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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 06, 2007
Applicants:

Jeffrey Davitz, Danville, CA (US);

Sugato Basu, Redwood City, CA (US);

Jiye Yu, Menlo Park, CA (US);

David Gutelius, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jeffrey Davitz, Danville, CA (US);

Sugato Basu, Redwood City, CA (US);

Jiye Yu, Menlo Park, CA (US);

David Gutelius, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/725 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for knowledge generation and deployment in a distributed network. In one embodiment, a method for processing messages in a social network includes receiving a new message from a first node in the network, the new message including a query, providing the first node with an answer to the query, if the answer is located in a repository, and initiating generation of the answer, if the answer is not located in the repository.


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