Inventor · Durham, NC, US

Eric Woods

99Patents
9h-index
61Co-inventors
73Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 11, 2011 → Jan 3, 2020

Most-cited inventions

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US9369488B2 Policy enforcement using natural language processing Electricity 300 Active
US9015730B1 Natural language access to application programming interfaces Physics 95 Active
US9092276B2 Natural language access to application programming interfaces Physics 45 Active
US9342608B2 Clarification of submitted questions in a question and answer system Physics 29 Active
US9047488B2 Anonymizing sensitive identifying information based on relational context across a group Physics 15 Active
US9373086B1 Crowdsource reasoning process to facilitate question answering Physics 14 Active
US9311294B2 Enhanced answers in DeepQA system according to user preferences Physics 11 Active
US9111181B2 Detecting and flagging likely confidential content in photographs to prevent automated dissemination Physics 10 Active
US9904668B2 Natural language processing utilizing transaction based knowledge representation Physics 10 Active
US9734239B2 Prompting subject matter experts for additional detail based on historical answer ratings Physics 9 Active
US9471689B2 Managing documents in question answering systems Physics 8 Active
US9665564B2 Natural language processing utilizing logical tree structures Physics 7 Active
US9535899B2 Automatic semantic rating and abstraction of literature Physics 6 Active
US10108673B2 Recommendation engine using inferred deep similarities for works of literature Physics 6 Active
US9298802B2 Recommendation engine using inferred deep similarities for works of literature Physics 6 Active
US8990772B2 Dynamically recommending changes to an association between an operating system image and an update group Physics 6 Active
US9652528B2 Prompting subject matter experts for additional detail based on historical answer ratings Physics 5 Active
US9244911B2 Enhanced answers in DeepQA system according to user preferences Physics 5 Active
US9535901B2 Automatic semantic rating and abstraction of literature Physics 5 Active
US9552346B2 Producing visualizations of elements in works of literature Physics 5 Active
US9645815B2 Dynamically recommending changes to an association between an operating system image and an update group Physics 5 Active
US8953851B2 Ocular biometric authentication with system verification Electricity 4 Active
US10127225B2 Automatic semantic rating and abstraction of literature Physics 4 Active
US9613098B2 Recommendation engine using inferred deep similarities for works of literature Physics 4 Active
US9588961B2 Natural language processing utilizing propagation of knowledge through logical parse tree structures Physics 4 Active

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