Prior art

To identify the most relevant prior art for US patent 9092428, I will examine the patent citations listed within the patent itself, as these are typically considered by the patent examiner during prosecution. The Google Patents link provides a list of "Patent citations (9)".

Here are the patent citations for US9092428B1 and their potential anticipation under 35 U.S.C. § 102:

Prior Art References for US9092428B1

1. U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/568,657

   • Full Citation: U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/568,657, "SYSTEM, METHODS, AND USER INTERFACE FOR ORGANIZING DOCUMENT CONTENTS INTO A HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE AND SELECTIVE HIGHLIGHTING OF TERMS"
   • Publication/Filing Date: Filed by the present inventor on December 9, 2011.
   • Brief Description: This provisional application discloses methods for discovering information in unstructured text data, organizing it into a hierarchical structure, and selectively highlighting terms. It also describes determining the prominence of a term based on its grammatical role and other context information.
   • Potential Anticipated Claims: Given that US9092428B1 claims priority to this provisional application and explicitly incorporates its disclosures by reference, this provisional could potentially anticipate aspects of all independent claims (Claims 1, 13, and 16), particularly those related to organizing content into hierarchical structures, selective highlighting, and determining term prominence based on linguistic analysis (grammatical, semantic, contextual attributes) and user interface objects for such actions.

2. U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 12/782,545

   • Full Citation: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/782,545, "SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DOCUMENT TOPIC DISCOVERY, BROWSABLE SEARCH AND DOCUMENT CATEGORIZATION"
   • Publication/Filing Date: Filed on May 18, 2010.
   • Brief Description: This application details methods for automated document topic discovery, browsable search, and document categorization. It also includes methods for obtaining term prominence or importance scores.
   • Potential Anticipated Claims: This reference is relevant to the "topic discovery methods" and "determining term importance" aspects mentioned in US9092428B1. It could potentially anticipate elements of Claims 1 and 13 relating to tokenizing text, performing linguistic analysis, associating topical attributes, and extracting important terms.

3. U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 12/715,385

   • Full Citation: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/715,385, "SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DOCUMENT TOPIC DISCOVERY, BROWSABLE SEARCH AND DOCUMENT CATEGORIZATION"
   • Publication/Filing Date: Filed on March 2, 2010.
   • Brief Description: This application also pertains to automated document topic discovery, browsable search, and document categorization.
   • Potential Anticipated Claims: Similar to Ser. No. 12/782,545, this reference could potentially anticipate elements of Claims 1 and 13 concerning topic discovery, linguistic analysis, and categorization, which form a basis for identifying topical attributes.

4. U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/160,625

   • Full Citation: U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/160,625, "SYSTEM, METHODS, USER INTERFACE, AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR SCALABLE KNOWLEDGE-BASED DOCUMENT TOPIC DISCOVERY, CONTENT RECOGNITION, SEARCH, RANKING, AND CATEGORIZATION"
   • Publication/Filing Date: Filed by the present inventor on March 16, 2009.
   • Brief Description: This provisional application focuses on scalable knowledge-based document topic discovery, content recognition, search, ranking, and categorization, and includes user interface aspects.
   • Potential Anticipated Claims: This reference, being a foundational disclosure for topic discovery and categorization, could potentially anticipate aspects of Claims 1, 13, and 16, particularly regarding tokenization, linguistic analysis, associating topical attributes, and user interface elements for interacting with discovered content.

5. U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/298,422

   • Full Citation: U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/298,422, "SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DOCUMENT TOPIC DISCOVERY, BROWSABLE SEARCH AND DOCUMENT CATEGORIZATION"
   • Publication/Filing Date: Filed by the present inventor on January 26, 2010.
   • Brief Description: This provisional application also describes automated document topic discovery, browsable search, and document categorization.
   • Potential Anticipated Claims: Similar to the other topic discovery applications, this reference could potentially anticipate elements of Claims 1 and 13 related to tokenization, linguistic analysis for topic detection, and associating topical attributes.

6. U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 13/707,940

   • Full Citation: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/707,940, "AUTOMATED TOPIC DISCOVERY IN DOCUMENTS AND CONTENT CATEGORIZATION"
   • Publication/Filing Date: Filed on December 7, 2012.
   • Brief Description: This application concerns automated topic discovery in documents and content categorization.
   • Potential Anticipated Claims: This application, also referenced for its topic discovery methods, could potentially anticipate aspects of Claims 1 and 13 related to tokenization and the linguistic analysis module's ability to detect topics and associate topical attributes.

7. U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/682,205

   • Full Citation: U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/682,205, "SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING TERM IMPORTANCE AND RELEVANCE BETWEEN TEXT CONTENTS USING CONCEPTUAL ASSOCIATION DATASETS"
   • Publication/Filing Date: Filed on August 11, 2012.
   • Brief Description: This provisional application focuses on determining term importance and relevance using conceptual association datasets.
   • Potential Anticipated Claims: This reference is particularly relevant to the linguistic analysis module's function in assigning importance scores to terms, as described in US9092428B1. It could potentially anticipate elements of Claims 1 and 13 concerning the identification and association of topical (importance) attributes with tokens.

8. U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 13/655,415

   • Full Citation: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/655,415, "SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING RELEVANCE BETWEEN TEXT CONTENTS"
   • Publication/Filing Date: Filed by the present inventor on October 18, 2012.
   • Brief Description: This application describes systems and methods for determining relevance between text contents.
   • Potential Anticipated Claims: While less directly tied to the specific user interface actions of US9092428B1, the underlying methods for analyzing text content to determine relevance could be considered foundational and might broadly anticipate aspects of the linguistic analysis in Claim 1.

9. U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 12/972,462

   • Full Citation: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/972,462, "AUTOMATED TOPIC DISCOVERY IN DOCUMENTS"
   • Publication/Filing Date: Filed by the present inventor on December 18, 2010.
   • Brief Description: This application details methods for automated topic discovery in documents.
   • Potential Anticipated Claims: This reference, specifically mentioned for its "detailed methods for obtaining such a term prominence or term importance score", could potentially anticipate aspects of Claims 1 and 13 related to tokenization, linguistic analysis, and associating topical attributes (importance scores).