HIERARCHY MODIFICATION

Patent №

US 7,657,547

Granted

2010-02-02

Filed 2006

Owner

VERIZON LABORATORIES INC.

Lab

AI components

5

nlp · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11474996

A hierarchy of nodes is created, each node being one of associated with an item retrieved according to a condition and associated with a category of information including the item. It is determined whether at least one of the nodes is redundant in the hierarchy. The at least one of the nodes is pruned from the hierarchy if the at least one of the nodes is redundant.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
AI hardware0.99
Planning0.91
Evolutionary computation0.68
Vision0.04
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

VERIZON LABORATORIES INC.

assignment · 180210116

Assignors

HUITEMA, JOHN S.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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