Patents by Inventor Khalid Al-Kofahi
Khalid Al-Kofahi 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).
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Patent number: 11386510Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system and software that allow users to readily access online legal research tools, while using other applications, such as word processors. One exemplary computer-implemented system provide an add-on software framework that integrates into a host word-processing application on a client access device. The add-on software framework allows users to select from an expandable listing of one or more web applications on a web server, with each of the web application capable of controlling operation of the host word processing application. The web applications facilitate extraction and access to information from the information-retrieval services as well as secondary source reference texts and incorporation of the information in the document or in metadata associated with the document.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2010Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: THOMSON REUTERS ENTERPRISE CENTRE GMBHInventors: Khalid Al-Kofahi, Marc Noel Light, Joel Aaron Hurwitz
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Patent number: 10387462Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed to rank documents by analyzing a query log generated by a search engine. The query log includes data relating to user behavior, queries and documents. The systems and techniques distill query log information into surrogate documents and extract features from these surrogate documents to rank the documents.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited CompanyInventors: Wenhui Liao, Khalid Al-Kofahi, Isabelle Moulinier
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Publication number: 20170364827Abstract: Systems, technologies and techniques for generating prospective legal strategies are disclosed. The system and technologies employ data mining, natural language processing and machine learning approaches to generate prospective legal strategies. The system and technologies analyze given case facts (i.e., background facts, event type such as accident, injury, malpractice, discrimination) and provide a rich set of insights that assist in formulating effective legal arguments and strategies.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: Jack Conrad, Khalid Al-Kofahi
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Publication number: 20170235819Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed to rank documents by analyzing a query log generated by a search engine. The query log includes data relating to user behavior, queries and documents. The systems and techniques distill query log information into surrogate documents and extract features from these surrogate documents to rank the documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Wenhui Liao, Khalid Al-Kofahi, Isabelle Moulinier
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Patent number: 9690849Abstract: A method includes analyzing a cluster of conceptually-related portions of text to develop a model and calculating a novelty measurement between a first identified conceptually-related portion of text and the model. The method further includes transmitting a second identified conceptually-related portion of text and a score associated with the novelty measurement from a server to an access device via a signal. Another method includes determining at least two corpora of conceptually-related portions of text. The method also includes calculating a common neighbors similarity measurement between the at least two corpora of conceptually-related portions of text and if the common neighbors similarity measurement exceeds a threshold, merging the at least two corpora of conceptually-related portions of text into a cluster or if the common neighbors similarity measurement does not exceed a threshold, maintaining a non-merge of the at least two corpora of conceptually-related portions of text.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited CompanyInventors: Sameena Shah, Dietmar Dorr, Khalid Al-Kofahi, Jacob Sisk
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Patent number: 9646082Abstract: To facilitate legal research, companies, such as Thomson West provide subscription-based online information-retrieval systems. Seeking to improve these and/or related systems, the present inventors devised, among other things, an exemplary legal research system that performs a conventional search to identify a set of starter documents and then leverages the metadata associated with these starter documents to identify another larger set of relevant documents. Documents in this alternate set are then scored using, for example, a learning machine and feature vectors that account for metadata relationships between the starter documents and alternate documents.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2006Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Khalid Al-Kofahi, Michael Dahn, Patrick Slaven, Thomas Zielund, Qiang Lu, Charles Elberti
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Patent number: 9552420Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed to rank documents by analyzing a query log generated by a search engine. The query log includes data relating to user behavior, queries and documents. The systems and techniques distill query log information into surrogate documents and extract features from these surrogate documents to rank the documents.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Wenhui Liao, Khalid Al-Kofahi, Isabelle Moulinier
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Patent number: 9317587Abstract: To facilitate legal research, companies, such as Thomson West provide subscription-based online information-retrieval systems. Seeking to improve these and related IR systems, the present inventors recognized researchers often overlook some types of documents, such as legal encyclopedias and treatises that may be useful to them. Accordingly, the present inventors devised systems, methods, and software that automatically search for other types of documents not specifically targeted by user queries. One exemplary system automatically submits a user query for legal opinions to first and second databases, with the first storing legal opinions and the second storing non-opinion documents, such as headnotes from the West Key Number System, articles from American Law Reports, and/or articles from American Jurisprudence.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2005Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Michael Dahn, Khalid Al-Kofahi, Peter Jackson
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Patent number: 9218344Abstract: The present invention provides systems, methods, and software for automatically processing data included in a document and identifying and recommending citations matching the processed data. The system allows a user to select and submit text segment(s) for analysis and to select from a set of recommended citations a citation(s) that matches the text segment as well as profile data for inclusion in the document. One or more citation libraries or authority databases are queried to find citations for recommendation which best match the text segment selected and submitted by the author. The system automatically processes data submitted by an author to generate a set of recommended citations for consideration and for inclusion within a document while the document is presented by a document rendering application. A selected citation is then formatted and inserted in the document.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Khalid Al-Kofahi, Charles Macomber, Jason Rollins, Ellen Rotenberg, Christine Killian
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Publication number: 20140344279Abstract: A method includes analyzing a cluster of conceptually-related portions of text to develop a model and calculating a novelty measurement between a first identified conceptually-related portion of text and the model. The method further includes transmitting a second identified conceptually-related portion of text and a score associated with the novelty measurement from a server to an access device via a signal. Another method includes determining at least two corpora of conceptually-related portions of text. The method also includes calculating a common neighbors similarity measurement between the at least two corpora of conceptually-related portions of text and if the common neighbors similarity measurement exceeds a threshold, merging the at least two corpora of conceptually-related portions of text into a cluster or if the common neighbors similarity measurement does not exceed a threshold, maintaining a non-merge of the at least two corpora of conceptually-related portions of text.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Sameena SHAH, Jacob Sisk, Dietmar Dorr, Khalid Al-Kofahi
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Publication number: 20140006424Abstract: The present invention provides systems, methods, and software for automatically processing data included in a document and identifying and recommending citations matching the processed data. The system allows a user to select and submit text segment(s) for analysis and to select from a set of recommended citations a citation(s) that matches the text segment as well as profile data for inclusion in the document. One or more citation libraries or authority databases are queried to find citations for recommendation which best match the text segment selected and submitted by the author. The system automatically processes data submitted by an author to generate a set of recommended citations for consideration and for inclusion within a document while the document is presented by a document rendering application. A selected citation is then formatted and inserted in the document.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Inventors: Khalid Al-Kofahi, Charles Macomber, Jason Rollins, Ellen Rotenberg, Christine Killian
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Publication number: 20120323880Abstract: To facilitate legal research, companies, such as Thomson West provide subscription-based online information-retrieval systems. Seeking to improve these and/or related systems, the present inventors devised, among other things, an exemplary legal research system that performs a conventional search to identify a set of starter documents and then leverages the metadata associated with these starter documents to identify another larger set of relevant documents. Documents in this alternate set are then scored using, for example, a learning machine and feature vectors that account for metadata relationships between the starter documents and alternate documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2006Publication date: December 20, 2012Inventors: Khalid Al-Kofahi, Michael Dahn, Patrick Slaven, Thomas Zielund, Qiang Lu, Charles Elberti
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Patent number: 8321425Abstract: To improve traditional keyword based search engines, the present inventors devised, among other things, systems, methods, and software that use word co-occurrence probabilities not only to identify documents conceptually related to user queries, but also to score and rank search results. One exemplary system combines inverse-document-frequency searching with concept searching based on word co-occurrence probabilities to facilitate finding of documents that would otherwise go unfound using a given query. The exemplary system also allows ranking of search results based both on both keyword matching and concept presence, promoting more efficient organization and review of search results.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Tonya Custis, Khalid Al-Kofahi
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Publication number: 20120036125Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system and software that allow users to readily access online legal research tools, while using other applications, such as word processors. One exemplary computer-implemented system provide an add-on software framework that integrates into a host word-processing application on a client access device. The add-on software framework allows users to select from an expandable listing of one or more web applications on a web server, with each of the web application capable of controlling operation of the host word processing application. The web applications facilitate extraction and access to information from the information-retrieval services as well as secondary source reference texts and incorporation of the information in the document or in metadata associated with the document.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2010Publication date: February 9, 2012Inventors: Khalid Al-Kofahi, Marc Noel Light, Joel Aaron Hurwitz
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Patent number: 7984053Abstract: The American legal system, judges and lawyers are continually researching an ever-expanding body of past judicial opinions, or case law, for the ones most relevant to resolution of new disputes. To facilitate these searches, some companies collect and publish the judicial opinions of courts across the United States in both paper and electronic forms, with some of the cases containing references to prior cases from other courts that have previously ruled on all or part of the same dispute. Identifying the prior cases is problematic, because, for example, conventional computer text-matching not only suggests too many non-prior cases, but also misses too many actual prior cases. Accordingly, the present inventors devised systems, methods, and software that generally facilitate identification of one or more documents that are related to a given document, and particularly facilitate identification of prior cases for a given case.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: West Services, Inc.Inventors: Peter Jackson, Khalid Al-Kofahi
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Publication number: 20100312764Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed to rank documents by analyzing a query log generated by a search engine. The query log includes data relating to user behavior, queries and documents. The systems and techniques distill query log information into surrogate documents and extract features from these surrogate documents to rank the documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: December 9, 2010Applicant: West Services Inc.Inventors: Wenhui Liao, Khalid Al-Kofahi, Isabelle Moulinier
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Publication number: 20100125601Abstract: The American legal system, judges and lawyers are continually researching an ever-expanding body of past judicial opinions, or case law, for the ones most relevant to resolution of new disputes. To facilitate these searches, some companies collect and publish the judicial opinions of courts across the United States in both paper and electronic forms, with some of the cases containing references to prior cases from other courts that have previously ruled on all or part of the same dispute. Identifying the prior cases is problematic, because, for example, conventional computer text-matching not only suggests too many non-prior cases, but also misses too many actual prior cases. Accordingly, the present inventors devised systems, methods, and software that generally facilitate identification of one or more documents that are related to a given document, and particularly facilitate identification of prior cases for a given case.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2009Publication date: May 20, 2010Inventors: Peter Jackson, Khalid Al-Kofahi
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Publication number: 20100114911Abstract: To reduce cost and improve accuracy, the inventors devised systems, methods, and software to aid classification of text, such as headnotes and other documents, to target classes in a target classification system. For example, one system computes composite scores based on: similarity of input text to text assigned to each of the target classes; similarity of non-target classes assigned to the input text and target classes; probability of a target class given a set of one or more non-target classes assigned to the input text; and/or probability of the input text given text assigned to the target classes. The exemplary system then evaluates the composite scores using class-specific decision criteria, such as thresholds, ultimately assigning or recommending assignment of the input text to one or more of the target classes. The exemplary system is particularly suitable for classification systems having thousands of classes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2009Publication date: May 6, 2010Inventors: Khalid Al-Kofahi, Peter Jackson, Timothy Earl Travers, Alex Tyrell
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Patent number: 7620626Abstract: The American legal system, judges and lawyers are continually researching an ever-expanding body of past judicial opinions, or case law, for the ones most relevant to resolution of new disputes. To facilitate these searches, some companies collect and publish the judicial opinions of courts across the United States in both paper and electronic forms, with some of the cases containing references to prior cases from other courts that have previously ruled on all or part of the same dispute. Identifying the prior cases is problematic, because, for example, conventional computer text-matching not only suggests too many non-prior cases, but also misses too many actual prior cases. Accordingly, the present inventors devised systems, methods, and software that generally facilitate identification of one or more documents that are related to a given document, and particularly facilitate identification of prior cases for a given case.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2006Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: West Services, Inc.Inventors: Peter Jackson, Khalid Al-Kofahi
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Patent number: 7593920Abstract: The American legal system, judges and lawyers are continually researching an ever-expanding body of past judicial opinions, or case law, for the ones most relevant to resolution of new disputes. To facilitate these searches, some companies collect and publish the judicial opinions of courts across the United States in both paper and electronic forms, with some of the cases containing references to prior cases from other courts that have previously ruled on all or part of the same dispute. Identifying the prior cases is problematic, because, for example, conventional computer text-matching not only suggests too many non-prior cases, but also misses too many actual prior cases. Accordingly, the present inventors devised systems, methods, and software that generally facilitate identification of one or more documents that are related to a given document, and particularly facilitate identification of prior cases for a given case.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2002Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: West Services, Inc.Inventors: Peter Jackson, Khalid Al-Kofahi