Patents by Inventor Patrick C. McGreer

Patrick C. McGreer 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).

  • Creation of structured data from plain text
    Publication number: 20040172237
    Abstract: A method and system for converting plain text into structured data. Parse trees for the plain text are generated based on the grammar of a natural language, the parse trees are mapped on to instance trees generated based on an application-specific model. The best map is chosen, and the instance tree is passing to an application for execution. The method and system can be used both for populating a database and/or for retrieving data from a database based on a query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Alexander Saldanha, Patrick C. McGreer, Luca Carloni