Patents by Inventor Wayne Loofbourrow

Wayne Loofbourrow 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: 20050044487
    Abstract: An automatic file clustering algorithm enables documents within a file system to be displayed in a semantic view. The file clustering algorithm maps all words and documents into an appropriate semantic vector space, clusters the documents at a predetermined level of granularity, and assigns a meaningful descriptor to each resulting cluster. The documents are displayed to the user in a hierarchy in accordance with the resulting clusters. This results in a virtual file system with a semantic organization, that allows the user to navigate by content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2003
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Applicant: Apple Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Bellegarda, Wayne Loofbourrow
  • Publication number: 20040006456
    Abstract: A multi-lingual indexing and search system performs tokenization and stemming in a manner which is independent of whether index entries and search terms appear as words in a dictionary. During the tokenization phase of the process, a string of text is separated into individual word tokens, and predetermined types of tokens are eliminated from further processing. The stemming phase of the process reduces words to grammatical stems by removing known word-endings associated with the various languages to be supported. Known word endings are removed from the word tokens without any effort to guarantee that the remaining stem is contained in a dictionary. In a preferred implementation, the stemming process is only applied to nouns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2003
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Inventors: Wayne Loofbourrow, David Casseres
  • Patent number: 6654717
    Abstract: A multi-lingual indexing and search system performs tokenization and stemming in a manner which is independent of whether index entries and search terms appear as words in a dictionary. During the tokenization phase of the process, a string of text is separated into individual word tokens, and predetermined types of tokens are eliminated from further processing. The stemming phase of the process reduces words to grammatical stems by removing known word-endings associated with the various languages to be supported. Known word endings are removed from the word tokens without any effort to guarantee that the remaining stem is contained in a dictionary. In a preferred implementation, the stemming process is only applied to nouns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Loofbourrow, David Cásseres
  • Publication number: 20020161570
    Abstract: A multi-lingual indexing and search system performs tokenization and stemming in a manner which is independent of whether index entries and search terms appear as words in a dictionary. During the tokenization phase of the process, a string of text is separated into individual word tokens, and predetermined types of tokens are eliminated from further processing. The stemming phase of the process reduces words to grammatical stems by removing known word-endings associated with the various languages to be supported. Known word endings are removed from the word tokens without any effort to guarantee that the remaining stem is contained in a dictionary. In a preferred implementation, the stemming process is only applied to nouns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2002
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Wayne Loofbourrow, David Casseres
  • Patent number: 6466901
    Abstract: A multi-lingual indexing and search system performs tokenization and stemming in a manner which is independent of whether index entries and search terms appear as words in a dictionary. During the tokenization phase of the process, a string of text is separated into individual word tokens, and predetermined types of tokens are eliminated from further processing. The stemming phase of the process reduces words to grammatical stems by removing known word-endings associated with the various languages to be supported. Known word endings are removed from the word tokens without any effort to guarantee that the remaining stem is contained in a dictionary. In a preferred implementation, the stemming process is only applied to nouns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Loofbourrow, David Cásseres