Patents by Inventor Kurt Samuelson

Kurt Samuelson 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: 7305389
    Abstract: Systems and methods providing computer-implemented content propagation for enhanced document retrieval are described. In one aspect, reference information directed to one or more documents is identified. The reference information is identified from one or more sources of data that are independent of a data source that includes the one or more documents. Metadata that is proximally located to the reference information is extracted from the one or more sources of data. Relevance between respective features of the metadata to content of associated ones of the one or more documents is calculated. For each document of the one or more documents, associated portions of the metadata is indexed with the relevance of features from the respective portions into original content of the document. The indexing generates one or more enhanced documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Hua-Jun Zeng, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Daniel B. Cook, Gabor Hirschler, Karen Fries, Kurt Samuelson
  • Patent number: 7289985
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhanced document retrieval are described. In one aspect, a search query from an end-user is received. Responsive to receiving the search query, search results are retrieved. The search results include an enhanced document and a set of non-enhanced documents. The enhanced document and the non-enhanced documents include term(s) of the search query. The enhanced document is derived from a base document. The base document was modified with metadata mined from one or more different documents. The metadata is associated with one or more respective references to the base document. The one or more different documents are independent of the base document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Hua-Jun Zeng, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Daniel B. Cook, Gabor Hirschler, Karen Fries, Kurt Samuelson
  • Publication number: 20050234952
    Abstract: Systems and methods providing computer-implemented content propagation for enhanced document retrieval are described. In one aspect, reference information directed to one or more documents is identified. The reference information is identified from one or more sources of data that are independent of a data source that includes the one or more documents. Metadata that is proximally located to the reference information is extracted from the one or more sources of data. Relevance between respective features of the metadata to content of associated ones of the one or more documents is calculated. For each document of the one or more documents, associated portions of the metadata is indexed with the relevance of features from the respective portions into original content of the document. The indexing generates one or more enhanced documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Hua-Jun Zeng, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Daniel Cook, Gabor Hirschler, Karen Fries, Kurt Samuelson
  • Publication number: 20050234973
    Abstract: Systems and methods for mining service requests for product support are described. In one aspect, unstructured service requests are converted to one or more structured answer objects. Each structured answer object includes hierarchically structured historic problem diagnosis data. In view of a product problem description, a set of the one or more structured answer data objects is identified. Each structured solution data object in the set includes term(s) and/or phrase(s) related to the product problem description. Historic and hierarchically structured problem diagnosis data from the set is provided to an end-user for product problem diagnosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Hua-Jun Zeng, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Ji-Rong Wen, Hang Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Gabor Hirschler, Kurt Samuelson
  • Publication number: 20050234880
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhanced document retrieval are described. In one aspect, a search query from an end-user is received. Responsive to receiving the search query, search results are retrieved. The search results include an enhanced document and a set of non-enhanced documents. The enhanced document and the non-enhanced documents include term(s) of the search query. The enhanced document is derived from a base document. The base document was modified with metadata mined from one or more different documents. The metadata is associated with one or more respective references to the base document. The one or more different documents are independent of the base document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Hua-Jun Zeng, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Daniel Cook, Gabor Hirschler, Karen Fries, Kurt Samuelson