Alexander N Korzun

US Patent:

7962326, Jun 14, 2011

Filed:

Nov 16, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/991079

Inventors:

Valery Tsourikov - Boston MA, US
Leonid Batchilo - Belmont MA, US
Igor Sovpel - Minsk, BY
Alexander Korzun - Winchester MA, US

Assignee:

Invention Machine Corporation - Boston MA

International Classification:

G06F 17/27

US Classification:

704 9, 707706, 707707, 707708, 707709, 707728

Abstract:

Answering System enables a user to input a query and responds with answers. Server stores an indexed database of a plurality of S-A-O's (subject-action-object). User generates the query that includes query elements (A-O), (S-A), or (S-X-O), or element (S). The server identifies the database element S, O, or A, or elements (A-O) associated with a respective knowledge base S-A-O that includes the query element(s) in response to the server receiving the query and generates a natural language answer S-A-O that includes the identified and the query elements(s) and transmits the answer to the user apparatus that provides an audio or visual response. The server can conduct WWW searches for documents with S-A-O elements that match query element(s) and adds them to the database, thus treating the WWW as an available knowledge base.