SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING WEB PAGES USING NATURAL LANGUAGE

• US 20110119302A1
• Filed: 05/27/2010
• Published: 05/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deep Sky Concepts, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Glace Holdings, LLC
• Inventors: Gorman, John G., Gorman, John W.R.
• Granted Patent: US 8,275,788 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/771
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3335 Syntactic pre-processing, e.g. stopword elimination, stemming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/367 Ontology
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/40 Processing or translation of natural language natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30

Abstract

A system for accessing a webpage through natural language communication with a computer comprises a registry database configured to store at least one table the table configured to store associations between a concept in a text string and all natural language variations of the text string and associated concept identifiers, the concept in the text string an variations thereof relating to an object; and a parser interfaced with the database and configured to receive the text string or a variation thereof, the parser further configured to identify the concept represented by the text string or variation thereof and associate the identified concept with the object.

Claims

1. A system for accessing a webpage through natural language communication with a computer, comprising:

a registry database configured to store at least one table the table configured to store associations between a concept in a text string and all natural language variations of the text string and associated concept identifiers, the concept in the text string an variations thereof relating to an object; and

a parser interfaced with the database and configured to receive the text string or a variation thereof, the parser further configured to identify the concept represented by the text string or variation thereof and associate the identified concept with the object.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the object is a webpage address.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

break the text string, or variation thereof, into separate elements of language, the elements including lexical words, grammaticals, and punctuation,

form a corresponding ordered string of elementary concepts with unique identifiers associated with the text string,

identify sub-concepts pairs comprising two elementary concepts by searching the table for legal joins between the component concepts,

form the sub-concepts by joining the component concepts as specified by the table,

identify higher order sub-concepts form the sub-concepts and component concepts by searching the table for legal joins between the component concepts a sub-concepts, and

repeat the steps until the concept representing the text string is identified and formed.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the table further comprises a response associated with the concept represented by the text string, and wherein the system further comprises a responder configured to carry out instructions specified by the response.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the responder is configured to return a web address.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the responder is configured to provide information to a web site associated with the web address.

7. The system of claim 3, wherein the responder is configured to open a file or run a computer program as instructed by the response.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the responder is configured to redirect a browser to a web site associated with the web address.

9. The system of claim 3, wherein the responder is configured to return a short tag representative of the text string.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the parser is further configured to receive the short tag and identify the concept represented by the associated text string and associate the identified concept with the web address.

11. The system of claim 4, further comprising a user interface, and wherein the object is a routine, procedure, or application.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the responder will cause the appropriate routine, procedure, or application to be performed.

13. A system for accessing a webpage through natural language communication with a computer, comprising:

a portal configured to receive a text string;

a registry database configured to store at least one table the table configured to store associations between a concept in a text string and all natural language variations of the text string and associated concept identifiers, the concept in the text string and variations thereof relating to a web address; and

a parser interfaced with the database and configured to receive the text string from the portal, the parser further configured to identify the concept represented by the text string or variation thereof and associate the identified concept with the web address.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to:

break the text string into separate elements of language, the elements including lexical words, grammaticals, and punctuation,

form a corresponding ordered string of elementary concepts with unique identifiers associated with the text string,

identify sub-concepts pairs comprising two elementary concepts by searching the table for legal joins between the component concepts,

form the sub-concepts by joining the component concepts as specified by the table,

identify higher order sub-concepts form the sub-concepts and component concepts by searching the table for legal joins between the component concepts a sub-concepts, and

repeat the steps until the concept representing the text string is identified and formed.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the table further comprises a response associated with the concept represented by the text string, and wherein the system further comprises a responder configured to carry out instructions specified by the response.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the responder is configured to return the web address.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the responder is configured to provide information to a web site associated with the web address.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the responder is configured to open a file or run a computer program as instructed by the response.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the responder is configured to redirect a browser to a web site associated with the web address.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the responder is configured to return a short tag representative of the text string.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the parser is further configured to receive the short tag and identify the concept represented by the associated text string and associate the identified concept with the web address.

22. The system of claim 13, wherein the portal is include on a search engine or a browser.

23. A system for accessing a webpage through natural language communication with a computer, comprising:

a database configured to store at least one table the table configured to store associations between a concept in a text string and all natural language variations of the text string and associated concept identifiers, the concept in the text string and variations thereof relating to a web address;

a parser interfaced with the database and configured to receive the text string or a variation thereof, the parser further configured to identify the concept represented by the text string or variation thereof and associate the identified concept with the web address;

a short tag processor configured to generate a short tag that is representative of the text string and associate the short tag with the concept; and

a responder configured to return the short tag.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the processor is further configured to:

break the text string, or variation thereof, into separate elements of language, the elements including lexical words, grammaticals, and punctuation,

form a corresponding ordered string of elementary concepts with unique identifiers associated with the text string,

identify sub-concepts pairs comprising two elementary concepts by searching the table for legal joins between the component concepts,

form the sub-concepts by joining the component concepts as specified by the table,

identify higher order sub-concepts form the sub-concepts and component concepts by searching the table for legal joins between the component concepts a sub-concepts, and

repeat the steps until the concept representing the text string is identified and formed.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the table further comprises a response associated with the concept represented by the text string, and wherein the responder is configured to carry out instructions specified by the response.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein the responder is configured to return the web address.

27. The system of claim 25, wherein the responder is configured to provide information to a web site associated with the web address.

28. The system of claim 25, wherein the responder is configured to open a file or run a computer program as instructed by the response.

29. The system of claim 25, wherein the responder is configured to redirect a browser to a web site associated with the web address.

30. The system of claim 25, wherein the parser is further configured to receive the short tag and identify the concept represented by the associated text string and associate the identified concept with the web address.