Patents by Inventor Joseph E. Penteroudakis

Joseph E. Penteroudakis 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).

  • Creating an electronic dictionary using source dictionary entry keys
    Patent number: 6651220
    Abstract: A method and system for retrieving information from an electronic dictionary. The system stores all information about words that have the same normalized form into a single entry within the electronic dictionary. The normalized form of a word has all lower case letters and no diacritical marks. When information is to be retrieved from the dictionary for a word, the word is first normalized and then the dictionary is searched for the entry corresponding to that normalized word. The entry that is found contains the information for that word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph E. Penteroudakis, Steve Richardson
  • Identifying information related to an input word in an electronic dictionary
    Patent number: 5995922
    Abstract: A method and system for retrieving information from an electronic dictionary. The system stores all information about words that have the same normalized form into a single entry within the electronic dictionary. The normalized form of a word has all lower case letters and no diacritical marks. When information is to be retrieved from the dictionary for a word, the word is first normalized and then the dictionary is searched for the entry corresponding to that normalized word. The entry that is found contains the information for that word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph E. Penteroudakis, Steve Richardson