Patent №
US 7,958,136
Granted
2011-06-07
Filed 2008
Owner
GOOGLE INC.
AI components
7
ml · nlp · vision · kr · planning · evo · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12050626
The present invention provides systems and methods for identifying similar documents. In an embodiment, the present invention identifies similar documents by (1) receiving document text for a current document that includes at least one word; (2) calculating a prominence score and a descriptiveness score for each word and each pair of consecutive words; (3) calculating a comparison metric for the current document; (4) finding at least one potential document, where document text for each potential document includes at least one of the words; and (5) analyzing each potential document to identify at least one similar document.
AI classification
Ownership
GOOGLE INC.
assignment · 206690933
Assignors
CURTIS, TAYLOR, HEAFIELD, KENNETH
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.