Max H Copperman

US Patent:

6345304, Feb 5, 2002

Filed:

Mar 25, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/276084

Inventors:

Marc Dymetman - Grenoble, FR
Max Copperman - Santa Cruz CA

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G06F 15173

US Classification:

709238, 709250, 709219

Abstract:

An identifier of an action that can be produced through a network, such as a page identifier or other substrate identifier with a counterpart digital page accessible through a network, is used to obtain a network address. The identifier is provided to a first machine such as a router, and the first machine uses the identifier to obtain a first network address that is for a set of identifier values that includes the identifiers value. The first network address is then used to provide the identifier to a second machine such as a server. The second machine uses the identifier to obtain a second network address that is for the value of the identifier. The second network address, when provided on the network, produces the action identified by the value of the identifier. The identifier can be read from a coded substrate by image input circuitry and the image signals can be used by a third machine, such as a processor in a pointer, to provide the identifier to the first machine. The pointers processor can also cache network addresses obtained from the first machine for use with subsequent identifiers in the same set.

US Patent:

6498567, Dec 24, 2002

Filed:

Dec 20, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/466822

Inventors:

Gregory Grefenstette - Gieres, FR
Francois Pacull - Crolles, FR
Max Copperman - Santa Cruz CA

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G08C 1900

US Classification:

34082562, 34082572, 340 104, 340 105

Abstract:

A system and remote control device that controls an appliance, and obtains a desired function of the appliance, by invoking a remote procedure call in a remote server which will thereby actually control the appliance. The remote control device comprises a sensor; sensor responsive means for capturing information provided by the sensor, wherein the captured information at least contains parameters representative of the identification of the appliance, user-profile parameters, parameters representative of the address of the remote server, and a function name indicating the function to be performed by the appliance; marshalling means for encoding the captured information and for packaging the captured information into data in a remote procedure call format; and a transmitter for establishing a communication protocol with the remote server in order to transmit the packaged data to the remote server so that the remote server may execute the remote procedure call.

US Patent:

6665490, Dec 16, 2003

Filed:

Mar 25, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/276532

Inventors:

Max Copperman - Santa Cruz CA
Marc Dymetman - Grenoble, FR

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

International Classification:

H04N 700

US Classification:

386 95, 386 46

Abstract:

Annotating activities are associated with portions of recordings by activity/recording data such as a table in which annotation identifiers are paired with timestamps. To obtain activity/recording data, an image input device, such as a manually positionable scanner or a fixed position camera, can produce an image signal set with information about a manual annotating activity and a recording/playback device can provide a recording portion signal, such as a timestamp, with information about a portion of a recording. The image signal set and the recording portion signal can then be used to automatically obtain the activity/recording data, associating information about the manual annotating activity with information identifying the portion of the recording. The information about the manual annotating activity can be an annotation identifier that includes information about the position or shape of the annotation. The activity/recording data can also include, for each annotation identifier, an image of the annotation.

US Patent:

6711585, Mar 23, 2004

Filed:

Jun 15, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/594083

Inventors:

Max Copperman - Santa Cruz CA
Mark Angel - Cupertino CA
Jeffrey H. Rudy - San Jose CA
Scott B. Huffman - Redwood City CA
David B. Kay - Los Gatos CA
Raya Fratkina - Hayward CA

Assignee:

Kanisa Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G06F 1730

US Classification:

7071041

Abstract:

A method and system organize and retrieve information using taxonomies, a document classifier, and an autocontextualizer. Documents (or other knowledge containers) in an organization and retrieval subsystem may be manually or automatically classified into taxonomies. Documents are transformed from clear text into a structured record. Automatically constructed indexes help identify when the structured record is an appropriate response to a query. An automatic term extractor creates a list of terms indicative of the documents subject matter. A subject matter expert identifies the terms relevant to the taxonomies. A term analysis system assigns the relevant terns to one or more taxonomies, and a suitable algorithm is then used to determine the relatedness between each list of terms and its associated taxonomy. The system then clusters documents for each taxonomy in accordance with the weights ascribed to the terms in the taxonomys list and a directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure is created.

US Patent:

6752317, Jun 22, 2004

Filed:

Oct 9, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/975122

Inventors:

Marc Dymetman - Grenoble, FR
Max Copperman - Santa Cruz CA

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G06K 710

US Classification:

23546245, 23546246, 23546249, 23547201

Abstract:

Automatic actions can be obtained through a network using an area of marking medium with machine-readable markings that encode an action/medium identifier. The action/medium identifier identifies an action that can be produced through the network, and also identifies the area of marking medium. For example, it may include a globally unique or network-wide page identifier as well as an action identifier that can be used to produce an action described by data associated with a counterpart digital page. Or it can include both a page identifier and a location identifier, with the location identifier also identifying an action that relates to the pages digital counterpart. Or it can include a document identifier and an action identifier. Or it can be a globally unique or network-wide sticker identifier that can be used to identify a document, a peripheral device, or another object to which the sticker is attached, and that also produces an action through the network.

US Patent:

7028250, Apr 11, 2006

Filed:

May 25, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/864156

Inventors:

Igor Ukrainczyk - Mountain View CA, US
Max Copperman - Santa Cruz CA, US
Scott B. Huffman - Redwood City CA, US

Assignee:

Kanisa, Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G06F 15/00

US Classification:

715500

Abstract:

A method is provided for automatically classifying text into categories. In operation, a plurality of tokens or features are manually or automatically associated with each category. A weight is then coupled to each feature, wherein the weight indicates a degree of association between the feature and the category. Next, a document is parsed into a plurality of unique tokens with associated counts, wherein the counts are indicative of the number of times the feature appears in the document. A category score representative of a sum of products of each feature count in the document times the corresponding feature weight in the category for each document is then computed. Next, the category scores are sorted by perspective, and a document is classified into a particular category, provided the category score exceeds a predetermined threshold.

US Patent:

7206778, Apr 17, 2007

Filed:

Dec 17, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/023433

Inventors:

Andreas Bode - Palo Alto CA, US
Max Copperman - Santa Cruz CA, US

Assignee:

Knova Software Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 5, 707 4

Abstract:

This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for searching for relevant documents in a document corpus. Using, among other things, text provided by a user's query, the system undertakes a dynamic search process that includes at least one ordered sequence of searches. The results of a first search are evaluated to determine how to formulate a second or subsequent search, whether to perform a second or subsequent search, or whether or how to present to the user results from the search or searches performed up to that point. In one example, the first search uses tight criteria in conjunction with the language of the user's query. If the number of documents in the search results do not meet or exceed a threshold value, the search criteria is progressively loosened over subsequent searches. The search list may depend on, among other things, a characteristic of the user query or upon a result returned by a previous search on the user query.

US Patent:

7337158, Feb 26, 2008

Filed:

Jul 13, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/889888

Inventors:

Raya Fratkina - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Monica Anderson - San Jose CA, US
Mark Angel - Napa CA, US
Max Copperman - Santa Cruz CA, US
Scott B. Huffman - Redwood City CA, US
David B. Kay - Los Gatos CA, US
Robert Stern - Cupertino CA, US
Jeffrey Rudy - San Jose CA, US

Assignee:

Consona CRM Inc. - Indianapolis IN

International Classification:

G06F 17/00
G06F 7/00
G06N 5/00
G06N 5/02

US Classification:

706 45, 706 46, 707 3, 7071041

Abstract:

A method and system are disclosed for retrieving information through the use of a multi-stage interaction with a client to identify particular knowledge content associated with a knowledge map.