Patents by Inventor William Randall Watler

William Randall Watler 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
    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
  • 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