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).

  • Patent number: 10104191
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: OATH Inc.
    Inventors: Eric O'Laughlen, W. Karl Renner, Kevin E. Greene
  • Publication number: 20140304331
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Eric O'LAUGHLEN, W. Karl RENNER, Kevin E. GREENE
  • Patent number: 8788616
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: AOL Inc.
    Inventors: Eric O'Laughlen, W. Karl Renner, Kevin E. Greene
  • Publication number: 20120016959
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Eric O'Laughlen, W. Karl Renner, Kevin E. Greene
  • Patent number: 8028059
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Inc.
    Inventors: Eric O'Laughlen, W. Karl Renner, Kevin E. Greene
  • Patent number: 7904554
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Inc.
    Inventors: Larry L. Lu, Eric O Laughlen, John Crowley
  • Patent number: 7640336
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: AOL LLC
    Inventors: Larry L. Lu, Eric O'Laughlen, John Crowley
  • Patent number: 7089246
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: America Online, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric O'Laughlen
  • Publication number: 20050027820
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: Eric O'Laughlen, Sudheer Agrawal, John Robinson
  • Publication number: 20050015442
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Eric O'Laughlen, Sudheer Agrawal, John Robinson
  • Patent number: RE45558
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Larry L. Lu, Eric O' Laughlen, John Crowley