Patents by Inventor John Barrett Collins

John Barrett Collins 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).

  • Method of searching text to find relevant content
    Patent number: 8019754
    Abstract: A method of locating relevant documents wherein documents are given a fingerprint comprising weights associated with particular topic categories of a classification system, each weight representing a degree to which the document relates to the particular topic category, a first piece of text is identified and given a fingerprint comprising a list of other weights associated with similar topic categories, the other weights representing a degree to which the first piece of text relates to the particular topic category. All or a portion of the universe of documents is searched by comparing the fingerprint for the first piece of text with the fingerprint for each document. You select those documents whose fingerprints have a predetermined degree of mathematical overlap with the fingerprint of the first piece of text. A user fingerprint of the user's recently accessed texts can be used in place of the first piece of text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Needlebot Incorporated
    Inventors: John Barrett Collins, Jerome Verlin, Can Deniz Akyuz, Stuart Donnelly