Patents by Inventor Stephen Daniel Bochinski

Stephen Daniel Bochinski 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).

  • Bridging social silos for knowledge discovery and sharing
    Patent number: 8793312
    Abstract: Techniques are provided herein for obtaining network usage information about a plurality of users, analyzing the network usage information to detect a plurality of subjects and determine a set of relationship scores describing the strength of the relationship between users and subjects, and analyzing the sets of relationship scores to detect a plurality of virtual communities formed among the users. The virtual communities are used to detect subjects to recommend to members of the virtual communities, such as topics or content items that other users of the community have found of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yicheng Tao, Stephen Daniel Bochinski, Sonali Mihir Sambhus
  • Bridging Social Silos for Knowledge Discovery and Sharing
    Publication number: 20120296967
    Abstract: Techniques are provided herein for obtaining network usage information about a plurality of users, analyzing the network usage information to detect a plurality of subjects and determine a set of relationship scores describing the strength of the relationship between users and subjects, and analyzing the sets of relationship scores to detect a plurality of virtual communities formed among the users. The virtual communities are used to detect subjects to recommend to members of the virtual communities, such as topics or content items that other users of the community have found of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Yicheng Tao, Stephen Daniel Bochinski, Sonali Mihir Sambhus