in a database or by a search function, word processor or printer. Normalizing, columnizing, regionalizing, frameset building and article tracing functions may be used to develop the desired order in related regions in an article within the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventors: Christopher M. Warnock, Richard M. Holzgrafe, Tom J. Santos, Jay C. Nolan, Ken Abrams
  • Patent number: 8015418
    Abstract: Methods and systems for analyzing an image, such as a newspaper or magazine pager or the like including text by mapping the image to determine regions of text and analyzing portions of the image in accordance with characteristics of selected regions of the text to develop a desired ordering of at least the selected regions in accordance with a textual relationship between the selected regions. The desired order may be related to the order in which the selected regions, and or words therein, are to be presented in a different format appropriate for a specific use, such by a human reader, for transferring the text over a network, for use in a database or by a search function, word processor or printer. Normalizing, columnizing, regionalizing, frameset building and article tracing functions may be used to develop the desired order in related regions in an article within the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Ebrary, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M Warnock, Richard M Holzgrafe, Tom J Santos, Jay C Nolan
  • Publication number: 20100235353
    Abstract: An end user, by way of a submission interface, instructs an engine to select particular collections of documents to process. The engine processes all the text from within all the documents from within the selected collections. The result of the processing of such text is a distilled data set. Such distillate data set is accessed through APIs by a browser. Different views of the accessed distillate data set may be presented to the end user via the browser allowing them to more effectively assess the utility of the presented data and thereby responsively tune the presented data set with regard to their particular research task. One or more of such views may be used to create a new document from sentences, paragraphs, chapters or documents from the distillate data set that correspond to the one or more views for presentation to the end user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Christopher M. Warnock, Tom J. Santos, Richard M. Holzgrafe, Jay C. Nolan
  • Publication number: 20090187535
    Abstract: Methods and systems for analyzing an image, such as a newspaper or magazine pager or the like including text by mapping the image to determine regions of text and analyzing portions of the image in accordance with characteristics of selected regions of the text to develop a desired ordering of at least the selected regions in accordance with a textual relationship between the selected regions. The desired order may be related to the order in which the selected regions, and or words therein, are to be presented in a different format appropriate for a specific use, such by a human reader, for transferring the text over a network, for use in a database or by a search function, word processor or printer. Normalizing, columnizing, regionalizing, frameset building and article tracing functions may be used to develop the desired order in related regions in an article within the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Christopher M Warnock, Richard M Holzgrafe, Tom J Santos, Jay C Nolan
  • Patent number: 7536561
    Abstract: A method and system for making information available of a computer system and compensating information owners or creators for access to said information. In various aspects, the invention provides a mechanism for giving users meaningful access to information via a computer system and network while protecting the interests of publishers and creators in information. The invention provides a solution for information including, but not limited to: text, graphics, photos, executable files, data tables, audio, video, and three dimensional data. In a further aspect, the invention comprises a new method for allowing a user to review a document while connected to a network but prevents the user from downloading, printing, or copying the document unless a fee is paid. In a further aspect, the invention comprises a new method for allowing a user to review documents at a first cost basis (which may be free), but only provides other access to documents, such as copying, printing, or downloading on a second cost basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Ebrary, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M Warnock, Richard M Holzgrafe, Tom J Santos, Jay C Nolan
  • Publication number: 20040148274
    Abstract: Methods and systems for analyzing an image, such as a newpaper or magazine pager or the like including text by mapping the image to determine regions of text and analyzing portions of the image in accordance with characteristics of selected regions of the text to develop a desired ordering of at least the selected regions in accordance with a textual relationship between the selected regions. The desired order may be related to the order in which the selected regions, and or words therein, are to be presented in a different format appropriate for a specific use, such by a human reader, for transferring the text over a network, for use in a database or by a search function, word processor or printer. Normalizing, columnizing, regionalizing, frameset building and article tracing functions may be used to develop the desired order in related regions in an article within the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventors: Christopher M. Warnock, Richard M. Holzgrafe, Tom J. Santos, Jay C. Nolan
  • Publication number: 20030182578
    Abstract: A method and system for making information available of a computer system and compensating information owners or creators for access to said information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Christopher M. Warnock, Richard M. Holzgrafe, Tom J. Santos, Jay. C. Nolan