Patents by Inventor Patrick Santos

Patrick Santos 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).

  • Parsing, analysis and scoring of document content
    Patent number: 8065307
    Abstract: The present invention may be used to analyze subject content, search and analyze reference content, compare the subject and reference content for similarity, and output comparison reports between the subject and reference content. The present invention may incorporate and utilize text from intrinsic and/or extrinsic subject documents. The analysis may employ a variety of metrics, including scores generated from a natural language processing system, scores based on classification similarity, scores based on proximity similarity, and in the case of analysis of patent documents, scores based on measurement of claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Dean Haslam, Patrick Wayne John Evans, Arul Menezes, Patrick Santos
  • Binary dependency database
    Publication number: 20050165823
    Abstract: The present invention facilitates the analysis of binaries, components, configurations, and their footprints for component design and optimization. Complete and meaningful binary, component, configuration, and footprint information allows formal methods for component analysis and configuration optimization. A binary dependency database persists and stores binary dependency information. The binary dependency database provides detailed dependency information among binaries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bohus Ondrusek, Kevin Burrows, Patrick Santos