Patents by Inventor Lawrence Brooke Frank Philips

Lawrence Brooke Frank Philips 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).

  • System and method for phonetic representation
    Publication number: 20090043584
    Abstract: A method for generating an Approximate Phonetic Representation (APR) of a given word, the word having a sequence of characters, the method comprising: Receiving the word; Generating the APR by applying at least one metaphone3 translation rule to encode one or more of the characters of the given word into a resulting APR; and Returning either the generated APR and/or one or more words matching the APR from a dictionary of words.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventor: Lawrence Brooke Frank Philips