Patents by Inventor LARRY LEE PROCTOR

LARRY LEE PROCTOR 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).

  • Determining a purpose of a document
    Patent number: 9292601
    Abstract: A method of summarizing a document includes a step of extracting one or more sections of the document. The method also includes a step of separating at least one of the one or more extracted sections into one or more subsections based at least in part on a conjunctive structure of the section, wherein each subsection comprises one or more terms. The method also includes steps of determining whether one or more terms within a designated set of terms are present within at least one of the one or more subsections and, responsive to a determination that one or more terms within the designated set of terms are present within at least one of the one or more subsections, removing the one or more terms from the one or more subsections. The method also includes a step of aggregating at least a portion of the one or more sections into a summary of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Larry Lee Proctor, Hovey Raymond Strong, Jr., Renjie Tang, Ruoyi Zhou
  • Method and Apparatus for Determining a Purpose Feature of a Document
    Publication number: 20090177963
    Abstract: A method of summarizing a document includes a step of extracting one or more sections of the document. The method also includes a step of separating at least one of the one or more extracted sections into one or more subsections based at least in part on a conjunctive structure of the section, wherein each subsection comprises one or more terms. The method also includes steps of determining whether one or more terms within a designated set of terms are present within at least one of the one or more subsections and, responsive to a determination that one or more terms within the designated set of terms are present within at least one of the one or more subsections, removing the one or more terms from the one or more subsections. The method also includes a step of aggregating at least a portion of the one or more sections into a summary of the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventors: Larry Lee Proctor, Hovey Raymond Strong, JR., Renjie Tang, Ruoyi Zhou
  • METHODOLOGIES AND ANALYTICS TOOLS FOR IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL PARTNERING RELATIONSHIPS IN A GIVEN INDUSTRY
    Publication number: 20080195678
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of identifying partnering potential by: assembling a set of target patents representative of an industry of interest; building a dictionary of text feature entries; generating a set of text feature clusters; creating one or more contingency tables for assignees; and deriving an indication of partnering potential between the first assignee and the second assignee by comparing the values for each category for each assignee in each contingency table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: YING CHEN, JEFFREY THOMAS KREULEN, LARRY LEE PROCTOR, JAMES J. RHODES, WILLIAM SCOTT SPANGLER