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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:
Nov. 15, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 07, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

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

Kyle M. Brake, Dublin, OH (US);

Keith G. Frost, Delaware, OH (US);

Stanley J. Vernier, Grove City, OH (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2453 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24542 (2019.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01);
Abstract

A method of augmenting an information retrieval method including receiving a query, parsing the query to generate an instance graph, providing a plurality of constraint graphs, organized into at least two ranks, each constraint graph associated with a focus, determining at least one of the constraint graphs matching a structure of the instance graph, and annotating the query with the focus of each matching constraint graph of a highest rank among all matching constraint graphs.


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