Patents by Inventor Tony Ezzat

Tony Ezzat 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).

  • System and method for maximizing edit distances between particles
    Patent number: 8229965
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention disclose a system and a method for transforming a set of particles in an output set of particles representing a set of words suitable for use in an information retrieval system. The method generates, for each particle in the set of particles, combinations of parts of a particle, and replaces the particle in the set of particles with the parts of a combination maximizing a total minimum edit distance (MED) of the set of particles. For example, the method determines a MED of each particle in the set of particles, determines the total MED of the set of particles as summations of the MED of each particle, and then determines the combination maximizing the total MED of the set of particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Tony Ezzat
  • Method for retrieving items represented by particles from an information database
    Patent number: 8055693
    Abstract: A set of words is converted to a corresponding set of particles, wherein the words and the particles are unique within each set. For each word, all possible partitionings of the word into particles are determined, and a cost is determined for each possible partitioning. The particles of the possible partitioning associated with a minimal cost are added to the set of particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Tony Ezzat, Evandro Gouvea
  • System and Method for Maximizing Edit Distances Between Particles
    Publication number: 20100328342
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention disclose a system and a method for transforming a set of particles in an output set of particles representing a set of words suitable for use in an information retrieval system. The method generates, for each particle in the set of particles, combinations of parts of a particle, and replaces the particle in the set of particles with the parts of a combination maximizing a total minimum edit distance (MED) of the set of particles. For example, the method determines a MED of each particle in the set of particles, determines the total MED of the set of particles as summations of the MED of each particle, and then determines the combination maximizing the total MED of the set of particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventor: Tony Ezzat
  • Method for Retrieving Items Represented by Particles from an Information Database
    Publication number: 20090265162
    Abstract: A set of words is converted to a corresponding set of particles, wherein the words and the particles are unique within each set. For each word, all possible partitionings of the word into particles are determined, and a cost is determined for each possible partitioning. The particles of the possible partitioning associated with a minimal cost are added to the set of particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Tony Ezzat, Evandro B. Gouvea