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William Scott Spangler
Also filed as: SPANGLER WILLIAM S · SPANGLER WILLIAM SCOTT
71 granted patents·7 pending applications·2,013 citations·filing 1991–2020
99Inventor score
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78 records- 0197US6684205B1Clustering hypertext with applications to web searchingIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 27, 2004·167 cites·24 claims
- 0295US10552541B1Processing natural language queries based on machine learningIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 4, 2020·22 cites·20 claims
- 0395US7155668B2Method and system for identifying relationships between text documents and structured variables pertaining to the text documentsIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 26, 2006·245 cites·1 claims
- 0494US8356025B2Systems and methods for detecting sentiment-based topicsIBM·Filed 2009·Granted Jan 15, 2013·42 cites·15 claims
- 0592US8606815B2Systems and methods for analyzing electronic textCHEN YING·Filed 2008·Granted Dec 10, 2013·40 cites·16 claims
- 0692US6100901AMethod and apparatus for cluster exploration and visualizationIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Aug 8, 2000·246 cites·40 claims
- 0791US9183286B2Methodologies and analytics tools for identifying white space opportunities in a given industryCHEN YING·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 10, 2015·24 cites·21 claims
- 0891US6424971B1System and method for interactive classification and analysis of dataIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Jul 23, 2002·129 cites·48 claims
- 0991US6338066B1Surfaid predictor: web-based system for predicting surfer behaviorIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Jan 8, 2002·332 cites·7 claims
- 1090US6804665B2Method and apparatus for discovering knowledge gaps between problems and solutions in text databasesIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 12, 2004·79 cites·15 claims
- 1189US7881937B2Method for analyzing patent claimsIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Feb 1, 2011·32 cites·27 claims
- 1288US6862586B1Searching databases that identifying group documents forming high-dimensional torus geometric k-means clustering, ranking, summarizing based on vector tripletsIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 1, 2005·77 cites·8 claims
- 1387US8805848B2Systems, methods and computer program products for fast and scalable proximal search for search queriesBHATIA SUMIT·Filed 2012·Granted Aug 12, 2014·10 cites·10 claims
- 1487US7430717B1Method for adapting a K-means text clustering to emerging dataIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 30, 2008·44 cites·12 claims
- 1587US6829734B1Method for discovering problem resolutions in a free form computer helpdesk data setIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 7, 2004·61 cites·28 claims
- 1686US7779349B2Method for adapting a K-means text clustering to emerging dataIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Aug 17, 2010·14 cites·9 claims
- 1786US6952700B2Feature weighting in κ-means clusteringIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 4, 2005·45 cites·24 claims
- 1885US7512605B2Document clustering based on cohesive termsIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 31, 2009·13 cites·1 claims
- 1984US8370345B2Snippet based proximal searchIBM·Filed 2010·Granted Feb 5, 2013·8 cites·19 claims
- 2083US7792786B2Methodologies and analytics tools for locating experts with specific sets of expertiseIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 7, 2010·12 cites·2 claims
- 2182US10810234B2Searching for and determining relationships among entitiesIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Oct 20, 2020·3 cites·11 claims
- 2282US8244724B2Classifying documents according to readershipCHEN YING·Filed 2010·Granted Aug 14, 2012·6 cites·8 claims
- 2382US7233943B2Clustering hypertext with applications to WEB searchingIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 19, 2007·26 cites·20 claims
- 2480US6804670B2Method for automatically finding frequently asked questions in a helpdesk data setIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 12, 2004·32 cites·22 claims
- 2580US6397215B1Method and system for automatic comparison of text classificationsIBM·Filed 1999·Granted May 28, 2002·63 cites·15 claims
- 2679US11269929B2Combining semantic relationship information with entities and non-entities for predictive analytics in a cognitive systemIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Mar 8, 2022·4 cites·20 claims
- 2779US10607074B2Rationalizing network predictions using similarity to known connectionsIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 31, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
- 2879US7503000B1Method for generation of an N-word phrase dictionary from a text corpusIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 10, 2009·26 cites·17 claims
- 2978US11120257B2Rationalizing network predictions using similarity to known connectionsIBM·Filed 2020·Granted Sep 14, 2021·1 cites·15 claims
- 3078US9251133B2Approximate named-entity extractionIBM·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 2, 2016·4 cites·10 claims
- 3176US8402019B2Topic initiator detection on the world wide webJIN XIN·Filed 2010·Granted Mar 19, 2013·4 cites·25 claims
- 3275US11093842B2Combining chemical structure data with unstructured data for predictive analytics in a cognitive systemIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Aug 17, 2021·2 cites·14 claims
- 3374US9311290B2Approximate named-entity extractionIBM·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 12, 2016·3 cites·6 claims
- 3474US8600985B2Classifying documents according to readershipCHEN YING·Filed 2012·Granted Dec 3, 2013·3 cites·4 claims
- 3574US7536357B2Methodologies and analytics tools for identifying potential licensee marketsIBM·Filed 2007·Granted May 19, 2009·3 cites·1 claims
- 3673US5253331AExpert system for statistical design of experimentsGEN MOTORS CORP·Filed 1991·Granted Oct 12, 1993·87 cites·4 claims
- 3772US11182371B2Accessing data in a multi-level display for large data setsIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 23, 2021·1 cites·9 claims
- 3872US11182369B2Accessing data in a multi-level display for large data setsIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Nov 23, 2021·1 cites·16 claims
- 3971US9886665B2Event detection using roles and relationships of entitiesIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Feb 6, 2018·8 cites·20 claims
- 4071US8712926B2Using rule induction to identify emerging trends in unstructured text streamsBEHAL AMIT·Filed 2008·Granted Apr 29, 2014·6 cites·9 claims
- 4170US9536193B1Mining biological networks to explain and rank hypothesesIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Jan 3, 2017·2 cites·17 claims
- 4269US8078570B2Versioning data warehousesCHEN YING·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 13, 2011·4 cites·20 claims
- 4368US9569525B2Techniques for entity-level technology recommendationIBM·Filed 2013·Granted Feb 14, 2017·2 cites·17 claims
- 4467US8577834B2Methodologies and analytics tools for locating experts with specific sets of expertiseCHEN YING·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 5, 2013·3 cites·16 claims
- 4567US8060505B2Methodologies and analytics tools for identifying white space opportunities in a given industryCHEN YING·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 15, 2011·3 cites·5 claims
- 4666US7711649B2Methodologies and analytics tools for identifying potential licensee marketsIBM·Filed 2009·Granted May 4, 2010·0 cites·21 claims
- 4764US11250933B2Adaptive weighting of similarity metrics for predictive analytics of a cognitive systemIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Feb 15, 2022·0 cites·6 claims
- 4863US7383257B2Text explanation for on-line analytic processing eventsIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 3, 2008·9 cites·20 claims
- 4962US11182692B2Machine learning for ranking candidate subjects based on a training setIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Nov 23, 2021·1 cites·9 claims
- 5062US8805843B2Information mining using domain specific conceptual structuresCHEN YING·Filed 2008·Granted Aug 12, 2014·4 cites·14 claims
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