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Ravenflow Receives Extended Patent Recognition
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
RAVEN Natural Language Processor Receives Patent Award in India
Emeryville, CA -- Ravenflow, a leading provider of business process and requirements definition software, announced today that it has received a second patent award for its powerful natural language processing (NLP) engine. The patent, COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH NATURAL LANGUAGE TO MACHINE LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR (U.S. Patent No. 7,085,708), has now been granted from the country of India.
“We are continuing to protect and innovate around the RAVEN Language Engine, which underpins all of our business process and requirements solutions,” said David Ruiz, vice president of products at Ravenflow. “This extended patent recognition clearly demonstrates the unique nature of our products and the value that language-based analysis and visualization offers to business analysts everywhere.”
Ravenflow’s patented NLP technology uses a combination of semantic and syntactic processing to analyze process or use case narratives, automatically detect errors that lead to flawed requirements, and dynamically generate business process diagrams based upon the narrative. The RAVEN Language Engine can also be used to produce functional test scenarios and glossaries of common business terms, as well as other types of diagrams used to support business analysis and requirement elicitation for a variety of IT projects.
About Ravenflow
Ravenflow is the leading provider of process visualization and requirements definition software that allows companies to gain better insight, clarity, and quality in their process improvement and application development projects. Leveraging a patented natural language engine, Ravenflow helps companies analyze and visualize their business processes, application requirements, and system engineering needs. Ravenflow recently received the 2010 IBM Jazz Innovator Finalist Award, the 2009 Jolt Productivity Award, 2009 IBM Rational ISV Partner of the Year Award, and was selected as a Gartner “Cool Vendor in Application Development.”
All products mentioned in the release are trademarks or registered trademarks of Ravenflow. All other trademarks, trade names, and/or product names are used solely for the purpose of identification and are the property of their respective owners.
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