Brian D Klock

US Patent:

20040143570, Jul 22, 2004

Filed:

Oct 1, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/677779

Inventors:

Brian Klock - Forked River NJ, US
David Berton - Bordentown NJ, US
Eric Glover - North Brunswick NJ, US
Steven Kordik - Hamilton NJ, US

International Classification:

G06F007/00

US Classification:

707/003000

Abstract:

A search system has a plurality of resources, including data resources and query and result processing resources. The search system determines the selection and ordering of resources at run-time through a combination of pre-defined default rules and a search strategy that is associated with each search.

US Patent:

20040143644, Jul 22, 2004

Filed:

Apr 1, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/404939

Inventors:

David Berton - Bordentown NJ, US
Brian Klock - Forked River NJ, US
Eric Glover - North Brunswick NJ, US
Steven Kordik - Hamilton NJ, US

Assignee:

NEC Laboratories America, Inc. - Princeton NJ

International Classification:

G06F015/16
G06F007/00

US Classification:

709/217000, 709/238000, 707/003000

Abstract:

A meta-search system for performing a search over a plurality of data sources via one or more search passes, the system comprising: a search controller for: i) transmitting a search query object having a specified route which lists a plurality of query processors desired to be executed; ii) receiving data request objects from the plurality of executed query processors and transmitting the data request objects to a plurality of data collectors, each data request object being transmitted to associated data collector, iii) receiving result objects associated with the data requests from the data collectors, and iv) transmitting the result objects to a user interface for display; the plurality of query processors being executed according to the specified route to receive and process the search query object, each of the query processors enabled to generate a data request object based on the search query object and one or more data request objects generated by one or more previously executed query processors; and each of the plurality of data collectors enabled to convert a data request object received from the search controller to a request associated with an outside data source that performs a search according to the converted request, and each data collector enabled to convert a result of the search transmitted from the outside data source to a result object.

US Patent:

20050114130, May 26, 2005

Filed:

Jul 9, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/888419

Inventors:

Akshay Java - Baltimore MD, US
Brian Klock - Hillsborough NJ, US
Eric Glover - North Brunswick NJ, US
Vishal Shanbhag - Baltimore MD, US
Robert Krovetz - Plainsboro NJ, US

Assignee:

NEC Laboratories America, Inc. - Princeton NJ

International Classification:

G10L015/12

US Classification:

704240000

Abstract:

Systems and methods are disclosed for analyzing a set of documents by building a positive set histogram; selecting phrases from the positive set histogram; modifying the frequency statistics in the histogram using the selected phrases; identifying one or more potential phrase-acronym pairs; selecting a subset of phrase-acronym pairs from the potential pairs; adding a new feature for each selected phrase-acronym (phrase ∥ acronym) pair to a positive set histogram; determining a value for each new feature; identifying one or more child concepts based on an updated histogram; grouping the one or more child concepts; and determining a child concept group coverage for one or more documents.

US Patent:

20050154713, Jul 14, 2005

Filed:

Jan 14, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/757128

Inventors:

Eric Glover - North Brunswick NJ, US
Brian Klock - Forked River NJ, US

Assignee:

NEC Laboratories America, Inc. - Princeton NJ

International Classification:

G06F007/00

US Classification:

707003000

Abstract:

Systems and methods are disclosed to search for data responsive to first and second query concepts by generating a first expanded set of results from the first query concept; generating a second expanded set of results from the second query concept; determining an intersecting set of documents from the first and second expanded sets of results; and determining an explanation of a relationship for each document in the intersecting set of documents for each of the first and second query concepts.