G06F 40/258
Heading extraction
Official title: Heading extraction; Automatic titling; Numbering
G06F40/258 (Heading extraction) appears on 383 US grants and 485 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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| 2012 | 5 | 26 |
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| 2021 | 37 | 44 |
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| 2023 | 36 | 45 |
| 2024 | 29 | 18 |
| 2025 | 22 | 15 |
| 2026 | 15 | 33 |
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Computer method for automatic extraction of commonly specified information from business correspondence499US 4,965,763 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1990
- Conversion data representing a document to other formats for manipulation and display490US 6,336,124 B12002
- System and method for scoring electronic messages248US 7,185,065 B1Buzzmetrics, Ltd. · 2007
- Dynamic content database for multiple document genres223US 6,651,218 B1Xerox Corporation · 2003
- Method and system for organizing documents based upon annotations in context137US 6,279,014 B1Xerox Corporation · 2001