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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 03, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Timothy A. Bishop, Minneapolis, MN (US);

Stephen A. Boxwell, Columbus, OH (US);

Benjamin L. Brumfield, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Nirav P. Desai, Austin, TX (US);

Stanley J. Vernier, Columbus, OH (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3043 (2013.01); G06F 17/30654 (2013.01);
Abstract

An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager matches a question to multiple natural language contexts that each correspond to relations associated with entities in a structured resource. The knowledge manager identifies database queries corresponding to the multiple natural language contexts and assigns priority scores to the database queries based upon their relative specificity. In turn, the knowledge manager invokes one of the database queries based upon the assigned priority scores.


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