Patents by Inventor Paul Buchheit

Paul Buchheit 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: 11367112
    Abstract: The usefulness of content (target content), such as advertisements, may be increased by determining additional content and providing such additional content in association with the content. The target content may be text, a Web page, a URL, a search query, etc. The additional content might be related suggested queries (e.g. “Try a search for ______”), news articles (or excerpts or summaries thereof), reviews (or excerpts or summaries thereof), advertisements, user group messages, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Krishna Bharat, Paul Buchheit
  • Patent number: 10991005
    Abstract: The relevance of advertisements to a user's interests is improved. In one implementation, the content of a web page is analyzed to determine a list of one or more topics associated with that web page. An advertisement is considered to be relevant to that web page if it is associated with keywords belonging to the list of one or more topics. One or more of these relevant advertisements may be provided for rendering in conjunction with the web page or related web pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Georges Harik, Paul Buchheit
  • Patent number: 10949881
    Abstract: Targeting information (also referred to as ad “serving constraints”) or candidate targeting information for an advertisement is identified. Targeting information may be identified by extracting topics or concepts from, and/or generating topics or concepts based on, ad information, such as information from a Web page to which an ad is linked (or some other Web page of interest to the ad or advertiser). The topics or concepts may be relevant queries associated with the Web page of interest, clusters, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Georges Harik, Paul Buchheit
  • Patent number: 10757055
    Abstract: A process searches electronic messages. The process displays a user interface for an electronic messaging application, including a label list panel comprising labels and an electronic message list panel comprising listed objects associated with a user of the electronic messaging application. Each respective object is visually distinct and represents one or more corresponding electronic messages received by the user. The user selects a first label from the label list panel and a first electronic message from the electronic message list panel. The user associates the first electronic message with the first label. The process receives a search query for electronic messages associated with the first label. In response, the process identifies electronic messages associated with the first label. The identified electronic messages include the first electronic message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Paul Buchheit, Sanjeev Singh
  • Publication number: 20200151776
    Abstract: The usefulness of content (target content), such as advertisements, may be increased by determining additional content and providing such additional content in association with the content. The target content may be text, a Web page, a URL, a search query, etc. The additional content might be related suggested queries (e.g. “Try a search for ______”), news articles (or excerpts or summaries thereof), reviews (or excerpts or summaries thereof), advertisements, user group messages, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Krishna Bharat, Paul Buchheit
  • Patent number: 10572911
    Abstract: The usefulness of content (target content), such as advertisements, may be increased by determining additional content and providing such additional content in association with the content. The target content may be text, a Web page, a URL, a search query, etc. The additional content might be related suggested queries (e.g. “Try a search for ______”), news articles (or excerpts or summaries thereof), reviews (or excerpts or summaries thereof), advertisements, user group messages, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Krishna Bharat, Paul Buchheit
  • Patent number: 10482503
    Abstract: Targeting information (also referred to as ad “serving constraints”) or candidate targeting information for an advertisement is identified. Targeting information may be identified by extracting topics or concepts from, and/or generating topics or concepts based on, ad information, such as information from a Web page to which an ad is linked (or some other Web page of interest to the ad or advertiser). The topics or concepts may be relevant queries associated with the Web page of interest, clusters, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Georges Harik, Paul Buchheit
  • Patent number: 10332160
    Abstract: The usefulness of content (target content), such as advertisements, may be increased by determining additional content and providing such additional content in association with the content. The target content may be text, a Web page, a URL, a search query, etc. The additional content might be related suggested queries (e.g. “Try a search for ——————”), news articles (or excerpts or summaries thereof), reviews (or excerpts or summaries thereof), advertisements, user group messages, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Krishna Bharat, Paul Buchheit
  • Publication number: 20190156367
    Abstract: The relevance of advertisements to a user's interests is improved. In one implementation, the content of a web page is analyzed to determine a list of one or more topics associated with that web page. An advertisement is considered to be relevant to that web page if it is associated with keywords belonging to the list of one or more topics. One or more of these relevant advertisements may be provided for rendering in conjunction with the web page or related web pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Georges Harik, Paul Buchheit
  • Patent number: 10198746
    Abstract: The relevance of advertisements to a user's interests is improved. In one implementation, the content of a web page is analyzed to determine a list of one or more topics associated with that web page. An advertisement is considered to be relevant to that web page if it is associated with keywords belonging to the list of one or more topics. One or more of these relevant advertisements may be provided for rendering in conjunction with the web page or related web pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Georges Harik, Paul Buchheit
  • Publication number: 20180341991
    Abstract: The usefulness of content (target content), such as advertisements, may be increased by determining additional content and providing such additional content in association with the content. The target content may be text, a Web page, a URL, a search query, etc. The additional content might be related suggested queries (e.g. “Try a search for ______”), news articles (or excerpts or summaries thereof), reviews (or excerpts or summaries thereof), advertisements, user group messages, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Krishna Bharat, Paul Buchheit
  • Publication number: 20180341983
    Abstract: Targeting information (also referred to as ad “serving constraints”) or candidate targeting information for an advertisement is identified. Targeting information may be identified by extracting topics or concepts from, and/or generating topics or concepts based on, ad information, such as information from a Web page to which an ad is linked (or some other Web page of interest to the ad or advertiser). The topics or concepts may be relevant queries associated with the Web page of interest, clusters, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Georges Harik, Paul Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9934329
    Abstract: This application is directed to an indexing system for graph data. In particular implementations, the indexing system uses a database index infrastructure that provides for flexible search capability to data objects and associations between data objects. Particular embodiments relate to an indexing system for storing and serving information modeled as a graph that includes nodes and edges that define associations or relationships between nodes that the edges connect in the graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjeev Singh, Bret Steven Taylor, Paul Buchheit, James Norris, Tudor Bosman, Benjamin Darnell
  • Publication number: 20180041459
    Abstract: A process searches electronic messages. The process displays a user interface for an electronic messaging application, including a label list panel comprising labels and an electronic message list panel comprising listed objects associated with a user of the electronic messaging application. Each respective object is visually distinct and represents one or more corresponding electronic messages received by the user. The user selects a first label from the label list panel and a first electronic message from the electronic message list panel. The user associates the first electronic message with the first label. The process receives a search query for electronic messages associated with the first label. In response, the process identifies electronic messages associated with the first label. The identified electronic messages include the first electronic message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Paul Buchheit, Sanjeev SINGH
  • Publication number: 20180005266
    Abstract: The relevance of advertisements to a user's interests is improved. In one implementation, the content of a web page is analyzed to determine a list of one or more topics associated with that web page. An advertisement is considered to be relevant to that web page if it is associated with keywords belonging to the list of one or more topics. One or more of these relevant advertisements may be provided for rendering in conjunction with the web page or related web pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Georges Harik, Paul Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9799052
    Abstract: The relevance of advertisements to a user's interests is improved. In one implementation, the content of a web page is analyzed to determine a list of one or more topics associated with that web page. An advertisement is considered to be relevant to that web page if it is associated with keywords belonging to the list of one or more topics. One or more of these relevant advertisements may be provided for rendering in conjunction with the web page or related web pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Georges Harik, Paul Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9794207
    Abstract: System and methods of searching conversations are provided. At a computing device having one or more processors and memory storing programs executed by the one or more processors, and responsive to a search query a conversation having two or more messages is identified. Further, there is formatted for display to a user (A) information representing the identified conversation, and (B) a sorted sender list displayed as a single-line item, associated with the identified conversation. The sorted sender list includes (i) a first sender identifier identifying a first sender of a first message in the two or more messages, and (ii) a second sender identifier identifying a second sender of a second message in the two or more messages. The first sender list identifier and the second identifier are sorted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Buchheit, Sanjeev Singh
  • Publication number: 20170249676
    Abstract: The usefulness of content (target content), such as advertisements, may be increased by determining additional content and providing such additional content in association with the content. The target content may be text, a Web page, a URL, a search query, etc. The additional content might be related suggested queries (e.g. “Try a search for ______”), news articles (or excerpts or summaries thereof), reviews (or excerpts or summaries thereof), advertisements, user group messages, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Krishna Bharat, Paul Buchheit
  • Publication number: 20170206556
    Abstract: Targeting information (also referred to as ad “serving constraints”) or candidate targeting information for an advertisement is identified. Targeting information may be identified by extracting topics or concepts from, and/or generating topics or concepts based on, ad information, such as information from a Web page to which an ad is linked (or some other Web page of interest to the ad or advertiser). The topics or concepts may be relevant queries associated with the Web page of interest, clusters, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Georges Harik, Paul Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9672525
    Abstract: The usefulness of content (target content), such as advertisements, may be increased by determining additional content and providing such additional content in association with the content. The target content may be text, a Web page, a URL, a search query, etc. The additional content might be related suggested queries (e.g. “Try a search for ——————”), news articles (or excerpts or summaries thereof), reviews (or excerpts or summaries thereof), advertisements, user group messages, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Dean, Krishna Bharat, Paul Buchheit