Patent №
US 5,874,953
Granted
1999-02-23
Filed 1996
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES
Lab
AI components
3
ml · nlp · kr
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
08774572
A method and apparatus summarizes information in an easy and user-friendly format in a database that stores topics and responses to those topics. To that end, the database may be accessed by a GUI having an outline view that lists each of the responses under a topic in outline form, and an adjacent response chain view having indicia for accessing the content of each response in a response chain to a selected response. A response may either be a response to a topic (topic response) or a response to a previously posted response (reply response). The response chain therefore includes a selected response and any other responses that are directly linked, by responses, between the selected response and the topic.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES
assignment · 84410575
Assignors
WEBSTER, ROGER, REICHLE, BILL
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.