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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:
Jul. 29, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1999
Douglas E. Appelt, Palo Alto, CA (US);
James Frederick Arnold, Helena, MT (US);
John S. Bear, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Jerry Robert Hobbs, Los Altos, CA (US);
David J. Israel, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Megumi Kameyama, late of Cupertino, CA (US);
David L. Martin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Karen Louise Myers, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gopalan Ravichandran, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark Edward Stickel, Mountain View, CA (US);
William Mabry Tyson, Los Altos, CA (US);
Discern Communications, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A natural language information querying system includes an indexing facility configured to automatically generate indices of updated textual sources based on one or more predefined grammars and a database coupled to the indexing facility to store the indices for subsequent searching.