Patents Assigned to ManyWorlds Inc.
  • People Matching in Subscription-based Communities
    Publication number: 20110302134
    Abstract: A people matching system and method matches people in computer-implemented communities in which users subscribe to information generated by other users. The computer-generated suggested matches may be based on inferences of mutual interests, as well as on factors such as proximity and environmental conditions. The inferences of mutual interest may be based on behaviors such as subscriptions and physiological responses. Explanations for the suggested matches may be delivered to users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: MANYWORLDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Environment-Responsive People Matching System and Method
    Publication number: 20110302121
    Abstract: An environment-responsive people matching system and method matches people in accordance with inferences of mutual interests based, at least in part, on environmental conditions local to the people being matched. Other behavioral information, proximity, and mobility inferences may also influence the matching. Relationships with varying degree of affinity between matched people may be generated in accordance with the inferences. Explanations for the suggested matches may be delivered to the matched people.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: MANYWORLDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Proximity-based People Matching System and Method
    Publication number: 20110302209
    Abstract: A people matching system and method matches people in accordance with inferences of mutual interests, location, and/or proximity. Suggested matches may also be based on factors such as mobility inferences and environmental conditions. Inferences of mutual interests may be based on behavioral information. Explanations for the suggested matches may be delivered to users, including behavioral information on which the suggested matches are based.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: MANYWORLDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Search-based People Matching System and Method
    Publication number: 20110302208
    Abstract: A people matching system and method matches people in response to a search request. The computer-generated suggested matches may be based on inferences of mutual interests, as well as on factors such as proximity and environmental conditions. The inferences of mutual interest may be based on behaviors such as subscriptions and physiological responses. Explanations for the suggested matches may be delivered to users, including behavioral information on which the suggested matches are based.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: MANYWORLDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Environment-Responsive Advertising System and Method
    Publication number: 20110295663
    Abstract: An environment-responsive system and method delivers advertisements to advertisement recipients in accordance with monitored usage behaviors and environment conditions local to the advertisement recipients. The advertisement recipients may interact with the advertisement delivery system so as to, for example, obtain additional information about the advertisement, including an explanation of why the advertisement recipient received the advertisement. Advertising fees may be processed based on advertisement recipient responses to the advertisements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: MANYWORLDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Dynamically-Assembled Advertisement System and Method
    Publication number: 20110295664
    Abstract: A dynamically-assembled advertisement system and method dynamically generates advertisements from advertisement components based on inferences of preferences from usage behaviors. Personalization features of the dynamically assembled advertisements include applying people and locales that are familiar to advertisement recipients within the advertisements, as well as including the recommendation recipient within the context of a product promoted by the advertisement. Advertising fees may be processed based on personalization features and advertisement recipient responses to the advertisements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: MANYWORLDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Gesture-Responsive Advertising Process
    Publication number: 20110295699
    Abstract: A gesture-responsive advertising process provides advertising fee processing for advertisements delivered on a gesture-responsive system. Fees are associated with advertisement recipient behaviors that are made in response to receipt of an advertisement. These behaviors include oral and gestural-based communications, and include requesting more information, requesting location-based information, and providing feedback on the advertisement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: MANYWORLDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Subscription-Based Community Advertising System and Method
    Publication number: 20110295665
    Abstract: A subscription-based community advertising system and method delivers advertisements to system users that are members of computer-implemented communities in which the users subscribe to objects representing other users. The delivered advertisements may be generated in accordance with inferences of preferences from usage behaviors. The advertisements may be personalized, including making reference to other users, and explanations for why the advertisement was delivered may be provided. Advertising fees may be processed based advertisement recipient responses to the advertisements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: MANYWORLDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Gesture-Responsive Advertising System and Method
    Publication number: 20110295703
    Abstract: A gesture-responsive system and method delivers interactive advertisements to advertisement recipients in accordance with monitored gestures and/or other behaviors, including other bodily movements. The advertisement recipient may interact with the advertisement delivery system so as to obtain additional information about the advertisement or to provide feedback, and the interactions may include gestural or oral-based interactions. Explanations of why the advertisement recipient received the advertisement may be generated and delivered by the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: ManyWorlds, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Personalized Advertising for Gesture Monitoring Systems
    Publication number: 20110295696
    Abstract: A computer-implemented personalized advertising system and method delivers dynamically generated advertisements to users of gesture-monitoring systems. The personalized advertisements are based, at least in part, on monitored behaviors, and personalization features of the advertisements include depicting the user in the context of promoted products, as well as including people and/or locales familiar to the advertisement recipient in the advertisement. Fees may be processed in accordance with advertiser selection of personalization features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: MANYWORLDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Mutual interest inferencing system and method
    Patent number: 8060462
    Abstract: A method and system for generating, revealing, and delivering explanations of computer-based inferences of expected levels of interest between people is described. The inferences may be based, at least in part, on behavioral information. The method and system may include variations of a mutual commitment process that only reveals a first party's inferred or expressed interest in a second party if a reciprocal inferred or expressed interest is confirmed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: ManyWorlds, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Contextual Commerce Systems and Methods
    Publication number: 20110153452
    Abstract: A system and method for context-sensitive, adaptive commerce is described that features recommendations of products and/or services based on system usage behaviors and supplier contextual information such as inventory levels. Adaptive commerce may include the bundling of a plurality of products and generating an associated price based, at least in part, on usage behavior information. Other contextual information related to the customer or supplier may also be applied in generating recommended products, bundles of products, product configurations, and corresponding prices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: MANYWORLDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Adaptive Experimentation Method and System
    Publication number: 20110137849
    Abstract: A computer-implemented adaptive experimentation method and system is described that automatically selects and executes information gathering actions. The adaptive experimentation method and system integrates value of information considerations, experimental design, and inferences from experimental results. The experimental results may include behaviors of users of a computer-based system. The process enables an automatic, adaptive process for attaining additional information and applying the attained information in making subsequent experiment decisions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: MANYWORLDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Generative Investment Method and System
    Publication number: 20110112986
    Abstract: A generative investment process method and system is disclosed for managing investment opportunities. The process decomposes investment opportunities into capability components and represents the opportunities and capability components as elements of a computer-implemented combinatorial model. The process may identify uncertainties associated with elements of the combinatorial model, generate expected values of information gathering actions, make inferences from the results of the information gathering actions, and update the combinatorial model accordingly. New investments may be generated basis combinatorial operations on elements of the combinatorial model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: MANYWORLDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Explanatory Advertising Systems and Methods
    Publication number: 20110093341
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for generating and delivering to advertisement recipients explanations of why the advertisement recipient received the advertisement is described. The explanations may be generated basis advertisement recipient attributes that include physical location information and other monitored behaviors, as well as inferences of preferences of the advertisement recipient. The explanations may be interactively accessible and may be in natural language formats. Advertising fees may be based in part on advertisement recipient accesses or interactions with the explanation delivery function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: MANYWORLDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Adaptive commerce systems and methods
    Patent number: 7904341
    Abstract: A system and method for adaptive commerce is disclosed. Adaptive commerce enables recommendations of products or services based on usage behaviors and commercial contextual information. Commercial contextual information may include the business environment of the recommendation recipient, purchase histories, and product or service attributes. Bundles of products and/or services, or specific product or service configurations may be recommended. Corresponding prices may be determined in accordance with behavioral inferences and commercial contextual information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: ManyWorlds, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Adaptive Knowledge Lifecycle Management Methods
    Publication number: 20110022564
    Abstract: In accordance with the embodiments described herein, methods for adaptive knowledge lifecycle management and associated services supplied to customers are described. Adaptive knowledge lifecycle management provides a means for beneficially adapting knowledge assets and their organizing structures, including workflow. The adaptive features may be based on inferences of preferences derived from user behaviors, or inferences of knowledge asset subject matter. Fees may be established and charged for performing adaptive knowledge lifecycle management services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: MANYWORLDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Adaptive recommendation explanations
    Patent number: 7860811
    Abstract: A method and system for generating adaptive explanations for associated recommendations is disclosed. The adaptive explanations comprise a syntactical structure and associated phrases that are selected in accordance with usage behaviors and/or inferences associated with usage behaviors. The phrases included in an adaptive explanation may be selected through application of a non-deterministic process. The adaptive explanations may be beneficially applied to recommendations that are associated with content, products, and people, including recommendations that comprise advertisements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: ManyWorlds, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Adaptive knowledge lifecycle management aligned with assessed financial value based on organizing structure of knowledge assets
    Patent number: 7831535
    Abstract: In accordance with the embodiments described herein, a method and system for adaptive knowledge lifecycle management, and methods for delivering adaptive knowledge lifecycle management services to customers, is disclosed. Adaptive knowledge lifecycle management provides a means for beneficially adapting knowledge assets and their collective structures over time. It also provides a means for generating an estimate of the value of knowledge assets and their associated organizing topologies, as well as providing a means to determine changes in value corresponding to changes to the knowledge assets and their associated organizing topologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: ManyWorlds, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Business Lifecycle Management Methods
    Publication number: 20100274635
    Abstract: In accordance with the embodiments described herein, methods of applying computer-implemented business lifecycle processes are disclosed, including process lifecycle and solution lifecycle processes. These methods may further apply frameworks and models associated with industry lifecycle, customer lifecycle, product lifecycle, and knowledge lifecycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: MANYWORLDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven D. Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny