METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONICALLY EXTRACTING APPLICATION SPECIFIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL INFORMATION FROM DOCUMENTS SELECTED FROM A SET OF DOCUMENTS ELECTRONICALLY EXTRACTED FROM A LIBRARY OF ELECTRONICALLY SEARCHABLE DOCUMENTS
US6965900B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 19, 2001 |
| Grant date | Nov 15, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 24, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99945
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus and method provides application specific multidimensional information to an application running on a user computing device from a plurality of member documents electronically extracted from a library of electronically searchable documents. An information extractor is adapted to extract occurrences of prospective representations of dimensions of application specific multidimensional information and occurrences of non-application specific multidimensional information from the member documents. Also, an encoder is adapted to encode the occurrences of prospective dimensions of application specific and non-application specific multidimensional information contained in member documents. A member document identifier determines document formatting and decides whether to proceed with further processing. An information verification unit optionally verifies the extraction of application specific multidimensional information from the member documents. A database optionally stores and provides access to the application specific multidimensional information, which may for example be scheduled events having dimensions of time, location, identity.
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