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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
May. 10, 2018
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Adam Cheyer, Oakland, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/36 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/367 (2019.01); G06F 16/334 (2019.01); G06F 16/3334 (2019.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for searching using an active ontology. One embodiment of a method for searching a database includes receiving a search string, where the search string comprises one or more words, generating a semantic representation of the search string in accordance with an ontology, searching the database using the semantic representation, and outputting a result of the searching.