Patents by Inventor Patrick L. Harrington

Patrick L. Harrington 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).

  • Optimization and attribution of marketing resources
    Patent number: 10102542
    Abstract: Example systems and methods for optimization and attribution of marketing resources are described. In one implementation, a method retrieves transaction data associated with one or more offline stores and user data of users that are exposed to a marketing campaign. The method also correlates the transaction data to the user data to measure marketing attribution and modify the marketing campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Nikhil Raj, Patrick L. Harrington, Jr., Gary Tang, Zachary F. Poley, Xiang Xiao, Long Lin, Abhimanyu Mitra
  • OPTIMIZATION AND ATTRIBUTION OF MARKETING RESOURCES
    Publication number: 20150220971
    Abstract: Example systems and methods for optimization and attribution of marketing resources are described. In one implementation, a method retrieves transaction data associated with one or more offline stores and user data of users that are exposed to a marketing campaign. The method also correlates the transaction data to the user data to measure marketing attribution and modify the marketing campaign.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: WAL-MART STORES, INC.
    Inventors: Nikhil Raj, Patrick L. Harrington, JR., Gary Tang, Zachary F. Poley, Xiang Xiao, Long Lin, Abhimanyu Mitra
  • Multicast IP zones for fast spanning tree convergence in wide-area packet network systems
    Patent number: 7009972
    Abstract: System and methods for confining multicast routing trees to within single zones of a multi-zone communication systems, thereby enabling faster convergence of the trees relative to trees spanning multiple zones. Separate multicast routing trees are established using different multicast addresses in a source zone and one or more listening zones. Packets for a call distributed by routers (104, 116) of a packet network within the source zone via a source zone multicast address are received by a source zone packet duplicator (132). The source zone packet duplicator forwards the packets, via routers (116, 118, 120, 122) of the packet network using unicast routing, to various listening zone packet duplicators (136, 138). The listening zone packet duplicators, upon receiving the packets, separately distribute the packets within their respective zones via the packet network using different multicast addresses of the listening zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc
    Inventors: John W. Maher, Patrick L. Harrington
  • Multicast IP zones for fast spanning tree convergence in wide-area packet network systems
    Publication number: 20030058857
    Abstract: System and methods for confining multicast routing trees to within single zones of a multi-zone communication systems, thereby enabling faster convergence of the trees relative to trees spanning multiple zones. Separate multicast routing trees are established using different multicast addresses in a source zone and one or more listening zones. Packets for a call distributed by routers (104, 116) of a packet network within the source zone via a source zone multicast address are received by a source zone packet duplicator (132). The source zone packet duplicator forwards the packets, via routers (116, 118, 120, 122) of the packet network using unicast routing, to various listening zone packet duplicators (136, 138). The listening zone packet duplicators, upon receiving the packets, separately distribute the packets within their respective zones via the packet network using different multicast addresses of the listening zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: John W. Maher, Patrick L. Harrington