Patents by Inventor Mary E. McKenna

Mary E. McKenna 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: 7912868
    Abstract: An advertisement placement method and system for relating an advertisement to a dataset based on a trainable semantic vector (TSV) associated with the dataset and respective semantic representations of the advertisements. The trainable semantic vector associated with the dataset is generated based on at least one data point included in the dataset and known relationships between predetermined data points and predetermined categories. A comparison process is performed to determine a similarity between the trainable semantic vector associated with the dataset and the semantic representation associated with each of the plurality of advertisements. The system selectively relates one or more of the advertisements with the dataset based on a result of the comparison process. The selected advertisement or advertisements may be displayed with the dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Textwise LLC
    Inventors: Randall Jay Calistri-Yeh, Wen Ruan, Clinton P. Mah, Mary Louise Howatt, Mary E. McKenna, Maurice J. Forrester, Bo Yuan, George B. Osborne, III, David L. Snyder
  • Patent number: 6026388
    Abstract: Techniques for generating sophisticated representations of the contents of both queries and documents in a retrieval system by using natural language processing (NLP) techniques to represent, index, and retrieve texts at the multiple levels (e.g., the morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, discourse, and pragmatic levels) at which humans construe meaning in writing. The user enters a query and the system processes the query to generate an alternative representation, which includes conceptual-level abstraction and representations based on complex nominals (CNs), proper nouns (PNs), single terms, text structure, and logical make-up of the query, including mandatory terms. After processing the query, the system displays query information to the user, indicating the system's interpretation and representation of the content of the query. The user is then given an opportunity to provide input, in response to which the system modifies the alternative representation of the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Textwise, LLC
    Inventors: Elizabeth D. Liddy, Woojin Paik, Mary E. McKenna, Michael L. Weiner, Edmund S. Yu, Theodore G. Diamond, Bhaskaran Balakrishnan, David L. Snyder
  • Patent number: 5963940
    Abstract: Techniques for generating sophisticated representations of the contents of both queries and documents in a retrieval system by using natural language processing (NLP) techniques to represent, index, and retrieve texts at the multiple levels (e.g., the morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, discourse, and pragmatic levels) at which humans construe meaning in writing. The user enters a query and the system processes the query to generate an alternative representation, which includes conceptual-level abstraction and representations based on complex nominals (CNs), proper nouns (PNs), single terms, text structure, and logical make-up of the query, including mandatory terms. After processing the query, the system displays query information to the user, indicating the system's interpretation and representation of the content of the query. The user is then given an opportunity to provide input, in response to which the system modifies the alternative representation of the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Syracuse University
    Inventors: Elizabeth D. Liddy, Woojin Paik, Mary E. McKenna, Ming Li