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Monday, 17th February 2003

A Few "Just Issued" Info Retrieval Related Patents

Information Retrieval
Time for a Look at a Few "Just Issued" Info Retrieval Related Patents and "Just Filed" Patent Apps
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1) Web-based information retrieval
Issued on 2/11/03 to Atomica, 6,519,631. Note: Try Atomica's Slingshot app. Free. Very useful. Some of you may remember when this product was called GuruNet.
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2) Search user interface with enhanced accessibility and ease-of-use features based on visual metaphors
Issued on 2/04/03 to Philips Electronics, Patent 6,505,194
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3) Inverse inference engine for high performance web search
Issued on 1/21/03 to Mathsoft, Patent 6,510,406
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4) System and method for dynamically associating keywords with domain-specific search engine queries
Issued on 1/07/03 to IBM, Patent 6,516,312
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5) Method and system to answer a natural-language question
Issued on 12/24/02, Patent 6,498,921
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6) User interface providing automatic organization and filtering of search criteria
Issued on to 12/24/02 to Phillips Electronics, Patent 6,499,029
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Patent Application
Selective retrieval metasearch engine
Filed on 11/7/02. Inventors: Eric Glover and Steve Lawrence. Note: Take a look at info about Inquirus, a metasearch engine developed by the inventors.
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Patent Application
Method and system for retrieving information using natural language queries
Filed on 10/17/02.

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