The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1993
Kouichi Tsuzuki, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A near-synonym generating method generates near-synonyms of a target character string by retrieving a near-synonym file based on the target character string, where the near-synonym file defines near-synonyms for one or a plurality of words. The near-synonym generating method includes the steps of (a) retrieving the near-synonym file using words which form the target character string as keys, and extracting near-synonyms which are defined for each of the words used as the keys as the near-synonyms for each of the words forming the target character string, (b) forming a near-synonym group from each of the words forming the target character string and the corresponding near-synonyms so as to form a plurality of such near-synonym groups, and selecting the words or near-synonyms from each of the near-synonym groups, and (c) generating the near-synonyms of the target character string by combining the selected words or near-synonyms obtained by the step (b) in an order which is different from the order of the words forming the target character string.