Patents by Inventor Sherry Marcus

Sherry Marcus 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).

  • Publication number: 20110246483
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more methods and/or systems described can perform receiving a pattern; determining that components of the received pattern match corresponding components of patterns that have not been rated by a user but have been rated by other users in the user's community; calculating multiple predictive ratings corresponding to the patterns; ranking the patterns based on the predictive ratings; and recommending one or more of the top-ranked patterns to the user. In one or more embodiments, calculating multiple predictive ratings corresponding to the patterns can include calculating multiple correlation coefficients. In one example, calculating multiple correlation coefficients can be based on the other users' ratings of the patterns. In another example, calculating multiple correlation coefficients can be based on the other users' ratings of one or more components of the patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: 21ST CENTURY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Darr, Sherry Marcus