Patents by Inventor Joseph Kieran O'Sullivan

Joseph Kieran O'Sullivan 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).

  • Presentation of search results based on document structure
    Patent number: 9031898
    Abstract: A system identifies a document relating to a search term, where the document includes a set of structural elements. The system determines a distribution of occurrences of the search term in the document, identifies one of the structural elements based on the distribution of occurrences of the search term in the document, and presents information associated with the identified structural element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Amitabh K. Singhal, Viresh Ratnakar, Maxim Lifantsev, Joseph Kieran O'Sullivan
  • Systems and methods for scoring documents
    Patent number: 8799107
    Abstract: A system generates a score for a document based on best seller list information relating to the document, circulation information relating to the document, publisher sales information relating to a publisher associated with the document, author sales information relating to an author associated with the document, user behavior information relating to access of the document by users, and/or a link-based score of a web document relating to the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Dean, Lauren Baptist, Scott Davies, Angshuman Guha, Joseph Kieran O'Sullivan, Adam M. Smith
  • Systems and methods for scoring documents
    Patent number: 8762225
    Abstract: A system generates a score for a document based on best seller list information relating to the document, circulation information relating to the document, publisher sales information relating to a publisher associated with the document, author sales information relating to an author associated with the document, user behavior information relating to access of the document by users, and/or a link-based score of a web document relating to the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Dean, Lauren Baptist, Scott Davies, Angshuman Guha, Joseph Kieran O'Sullivan, Adam M. Smith