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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:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas W. Beattie, Metuchen, NJ (US);
Deborah L. McGuiness, Summit, NJ (US);
Harley Manning, Maplewood, NJ (US);
Lori Alperin Resnick, Highland Park, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
The present mechanism relates to a system and method for maintaining a knowledge base and an evidence set derived from the knowledge base. The knowledge base has a relationship, which exists between a a first object and a second object. A request is specified, the knowledge base is modified in accordance with the request and the relationship, and an evidence set is derived from the knowledge base.