Patents by Inventor Robie Childers

Robie Childers 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).

  • Topic identification and use thereof in information retrieval systems
    Patent number: 7340466
    Abstract: A technique to determine topics associated with, or classifications for, a data corpus uses an initial domain-specific word list to identify word combinations (one or more words) that appear in the data corpus significantly more often than expected. Word combinations so identified are selected as topics and associated with a user-specified level of granularity. For example, topics may be associated with each table entry, each image, each sentence, each paragraph, or an entire file. Topics may be used to guide information retrieval and/or the display of topic classifications during user query operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Kang Jo Mgmt. Limited Liability Company
    Inventors: Paul S. Odom, Subramanian Akileswar, Robie Childers, Dennis Kotlar
  • Topic identification and use thereof in information retrieval systems
    Publication number: 20030167252
    Abstract: A technique to determine topics associated with, or classifications for, a data corpus uses an initial domain-specific word list to identify word combinations (one or more words) that appear in the data corpus significantly more often than expected. Word combinations so identified are selected as topics and associated with a user-specified level of granularity. For example, topics may be associated with each table entry, each image, each sentence, each paragraph, or an entire file. Topics may be used to guide information retrieval and/or the display of topic classifications during user query operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Applicant: Pliant Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul S. Odom, Subramanian Akileswar, Robie Childers, Dennis Kotlar