tedster - 3:56 pm on Dec 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

The first thing I see is that this patent resolves a very gnarly problem:

For example, on the assumption that any five words could constitute a phrase, and a large corpus would have at least 200,000 unique terms, there would approximately 3.2.times.10.sup.26 possible phrases, clearly more than any existing system could store in memory or otherwise programmatically manipulate.