Patents by Inventor Melissa Anne Riesland

Melissa Anne Riesland 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).

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    Patent number: 8095529
    Abstract: A method and system for ranking relevancy of metadata associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media, include categorizing the metadata into sets of metadata. The categories are broad categories relating to areas such as who, what, when, and where, such as artist, media type, and creation date, creation location. Weights are assigned to each set of metadata. Weights are related to technical information such as bit rate, duration, sampling rate, frequency of occurrence of a specific term, etc. A score is calculated for ranking the relevancy of each set of metadata. The score is calculated in accordance with the assigned weight and category. This score is available for search systems (e.g., search engines) and/or users to determine the relative ranking of search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: AOL Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore George Diamond, Daniel Allen Hendrick, Eric Carl Rehm, Melissa Anne Riesland
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    Patent number: 6842761
    Abstract: A method and system for ranking relevancy of metadata associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media, include categorizing the metadata into sets of metadata. The categories are broad categories relating to areas such as who, what, when, and where, such as artist, media type, and creation date, creation location. Weights are assigned to each set of metadata. Weights are related to technical information such as bit rate, duration, sampling rate, frequency of occurrence of a specific term, etc. A score is calculated for ranking the relevancy of each set of metadata. The score is calculated in accordance with the assigned weight and category. This score is available for search systems (e.g., search engines) and/or users to determine the relative ranking of search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: America Online, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore George Diamond, Daniel Allen Hendrick, Eric Carl Rehm, Melissa Anne Riesland
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    Publication number: 20020099694
    Abstract: A method and system for ranking relevancy of metadata associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media, include categorizing the metadata into sets of metadata. The categories are broad categories relating to areas such as who, what, when, and where, such as artist, media type, and creation date, creation location. Weights are assigned to each set of metadata. Weights are related to technical information such as bit rate, duration, sampling rate, frequency of occurrence of a specific term, etc. A score is calculated for ranking the relevancy of each set of metadata. The score is calculated in accordance with the assigned weight and category. This score is available for search systems (e.g., search engines) and/or users to determine the relative ranking of search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Theodore George Diamond, Daniel Allen Hendrick, Eric Carl Rehm, Melissa Anne Riesland