Patents by Inventor Benedict A. Gomes

Benedict A. Gomes 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).

  • Publication number: 20230394072
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing search query suggestions. In one aspect, a search service provides query suggestions responsive to a query suggestion request from a client device, and determines if a prediction criterion is met. The prediction criterion is independent of a user selection of a query suggestion provided in response to one or more query suggestion requests. In response to determining that the prediction criterion is met, the search system provides search results to the client device. The search results are responsive to one of the query suggestions provided in response to the query suggestion request or one or more previous query suggestion requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Othar Hansson, David Black, Jon M. Wiley, Manas Tungare, Ziga Mahkovec, Benjamin J. McMahan, Benedict A. Gomes, Jonathan J. Effrat, Johanna R. Wright, Marcin K. Wichary
  • Patent number: 11775535
    Abstract: A method of presenting computer-generated search result information can include receiving a search request from a client computer; identifying a plurality of search results responsive to the search request; ranking the plurality of search results using content in one or more web notebooks; and providing the ranked plurality of search results for presentation in the client computer. Using the content can include determining whether at least one of a title, a heading, clipped content, metadata or a user-annotation in at least one web notebook relates to the search request and, if so, increasing a ranking of at least one search result referenced by the at least one web notebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Michael Frumkin, Benedict A. Gomes, Christopher Rohrs, Shashi Seth, Avni Stocky, Bay-Wei Chang, Xiangtian Dai, Kushal Dave, Paul Fontes
  • Patent number: 11620318
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing search query suggestions. In one aspect, a search service provides query suggestions responsive to a query suggestion request from a client device, and determines if a prediction criterion is met. The prediction criterion is independent of a user selection of a query suggestion provided in response to one or more query suggestion requests. In response to determining that the prediction criterion is met, the search system provides search results to the client device. The search results are responsive to one of the query suggestions provided in response to the query suggestion request or one or more previous query suggestion requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Othar Hansson, David Black, Jon M. Wiley, Manas Tungare, Ziga Mahkovec, Benjamin J. McMahan, Benedict A. Gomes, Jonathan J. Effrat, Johanna R. Wright, Marcin K. Wichary
  • Publication number: 20200117673
    Abstract: A method of presenting computer-generated search result information can include receiving a search request from a client computer; identifying a plurality of search results responsive to the search request; ranking the plurality of search results using content in one or more web notebooks; and providing the ranked plurality of search results for presentation in the client computer. Using the content can include determining whether at least one of a title, a heading, clipped content, metadata or a user-annotation in at least one web notebook relates to the search request and, if so, increasing a ranking of at least one search result referenced by the at least one web notebook.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Frumkin, Benedict A. Gomes, Christopher Rohrs, Shashi Seth, Avni Shah, Bay-Wei Chang, Xiangtian Dai, Kushal Dave, Paul Fontes
  • Patent number: 10572561
    Abstract: A first search is performed in response to a received search query. The first search is based at least in part on a first portion of the search query. In the first search, a first set of content items are searched over to identify a first set of search results. Each result in the first set of search results identifies at least one content item of the first set of content items. A second set of content items for performing a second search is determined based at least in part on one or more of the results in the first set of search results. The second set of content items includes content items not included in the first set of search results. A second search is performed, searching over the second set of content items to identify a second set of search results. The second search is based at least in part on a second portion of the search query. Each result in the second set of search results identifies at least one content item of the second set of content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Corin Anderson, Benedict A. Gomes
  • Patent number: 10521438
    Abstract: A method of presenting computer-generated search result information can include receiving a search request from a client computer; identifying a plurality of search results responsive to the search request; ranking the plurality of search results using content in one or more web notebooks; and providing the ranked plurality of search results for presentation in the client computer. Using the content can include determining whether at least one of a title, a heading, clipped content, metadata or a user-annotation in at least one web notebook relates to the search request and, if so, increasing a ranking of at least one search result referenced by the at least one web notebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Michael Frumkin, Benedict A. Gomes, Christopher Rohrs, Shashi Seth, Avni Stocky, Bay-Wei Chang, Xiangtian Dai, Kushal Dave, Paul Fontes
  • Patent number: 10474685
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of determining the relevance, to a user, of documents accessible over a computer network involves analyzing information relating to a first document, identifying a second document corresponding to the first document using a computer, obtaining information that indicates the relevance of a second document, determining the relevance of the first document using the information indicating relevance of the second document. The first document may be a mobile document, while the second may be a non-mobile document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Benedict A. Gomes, Masanori Harada
  • Publication number: 20180203863
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing search query suggestions. In one aspect, a search service provides query suggestions responsive to a query suggestion request from a client device, and determines if a prediction criterion is met. The prediction criterion is independent of a user selection of a query suggestion provided in response to one or more query suggestion requests. In response to determining that the prediction criterion is met, the search system provides search results to the client device. The search results are responsive to one of the query suggestions provided in response to the query suggestion request or one or more previous query suggestion requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Othar Hansson, David Black, Jon M. Wiley, Manas Tungare, Ziga Mahkovec, Benjamin J. McMahan, Benedict A. Gomes, Jonathan J. Effrat, Johanna R. Wright, Marcin K. Wichary
  • Patent number: 9953076
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing search query suggestions. In one aspect, a search service provides query suggestions responsive to a query suggestion request from a client device, and determines if a prediction criterion is met. The prediction criterion is independent of a user selection of a query suggestion provided in response to one or more query suggestion requests. In response to determining that the prediction criterion is met, the search system provides search results to the client device. The search results are responsive to one of the query suggestions provided in response to the query suggestion request or one or more previous query suggestion requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Othar Hansson, David Black, Jon M. Wiley, Manas Tungare, Ziga Mahkovec, Benjamin J. McMahan, Benedict A. Gomes, Jonathan J. Effrat, Johanna R. Wright, Marcin K. Wichary
  • Publication number: 20180089199
    Abstract: A method of presenting computer-generated search result information can include receiving a search request from a client computer; identifying a plurality of search results responsive to the search request; ranking the plurality of search results using content in one or more web notebooks; and providing the ranked plurality of search results for presentation in the client computer. Using the content can include determining whether at least one of a title, a heading, clipped content, metadata or a user-annotation in at least one web notebook relates to the search request and, if so, increasing a ranking of at least one search result referenced by the at least one web notebook.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Frumkin, Benedict A. Gomes, Christopher Rohrs, Shashi Seth, Avni Stocky, Bay-Wei Chang, Xiangtian Dai, Kushal Dave, Paul Fontes
  • Patent number: 9852191
    Abstract: A method of presenting computer-generated search result information can include receiving a search request from a client computer; identifying a plurality of search results responsive to the search request; ranking the plurality of search results using content in one or more web notebooks; and providing the ranked plurality of search results for presentation in the client computer. Using the content can include determining whether at least one of a title, a heading, clipped content, metadata or a user-annotation in at least one web notebook relates to the search request and, if so, increasing a ranking of at least one search result referenced by the at least one web notebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Michael Frumkin, Benedict A. Gomes, Christopher Rohrs, Shashi Seth, Avni Stocky, Bay-Wei Chang, Xiangtian Dai, Kushal Dave, Paul Fontes
  • Patent number: 9697249
    Abstract: An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture that integrates multiple different query revisers, each implementing one or more query revision strategies. A revision server receives a user's query, and interfaces with the various query revisers, each of which generates one or more potential revised queries. The revision server evaluates the potential revised queries, and selects one or more of them to provide to the user. A session-based reviser suggests one or more revised queries, given a first query, by calculating an expected utility for the revised query. The expected utility is calculated as the product of a frequency of occurrence of the query pair and an increase in quality of the revised query over the first query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Bailey, Alexis J. Battle, Benedict A. Gomes, P. Pandurang Nayak
  • Patent number: 9607087
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing answer boxes based on query results. One of the methods includes receiving seed queries for an answer box; analyzing query log information, wherein analyzing query log information comprises identifying query results that have been provided in response to the seed queries; identifying one or more of the query results as answer box indicators based on the analyses of the query log information, wherein the answer box indicators are indicators for the answer box; and storing data identifying the one or more query results as answer box indicators for the answer box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Eran Ofek, Benedict A. Gomes, Tal Cohen, Anna Bendersky, Asaph Arnon, Nitsan Oz, Oren Naim, Amitabh K. Singhal, Zvi Ben-Haim, Ziv Bar-Yossef, Matan Kalman, Gil Simha Briskin
  • Patent number: 9521182
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to identifying authorship of Internet content. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for identifying a content submission form on a webpage, recognizing submission of content by a user via the content submission form, and transmitting verification data in response to submission of the content by the user. The verification data may include content data indicative of at least some of the content submitted for publication via the content submission form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan David Tang, Robert Jonathan Ennals, Benedict Gomes, Matthew Cutts
  • Publication number: 20160321270
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing search query suggestions. In one aspect, a search service provides query suggestions responsive to a query suggestion request from a client device, and determines if a prediction criterion is met. The prediction criterion is independent of a user selection of a query suggestion provided in response to one or more query suggestion requests. In response to determining that the prediction criterion is met, the search system provides search results to the client device. The search results are responsive to one of the query suggestions provided in response to the query suggestion request or one or more previous query suggestion requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Othar Hansson, David Black, Jon M. Wiley, Manas Tungare, Ziga Mahkovec, Benjamin J. McMahan, Benedict A. Gomes, Jonathan J. Effrat, Johanna R. Wright, Marcin K. Wichary
  • Publication number: 20160154804
    Abstract: A method of presenting computer-generated search result information can include receiving a search request from a client computer; identifying a plurality of search results responsive to the search request; ranking the plurality of search results using content in one or more web notebooks; and providing the ranked plurality of search results for presentation in the client computer. Using the content can include determining whether at least one of a title, a heading, clipped content, metadata or a user-annotation in at least one web notebook relates to the search request and, if so, increasing a ranking of at least one search result referenced by the at least one web notebook.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Frumkin, Benedict A. Gomes, Christopher Rohrs, Shashi Seth, Avni Stocky, Bay-Wei Chang, Xiangtian Dai, Kushal Dave, Paul Fontes
  • Patent number: 9280522
    Abstract: A system may aggregate highlighting information associated with a document that includes a number of elements. The highlighting information may identify one or more of the elements that have been highlighted by a group of users. The system may determine weight values for the one or more elements, generate information associated with the document based on the weight values, and provide the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Michal Cierniak, Michael Stoppelman, Benedict A. Gomes, Corin Anderson
  • Publication number: 20160048592
    Abstract: A method includes generating search results in response to a user query, where at least one of the search results includes a group of links. The group of links may represent links to web pages within a same web site and may be identified based on at least one factor associated with the links. The method may also include providing the search results to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Luis Castro, Walton W. Lin, Benedict A. Gomes
  • Patent number: 9256676
    Abstract: A method of presenting computer-generated search result information can include receiving a search request from a client computer; identifying a plurality of search results responsive to the search request; ranking the plurality of search results using content in one or more web notebooks; and providing the ranked plurality of search results for presentation in the client computer. Using the content can include determining whether at least one of a title, a heading, clipped content, metadata or a user-annotation in at least one web notebook relates to the search request and, if so, increasing a ranking of at least one search result referenced by the at least one web notebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Michael Frumkin, Benedict A. Gomes, Christopher Rohrs, Shashi Seth, Avni Shah, Bay-Wei Chang, Xiangtian Dai, Kushal Dave, Paul Fontes
  • Patent number: 9244891
    Abstract: A system may aggregate highlighting information associated with a document that includes a number of elements. The highlighting information may identify one or more of the elements that have been highlighted by a group of users. The system may determine weight values for the one or more elements, generate information associated with the document based on the weight values, and provide the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Michal Cierniak, Michael Stoppelman, Benedict A. Gomes, Corin Anderson