Patents Represented by Attorney Chris A. Watt
  • Patent number: 8312364
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for publishing an announcement of a registered domain name and a link to an associated website on a social networking website. A control panel for the registered domain name and associated website may be displayed on a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Tiffany Rowe, Sean Hayes, Patrick Dolan
  • Patent number: 8276057
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for posting a search engine result to a feed from a social networking website. The feed may include an announcement of a registered domain name and a link to an associated website. A control panel for the registered domain name and associated website may be displayed on a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Tiffany Rowe, Sean Hayes, Patrick Dolan
  • Patent number: 8260913
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for a user requesting a file or a plurality of file chunks stored in a file storage system, and a customized metadata stored in data storage. One or more tracker servers may determine file locations in the file system, and the location of the customized metadata in the data storage. These locations may be returned to an application, possibly an API, which may determine one or more URLs for the file locations and perform an HTTP request to read the file or file chunks from the locations or URLs in the file system. The file or file chunks, along with the customized metadata, may then be returned and displayed to the user that requested them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Knapp, Brian Krouse, Joseph Miller, Eric Nilsen, Brent Strange
  • Patent number: 8234372
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for a user uploading a file and a customized metadata about the file to a file storage system. This information may be forwarded to an application, possibly an API, which may divide the file into a plurality of file chunks if the file is greater than a predetermined file size. One or more tracker servers may check a database to locate optimal file locations for the file or file chunks to be stored within the file storage system. These optimal locations may be returned from the tracker servers to the application/API which may perform an HTTP request to write the file to the file storage system. The file write may be validated and finalized, and the successful write may be displayed to the user on a user interface on a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Knapp, Brian Krouse, Joseph Miller, Eric Nilsen, Brent Strange
  • Patent number: 8209379
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for redirecting a user to a book's website after submitting a request for information about the book. The book's website or a link to the website may be displayed to the user on a client browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Warren Adelman
  • Patent number: 8171161
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for returning website content after being requested by a client. A dynamic component and a rewritten URL may be requested and a static component may be requested, which may be updated. The combination of static and dynamic website content may be returned to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Greg Schwimer
  • Patent number: 8156180
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for redirecting a user to a book's website after submitting a request for information about the book. The book's website or a link to the website may be displayed to the user on a client browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Warren Adelman
  • Patent number: 8086684
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for detecting and mitigating abuse of undeliverable email or “bounced” emails. An administrator may import a list of email addresses for one or more contacts. The opt-in software may determine if each email address in the list of email addresses is opted in to receive an email distribution, and if so, a bounce detection software may determine if each email address is found in a database of known undeliverable or “bounced” email addresses. If so, an abuse-mitigation software may defer importing the list of email addresses and display an alert referring the administrator to an abuse department for review of the account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Hayes, Ben Butler, Jason Steiner
  • Patent number: 8078757
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for returning website content after being requested by a client. A dynamic component and a rewritten URL may be requested and a static component may be requested, which may be updated. The combination of static and dynamic website content may be returned to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Greg Schwimer
  • Patent number: 8073970
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for returning website content after being requested by a client. A static component may be requested, which may be updated, and a dynamic component may be requested. The combination of static and dynamic website content may be returned to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Greg Schwimer
  • Patent number: 8069266
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for returning website content after being requested by a client. A static component may be requested, which may be updated and a dynamic component may be requested. The combination of static and dynamic website content may be returned to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Greg Schwimer
  • Patent number: 8069187
    Abstract: Methods and systems of the present invention allow for displaying suggested concept-based results. An exemplary method may comprise the steps of receiving a combination domain name and top level domain (TLD), determining from ontological calculations suggested TLDs related to the concept of the combination and displaying the suggested combination of the domain name with suggested TLDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Warren Adelman, Matthew Jallo, Shawn Fitzpatrick
  • Patent number: 8036945
    Abstract: Methods of the present invention allow a static product category to be received from a user for a product on an ecommerce site. The user may then be enabled to dynamically associate the product with the static product category using a metadata tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Speers, Levente Batizy
  • Patent number: 8005859
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention allow a file owner to upload and store a file to a File Storage Area. The file owner may synchronize a periodic clock to a time-based approval period during which the file owner may grant permissions to access the file. A file owner interface may store contact information for the file owner, and ping the information, substituting alternate contact information as necessary, alerting the file owner of any failure of the contact information prior to expiration of the time-based approval period. After expiration of the time-based approval period, grant of file permissions may be automatically approved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Wagner
  • Patent number: 7979466
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention allow a file owner to upload and store a file to a File Storage Area. Through a series of communications, a file owner may provide an intended file recipient access to the file without a request by a file requester. The file owner may grant permissions to access the file and notify the intended file recipient of the results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Wagner
  • Patent number: 7962438
    Abstract: Methods and systems of the present invention allow for displaying suggested concept-based results. An exemplary method may comprise the steps of receiving a domain name, determining from ontological calculations suggested domain names related to the concept of the domain name and displaying the suggested domain names.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Warren Adelman, Matthew Jallo, Shawn Fitzpatrick
  • Patent number: 7953813
    Abstract: A system and method of the present invention allow communication via electronic messages between a Customer and a domain name Registrar, avoiding traditional electronic mail (email) communication. Email messages may not be delivered to the Customer for various reasons including the situations where the Customer employs anti-SPAM protective technologies. The system and method of the present invention establish a Communication Link between a Customer's Computer and Registrar's Server, which avoids anti-SPAM protective technologies and email messaging altogether. Information relating to the communication may be stored on a database and the system may present the Customer with various options relating to a domain service. The implementation of this invention would result in a higher rate of delivered messages to the Customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Tim Ruiz
  • Patent number: 7953812
    Abstract: A system and method of the present invention allow communication via electronic messages between a Customer and a domain name Registrar, avoiding traditional electronic mail (email) communication. Email messages may not be delivered to the Customer for various reasons including the situations where the Customer employs anti-SPAM protective technologies. The system and method of the present invention establish a Communication Link between a Customer's Computer and Registrar's Server, which avoids anti-SPAM protective technologies and email messaging altogether. Information relating to the communication may be stored on a database and the system may present the Customer with various options relating to a domain service. The implementation of this invention would result in a higher rate of delivered messages to the Customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Tim Ruiz
  • Patent number: 7904445
    Abstract: Methods and systems of the present invention allow for displaying suggested concept-based results. An exemplary method may comprise the steps of receiving search terms, determining from ontological calculations suggested search results related to the concept of the search terms and displaying the suggested search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Warren Adelman, Matthew Jallo, Shawn Fitzpatrick
  • Patent number: 7725363
    Abstract: Methods of the present invention allow a user to be enabled to create a metadata tag associated with a product on an ecommerce site. Using the metadata tag, a product category associated with the product may be dynamically created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Speers, Levente Batizy