Patents by Inventor Peter J. Newcomb

Peter J. Newcomb 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).

  • Method and system for ranking web pages in a search engine based on direct evidence of interest to end users
    Patent number: 9230024
    Abstract: A method and system for ranking Web pages in a Web search engine is described. One illustrative embodiment receives a Web search query from a particular user, the query including at least one keyword; identifies one or more Web pages that contain the at least one keyword; determines, for each of the one or more Web pages, a raw page ranking; adjusts the raw page ranking of each of at least one Web page among the one or more Web pages based on direct evidence of how interesting that Web page is to users to produce an adjusted page ranking, the direct evidence being derived from clickstream data collected from the users; and presents, as search results, the at least one Web page to the particular user in accordance with the adjusted page rankings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Young, Ioannis Pavlidis, William Randall Watler, Kimbal J. Musk, Peter J. Newcomb, Robert Reich
  • Method And System For Ranking Web Pages In A Search Engine Based On Direct Evidence Of Interest To End Users
    Publication number: 20130290288
    Abstract: A method and system for ranking Web pages in a Web search engine is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: David L. Young, Ioannis Pavlidis, William Randall, Kimbal J. Musk, Peter J. Newcomb, Robert Reich
  • Method and system for ranking web pages in a search engine based on direct evidence of interest to end users
    Patent number: 8442974
    Abstract: A method and system for ranking Web pages in a Web search engine is described. One illustrative embodiment receives a Web search query from a particular user, the query including at least one keyword; identifies one or more Web pages that contain the at least one keyword; determines, for each of the one or more Web pages, a raw page ranking; adjusts the raw page ranking of each of at least one Web page among the one or more Web pages based on direct evidence of how interesting that Web page is to users to produce an adjusted page ranking, the direct evidence being derived from clickstream data collected from the users; and presents, as search results, the at least one Web page to the particular user in accordance with the adjusted page rankings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Young, Ioannis Pavlidis, William Randall Watler, Kimbal J. Musk, Peter J. Newcomb, Robert Reich
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING WEB SEARCH RESULTS TO A PARTICULAR COMPUTER USER BASED ON THE POPULARITY OF THE SEARCH RESULTS WITH OTHER COMPUTER USERS
    Publication number: 20110087647
    Abstract: A system and method for providing Web search results to a particular computer user based on the popularity of the search results with other computer users is described. One embodiment monitors, using one or more servers, at least one Web service for new actions of sharing of Web content by computer users; identifies, from the new actions of sharing of Web content by computer users, a data item that satisfies predetermined interestingness criteria; parses the data item to obtain at least one Uniform Resource Locator (URL); crawls at least one Web page corresponding to the at least one URL to obtain the content of the at least one Web page; analyzes the content of the at least one Web page; and updates an index based on the content of the at least one Web page, the index being usable in processing a Web search query from a particular user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: Alessio Signorini, Ioannls Pavlids, Nathaniel Fisher, Scott Engstrom, Peter J. Newcomb, David L. Young, Ron Benson
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RANKING WEB PAGES IN A SEARCH ENGINE BASED ON DIRECT EVIDENCE OF INTEREST TO END USERS
    Publication number: 20090327281
    Abstract: A method and system for ranking Web pages in a Web search engine is described. One illustrative embodiment receives a Web search query from a particular user, the query including at least one keyword; identifies one or more Web pages that contain the at least one keyword; determines, for each of the one or more Web pages, a raw page ranking; adjusts the raw page ranking of each of at least one Web page among the one or more Web pages based on direct evidence of how interesting that Web page is to users to produce an adjusted page ranking, the direct evidence being derived from clickstream data collected from the users; and presents, as search results, the at least one Web page to the particular user in accordance with the adjusted page rankings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: David L. Young, Ioannis Pavlidis, William Randall Watler, Kimbal J. Musk, Peter J. Newcomb, Robert Reich