Patents by Inventor Brian Strull

Brian Strull 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).

  • Configurable architecture for managing corporate and industry knowledgebases
    Patent number: 7302431
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system are provided for the customers, along with the host, to have the ability to not only configure and tailor the host knowledgebase, but also the environment in which the knowledgebase is delivered. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a configurable architecture may comprise a host instance, one or more customer instances, a remote configuration engine for a content factory to deliver data comprising content and associated metadata to the host instance, which may deliver the metadata to one or more customer instances, and a customer configuration engine for the customer instance to configure and tailor the data and the environment in which the data is delivered to the needs and wants of the customer corresponding to the customer instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alex Apollonsky, Nicolas Badino, Warren Braunig, Karl Cremin, Eric Hoffert, Hemang Nadkami, Ramesh Seshadri, Brian Strull
  • Method and apparatus for uploading, indexing, analyzing, and searching media content
    Patent number: 6374260
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for uploading, analyzing, searching and displaying multimedia files based on the context and content of the multimedia files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Magnifi, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric M. Hoffert, Karl Cremin, Adnan Ali, Stephen R. Smoot, Brian Strull