Patents by Inventor Paul Matthew Hernacki

Paul Matthew Hernacki 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).

  • Searching, sorting, and displaying video clips and sound files by relevance
    Patent number: 8849815
    Abstract: A documents database has a plurality of documents, including but not limited to text files, video clips and sound files. Each document is associated with at least one category of a plurality of categories in a categories database, and each category has at least one keyword. A search request having at least one search term is received from a user, and a categories database is searched for categories having a keyword corresponding to the user search term to identify first level categories. The other keywords from the identified first level categories are retrieved and the documents database is searched for documents having a user search term or a retrieved keyword. The identified documents are then ranked and presented to the user. Other search expansion techniques, and display techniques, are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: News Distribution Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Alton Peters, Paul Matthew Hernacki
  • Searching, sorting, and displaying video clips and sound files by relevance
    Patent number: 8849814
    Abstract: A documents database has a plurality of documents, including but not limited to text files, video clips and sound files. Each document is associated with at least one category of a plurality of categories in a categories database, and each category has at least one keyword. A search request having at least one search term is received from a user, and a categories database is searched for categories having a keyword corresponding to the user search term to identify first level categories. The other keywords from the identified first level categories are retrieved and the documents database is searched for documents having a user search term or a retrieved keyword. The identified documents are then ranked and presented to the user. Other search expansion techniques, and display techniques, are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: News Distribution Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Alton Peters, Paul Matthew Hernacki
  • Searching, sorting, and displaying video clips and sound files by relevance
    Patent number: 8364693
    Abstract: A documents database has a plurality of documents, including but not limited to text files, video clips and sound files. Each document is associated with at least one category of a plurality of categories in a categories database, and each category has at least one keyword. A search request having at least one search term is received from a user, and a categories database is searched for categories having a keyword corresponding to the user search term to identify first level categories. The other keywords from the identified first level categories are retrieved and the documents database is searched for documents having a user search term or a retrieved keyword. The identified documents are then ranked and presented to the user. Other search expansion techniques, and display techniques, are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: News Distribution Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Alton Peters, Paul Matthew Hernacki
  • SEARCHING, SORTING, AND DISPLAYING VIDEO CLIPS AND SOUND FILES BY RELEVANCE
    Publication number: 20090313236
    Abstract: A documents database has a plurality of documents, including but not limited to text files, video clips and sound files. Each document is associated with at least one category of a plurality of categories in a categories database, and each category has at least one keyword. A search request having at least one search term is received from a user, and a categories database is searched for categories having a keyword corresponding to the user search term to identify first level categories. The other keywords from the identified first level categories are retrieved and the documents database is searched for documents having a user search term or a retrieved keyword. The identified documents are then ranked and presented to the user. Other search expansion techniques, and display techniques, are also discussed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: NEWS DISTRIBUTION NETWORK, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Matthew Hernacki, Gregory Alton Peters