Patents
US 9122985 B2: Programmatic access to terminologies expressed in hierarchical form
- Granted
- 2015-09-01
- Filed
- 2011-10-28 application 13283596
- Type
- Utility · 20 claims
- Elsewhere
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Abstract
The described implementations relate to expressing terminologies in a hierarchical form. One implementation can receive a terminology that can include concept-code pairs. For example, each of the concept-code pairs can include a concept and a code that is assigned to the concept by the terminology. The implementation can map the concepts to levels of a hierarchical ontology, and associate some of the concepts across different levels of the hierarchical ontology. The implementation can also provide programmatic access to the concept-code pairs of the terminology via the hierarchical ontology.
Source: PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 (ipg150901.xml).
Assignees
| Assignee | Type | Place | Also on furp.org | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC 26,085 patents | US company or organization | Redmond, WA | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Inventors
| Inventor | Place | Patents | Person page | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan Dove | Seattle, WA | 13 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Jonathan Alan Handler | Northbrook, IL | 23 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Michael J. Bortnick | Oswego, IL | 2 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Dongbai Guo | Sammamish, WA | 7 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
CPC categories
| Subclass | Category | First group | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| G06N | Computing arrangements based on specific computational models | G06N5/02 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| G06F | Electric digital data processing | G06F40/30 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Cooperative Patent Classification, as currently assigned (one row per subclass).
Assignments and security interests
| Recorded | What | From | To | Reel/frame | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-12-09 | Assignment Assignment of assignor's interest | MICROSOFT CORPORATION signed 2014-10-14 | MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC REDMOND, WA | 34544/1 | PASDL, file of 2026-10-15 |
| 2011-11-24 | Assignment Assignment of assignor's interest | BORTNICK, MICHAEL J. signed 2011-11-17 DOVE, BRYAN signed 2011-11-17 GUO, DONGBAI signed 2011-11-18 HANDLER, JONATHAN A. signed 2011-11-18 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION REDMOND, WA | 27280/726 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
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