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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1993
Jan O Pedersen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John W Tukey, Princeton, NJ (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
Regions of a document such as sentences and blocks of sentences are scored and classified based upon their scores. An abstract of the document can be formed from the classified sentences. Sentences are classified by the use of words classified as stop words and vanish words. Sentences are scored based on the number of stop words and the number of strings of connected stop words, called stop-word runs, contained in the sentence. Passionate sentences, which usually contain information which the writer has strong feelings about, such as joy, admiration, or sadness, are identified. This method can also select sentences that are contrapassionate, which the writer may either have to strengthen or have inserted to complete the record and provide continuity or information.