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EP2339514 - System and method for identifying topics for short text communications [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application has been refused
Status updated on  02.02.2018
Database last updated on 29.01.2025
Most recent event   Tooltip02.02.2018Refusal of applicationpublished on 07.03.2018  [2018/10]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, California 94304 / US
[2011/26]
Inventor(s)01 / Bernstein, Michael
32 Vassar Street Room 32/350
Cambridge, MA 02139 / US
02 / Hong, Lichan
216 Monroe Drive
Mountain View, CA 94040 / US
03 / Chi, Ed H
1106 Boronda Lane
Palo Alto, CA 94303 / US
04 / Suh, Bongwon
20488 Stevens Creek Apt. 1513
Cupertino, CA 95014 / US
 [2011/26]
Representative(s)Gill Jennings & Every LLP
The Broadgate Tower
20 Primrose Street
London EC2A 2ES / GB
[N/P]
Former [2011/26]Skone James, Robert Edmund
Gill Jennings & Every LLP The Broadgate Tower 20 Primrose Street
London EC2A 2ES / GB
Application number, filing date10193756.306.12.2010
[2011/26]
Priority number, dateUS2009064681023.12.2009         Original published format: US 646810
[2011/26]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP2339514
Date:29.06.2011
Language:EN
[2011/26]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP13.05.2011
ClassificationIPC:G06Q10/00, G06F17/30
[2011/26]
CPC:
G06Q10/107 (EP,US); G06F16/951 (US); G06F16/9535 (EP,US);
G06F40/30 (US)
Designated contracting statesAL,   AT,   BE,   BG,   CH,   CY,   CZ,   DE,   DK,   EE,   ES,   FI,   FR,   GB,   GR,   HR,   HU,   IE,   IS,   IT,   LI,   LT,   LU,   LV,   MC,   MK,   MT,   NL,   NO,   PL,   PT,   RO,   RS,   SE,   SI,   SK,   SM,   TR [2011/26]
Extension statesBANot yet paid
MENot yet paid
TitleGerman:System und Verfahren zur Identifizierung von Themen für Kurztextnachrichten[2011/26]
English:System and method for identifying topics for short text communications[2011/26]
French:Système et procédé d'identification des sujets pour communications par SMS[2011/26]
Examination procedure28.12.2011Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
29.12.2011Examination requested  [2012/06]
19.02.2016Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
24.05.2016Reply to a communication from the examining division
20.09.2017Cancellation of oral proceeding that was planned for 02.10.2017
02.10.2017Date of oral proceedings (cancelled)
11.10.2017Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2018/10]
21.10.2017Application refused, date of legal effect [2018/10]
Divisional application(s)The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued is  19.02.2016
Fees paidRenewal fee
02.01.2013Renewal fee patent year 03
02.01.2014Renewal fee patent year 04
05.01.2015Renewal fee patent year 05
04.01.2016Renewal fee patent year 06
02.01.2017Renewal fee patent year 07
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Documents cited:Search[A]US2005114781  (BROWNHOLTZ ELIZABETH A [US], et al) [A] 5* the whole document *;
 [A]GB2417109  (HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO [US]) [A] 1-12 * abstract * * paragraph [0060] - paragraph [0081] * * figures 6a,6b *;
 [A]EP2073131  (MOTOROLA INC [US]) [A] 1-12 * abstract * * paragraph [0028] - paragraph [0087] * * figures 1,2 *;
 [ID]  - SAHAMI, M. AND AL., "A web-based kernel function for measuring the similarity of short text snippets", WWW '06 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WORLD WIDE WEB, MAY 23-26, 2006, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, ACM, (20060523), doi:10.1145/1135777.1135834, ISBN 1-59593-323-9, pages 377 - 386, XP002635088 [ID] 1-12 * the whole document *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1135777.1135834
 [A]  - PHAN AND AL., "Learning to classify short and sparse text & web with hidden topics from large-scale data collections", WWW '08 PROCEEDING OF THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WORLD WIDE WEB, APRIL 21-25, 2008, BEIJING, CHINA, ACM, (20080421), doi:10.1145/1367497.1367510, ISBN 978-1-60558-085-2, pages 91 - 100, XP002635089 [A] 1-12 * abstract * * paragraph [0001] - paragraph [0003] * * paragraph [0005] *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367510
by applicantUS20090646846
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