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Crystal Semantics Granted Patent for World's First Sense Engine

Crystal Semantics Granted Patent for World's First Sense Engine

Ownership of Technological Process to Provide Leading Position in Analysis of Textual Content

NEW YORK, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Crystal Semantics, the leader of
contextual Internet search solutions and developer of the world's first Sense
Engine technology, has been granted Patent No. 6,847,972 effective January 5th
2005 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Already patented in the UK,
this additional technology patent secures the core innovation of the Crystal
Semantics' Sense Engine for the analysis of textual content and comparison
with a pre-classified vocabulary to target the context of content.

The technology enables the correct senses of words to be determined -- for
example, determining the sense of the word 'depression' in relation to
economics as opposed to 'depression' in the context of mental health. The
patent outlines a structure where a database containing a 'plurality of terms'
is used to define the placements of information within logical categories. The
'plurality of terms' along with the taxonomy of all the associated words are
used to define and uniquely classify the particular subject. In everyday
language, the words and senses of a dictionary are being associated with the
knowledge categories of an encyclopedia.

Crystal Semantics' patent was filed in 1999, a time when the technology
was focused upon the classification and categorization of documents, spell
checking and refining keywords as part of a search query. Since then, a
continuance has bee"