Patents by Inventor Joel L. Carleton

Joel L. Carleton 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: 6134532
    Abstract: A system and method for selecting and presenting personally targeted entities such as advertising, coupons, products and information content, based on tracking observed behavior on a user-by-user basis and utilizing an adaptive vector space representation for both information and behavior. The system matches users to entities in a manner that improves with increased operation and observation of user behavior. User behavior and entities (ads, coupons, products) and information (text) are all represented as content vectors in a unified vector space. The system is based on an information representation called content vectors that utilizes a constrained self organization learning technique to learn the relationships between symbols (typically words in unstructured text). Users and entities are each represented as content vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Aptex Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Lazarus, William R. Caid, Richard S. Pugh, Bradley D. Kindig, Gerald S. Russell, Kenneth B. Brown, Ted E. Dunning, Joel L. Carleton