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Joseph Thomas

Examiner (ID: 3525)

Most Active Art Unit
2747
Art Unit(s)
2311, 2453, 3626, 2747, 2644, 2411, 2741, 2492
Total Applications
333
Issued Applications
229
Pending Applications
44
Abandoned Applications
60

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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09/240230
Method and apparatus for interactive source language expression recognition and alternative hypothesis presentation and selection Jan 28, 1999 Issued
Array ( [id] => 4315735 [patent_doc_number] => 06185524 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => NA [patent_issue_date] => 2001-02-06 [patent_title] => 'Method and apparatus for automatic identification of word boundaries in continuous text and computation of word boundary scores' [patent_app_type] => 1 [patent_app_number] => 9/223959 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 1998-12-31 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 6 [patent_figures_cnt] => 6 [patent_no_of_words] => 7064 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 132 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/06/185/06185524.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 223959 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
09/223959
Method and apparatus for automatic identification of word boundaries in continuous text and computation of word boundary scores Dec 30, 1998 Issued
Array ( [id] => 4400513 [patent_doc_number] => 06278967 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => NA [patent_issue_date] => 2001-08-21 [patent_title] => 'Automated system for generating natural language translations that are domain-specific, grammar rule-based, and/or based on part-of-speech analysis' [patent_app_type] => 1 [patent_app_number] => 9/171242 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 1998-12-16 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 12 [patent_figures_cnt] => 12 [patent_no_of_words] => 11960 [patent_no_of_claims] => 4 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 4 [patent_words_short_claim] => 172 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/06/278/06278967.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 171242 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
09/171242
Automated system for generating natural language translations that are domain-specific, grammar rule-based, and/or based on part-of-speech analysis Dec 15, 1998 Issued
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09/211385
Weighting method for use in information extraction and abstracting, based on the frequency of occurrence of keywords and similarity calculations Dec 13, 1998 Issued
Array ( [id] => 4420946 [patent_doc_number] => 06233547 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => NA [patent_issue_date] => 2001-05-15 [patent_title] => 'Computer program product for retrieving multi-media objects using a natural language having a pronoun' [patent_app_type] => 1 [patent_app_number] => 9/207453 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 1998-12-08 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 5 [patent_figures_cnt] => 6 [patent_no_of_words] => 3073 [patent_no_of_claims] => 15 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 1 [patent_words_short_claim] => 99 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/06/233/06233547.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 207453 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
09/207453
Computer program product for retrieving multi-media objects using a natural language having a pronoun Dec 7, 1998 Issued
Array ( [id] => 4191201 [patent_doc_number] => 06141643 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => NA [patent_issue_date] => 2000-10-31 [patent_title] => 'Data input glove having conductive finger pads and thumb pad, and uses therefor' [patent_app_type] => 1 [patent_app_number] => 9/199680 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 1998-11-25 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 3 [patent_figures_cnt] => 3 [patent_no_of_words] => 3556 [patent_no_of_claims] => 27 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 101 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/06/141/06141643.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 199680 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
09/199680
Data input glove having conductive finger pads and thumb pad, and uses therefor Nov 24, 1998 Issued
Array ( [id] => 4411045 [patent_doc_number] => 06298321 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => NA [patent_issue_date] => 2001-10-02 [patent_title] => 'Trie compression using substates and utilizing pointers to replace or merge identical, reordered states' [patent_app_type] => 1 [patent_app_number] => 9/199948 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 1998-11-23 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 11 [patent_figures_cnt] => 20 [patent_no_of_words] => 5203 [patent_no_of_claims] => 34 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 5 [patent_words_short_claim] => 105 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/06/298/06298321.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 199948 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
09/199948
Trie compression using substates and utilizing pointers to replace or merge identical, reordered states Nov 22, 1998 Issued
Array ( [id] => 4420936 [patent_doc_number] => 06233546 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => NA [patent_issue_date] => 2001-05-15 [patent_title] => 'Method and system for machine translation using epistemic moments and stored dictionary entries' [patent_app_type] => 1 [patent_app_number] => 9/195040 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 1998-11-19 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 8 [patent_figures_cnt] => 10 [patent_no_of_words] => 9165 [patent_no_of_claims] => 24 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 206 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/06/233/06233546.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 195040 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
09/195040
Method and system for machine translation using epistemic moments and stored dictionary entries Nov 18, 1998 Issued
Array ( [id] => 4347978 [patent_doc_number] => 06321192 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => NA [patent_issue_date] => 2001-11-20 [patent_title] => 'Adaptive learning method and system that matches keywords using a parsed keyword data structure having a hash index based on an unicode value' [patent_app_type] => 1 [patent_app_number] => 9/177033 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 1998-10-22 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 4 [patent_figures_cnt] => 8 [patent_no_of_words] => 5744 [patent_no_of_claims] => 19 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 68 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/06/321/06321192.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 177033 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
09/177033
Adaptive learning method and system that matches keywords using a parsed keyword data structure having a hash index based on an unicode value Oct 21, 1998 Issued
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09/164048
Probabilistic method for natural language processing and for encoding free-text data into a medical database by utilizing a Bayesian network to perform spell checking of words Sep 29, 1998 Issued
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09/159966
System and method for estimating accuracy of an automatic natural language translation Sep 23, 1998 Issued
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09/137107
Interactive digital phonetic captioning program Aug 19, 1998 Issued
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09/124075
Real time detection of topical changes and topic identification via likelihood based methods Jul 28, 1998 Issued
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09/123166
Statistical translation system and method for fast sense disambiguation and translation of large corpora using fertility models and sense models Jul 26, 1998 Issued
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09/121655
Identification of words in Japanese text by a computer system Jul 23, 1998 Issued
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09/121450
Methods for analysis and evaluation of the semantic content of a writing based on vector length Jul 22, 1998 Issued
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09/119166
Method for extracting knowledge from online documentation and creating a glossary, index, help database or the like Jul 19, 1998 Issued
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09/109804
Method and apparatus for semantic characterization of general content streams and repositories Jul 1, 1998 Issued
09/109622 SCHEDULER SYSTEM FOR TRAVEL PLANNING SYSTEM Jul 1, 1998 Abandoned
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09/103207
Method for detecting stylistic errors and generating replacement strings in a document containing Japanese text Jun 22, 1998 Issued
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