Keith I Ito

US Patent:

8015171, Sep 6, 2011

Filed:

Jul 14, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/172507

Inventors:

Desiree D. G. Gosby - Allston MA, US
Keith I Ito - La Verne CA, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

707706, 707707, 707711, 707721, 707728

Abstract:

A computer system configured to implement a method for document analysis and retrieval. A document that includes text is received from a host. Document keys (i. e. , keywords and keyphrases) associated with the text are generated. In first embodiments, a provided document taxonomy has categories and associated category keys (i. e. , keywords and keyphrases). The category keys of each category are compared with the document keys to determine a distance between the document and each category as a measure of how close the document is to each category. A subset of the categories is returned to the host, wherein the subset of the categories reflects the determined distances. In second embodiments, a search string is created as a logical function of a subset of the document keys. The search string is submitted to a search engine. Links to related documents are received from the search engine and returned to the host.

US Patent:

8015206, Sep 6, 2011

Filed:

Jul 11, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/171395

Inventors:

Desiree D. G. Gosby - Allston MA, US
Keith I Ito - La Verne CA, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

707791, 707794, 707803, 707807, 707809

Abstract:

A computer program product including stored program code adapted to implement a method for document analysis and retrieval. A document that includes text is received from a host. Document keys associated with the text are generated. In first embodiments, a document taxonomy is provided. The taxonomy has categories and associated category keys. The category keys of each category are compared with the document keys to determine a distance between the document and each category as a measure of how close the document is to each category. A subset of the categories is returned to the host, wherein the subset of the categories reflects the determined distances. In second embodiments, a search string is created as a logical function of a subset of the document keys. The search string is submitted to a search engine. Links to related documents are received from the search engine and returned to the host.

US Patent:

8223172, Jul 17, 2012

Filed:

Sep 26, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/244758

Inventors:

Andrew Tesch Miller - Seattle WA, US
Keith Ito - Cambridge MA, US

Assignee:

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G09G 5/00

US Classification:

345660, 701455

Abstract:

A graphics or image rendering system builds application-oriented tables on a server that are downloaded to a client device responsive to a request for map data from the client device in association with a mapping application at the client device. The table or tables specify by geographic region which zoom levels have map data different from other zoom levels and may apply to many types of map data including map vector data, map label data, satellite image data, traffic data, transit status, etc. The table or tables allow the mapping application to skip zoom levels for which no new data is available, or conversely, reuse data from other levels when rendering a level not requiring new data from the server.

US Patent:

8363068, Jan 29, 2013

Filed:

Jul 17, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/551312

Inventors:

Andrew T. Miller - Seattle WA, US
Keith Ito - Cambridge MA, US

Assignee:

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G09G 5/00

US Classification:

345660, 701455

Abstract:

A method for providing map data to a client device includes receiving, at a server from the client device over a network, a request for parameters related to map data for a region of interest, where each region of interest is a separate geographic area. The method also includes providing, for use by the client device, a local zoom table indicating each zoom level for which new map data is available and usable by the client to determine whether or not to request new map data in response to a zoom command. Providing the local zoom table includes generating the local zoom table by analyzing tile data from multiple zoom levels to determine a progression order of map tile zooms to be requested by the client.

US Patent:

8484199, Jul 9, 2013

Filed:

Dec 11, 2007

Appl. No.:

12/001467

Inventors:

Lalitesh Katragadda - Bangalore, IN
Keith Ito - Seattle WA, US
James R. Muller - Palo Alto CA, US
Ramesh Balakrishnan - San Francisco CA, US
James C. Norris - Mountain View CA, US

Assignee:

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G06F 7/08

US Classification:

707723, 707724, 707748, 701426

Abstract:

Ranking of geographic information includes receiving information about geographic features, identifying documents based on the information, each document being associated with one of the geographic features, and generating a rank score for each document based on one or more properties of the geographic feature associated with the document.

US Patent:

20040139058, Jul 15, 2004

Filed:

Dec 30, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/334370

Inventors:

Desiree Gosby - Allston MA, US
Keith I. Ito - La Verne CA, US

International Classification:

G06F007/00

US Classification:

707/003000

Abstract:

A method and system for document analysis and retrieval. A document that includes text is received from a host. Document keys (i.e., keywords and keyphrases) associated with the text are generated. In first embodiments, a document taxonomy is provided. The taxonomy has categories and associated category keys (i.e., keywords and keyphrases). The category keys of each category are compared with the document keys to determine a distance between the document and each category as a measure of how close the document is to each category. A subset of the categories is returned to the host, wherein the subset of the categories reflects the determined distances. In second embodiments, a search string is created as a logical function of a subset of the document keys. The search string is submitted to a search engine. Links to related documents are received from the search engine and returned to the host.

US Patent:

20110098917, Apr 28, 2011

Filed:

Oct 28, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/914884

Inventors:

Michael J. LeBeau - Palo Alto CA, US
Ole CaveLie - San Francisco CA, US
Keith Ito - Seattle WA, US
John Nicholas Jitkoff - Palo Alto CA, US

International Classification:

G01C 21/36
G06F 17/30

US Classification:

701201, 707722, 707706, 701200, 707E17014, 707E17018

Abstract:

A computer-implemented method includes receiving at a computer server system, from a computing device that is remote from the server system, a string of text that comprises a search query. The method also includes identifying one or more search results that are responsive to the search query, parsing a document that is a target of one of the one or more results, identifying geographical address information from the parsing, generating a specific geographical indicator corresponding to the one search result, and transmitting for use by the computing device, data for automatically generating a navigational application having a destination at the specific geographical indicator.

US Patent:

20110098918, Apr 28, 2011

Filed:

Oct 28, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/914925

Inventors:

Michael Siliski - San Francisco CA, US
Keith Ito - Seattle WA, US
Harlan Hile - Seattle WA, US

International Classification:

G01C 21/36

US Classification:

701201, 701200

Abstract:

A computer-implemented navigational method includes transmitting, from a mobile computing device to a computer server system, data that can be used to determine a start point and an end point of a trip. The method also includes receiving navigational information defining a route between the start point and the end point, and a plurality of digital photographic images that have previously been taken along the route, sensing motion of the mobile computing device along the route, and displaying updated images from the plurality of images that substantially match a geographic position of the mobile computing device along the route.