Patents by Inventor Michael D. Rychener

Michael D. Rychener 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).

  • Technique for enhancing a set of website bookmarks by finding related bookmarks based on a latent similarity metric
    Patent number: 8117205
    Abstract: A method and system for enhancing the quality of a bookmark or a set of bookmarks that have been organized by topic and contain information related to that topic. The method and system analyzes documents accessible by the bookmark or set of bookmarks and performs a search using key terms from that analysis in a vector called a latent similarity metric. The terms that result from this search are preferably ranked in a hierarchy or the like and utilized in a subsequent search to locate and rank additional related documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Michael D. Rychener
  • TECHNIQUE FOR ENHANCING A SET OF WEBSITE BOOKMARKS BY FINDING RELATED BOOKMARKS BASED ON A LATENT SIMILARITY METRIC
    Publication number: 20100010981
    Abstract: A method and system for enhancing the quality of a bookmark or a set of bookmarks that have been organized by topic and contain information related to that topic. The method and system analyzes documents accessible by the bookmark or set of bookmarks and performs a search using key terms from that analysis in a vector called a latent similarity metric. The terms that result from this search are preferably ranked in a hierarchy or the like and utilized in a subsequent search to locate and rank additional related documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael D. Rychener