Patents by Inventor Dean C. Kimball

Dean C. Kimball 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 and system for web-site testing
    Patent number: 10169221
    Abstract: The current document is directed to methods and systems for testing web sites. In certain implementations of the methods and systems, a testing service collects customer page-access and conversion information on behalf of a web site. The testing service is straightforwardly accessed and configured, through a web-site-based user interface, and is virtually incorporated into the web site by simple HTML-file modifications. A more efficient web-site-testing system nonuniformly distributes web-site accesses among web-page variants in order to more quickly and computationally efficiently determine a most effective web-page variant among a set of tested web-page variants. In certain implementations, nonuniform distribution of web-site accesses among web-page variants is facilitated by a Bayesian-inference method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: ACCELERATE GROUP LIMITED
    Inventors: Ethan Dereszynski, Peter Crossley, Spencer Wood, Dean C. Kimball
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WEB-SITE TESTING
    Publication number: 20170168924
    Abstract: The current document is directed to methods and systems for testing web sites. In certain implementations of the methods and systems, a testing service collects customer page-access and conversion information on behalf of a web site. The testing service is straightforwardly accessed and configured, through a web-site-based user interface, and is virtually incorporated into the web site by simple HTML-file modifications. A more efficient web-site-testing system nonuniformly distributes web-site accesses among web-page variants in order to more quickly and computationally efficiently determine a most effective web-page variant among a set of tested web-page variants. In certain implementations, nonuniform distribution of web-site accesses among web-page variants is facilitated by a Bayesian-inference method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: WEBTRENDS, INC.
    Inventors: Ethan Dereszynski, Peter Crossley, Spencer Wood, Dean C. Kimball
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WEB-SITE TESTING
    Publication number: 20150154102
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for testing web sites and web servers. In discussed embodiments of the present invention, a third-party testing service collects page-access and conversion information on behalf of a web site. The third-party testing service is straightforwardly configured through a user interface and is engaged for real-time, live statistics collection by means of simple modifications of HTML files served or provided to users by a web site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: WEBTRENDS INC.
    Inventors: Dean C. Kimball, Peter Crossley
  • Method and system for web-site testing
    Patent number: 8627288
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for testing web sites and web servers. In discussed embodiments of the present invention, a third-party testing service collects page-access and conversion information on behalf of a web site. The third-party testing service is straightforwardly configured through a user interface and is engaged for real-time, live statistics collection by means of simple modifications of HTML files served or provided to users by a web site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Webtrends Inc.
    Inventors: Dean C. Kimball, Peter Crossley
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WEB-SITE TESTING
    Publication number: 20100064281
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for testing web sites and web servers. In discussed embodiments of the present invention, a third-party testing service collects page-access and conversion information on behalf of a web site. The third-party testing service is straightforwardly configured through a user interface and is engaged for real-time, live statistics collection by means of simple modifications of HTML files served or provided to users by a web site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Dean C. Kimball, Peter Crossley