Patents by Inventor Eric O'Laughlen
Eric O'Laughlen 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).
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Patent number: 10104191Abstract: Distinctions between resources explicitly selected by a user and resources indirectly selected may be enabled by identifying an explicitly selected web page or other resource as such in the request for the web page or other resource, which may allow the web page or resource to be differentiated from web pages or other resources that are requested as a consequence of their indirect selection. Moreover, a log of web pages or other resources explicitly selected by a user may be maintained at the client and later reference by a local processor or communicated to a host process seeking to differentiate directly and indirectly selected web pages or other resources. These techniques also may allow a proxy or other server to perform processing related to parentally controlled accounts or related to accurately tracking frequently requested resources such as web pages.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2014Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: OATH Inc.Inventors: Eric O'Laughlen, W. Karl Renner, Kevin E. Greene
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Publication number: 20140304331Abstract: Distinctions between resources explicitly selected by a user and resources indirectly selected may be enabled by identifying an explicitly selected web page or other resource as such in the request for the web page or other resource, which may allow the web page or resource to be differentiated from web pages or other resources that are requested as a consequence of their indirect selection. Moreover, a log of web pages or other resources explicitly selected by a user may be maintained at the client and later reference by a local processor or communicated to a host process seeking to differentiate directly and indirectly selected web pages or other resources. These techniques also may allow a proxy or other server to perform processing related to parentally controlled accounts or related to accurately tracking frequently requested resources such as web pages.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Inventors: Eric O'LAUGHLEN, W. Karl RENNER, Kevin E. GREENE
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Patent number: 8788616Abstract: Distinctions between resources explicitly selected by a user and resources indirectly selected may be enabled by identifying an explicitly selected web page or other resource as such in the request for the web page or other resource, which may allow the web page or resource to be differentiated from web pages or other resources that are requested as a consequence of their indirect selection. Moreover, a log of web pages or other resources explicitly selected by a user may be maintained at the client and later reference by a local processor or communicated to a host process seeking to differentiate directly and indirectly selected web pages or other resources. These techniques also may allow a proxy or other server to perform processing related to parentally controlled accounts or related to accurately tracking frequently requested resources such as web pages.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: AOL Inc.Inventors: Eric O'Laughlen, W. Karl Renner, Kevin E. Greene
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Publication number: 20120016959Abstract: Distinctions between resources explicitly selected by a user and resources indirectly selected may be enabled by identifying an explicitly selected web page or other resource as such in the request for the web page or other resource, which may allow the web page or resource to be differentiated from web pages or other resources that are requested as a consequence of their indirect selection. Moreover, a log of web pages or other resources explicitly selected by a user may be maintained at the client and later reference by a local processor or communicated to a host process seeking to differentiate directly and indirectly selected web pages or other resources. These techniques also may allow a proxy or other server to perform processing related to parentally controlled accounts or related to accurately tracking frequently requested resources such as web pages.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2011Publication date: January 19, 2012Inventors: Eric O'Laughlen, W. Karl Renner, Kevin E. Greene
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Patent number: 8028059Abstract: Distinctions between resources explicitly selected by a user and resources indirectly selected may be enabled by identifying an explicitly selected web page or other resource as such in the request for the web page or other resource, which may allow the web page or resource to be differentiated from web pages or other resources that are requested as a consequence of their indirect selection. Moreover, a log of web pages or other resources explicitly selected by a user may be maintained at the client and later reference by a local processor or communicated to a host process seeking to differentiate directly and indirectly selected web pages or other resources. These techniques also may allow a proxy or other server to perform processing related to parentally controlled accounts or related to accurately tracking frequently requested resources such as web pages.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2005Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: AOL Inc.Inventors: Eric O'Laughlen, W. Karl Renner, Kevin E. Greene
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Patent number: 7904554Abstract: A report card provides a supervisor or master account holder (e.g., a parent) with information about the activities of an individual or sub-account user (e.g., a child). For example, the report card may include a list of the sites (e.g., content identifiers and/or uniform resource locators) that an individual has visited or attempted to visit. Other information (e.g., e-mail and address book activity and instant messaging and contact list activity) also may be provided in addition to tools that allow the master account holder to access information about the activities and to adjust parental controls for the activities.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: AOL Inc.Inventors: Larry L. Lu, Eric O Laughlen, John Crowley
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Patent number: 7640336Abstract: A report card provides a supervisor or master account holder (e.g., a parent) with information about the activities of an individual or sub-account user (e.g., a child). For example, the report card may include a list of sites (e.g., content identifiers and/or uniform resource locators) that an individual has visited or attempted to visit. Other information (e.g., e-mail and address book activity and instant messaging and contact list activity) also may be provided in addition to tools that allow the master account holder to access information about the activities and to adjust parental controls for the activities.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2002Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: AOL LLCInventors: Larry L. Lu, Eric O'Laughlen, John Crowley
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Patent number: 7089246Abstract: A host system may include a content manager application or tool that may be used with a browser application, a content manager database, and a content manager server. The content manager may determine the classification (e.g., static or dynamic) and the content map rating (e.g., a content map) associated with any address (e.g., a URL) network information that is stored in a static resource classifiers. The content manager may be used by a system administrator to view and/or to override the static classifiers.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2002Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: America Online, Inc.Inventor: Eric O'Laughlen
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Publication number: 20050027820Abstract: A page view field is included in an HTTP request that contains a requested URL and indicates the URL for the web page or other document from which the requested URL was obtained (either directly or indirectly). Certain processes may be used to help insure that the URL included in the page view field is the URL of the web page or other document that caused the information to be requested (i.e., the web page or other document from which the requested URL was obtained, either directly or indirectly). The page view field may be used by a proxy or other server to perform processing related to a number of applications. The processing, for instance, may relate to access controls (e.g., parentally controlled accounts) or to accurately tracking frequently requested resources such as web pages.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Inventors: Eric O'Laughlen, Sudheer Agrawal, John Robinson
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Publication number: 20050015442Abstract: A page view field is included in an HTTP request that contains a requested URL and indicates the URL for the web page or other document from which the requested URL was obtained (either directly or indirectly). A browser may add the page view field to an HTTP request whenever the requested URL is obtained from within a web page or other document displayed in browser. This field may be used by a proxy or other server to perform processing related to a number of applications. The processing may relate to access controls, e.g., parentally controlled accounts. For example, the applications may include the reporting of URLs visited by parentally controlled accounts; or allowing parentally controlled accounts to access lower level web pages of web pages the account has been given permission to access. Also, the processing may relate to accurately tracking frequently requested resources such as web pages.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2003Publication date: January 20, 2005Inventors: Eric O'Laughlen, Sudheer Agrawal, John Robinson
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Patent number: RE45558Abstract: A report card provides a supervisor or master account holder (e.g., a parent) with information about the activities of an individual or sub-account user (e.g., a child). For example, the report card may include a list of the sites (e.g., content identifiers and/or uniform resource locators) that an individual has visited or attempted to visit. Other information (e.g., e-mail and address book activity and instant messaging and contact list activity) also may be provided in addition to tools that allow the master account holder to access information about the activities and to adjust parental controls for the activities.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventors: Larry L. Lu, Eric O' Laughlen, John Crowley