Patents by Inventor Midori Takahashi

Midori Takahashi 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: 7308442
    Abstract: In order to acquire answer information to be searched from a large amount of question information, there is provided an FAQ search engine which can acquire an appropriate term and acquire appropriate information by using the term as a search keyword. It comprises a document of describing a search keyword, a terminal unit for acquiring the search keyword from the document and inputting the search keyword, a database which has a keyword group consisting of search keywords obtained by adding numbers to the keywords described in the document, and an FAQ data group for managing FAQ data relevant to the numbers, a number acquisition portion for acquiring the number corresponding to the provided search keyword out of the keyword group, a data extract portion for acquiring FAQ data corresponding to the number acquired from the number acquisition portion out of the FAQ data group, and an FAQ display portion for displaying the FAQ data on the terminal unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Midori Takahashi, Jiro Miyake, Shinobu Kanda
  • Publication number: 20050187919
    Abstract: In order to acquire answer information to be searched from a large amount of question information, there is provided an FAQ search engine which can acquire an appropriate term and acquire appropriate information by using the term as a search keyword. It comprises a document of describing a search keyword, a terminal unit for acquiring the search keyword from the document and inputting the search keyword, a database which has a keyword group consisting of search keywords obtained by adding numbers to the keywords described in the document, and an FAQ data group for managing FAQ data relevant to the numbers, a number acquisition portion for acquiring the number corresponding to the provided search keyword out of the keyword group, a data extract portion for acquiring FAQ data corresponding to the number acquired from the number acquisition portion out of the FAQ data group, and an FAQ display portion for displaying the FAQ data on the terminal unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Midori Takahashi, Jiro Miyake, Shinobu Kanda