Inventor

William B. Dolan

Inventor

Redmond, WA, US

Overview

1999–2021

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 46 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Fprimary

G06FElectric digital data processing58%

Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests24%

B42DBooks9%

H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication4%

G06NComputing arrangements based on specific computational models3%

G06QInformation and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes1%

G10LSpeech analysis techniques or speech synthesis1%

PatentTitleYear

11,126,794Targeted rewrites2021 10,536,402Context-sensitive generation of conversational responses2020 10,091,140Context-sensitive generation of conversational responses2018 9,967,211Metric for automatic assessment of conversational responses2018 9,754,585'Crowdsourced, grounded language for intent modeling in conversational interfaces'2017 9,501,759'Search query and document-related data translation'2016 9,116,880'Generating stimuli for use in soliciting grounded linguistic information'2015 8,972,240'User-modifiable word lattice display for editing documents and search queries'2015 8,244,521'Paraphrasing the web by search-based data collection'2012 8,170,868'Extracting lexical features for classifying native and non-native language usage style'2012 8,078,451'Interface and methods for collecting aligned editorial corrections into a database'2011 7,991,609'Web-based proofing and usage guidance'2011 7,908,132'Writing assistance using machine translation techniques'2011 7,774,193'Proofing of word collocation errors based on a comparison with collocations in a corpus'2010 7,752,034'Writing assistance using machine translation techniques'2010 7,584,092'Unsupervised learning of paraphrase/translation alternations and selective application thereof'2009 7,552,046'Unsupervised learning of paraphrase/translation alternations and selective application thereof'2009 7,546,235'Unsupervised learning of paraphrase/translation alternations and selective application thereof'2009 7,536,397'System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents'2009 7,412,385'System for identifying paraphrases using machine translation'2008 7,383,169'Method and system for compiling a lexical knowledge base'2008 7,299,238'System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents'2007 7,290,005'System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents'2007 7,290,004'System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents'2007 7,269,594'System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents'2007 7,206,787'System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents'2007 7,206,735'Scaleable machine translation'2007 7,050,964'Scaleable machine translation system'2006 7,051,024'Document summarizer for word processors'2006 7,013,264'System and method for matching a textual input to a lexical knowledge based and for utilizing results of that match'2006 6,901,402'System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents'2005 6,901,399'System for processing textual inputs using natural language processing techniques'2005 6,871,174'System and method for matching a textual input to a lexical knowledge base and for utilizing results of that match'2005 6,363,374'Text proximity filtering in search systems using same sentence restrictions'2002 6,349,316'Document summarizer for word processors'2002 6,295,529'Method and apparatus for indentifying clauses having predetermined characteristics indicative of usefulness in determining relationships between different texts'2001 6,253,170'Bootstrapping sense characterizations of occurrences of polysemous words in dictionary representations of a lexical knowledge base in computer memory'2001 6,246,977'Information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text and based on constrained expansion of query words'2001 6,161,084'Information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text by identifying hypernyms and indexing multiple tokenized semantic structures to a same passage of text'2000 6,098,033'Determining similarity between words'2000 6,081,775'Bootstrapping sense characterizations of occurrences of polysemous words in dictionaries'2000 6,078,878'Bootstrapping sense characterizations of occurrences of polysemous words'2000 6,076,051'Information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text'2000 6,070,134'Identifying salient semantic relation paths between two words'2000 5,933,822'Apparatus and methods for an information retrieval system that employs natural language processing of search results to improve overall precision'1999 5,924,108'Document summarizer for word processors'1999

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1999–2015Patents assigned to MICROSOFT CORP (40)· patent assignee history

1999–2009Based in Redmond, WA, US· patent location history

2008–2021Based in Kirkland, WA, US· patent location history

2011–2017Patents assigned to BROCKETT CHRISTOPHER JOHN (4)· patent assignee history

2011–2016Patents assigned to DOLAN WILLIAM B (3)· patent assignee history

2015–2021Patents assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (7)· patent assignee history

2015–2017Patents assigned to DOLAN WILLIAM BRENNAN (2)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
MICROSOFT CORP	40	1999–2015
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC	7	2015–2021
BROCKETT CHRISTOPHER JOHN	4	2011–2017
DOLAN WILLIAM Bself	3	2011–2016
DOLAN WILLIAM BRENNANself	2	2015–2017

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Redmond, Washington, US	27	1999–2009
Kirkland, Washington, US	19	2008–2021