Patents by Inventor Scott C. Deerwester

Scott C. Deerwester 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).

  • Computer information retrieval using latent semantic structure
    Patent number: 4839853
    Abstract: A methodology for retrieving textual data objects is disclosed. The information is treated in the statistical domain by presuming that there is an underlying, latent semantic structure in the usage of words in the data objects. Estimates to this latent structure are utilized to represent and retrieve objects. A user query is recouched in the new statistical domain and then processed in the computer system to extract the underlying meaning to respond to the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Bell Communications Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott C. Deerwester, Susan T. Dumais, George W. Furnas, Richard A. Harshman, Thomas K. Landauer, Karen E. Lochbaum, Lynn A. Streeter