Patents by Inventor Thomas Lanning

Thomas Lanning 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 for presenting result sets for probabilistic queries
    Publication number: 20070198514
    Abstract: A method presents a rank-ordered result set for a probabilistic input query. Terms in the query are recognized and a probability is assigned to each term. The probability expresses a confidence in correctly recognizing the term. A database is searched for items corresponding to the probabilistic query using the terms and the assigned probabilities to produce a result set. The result set is then highlighted according to the probabilities and presented to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Derek Schwenke, Thomas Lanning, Kent Wittenburg