Patents by Inventor Kevin William Humphreys

Kevin William Humphreys 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: 11182540
    Abstract: An electronic input document presented on a display of a client is examined to identify a text unit in the electronic input document and contextual information about the input document. A set of annotations for the text unit and the input document are determined responsive to the contextual information for the text unit. Responsive to the set of annotations, a set of candidate texts are identified from a corpus of documents that can replace the text unit. The candidate texts are evaluated in the set of candidate texts to identify a subset of the set of candidate texts as a set of replacement texts for the text unit. At least one replacement text from the set of replacement texts is presented on the display of the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Textio, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Clay Satterfield, Jensen Michael Harris, Christopher William Harland, Dawn Marie Wright, Kevin William Humphreys, Martin David McClellan, Orion Buckminster Montoya, Olivia Ann Gunton, Laurie Lee Dermer
  • Patent number: 11023503
    Abstract: A user can request suggestions for text to insert at a position in an electronic input document. A set of annotations is obtained from the input document and contextual information associated with the document. A set of candidate texts from source documents are identified for the suggested text and evaluated. Each evaluation may indicate a likelihood that the corresponding candidate text is suitable to insert at the requested position of the input document. One or more of the candidate texts are presented to the client device as the suggested text to insert at the requested position of the electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Textio, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Clay Satterfield, Jensen Michael Harris, Christopher William Harland, Dawn Marie Wright, Kevin William Humphreys, Martin David McClellan, Orion Buckminster Montoya, Olivia Ann Gunton, Laurie Lee Dermer
  • Publication number: 20200342164
    Abstract: An electronic input document presented on a display of a client is examined to identify a text unit in the electronic input document and contextual information about the input document. A set of annotations for the text unit and the input document are determined responsive to the contextual information for the text unit. Responsive to the set of annotations, a set of candidate texts are identified from a corpus of documents that can replace the text unit. The candidate texts are evaluated in the set of candidate texts to identify a subset of the set of candidate texts as a set of replacement texts for the text unit. At least one replacement text from the set of replacement texts is presented on the display of the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Jesse Clay Satterfield, Jensen Michael Harris, Christopher William Harland, Dawn Marie Wright, Kevin William Humphreys, Martin David McClellan, Orion Buckminster Montoya, Olivia Ann Gunton, Laurie Lee Dermer
  • Publication number: 20200192921
    Abstract: A user can request suggestions for text to insert at a position in an electronic input document. A set of annotations is obtained from the input document and contextual information associated with the document. A set of candidate texts from source documents are identified for the suggested text and evaluated. Each evaluation may indicate a likelihood that the corresponding candidate text is suitable to insert at the requested position of the input document. One or more of the candidate texts are presented to the client device as the suggested text to insert at the requested position of the electronic document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Jesse Clay Satterfield, Jensen Michael Harris, Christopher William Harland, Dawn Marie Wright, Kevin William Humphreys, Martin David McClellan, Orion Buckminster Montoya, Olivia Ann Gunton, Laurie Lee Dermer
  • Patent number: 7668791
    Abstract: Facts are extracted from electronic documents by recognizing factual descriptions using a fact-word table to match to words of the electronic documents. The words of those factual descriptions may be tagged with the appropriate part of speech. More detailed analysis is then performed on those factual descriptions, rather than on the entire electronic document, and particularly to the text in the neighborhood of the fact-word matches. The analysis may involve identifying the linguistic constituents of each phrase and determining the role as either subject or object. Exclusion rules may be applied to eliminate those phrases unlikely to be part of facts, the exclusion rules being based in part on the linguistic constituents. Scoring rules may be applied to remaining phrases, and for those phrases having a score in excess of a threshold, the corresponding sentence part, whole sentence, paragraph, or other document portion may be presented as representing one or more facts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Saliha Azzam, Kevin William Humphreys
  • Publication number: 20080027888
    Abstract: Facts are extracted from electronic documents by recognizing factual descriptions using a fact-word table to match to words of the electronic documents. The words of those factual descriptions may be tagged with the appropriate part of speech. More detailed analysis is then performed on those factual descriptions, rather than on the entire electronic document, and particularly to the text in the neighborhood of the fact-word matches. The analysis may involve identifying the linguistic constituents of each phrase and determining the role as either subject or object. Exclusion rules may be applied to eliminate those phrases unlikely to be part of facts, the exclusion rules being based in part on the linguistic constituents. Scoring rules may be applied to remaining phrases, and for those phrases having a score in excess of a threshold, the corresponding sentence part, whole sentence, paragraph, or other document portion may be presented as representing one or more facts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Saliha Azzam, Kevin William Humphreys