Patents by Inventor Timothy R. Bowden

Timothy R. Bowden 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 identifying companies with specific business objectives
    Patent number: 8145619
    Abstract: A method for identifying companies with specific business objectives that includes using existing sources of company firmographic data to identify a broad set of companies and associated websites, crawling the websites associated with the identified companies and indexing web site content for each of the identified companies with the specific business objective to realize indexed web content. The method further includes joining the company firmographic data with the indexed web content using a business objective common identifier to generate a store of joined structured firmographic data and indexed web content and presenting a display image representation of the store of joined structured firmographic data and indexed web content for user review. The display image further receives user input to score each of said companies identified therein, and using a search interface, querying the store of scored, joined structured firmographic data and indexed web content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy R. Bowden, Upendra Chitnis, Ildar K. Khabibrakhmanov, Richard D. Lawrence, Yan Liu, Prem Melville
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING COMPANIES WITH SPECIFIC BUSINESS OBJECTIVES
    Publication number: 20090204569
    Abstract: A method for identifying companies with specific business objectives that includes using existing sources of company firmographic data to identify a broad set of companies and associated websites, crawling the websites associated with the identified companies and indexing web site content for each of the identified companies with the specific business objective to realize indexed web content. The method further includes joining the company firmographic data with the indexed web content using a business objective common identifier to generate a store of joined structured firmographic data and indexed web content and presenting a display image representation of the store of joined structured firmographic data and indexed web content for user review. The display image further receives user input to score each of said companies identified therein, and using a search interface, querying the store of scored, joined structured firmographic data and indexed web content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy R. Bowden, Upendra Chitnis, Ildar K. Khabibrakhmanov, Richard D. Lawrence, Yan Liu, Prem Melville