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Eliyon Technologies wins first U.S. patent
Cambridge-based Eliyon Technologies, an information services provider whose software continuously crawls the Internet for data, has been issued its first patent from the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office.
The patent describes 27 claims for software to automatically identify the content owner of website. The company's patented "Computer Method and Apparatus for Determining Content Owner of a Website" is automated using statistical algorithms.
"When people go to a website, they take into account who published the content when reading and evaluating the information on the site. Every website is published by a legal entity, whether it's an individual, an institution, or a company," said Yonatan Stern, president and chief executive of Eliyon, in a statement. "However, unlike books, this information is not standardized or even immediately apparent on a site, making it difficult for computers to capture it automatically. To illustrate the importance of this invention, let's assume that a computer reads the entire website of a company, including the 'Contact Us,' 'Products,' and 'Management Team' sections. To a human reader, it is obvious that the address relates to the company that published the site, that the products are produced by this company, and that the management team works at this address. However, for a computer, if the identity of the publisher, i.e. the company, is not automatically established, there is no way to connect these pieces of information correctly. This patent, which is one of several we have filed, is used in our automated production line, which generates 15,000 profiles of people a day."
Eliyon Technologies provides web-based source of information on people and companies. According to the company, as of June 30, 2003, the Eliyon database included more than 15 million profiles of business executives and mid-level managers, with more than 15,000 new ones added and 100,000 profiles updated daily.
Eliyon's customers include companies such as AOL Time Warner, Oracle, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Microsoft, Staples, among others.
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