Patents by Inventor Saul Schleimer

Saul Schleimer 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).

  • Method and apparatus for indexing document content and content comparison with World Wide Web search service
    Patent number: 6757675
    Abstract: Methods and related systems for indexing the contents of documents for comparison with the contents of other documents to identify matching content. A method for comparing the contents of a query document to the content on the World Wide Web is set forth. The contents of a query document are indexed and compared to content from the World Wide Web which is continuously retrieved and indexed. The method for indexing may comprise selecting substrings from the document, hashing the substrings to generate a plurality of hash values having a known range of values, selecting certain hash values to save from the generated hash values, and sorting the saved hash values. Methods for selecting certain hash values to save are set forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Alex Aiken, Saul Schleimer, Joel Auslander, Daniel Wilkerson, Anthony Tomasic, Steve Fink
  • Method and apparatus for indexing document content and content comparison with World Wide Web search service
    Publication number: 20030120647
    Abstract: Methods and related systems for indexing the contents of documents for comparison with the contents of other documents to identify matching content. A method for comparing the contents of a query document to the content on the World Wide Web is set forth. The contents of a query document are indexed and compared to content from the World Wide Web which is continuously retrieved and indexed. The method for indexing may comprise selecting substrings from the document, hashing the substrings to generate a plurality of hash values having a known range of values, selecting certain hash values to save from the generated hash values, and sorting the saved hash values. Methods for selecting certain hash values to save are set forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Alex Aiken, Saul Schleimer, Joel Auslander, Daniel Wilkerson, Anthony Tomasic, Steve Fink