Patents by Inventor Heidemarie W. Williams

Heidemarie W. Williams 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).

  • Publication number: 20210133271
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a query including search parameters; selecting one or more of the search parameters; for each of the selected parameters: generating a natural language representation of the selected parameter, and determining a rank of the selected parameter among the one or more selected parameters; generating a uniform resource identifier comprising the natural language representations of the selected parameters arranged in an order based on the ranks; obtaining one or more search results identified as responsive to the query; and providing the uniform resource identifier and the one or more search results for output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Heidemarie W. Williams, Adam Fischer, Tod Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 10846354
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a query including search parameters; selecting one or more of the search parameters; for each of the selected parameters: generating a natural language representation of the selected parameter, and determining a rank of the selected parameter among the one or more selected parameters; generating a uniform resource identifier comprising the natural language representations of the selected parameters arranged in an order based on the ranks; obtaining one or more search results identified as responsive to the query; and providing the uniform resource identifier and the one or more search results for output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: CoStar Realty Information, Inc.
    Inventors: Heidemarie W. Williams, Adam Fischer, Tod Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20190121832
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a query including search parameters; selecting one or more of the search parameters; for each of the selected parameters: generating a natural language representation of the selected parameter, and determining a rank of the selected parameter among the one or more selected parameters; generating a uniform resource identifier comprising the natural language representations of the selected parameters arranged in an order based on the ranks; obtaining one or more search results identified as responsive to the query; and providing the uniform resource identifier and the one or more search results for output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Heidemarie W. Williams, Adam Fischer, Tod Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 10095751
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for performing a blend polygon search. In one aspect, the method may include receiving one or more search parameters. Additional actions may include obtaining two or more sets of data that each represent a respective geographic area, the two or more sets of data including at least one set of data that is provided by a third party geographic data set provider, defining a particular geographic area to search based at least on the two or more sets of data that each represent a respective geographic area, identifying one or more entities that (i) are indicated as responsive to one or more of the search parameters, and (ii) are associated with the particular geographic area, and providing a representation of the entities for output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: CoStar Realty Information, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Florance, Heidemarie W. Williams, Adam Fischer, Tod Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 10083244
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a query including search parameters; selecting one or more of the search parameters; for each of the selected parameters: generating a natural language representation of the selected parameter, and determining a rank of the selected parameter among the one or more selected parameters; generating a uniform resource identifier comprising the natural language representations of the selected parameters arranged in an order based on the ranks; obtaining one or more search results identified as responsive to the query; and providing the uniform resource identifier and the one or more search results for output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: CoStar Realty Information, Inc.
    Inventors: Heidemarie W. Williams, Adam Fischer, Tod Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20170235732
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a query including search parameters; selecting one or more of the search parameters; for each of the selected parameters: generating a natural language representation of the selected parameter, and determining a rank of the selected parameter among the one or more selected parameters; generating a uniform resource identifier comprising the natural language representations of the selected parameters arranged in an order based on the ranks; obtaining one or more search results identified as responsive to the query; and providing the uniform resource identifier and the one or more search results for output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Heidemarie W. Williams, Adam Fischer, Tod Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20170235733
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for performing a blende polygon search. In one aspect, the method may include receiving one or more search parameters. Additional actions may include obtaining two or more sets of data that each represent a respective geographic area, the two or more sets of data including at least one set of data that is provided by a third party geographic data set provider, defining a particular geographic area to search based at least on the two or more sets of data that each represent a respective geographic area, identifying one or more entities that (i) are indicated as responsive to one or more of the search parameters, and (ii) are associated with the particular geographic area, and providing a representation of the entities for output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Andrew Florance, Heidemarie W. Williams, Adam Fischer, Tod Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20170236224
    Abstract: Methods, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing point of interest identification. In one aspect, a method includes: receiving a query that specifies a geographic region, obtaining a obtaining a set of resources that (i) are identified as responsive to the query and (ii) each include listing information for one or more properties located within the geographic region, making one or more determinations about a particular resource among the set of resources, ranking the particular resource among the set of resources based at least on the one or more determinations, and providing an indication of the particular resource's ranking among the set of resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Andrew Florance, Heidemarie W. Williams, Adam Fischer
  • Publication number: 20140095225
    Abstract: A system and method of event ticketing utilizing an article dispensing machine is disclosed. A ticket order transaction related to an event is managed at an article dispensing machine by presenting a series of simple and easy to understand interface pages on a user interface. A user interacts with the interface pages to make decisions on aspects of the ticket order transaction. A listing of events available for ticket ordering on the article dispensing machine is curated by reviewing prospective events. The listing is curated based on the location of the article dispensing machine, the priority ranking of the event, the date and time of the productions, the category of the events, the location of the venue relative to the article dispensing machine, and/or other factors. A hyper-local listing of events can be presented so that the events that are most likely relevant to users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventors: Heidemarie W. Williams, Jason Arthur Rubinstein, Brittany Canty, Reina Sulis Santiago, Tara Devlin, Adam Richard Fischer