Patents by Inventor Yoelle Maarek-Smadja

Yoelle Maarek-Smadja 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).

  • Information search using knowledge agents
    Patent number: 6636848
    Abstract: A method for searching a corpus of documents, such as the World Wide Web, includes defining a knowledge domain and identifying a set of reference documents in the corpus pertinent to the domain. Upon inputting a query, the corpus is searched using the set of reference documents to find one or more of the documents in the corpus that contain information in the domain relevant to the query. The set of reference documents is updated with the found documents that are most relevant to the domain. The updated set is used in searching the corpus for information in the domain relevant to subsequent queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yariv Aridor, David Carmel, Michael Herscovici, Yoelle Maarek-Smadja, Aya Soffer, Ronny Lempel