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Corporate disclosure and repository system utilizing inference synthesis as applied to a database

  • US 6,374,270 B1
  • Filed: 10/11/1996
  • Issued: 04/16/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/29/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A software system for producing the inferences in a specialized field, the software system fixed in a machine-readable medium, and the software system comprising:

  • synthesis software tools when executed by a processor receive documents including freely formatted text documents and which produce a formatted database of information from the freely formatted text documents, the synthesis software tools relating instances to concepts, an instance which can be associated with plural concepts being related to a single concept with reference to a context in which the instance appears; and

    analysis software tools which when executed by a processor receive the formatted database, fill portions of a template of predefined relationships between different concepts, the predefined relationships being relevant to inferences in the specialized field, cluster the filled portions of the template of predefined relationships according to a similarity index computed between the filled portions of the template of predefined relationships when the similarity index exceeds a threshold value to form a grouped database, draw inferences from the grouped database and produce an analysis output containing the inferences, wherein the analysis software tools comprise a diagonalization tool which forms the grouped database in which each cluster of topics having the similarity index exceeding the threshold value is a group.

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