Patents by Inventor William N. Schilit
William N. Schilit 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).
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Patent number: 9621703Abstract: A user may associate a mobile device such as a smartphone with a public device by imitating a movement pattern for a target with a movement pattern of the mobile device. The physical movement of the smartphone may be compared to the movement data for the target. If there is a match, the public device and the mobile device may be associated with one another. The association may allow a user to interact with the public device using the smartphone.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Roy Want, William N. Schilit
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Publication number: 20160323434Abstract: A user may associate a mobile device such as a smartphone with a public device by imitating a movement pattern for a target with a movement pattern of the mobile device. The physical movement of the smartphone may be compared to the movement data for the target. If there is a match, the public device and the mobile device may be associated with one another. The association may allow a user to interact with the public device using the smartphone.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Roy Want, William N. Schilit
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Patent number: 9413872Abstract: A user may associate an electronic device such as a smartphone with a public device by imitating a pattern for a target with a gesture of the mobile device. The physical movement of the smartphone may be compared to the movement data for the target. If there is a match, the public device and the electronic device may be associated with one another. The association may allow a user to interact with the public device using the smartphone.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Roy Want, William N. Schilit
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Patent number: 9323827Abstract: Key terms for similar passages from a large corpus are identified and used to enhance searching and browsing the corpus. The corpus contains multiple documents such as the text of books. Browsing by concept is supported by identifying a set of similar passages or quotations in documents stored in the corpus and assigning key terms to passages which links conceptually related passages together. The context of each passage instance is identified and can include, for example, the text surrounding the passage. The contexts of all similar passage instances are analyzed in order to identify key terms for the similar passage. The related key terms are analyzed to identify relationships among the key terms from different similar passage sets. The key terms can be used as a basis for navigating the documents in the corpus. The key terms enable browsing the documents in the corpus by concepts referenced in the documents.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2008Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: William N. Schilit, Okan Kolak
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Patent number: 9215286Abstract: A system for creating an activity-based social includes receiving information from a computing device of a participant in an activity, and determining that the information qualifies the participant for membership in a social network associated with the activity. The system also includes associating the participant with the social network, and enabling access, by the participant, to an electronic portal that provides access to the social network.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Goolge IncInventors: William N. Schilit, Roy Want, Bay-Wei Chang, Yang Li, Shumin Zhai, Ed Huai-Hsin Chi, Elin R. Pedersen
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Publication number: 20150271312Abstract: A user may associate an electronic device such as a smartphone with a public device by imitating a pattern for a target with a gesture of the mobile device. The physical movement of the smartphone may be compared to the movement data for the target. If there is a match, the public device and the electronic device may be associated with one another. The association may allow a user to interact with the public device using the smartphone.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Inventors: Roy Want, William N. Schilit
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Patent number: 8935547Abstract: A method and apparatus for user activity-based dynamic power management and policy creation for mobile platforms are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the monitoring of one or more sensor values of a mobile platform device to gather sensor activity data. Once the sensor activity data is gathered, the user state may be predicted according to the gathered user activity and an updated user state model. In one embodiment, the user state model is updated according to the sensor activity data. In one embodiment, a switch occurs from the present power management policy to a new power management policy if the new user state differs from a present user state by a predetermined amount. In one embodiment, at least one time-out parameter of a selected power management policy may be adjusted to comply with a predicted user state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Georgios N. Theocharous, Nilesh N. Shah, Uttam K. Sengupta, William N. Schilit, Kelan C. Silvester, Robert A. Dunstan
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Patent number: 8874594Abstract: A method for incorporating information pertaining to geographic locations previously visited by a user into a search. The method includes: obtaining location information corresponding to a user account; determining, from the location information, one or more geographic locations that correspond to the location information; providing a user interface that includes a prompt that accepts search terms as input to a search query and an option to include a group of one or more geographic locations in the search query; and providing for display results related to the search terms and to one or more geographic locations in the group of one or more geographic locations when the option to include the group of one or more geographic locations is selected.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2013Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Roy Want, William N. Schilit
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Publication number: 20140222798Abstract: A method for incorporating information pertaining to geographic locations previously visited by a user into a search. The method includes: obtaining location information corresponding to a user account; determining, from the location information, one or more geographic locations that correspond to the location information; providing a user interface that includes a prompt that accepts search terms as input to a search query and an option to include a group of one or more geographic locations in the search query; and providing for display results related to the search terms and to one or more geographic locations in the group of one or more geographic locations when the option to include the group of one or more geographic locations is selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Roy Want, William N. Schilit
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Patent number: 8433705Abstract: A method searches a set of information using a computer. The method generates a set of search results based on a search query. Then, without further user input, the method generates a set of candidate facets, where each of the candidate facets can be used to select a subset of the search results. The method ranks the candidate facets in accordance with selectivity of the candidate facets and selects a plurality of facets from among the candidate facets for presentation to the user. The selection is in accordance with the rankings of the candidate facets. The method formats the presentation facets for display to the user. In response to user selection of a presentation facet, the method generates a revised search query comprising the original search query and the selected presentation facet, and generates a revised set of search results based on the revised search query.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2010Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Mark H. Dredze, William N. Schilit
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Publication number: 20130080807Abstract: A method and apparatus for user activity-based dynamic power management and policy creation for mobile platforms are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the monitoring of one or more sensor values of a mobile platform device to gather sensor activity data. Once the sensor activity data is gathered, the user state may be predicted according to the gathered user activity and an updated user state model. In one embodiment, the user state model is updated according to the sensor activity data. In one embodiment, a switch occurs from the present power management policy to a new power management policy if the new user state differs from a present user state by a predetermined amount. In one embodiment, at least one time-out parameter of a selected power management policy may be adjusted to comply with a predicted user state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Inventors: Georgios N. Theocharous, Nilesh N. Shah, Uttam K. Sengupta, William N. Schilit, Kelan C. Silvester, Robert A. Dunstan
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Patent number: 8316247Abstract: A method and apparatus for user activity-based dynamic power management and policy creation for mobile platforms are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the monitoring of one or more sensor values of a mobile platform device to gather sensor activity data. Once the sensor activity data is gathered, the user state may be predicted according to the gathered user activity and an updated user state model. In one embodiment, the user state model is updated according to the sensor activity data. In one embodiment, a switch occurs from the present power management policy to a new power management policy if the new user state differs from a present user state by a predetermined amount. In one embodiment, at least one time-out parameter of a selected power management policy may be adjusted to comply with a predicted user state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Georgios N. Theocharous, Nilesh N. Shah, Uttam K. Sengupta, William N. Schilit, Kelan C. Silvester, Robert A. Dunstan
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Patent number: 8122032Abstract: A corpus contains digital text from multiple documents. A passage mining engine identifies similar passages in the documents and stores data describing the similarities. The passage mining engine groups similar passages into groups based on degree of similarity or other criteria. The passage mining engine ranks the similar passages found in the text corpus based on quality or other criteria. A user interface is presented that includes hypertext links associated with the similar passages that allow a user to navigate the documents.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2007Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: William N. Schilit, Okan Kolak, Adam Mathes
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Publication number: 20110093725Abstract: A method and apparatus for user activity-based dynamic power management and policy creation for mobile platforms are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the monitoring of one or more sensor values of a mobile platform device to gather sensor activity data. Once the sensor activity data is gathered, the user state may be predicted according to the gathered user activity and an updated user state model. In one embodiment, the user state model is updated according to the sensor activity data. In one embodiment, a switch occurs from the present power management policy to a new power management policy if the new user state differs from a present user state by a predetermined amount. In one embodiment, at least one time-out parameter of a selected power management policy may be adjusted to comply with a predicted user state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventors: Georgios N. Theocharous, Nilesh N. Shah, Uttam K. Sengupta, William N. Schilit, Kelan C. Silvester, Robert A. Dunstan
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Patent number: 7861099Abstract: A method and apparatus for user activity-based dynamic power management and policy creation for mobile platforms are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the monitoring of one or more sensor values of a mobile platform device to gather sensor activity data. Once the sensor activity data is gathered, the user state may be predicted according to the gathered user activity and an updated user state model. In one embodiment, the user state model is updated according to the sensor activity data. In one embodiment, a switch occurs from the present power management policy to a new power management policy if the new user state differs from a present user state by a predetermined amount. In one embodiment, at least one time-out parameter of a selected power management policy may be adjusted to comply with a predicted user state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2006Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Georgios N. Theocharous, Nilesh N. Shah, Uttam K. Sengupta, William N. Schilit, Kelan C. Silvester, Robert A. Dunstan
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Patent number: 7861098Abstract: A method and apparatus for user activity-based dynamic power management and policy creation for mobile platforms are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the monitoring of one or more sensor values of a mobile platform device to gather user activity data. Once the user activity data is gathered, the user state may be predicted according to the gathered user activity and an updated user state model. In one embodiment, the user state model is updated according to the user activity data. In one embodiment, a switch occurs from the current power management policy to a new power management policy if the new user state differs from a current user state by a predetermined amount. In one embodiment, at least one time-out parameter of a selected power management policy may be adjusted to comply with a predicted user state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2006Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Georgios N. Theocharous, Nilesh N. Shah, Uttam K. Sengupta, William N. Schilit
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Patent number: 7797447Abstract: A Web browser provides the ability to separate content and hyper-links from a Web page and provides a list of the links for viewing on a mobile device display screen along with links to telephone numbers, addresses, email addresses, and other communication-related information in the Web page detected by a data detector portion of the Web browser to further enhance usability of the Web page information for mobile device users. Further, once a link is selected using the mobile device, a services portal link is provided to the mobile device display to provide selection of services to be performed on the selected link, such as faxing or printing.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2000Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: William N. Schilit, Jonathan James Trevor, Catherine Claire Marshall, Elizabeth F. Churchill
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Patent number: 7689167Abstract: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for operating an ensemble of wireless electronic devices based on user activity are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2005Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Uttam K. Sengupta, William N. Schilit, Tanzeem K. Choudhury, Matthai Philipose
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Publication number: 20090257565Abstract: A system and method for simultaneously conducting multiple telephone conversations is provided. In an embodiment, a user converses with one individual on a first channel while simultaneously transmitting audible utterances to a second individual or a second channel. The user can select the desired channel or channels and a desired phrase and an electronic representation of the selected phrase is transmitted over the selected channel(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Lester D. Nelson, Laurent Denoue, William N. Schilit, Elizabeth F. Churchill
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Patent number: 7546143Abstract: A system and method for simultaneously conducting multiple telephone conversations is provided. In an embodiment, a user converses with one individual on a first channel while simultaneously transmitting audible utterances to a second individual or a second channel. The user can select the desired channel or channels and a desired phrase and an electronic representation of the selected phrase is transmitted over the selected channel(s).Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2001Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lester D. Nelson, Laurent Denoue, William N. Schilit, Elizabeth F. Churchill