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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:
Apr. 25, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 01, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Bogdan Alexe, San Jose, CA (US);

Tyler Shore Baldwin, San Jose, CA (US);

Yunyao Li, San Jose, CA (US);

Ioana Roxana Stanoi, San Jose, CA (US);

Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/28 (2006.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/2795 (2013.01); G06F 17/277 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the invention relate to ambiguity detection. In one embodiment, an object and a topical domain associated with the object are obtained. In this embodiment, the object includes at least one term. At least one of a plurality of information sources is analyzed based on the at least one term and the topical domain. A determination is made that object is one of ambiguous and unambiguous based on analyzing at least one of the plurality of information sources.


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