Patents by Inventor Alexander J. Cox

Alexander J. Cox has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9245271
    Abstract: Tag scoring for elements associated with a common tag enables a user to conduct a tag search and view a listing of elements associated with the tag. The listing can be ordered by each element's tag score. To create such a tag score, users may associate an element with one or more tags that characterize the element. A tag score may then be assigned to this element for each assigned tag and may be based on a multitude of factors. These factors may include a number of times that the element has been tagged with the assigned tag and users' votes on the accuracy of the assigned tag to the element. Tag-scoring factors may include, among others, an age of a tag associated with the element, a click rate for the element, a customer review of the element, a sales rank for the element, or an availability of the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Waqas Ahmed, Scott Allen Mongrain, Aaron D. Wilson, Alexander J. Cox, Russell A. Dicker, Florin V. Manolache
  • Patent number: 9195753
    Abstract: Displaying communities associated with personalized data provides a user with access to relevant communities based on the user's activity with an electronic catalog. The communities include content which may be manipulated by user activity or non-user activity. The communities may facilitate user discussion or viewing of information related to the user's interests. The communities may be associated with elements associated with user interaction and/or based off recommended elements or categories associated with the user. Communities may be ranked or scored to improve the relevancy of the community for the user. Communities may be displayed with, for example, a personalized page for the user that may include other user recommendations, or the communities may be associated with other personalized pages within a website, among other possibilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph King, Waquas Ahmed, William W. Gronim, Carl K. Lim, Gregory J. Meyers, Alexander J. Cox, Aaron D. Wilson, Scott Allen Mongrain