Patents by Inventor Jeffrey O. Pfeiffer

Jeffrey O. Pfeiffer 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).

  • Community to support the definition and sharing of source trust level configurations
    Patent number: 8126820
    Abstract: A method for managing trust level in a community comprises selecting a data provider and a data entry entity from the community, wherein the community comprises data providers providing provided data, data entry entity providers providing data entry entities, and reviewers, obtaining provided data and a trust level of the provided data from the data provider, retrieving a data entry quality level of the selected data entry entity from a community system, wherein the community system comprises data entry quality levels corresponding to the data entry entities, and determining a data source trust level based on the trust level of the provided data and the data entry quality level of the selected data entry entity, wherein the data source trust level indicates validity of data produced by the selected data entry entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Talan, Jeffrey O. Pfeiffer, Frederick M. Mozer, Mark A. Johnson, Thomas M. Jones