Patents by Inventor Gregory Lauckhart

Gregory Lauckhart 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).

  • System and method for estimating prevalence of digital content on the World-Wide-Web
    Publication number: 20050235030
    Abstract: The present invention is a system, method, and computer program product for tracking and measuring digital content that is distributed on a computer network such as the Internet. The system collects online advertisement data, analyzes the data, and uses the data to calculate measurements of the prevalence of those advertisements. The system processes raw traffic data by cleansing and summarizing the traffic data prior to storing the processed data in a database. An advertisement sampling system uses site selection and definition criteria and a probe map to retrieve Web pages from the Internet, extract advertisements from those Web pages, classify each advertisement, and store the data in a database. A statistical summarization system accesses the processed raw traffic data and the advertisement data in the database to calculate advertising prevalence statistics including the advertising frequency, impressions, and spending.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Gregory Lauckhart, Craig Horman, Christa Korol, James Bartot
  • Method and system using information written in a wrapper description language to execute query on a network
    Patent number: 6102969
    Abstract: This invention provides assistance to a user in accessing network attached information sources. In one aspect, the invention is a method for intelligently routing a user query to information sources relevant to that query, extracting relevant data fields from received responses, and intelligently presenting the extracted data in order of estimated relevance. The system of this invention implements one or more steps of the method in a centralized or distributed manner on one or more network attached computers. Further, this invention provides a novel language and implementation that facilitates easily written and maintained descriptions of information source query and response formats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Netbot, Inc.
    Inventors: David Christianson, Robert B. Doorenbos, Oren Etzioni, Chung Kwok, Gregory Lauckhart, Erik Selberg, Daniel S. Weld
  • Method and system using information written in a wrapper description language to execute query on a network
    Patent number: 6085186
    Abstract: This invention provides assistance to a user in accessing network attached information sources. In one aspect, the invention is a method for intelligently routing a user query to information sources relevant to that query, extracting relevant data fields from received responses, and intelligently presenting the extracted data in order of estimated relevance. The system of this invention implements one or more steps of the method in a centralized or distributed manner on one or more network attached computers. Further, this invention provides a novel language and implementation that facilitates easily written and maintained descriptions of information source query and response formats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Netbot, Inc.
    Inventors: David Christianson, Robert B. Doorenbos, Oren Etzioni, Chung Kwok, Gregory Lauckhart, Erik Selberg, Daniel S. Weld