Patents by Inventor Stephen Poteet

Stephen Poteet 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).

  • Publication number: 20070118506
    Abstract: A text summarizer identifies relevant terms in a document, weights the terms and extracts one or more segments to produce a summary or abstract. The various terms in a particular are weighted in relation to an existing document collection. A term weight computer computes term weights for terms in the document, and a threshold comparator compares the term weights to determine if the corresponding terms are relevant to the document collection. Next, a term weight summer adds the term weights for each occurrence of each relevant term in the various segments of the document, and a summation comparator compares the summations to identify a text summarization segment representative of the document. Optionally, relevant terms can be highlighted in the term summarization segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Anne Kao, Stephen Poteet, Yuan-Jye Wu, William Ferng, Robert Cranfill
  • Publication number: 20070118518
    Abstract: A text summarizer identifies relevant terms in a document, weights the terms and extracts one or more segments to produce a summary or abstract. The various terms in a particular are weighted in relation to an existing document collection. A term weight computer computes term weights for terms in the document, and a threshold comparator compares the term weights to determine if the corresponding terms are relevant to the document collection. Next, a term weight summer adds the term weights for each occurrence of each relevant term in the various segments of the document, and a summation comparator compares the summations to identify a text summarization segment representative of the document. Optionally, relevant terms can be highlighted in the term summarization segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Yuan-Jye Wu, Anne Kao, Stephen Poteet, William Ferng, Robert Cranfill
  • Publication number: 20070113292
    Abstract: A system generates rules for classifying documents are generated by building a vocabulary of features (e.g., words, phrases, acronyms, etc.) that are related to classifying concepts. The system includes a security document reader receives a security document that defines security concepts for a particular project and parses the security document to separate the security concepts. A vocabulary builder receives samples provided by the user that contain information related to the project. For each security concept, the vocabulary builder uses statistical analysis techniques to find features in the samples that are related to that concept. A rule generation assistant, for each security concept, generates rules based on the built vocabulary and the samples. The rule generation assistant uses statistical analysis techniques on the vocabulary and samples to determine features that optimally predict a particular concept. The rules can be used by a downgrader to process information to be distributed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Anne Kao, Stephen Poteet, Nicholas Multari
  • Publication number: 20070083509
    Abstract: A streaming text data comparator performs real-time text data mining on streaming text data. The comparator receives a streaming text data document and generates a vector representation of the term frequencies relating to an existing document collection. The comparator then transforms the term frequency vector into a projection in a precomputed multidimensional subspace that represents the original document collection. The comparator further calculates a relationship value representing the similarities or differences between the vector representation and the subspace, and compares the relationship value to a predetermined threshold to determine whether the streaming text data document is related to the original document collection. If the streaming text data document is related, the streaming text data comparator intercalates the new document into the document collection. If the new document is not related, the comparator may store or delete the unrelated document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Inventors: Yuan-Jye Wu, Anne Kao, Stephen Poteet, William Ferng, Robert Cranfill
  • Publication number: 20070022072
    Abstract: Provided are improved methods, apparatus, and computer program products for text differentiation which involves identifying differences between documents with similar content, not merely similar terms, and generating results. Text differentiation provides the ability to find non-similar, or different, content hidden within documents with similar overall content, but not exactly the same content. Text differentiation may be used to quickly identify key differences between similar documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Inventors: Anne Kao, Stephen Poteet, Yuan-Jye Wu, William Ferng, Robert Cranfill