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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:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Amy W. Chow, Norwalk, CT (US);
Jeffrey T. Kreulen, San Jose, CA (US);
Justin T. Lessler, San Jose, CA (US);
Larry L. Proctor, Coppell, TX (US);
W. Scott Spangler, San Martin, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A computing system and method explores a knowledge repository by accepting a natural language query from a user, determining a distance between the query and every category in every partitioning of the knowledge repository, and displaying a radial graph ( ) of the nearest categories. Further, in response to a user selecting a category, visually displaying matching elements in the category along with its nearest neighbor categories in a scatter plot ( ).