Patents by Inventor Margaret MacGregor

Margaret MacGregor 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).

  • TEXT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
    Publication number: 20080109454
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes means determining a concept representation for a set of text documents based on partial order analysis and modifying this representation if it is determined to be unidentifiable. Furthermore, the embodiment includes means for labeling the representation, mapping documents to it to provide a corresponding document representation, generating a number of document signatures each of a different type, and performing several data processing applications each with a different one of the document signatures of differing types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Alan R. Willse, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Lawrence L. Hope, Theodore E. Tanasse, Susan L. Havre, Alan E. Turner, Margaret MacGregor, Catherine Nancarrow, Grant C. Nakamura
  • Text analysis technique
    Patent number: 7158983
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes means determining a concept representation for a set of text documents based on partial order analysis and modifying this representation if it is determined to be unidentifiable. Furthermore, the embodiment includes means for labeling the representation, mapping documents to it to provide a corresponding document representation, generating a number of document signatures each of a different type, and performing several data processing applications each with a different one of the document signatures of differing types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Alan R. Willse, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Lawrence L. Hope, Theodore E. Tanasse, Susan L. Havre, Alan E. Turner, Catherine Naucarrow, legal representative, Grant C. Nakamura, Margaret MacGregor, deceased
  • Text analysis techniques
    Publication number: 20040059736
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes means determining a concept representation for a set of text documents based on partial order analysis and modifying this representation if it is determined to be unidentifiable. Furthermore, the embodiment includes means for labeling the representation, mapping documents to it to provide a corresponding document representation, generating a number of document signatures each of a different type, and performing several data processing applications each with a different one of the document signatures of differing types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventors: Alan R. Willse, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Lawrence L. Hope, Theodore E. Tanasse, Susan L. Havre, Alan E. Turner, Margaret MacGregor, Grant C. Nakamura, Catherine Naucarrow