Patents by Inventor Apurv Anand

Apurv Anand 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).

  • Method of and system for conducting personalized federated search and presentation of results therefrom
    Patent number: 8577915
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides user-interface methods and systems for submitting search requests to search engines and presenting search results therefrom customized using content preferences learned about a user, comprising sending query information to at least two search engines, including a query identifying desired content, and user information, including context information describing the environment in which the query information is being sent, and a user signature representing content preferences learned about the user; receiving at least one set of a search result and auxiliary information from the at least one search engine in response to sending the query information, including information describing attributes of the search result that led to the search result being chosen by the at least one search engine; ordering the at least one search result based at least in part on the auxiliary information; and presenting the ordered search results to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Veveo, Inc.
    Inventors: Rakesh Barve, Pankaj Garg, Sashikumar Venkataraman, Murali Aravamudan, Keyur V. Faldu, Vineet Agarwal, Apurv Anand
  • METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING PERSONALIZED FEDERATED SEARCH AND PRESENTATION OF RESULTS THEREFROM
    Publication number: 20120084277
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides user-interface methods and systems for submitting search requests to search engines and presenting search results therefrom customized using content preferences learned about a user, comprising sending query information to at least two search engines, including a query identifying desired content, and user information, including context information describing the environment in which the query information is being sent, and a user signature representing content preferences learned about the user; receiving at least one set of a search result and auxiliary information from the at least one search engine in response to sending the query information, including information describing attributes of the search result that led to the search result being chosen by the at least one search engine; ordering the at least one search result based at least in part on the auxiliary information; and presenting the ordered search results to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Veveo, Inc.
    Inventors: Rakesh Barve, Pankaj Garg, Sashikumar Venkataraman, Murali Aravamudan, Keyur V. Faldu, Vineet Agarwal, Apurv Anand