Patents by Inventor Patrick J. Stammerjohn

Patrick J. Stammerjohn 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).

  • Determining word segment boundaries
    Patent number: 9141867
    Abstract: Some examples include segmenting text of a content item to include a plurality of segments or words. For instance, a module for segmenting a content item using a context-based segmenter into a plurality of segments, identifying segment boundary hints stored in the content item, and adjusting segments of the plurality of segments based on the identified segment boundary hints. Some additional examples include inserting segment boundary hints into a content item. For instance a module that segments the content item using a first segmenter and a second segmenter and inserting segment boundary hints into the content item where the results of the first and second segmenter differ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinobu Matsuzuka, Patrick J. Stammerjohn, Venkata Krishnan Ramamoorthy, Christopher A. Suver, Lokesh Joshi, Robert Wai-Chi Chu