Inventor · Pittsburgh, PA, US

Eric W. Brown

39Patents
13h-index
31Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 9, 1996 → May 14, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5875446A System and method for hierarchically grouping and ranking a set of objects in a query context based on one or more relationships Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 329 Expired
US8275803B2 System and method for providing answers to questions Physics 206 Active
US6816858B1 System, method and apparatus providing collateral information for a video/audio stream Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 199 Expired
US6665666B1 System, method and program product for answering questions using a search engine Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 164 Expired
US5913208A Identifying duplicate documents from search results without comparing document content Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 105 Expired
US7139756B2 System and method for detecting duplicate and similar documents Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 79 Expired
US8738617B2 Providing answers to questions using multiple models to score candidate answers Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 54 Active
US8819007B2 Providing answers to questions using multiple models to score candidate answers Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 26 Active
US9703861B2 System and method for providing answers to questions Physics 22 Active
US9037580B2 Providing answers to questions using logical synthesis of candidate answers Physics 22 Active
US9690861B2 Deep semantic search of electronic medical records Physics 21 Active
US8898159B2 Providing answers to questions using logical synthesis of candidate answers Physics 18 Active
US8768925B2 System and method for providing answers to questions Physics 14 Active
US8417514B2 System and method for finding the most likely answer to a natural language question Physics 13 Active
US8340955B2 System and method for finding the most likely answer to a natural language question Physics 12 Active
US6922809B2 Method and apparatus providing capitalization recovery for text Physics 10 Expired
US9852213B2 Providing answers to questions using logical synthesis of candidate answers Physics 6 Active
US8510327B2 Method and process for semantic or faceted search over unstructured and annotated data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US9110944B2 Providing answers to questions using multiple models to score candidate answers Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 6 Active
US8277315B2 Game simulation based on current events Human Necessities 5 Active
US9495481B2 Providing answers to questions including assembling answers from multiple document segments Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US8972440B2 Method and process for semantic or faceted search over unstructured and annotated data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US9507854B2 Providing answers to questions using multiple models to score candidate answers Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 5 Active
US9348893B2 Providing answers to questions using logical synthesis of candidate answers Physics 4 Active
US10133808B2 Providing answers to questions using logical synthesis of candidate answers Physics 4 Active

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