Paoli, Pa., Dec. 20, 2006- Intellisophic Inc., a leading provider of information products to the search and text mining industry, announced that it has been granted allowance by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on the systems and methods used for indexing documents based on relevance to reference publications such as a book, web page, newspaper or encyclopedia. The patent also covers core technology relating to generating keyword indices and topic hierarchy from the reference materials for the purposes of scoring or matching other documents based on relevance.

"Intellisophic continues to be an innovator in the text analytics industry; developing information products that improve the way systems organize and understand text-based unstructured data,” said Michael Hoey, CEO of Intellisophic.  “We believe this patent has broad application to a variety of high-profile initiatives within the areas of book search, relevance ranking, and developing the Semantic Web. Our technology allows a variety of reference media to be leveraged for the purposes of indexing and organizing knowledge.  It’s a new way to systematically understand what any document, web-page or other text file is really about, paving the way for the Semantic Web.”

About the Patent
Intellisophic's U.S. patent application # 09/548,796 which was authored by the company’s co-founders Dr. Henry Kon and George Burch, describes Intellisophic's unique method of using published reference materials such as encyclopedia, text books and handbooks to develop taxonomies, thesauri, vocabularies, etc. and their corresponding business rules. This patent includes 15 claims covering among other things:

·         A method for using any body of reference material for indexing a document collection.

o        Reference material can include such sources as encyclopedia, web sites, text books, dictionaries, glossaries, indexes, novels or newspapers.

·         A method for generating keywords, synonyms, and word frequencies from the reference sources to create relevance scores.

·         A system for leveraging the reference material as described to generate search keys and assigning scores to a document collection based on certain relevance thresholds.

The patented technology, known as Orthogonal Corpus Indexing™, underpins Intellisophic’s taxonomy development business, which has generated the world’s largest collection of authoritative taxonomies for use in a variety of semantic indexing, text mining, search and categorization applications. The award-winning Intellisophic taxonomy library covers a wide variety of subject areas and the data is available in most native text-analytics vendor formats.

About Intellisophic

Intellisophic Inc. is a leading provider of taxonomies, directories, thesauri and other subject specific vocabularies to the semantic analysis, text-mining, search and categorization industry. Privately funded, Intellisophic is located in the Philadelphia area. Intellisophic’s knowledge-based solutions allow customers to categorize textual data based on meaning and context, adding structured concept attributes to unstructured data for search, business intelligence, and other complex information retrieval applications. For more information, visit www.intellisophic.com, email info@intellisophic.com or call 1-610-251-1076.

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