US 8,943,095 B2Granted

Systems and methods for accessing web pages using natural language

AssigneeDeep Sky Concepts, Inc.

InventorsJohn G. Gorman, John W. R. Gorman

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Abstract

Systems and methods for building an interface that receives and responds to varied natural language expressions. In an embodiment, the system receives a natural language expression in text or audio, and translates it by building at least one data structure which reflects the concepts expressed in the natural language expression. The data structure may comprise a symbol representing each concept. In an embodiment, a parser utilizes the data structure to parse language expressions to single concept symbols that represent the meaning of the expressions. Response actions may also be performed in response to the parsed language expressions. In addition, a parser may receive a single concept symbol, and generate one or many natural language expressions of the meaning of the concept symbol. Furthermore, the system may be configured to understand the local meaning of words and phrases.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A system for building an interface that receives and responds to varied natural language expressions, the system comprising:

at least one hardware processor;
and
at least one executable module that, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, builds at least one data structure comprising a plurality of sets of data fields that contain a plurality of concept symbols, wherein the plurality of concept symbols comprise a plurality of elementary concept symbols, wherein each of the plurality of elementary concept symbols corresponds to a natural language element, and a plurality of compound concept symbols, wherein each of the plurality of compound concept symbols corresponds to a pair, wherein the pair comprises one of a first elementary concept symbol and a second elementary concept symbol, an elementary concept symbol and a compound concept symbol, or a first compound concept symbol and a second compound concept symbol,
wherein each of the plurality of concept symbols identifies a set of data fields, and wherein each set of data fields represents a mental concept and comprises
an ordering field comprising an ordinal number value that orders the set in order of its creation in the at least one data structure,
an outline field comprising an ordinal number value that assigns the set to its location in the at least one data structure in an overall outline format,
a vocabulary field that is either empty or comprises a natural language element corresponding to the concept symbol,
a concept field comprising the concept symbol,
a lookup field that is either empty or comprises a pair of concept symbols corresponding to the concept symbol,
a response field that is either empty or comprises one or more symbols that each identify a response action, and
an action field that is either empty or defines a response action.

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A system for building an interface that receives and responds to varied natural language expressions, the system comprising:

at least one hardware processor;
and
at least one executable module that, when executed by the at least one hardware processor,
builds at least one data structure comprising a plurality of sets of data fields that contain a plurality of concept symbols, wherein the plurality of concept symbols comprise a plurality of elementary concept symbols, wherein each of the plurality of elementary concept symbols corresponds to a natural language element, and a plurality of compound concept symbols, wherein each of the plurality of compound concept symbols corresponds to a pair, wherein the pair comprises one of a first elementary concept symbol and a second elementary concept symbol, an elementary concept symbol and a compound concept symbol, or a first compound concept symbol and a second compound concept symbol,
for each of one or more domains of knowledge, receives one or more standard natural language expressions that express concepts of the domain of knowledge, wherein a standard natural language expression comprises text or audio, and
divides each standard natural language expression into language subsections, each of the language subsections comprising one or more language elements, wherein each language element comprises a word or punctuation mark and each language subsection expresses a sub-concept of a domain of knowledge.

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Facts

Application: 13/624,762Filed 21 Sep 2012 · continuation
Priority: 17 Nov 2009
Published: US 2013/0090920 A111 Apr 2013
Granted: 27 Jan 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 40/40
Handling natural language data: processing or translation of natural language
G06F 16/3335
Query translation: syntactic pre-processing, e.g. stopword elimination, stemming
G06F 16/367
Creation of semantic tools, e.g. ontology or thesauri: ontology
G06F 16/951
Retrieval from the web: indexing; Web crawling techniques

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Application12/620,513Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 17 Nov 2009
Application12/789,368Parent of this continuation · filed 27 May 2010
US 8,214,366 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 3 Jul 2012
US 2013/0090920 A1Pre-grant publication · published 11 Apr 2013
US 8,275,788 B2Parent of this continuation
Application12/789,368Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2011/0119282 A1Published application
US 2011/0119302 A1Published application
US 8,943,095 B2This patent

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