theExactWord®'s First
Patent Award
U.S. Patent No. 5721938
Issued February 24, 1998, theExactWord®'s first patent identifies a new technology for language as a binary system.
This means that we can look at language in a whole new way. Language pervades every part of our lives. As a language revolution, the possibilities stagger.
The uniqueness of this patented invention potentially revolutionizes the use of language in the industry. Because the applications significantly touch upon current technology in at least seven different arenas, theExact Word® appropriately tailors each application to industry needs of the above categories.
U.S. Patent Number 5,721,938
Barbara Stuckey
What did we patent?
Abstract:
"A program is provided for organizing natural language, such as English, into binary units of two basic elements, Nounness and Verbness, which combine in two idea word patterns, called Primary Image and Conditional Image, and two Detail word patterns, called Process Detail and Background Detail. These two basic elements, Nounness and Verbness, function binarily within the program, either in combination for the two Image word patterns or separately for the two Detail word patterns. All word patterns, except the verb-in-tense in the two Image word patterns, function binarily within the program in one of two positions: as Nounness, called Nesting, or as modifiers, called Qualifying. Since meaning in an English sentence is determined solely by word and word pattern location, binary units can be created which allow meaning to be changed by moving words or word patterns from one location to another, called Flipping. Natural language, thus organized into binary units, can be thus analyzed in computer programs for purposes such as, but not limited to, natural language processing which is not restricted to limited language domains, voice activation, machine translation from one natural language to another, context analysis of documents, and the teaching of writing in natural language."