Patents by Inventor Kirk Boydston

Kirk Boydston 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: 9218390
    Abstract: A system and method is provided which may comprise parsing an unstructured geographic web-search query into a field-based format, by utilizing conditional random fields, learned by semi-supervised automated learning, to parse structured information from the unstructured geographic web-search query. The system and method may also comprise establishing semi-supervised conditional random fields utilizing one of a rule-based finite state machine model and a statistics-based conditional random field model. Systematic geographic parsing may be used with the one of the rule-based finite state machine model and the statistics-based conditional random field model. Parsing an unstructured local geographical web-based query in local domain may be done by applying a learned model parser to the query, using at least one class-based query log from a form-based query system. The learned model parser may comprise at least one class-level n-gram language model-based feature harvested from a structured query log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC
    Inventors: Donghui Feng, Kirk Boydston, Nathaniel A. Murray, Clarke Retzer, James G. Shanahan, Remi Zajac
  • Publication number: 20130031113
    Abstract: A system and method is provided which may comprise parsing an unstructured geographic web-search query into a field-based format, by utilizing conditional random fields, learned by semi-supervised automated learning, to parse structured information from the unstructured geographic web-search query. The system and method may also comprise establishing semi-supervised conditional random fields utilizing one of a rule-based finite state machine model and a statistics-based conditional random field model. Systematic geographic parsing may be used with the one of the rule-based finite state machine model and the statistics-based conditional random field model. Parsing an unstructured local geographical web-based query in local domain may be done by applying a learned model parser to the query, using at least one class-based query log from a form-based query system. The learned model parser may comprise at least one class-level n-gram language model-based feature harvested from a structured query log.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventors: Donghui Feng, Kirk Boydston, Nathaniel A. Murray, Clarke Retzer, James G. Shanahan, Remi Zajac