Patents by Inventor William Goffman

William Goffman 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 retrieving high relevance, high quality objects from an overall source
    Patent number: 5594897
    Abstract: A method is provided for selecting a core collection of objects from an overall source collection. The objects have directed relations with each other, and a frequency measure of these directed relations is used as an approximation of the probability that one object has relevance to another. The method is particularly applicable to selecting a core collection of journals from an overall collection, wherein the object relation is journal citation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: GWG Associates
    Inventor: William Goffman