ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,717, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Selecting files for intensive text extraction" was invented by Tohru Hasegawa (Tokyo), Takuya Goto (Kodaira, Japan) and Shunsuke Ishikawa (Shinjuku-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feature of a subject file is identified. The feature is compared to a historical feature of a historical file. A similarity between the subject file and the historical file is calculated based on the comparing. A historical success metric for the historical file is identified. An intensive text extraction success value for the subject file is calculated b...