Patents by Inventor W. Spangler

W. Spangler 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 annotating patents with MeSH data
    Publication number: 20070112833
    Abstract: A system and method for enhancing patent documents. A system is disclosed that includes: an extraction system for extracting non-patent references from a patent document; a system for cross-referencing an extracted non-patent reference with a metadata database to identify metadata information associated with the extracted non-patent reference; and a system for annotating the patent document with the metadata information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Angell, Stephen Boyer, James Cooper, Richard Hennessy, Tapas Kanungo, Jeffrey Kreulen, David Martin, James Rhodes, W. Spangler, Herschel Weintraub
  • System and method for using text analytics to identify a set of related documents from a source document
    Publication number: 20070112748
    Abstract: A system and method for processing a document to generate a set of related documents. A system is provided that includes a textual analytics system that analyzes unstructured data contained in a source document and extracts a set of structured information about the source document; and a compare system that identifies a set of related documents by comparing the set of structured information with metadata indexed from a set of publications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Angell, Stephen Boyer, James Cooper, Richard Hennessy, Tapas Kanungo, Jeffrey Kreulen, David Martin, James Rhodes, W. Spangler, Herschel Weintraub