Inventor · Redmond, WA, US

Eric D. Brill

48Patents
21h-index
51Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 31, 2000 → Jul 11, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7895193B2 Arbitration of specialized content using search results Physics 101 Active
US7761447B2 Systems and methods that rank search results Physics 100 Expired
US7783632B2 Using popularity data for ranking Physics 89 Active
US7917514B2 Visual and multi-dimensional search Physics 72 Active
US7254774B2 Systems and methods for improved spell checking Physics 71 Expired
US7454393B2 Cost-benefit approach to automatically composing answers to questions by extracting information from large unstructured corpora Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 55 Expired
US6684201B1 Linguistic disambiguation system and method using string-based pattern training to learn to resolve ambiguity sites Physics 52 Expired
US7051014B2 Utilizing information redundancy to improve text searches Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 51 Expired
US7158966B2 User intent discovery Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 49 Expired
US7739221B2 Visual and multi-dimensional search Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 42 Active
US7792829B2 Table querying Physics 42 Expired
US7734631B2 Associating information with an electronic document Physics 41 Expired
US7685296B2 Systems and methods for client-based web crawling Physics 33 Active
US7565362B2 Application programming interface for text mining and search Physics 33 Expired
US7565627B2 Query graphs indicating related queries Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Expired
US7047493B1 Spell checker with arbitrary length string-to-string transformations to improve noisy channel spelling correction Physics 28 Expired
US7617202B2 Systems and methods that employ a distributional analysis on a query log to improve search results Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US8751559B2 Balanced routing of questions to experts Electricity 27 Active
US7366983B2 Spell checker with arbitrary length string-to-string transformations to improve noisy channel spelling correction Physics 26 Expired
US7392278B2 Building and using subwebs for focused search Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Expired
US7113950B2 Automated error checking system and method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Expired
US7660806B2 Automated error checking system and method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Active
US7016829B2 Method and apparatus for unsupervised training of natural language processing units Physics 18 Expired
US7552862B2 User-controlled profile sharing Physics 17 Active
US7076731B2 Spelling correction system and method for phrasal strings using dictionary looping Physics 17 Expired

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