Patents by Inventor Nicholas R. Boyd

Nicholas R. Boyd 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: 8838618
    Abstract: Embodiments may include, for each item in a subset of items from a larger group of items, evaluating item description information about that item to identify a respective set of candidate phrases to be evaluated. Embodiments may also include, for each phrase in the sets of candidate phrases, generating multiple component scores based on one or more of the frequency with which that phrase occurs in the item description information for the subset of items and/or the frequency with which that phrase occurs in a corpus of item description information for the overall group of items. Embodiments may also include, for each phrase in the sets of candidate phrases, generating a respective phrase score based on the component scores generated for that phrase. Embodiments may include, based on phrase scores, selecting a subset of phrases from the sets of candidate phrases as being feature phrases for the subset of items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jianhui Wu, Nicholas R. Boyd, Srikanth Thirumalai