Inventor · Petersham, MA, US

Donna K. Byron

189Patents
10h-index
105Co-inventors
83Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 16, 2001 → Feb 21, 2022

Most-cited inventions

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US7664638B2 Tracking time using portable recorders and speech recognition Physics 315 Active
US9740985B2 Rating difficulty of questions Physics 299 Active
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US9286291B2 Disambiguation of dependent referring expression in natural language processing Physics 33 Active
US9626352B2 Inter thread anaphora resolution Physics 20 Active
US9483455B1 Ingestion planning for complex tables Physics 20 Active
US9348817B2 Automatic generation of question-answer pairs from conversational text Physics 17 Active
US10416138B2 Sensing and adjusting the olfactory characteristics of a sample Physics 12 Active
US10412985B2 Identifying components based on observed olfactory characteristics Physics 12 Active
US9622142B2 System and method en-route wireless network access Electricity 11 Active
US7171365B2 Tracking time using portable recorders and speech recognition Physics 9 Expired
US11074286B2 Automated curation of documents in a corpus for a cognitive computing system Physics 8 Active
US9519686B2 Confidence ranking of answers based on temporal semantics Physics 8 Active
US9721008B1 Recipe generation utilizing natural language processing Physics 8 Active
US9754021B2 Method for deducing entity relationships across corpora using cluster based dictionary vocabulary lexicon Physics 7 Active
US9721004B2 Answering questions via a persona-based natural language processing (NLP) system Physics 7 Active
US10430426B2 Response effectiveness determination in a question/answer system Physics 7 Active
US11164562B2 Entity-level clarification in conversation services Physics 6 Active
US10176250B2 Automated curation of documents in a corpus for a cognitive computing system Physics 6 Active
US9842161B2 Discrepancy curator for documents in a corpus of a cognitive computing system Physics 6 Active
US9870550B2 Modifying existing recipes to incorporate additional or replace existing ingredients Physics 6 Active
US9324025B2 Automating natural-language interactions between an expert system and a user Physics 6 Active
US10366332B2 Tailoring question answering system output based on user expertise Physics 6 Active
US10146858B2 Discrepancy handler for document ingestion into a corpus for a cognitive computing system Physics 5 Active
US10095740B2 Selective fact generation from table data in a cognitive system Physics 5 Active

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