Patents by Inventor Mark Last

Mark Last 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).

  • Multilingual sentence extractor
    Patent number: 8594998
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multilingual method for summarizing an article, which comprises an offline stage in which a weights vector is determined using, among others, plurality of predefined metrics, a collection of documents and expert prepared summaries, subjection of all the document sentences to all said metrics, guess of a population of weights matrices, subjection of the population to said metrics, ranking of sentences, generation of a new population using a genetic algorithm, and repetition of the same until convergence. The invention further comprises a real time stage in which the weights vector, as determined, as well as said metrics are used to determine an extract of any new document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Research and Development Authority
    Inventors: Marina Litvak, Mark Last, Menahem Friedman
  • MULTILINGUAL SENTENCE EXTRACTOR
    Publication number: 20120035912
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multilingual method for summarizing an article, which comprises an offline stage in which a weights vector is determined using, among others, plurality of predefined metrics, a collection of documents and expert prepared summaries, subjection of all the document sentences to all said metrics, guess of a population of weights matrices, subjection of the population to said metrics, ranking of sentences, generation of a new population using a genetic algorithm, and repetition of the same until convergence. The invention further comprises a real time stage in which the weights vector, as determined, as well as said metrics are used to determine an extract of any new document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Research and Development Authority
    Inventors: Marina Litvak, Mark Last, Menahem Friedman