Patents Assigned to RockMelt, Inc.
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Patent number: 8510379Abstract: A browser obtains content items from a content server, where the content items may include web pages, any individual content within a web page, items fetched via a web services-based API of the content server, and/or items in a feed. Additionally, an interaction module of the browser obtains information about interactions with the content items by those with some relationship to a user of the browser, such as the user's friends on a social networking site. Based on the obtained information, the browser provides an illustration of the information in visual association with the content item. For example, the browser may directly highlight or otherwise visually emphasize the content item itself, or it may provide an indicator for the browser or web page as a whole, or it may display some or all of the information.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: RockMelt, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Howes, Eric Vishria
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Publication number: 20130159271Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) module receives textual input from a user, determines recommendations based on the received input and the user's navigation network (that includes additional users associated with the user). The GUI interface then determines properties associated with the determined recommendations, and presents the one or more recommendations and graphical representations of their associated properties for display to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: ROCKMELT, INC.Inventor: Eyal Ophir
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Patent number: 8386915Abstract: To enhance the user experience for users of an application, such as a web browser, the application obtains statistics on shortened links that are displayed in an application or that are associated with displayed unshortened links. The statistics may include, for example, a number of times that content available via an unshortened link was viewed via its associated shortened link. The statistics are applied to enhance the ability of users of the application to locate relevant content. For example, the statistics may be shown in visual association with a link, or a set of links may be ordered at least in part based on the statistics associated with the links, or the links may be visually emphasized based on the statistics.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: RockMelt, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Howes, Eric Vishria
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Patent number: 8356051Abstract: To provide an improved user experience for users of a web browser, embodiments of the invention save queries entered by a user via the web browser. The queries may be for execution on different network search services, such as search engines, social networks, message posting services, and the like. At various times in the future, the web browser then executes the saved search queries on their corresponding network search services, identifies search results that are new and highly relevant to the user, and provides the identified search results to the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2012Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: RockMelt, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Howes, Eric Vishria
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Publication number: 20120324327Abstract: To provide a shortened version of a link that conveys useful information about the link's associated content, embodiments of the invention generate a shortened version of the link that comprises meaningful information about the original link. For example, in some embodiments such information includes portions of the link itself, such as domain and/or path components of the link's address text, content to which the link points, such as the text of a web page or other document referenced by the link's address text, or a rating of the content to which the link points. Thus, rather than generating an essentially random link, embodiments of the invention adaptively generate the shortened link to take into account the information about the link. Consequently, a user viewing the adaptively-generated shortened link can determine useful information about the content to which the shortened link leads based on the text of the shortened link itself.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: ROCKMELT, INC.Inventors: Eric Vishria, Timothy Howes, Robert Churchill
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Patent number: 8281232Abstract: To provide a shortened version of a link that conveys useful information about the link's associated content, embodiments of the invention generate a shortened version of the link that comprises meaningful information about the original link. For example, in some embodiments such information includes portions of the link itself, such as domain and/or path components of the link's address text, content to which the link points, such as the text of a web page or other document referenced by the link's address text, or a rating of the content to which the link points. Thus, rather than generating an essentially random link, embodiments of the invention adaptively generate the shortened link to take into account the information about the link. Consequently, a user viewing the adaptively-generated shortened link can determine useful information about the content to which the shortened link leads based on the text of the shortened link itself.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: RockMelt, Inc.Inventors: Eric Vishria, Timothy Howes, Robert Churchill
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Publication number: 20120233145Abstract: To provide an improved user experience for users of a web browser, embodiments of the invention save queries entered by a user via the web browser. The queries may be for execution on different network search services, such as search engines, social networks, message posting services, and the like. At various times in the future, the web browser then executes the saved search queries on their corresponding network search services, identifies search results that are new and highly relevant to the user, and provides the identified search results to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: RockMelt, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Howes, Eric Vishria
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Publication number: 20120215846Abstract: A browser obtains content items from a content server, where the content items may include web pages, any individual content within a web page, items fetched via a web services-based API of the content server, and/or items in a feed. Additionally, an interaction module of the browser obtains information about interactions with the content items by those with some relationship to a user of the browser, such as the user's friends on a social networking site. Based on the obtained information, the browser provides an illustration of the information in visual association with the content item. For example, the browser may directly highlight or otherwise visually emphasize the content item itself, or it may provide an indicator for the browser or web page as a whole, or it may display some or all of the information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2011Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: ROCKMELT, INC.Inventors: Timothy Howes, Eric Vishria
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Patent number: 8209349Abstract: To provide an improved user experience for users of a web browser, embodiments of the invention save queries entered by a user via the web browser. The queries may be for execution on different network search services, such as search engines, social networks, message posting services, and the like. At various times in the future, the web browser then executes the saved search queries on their corresponding network search services, identifies search results that are new and highly relevant to the user, and provides the identified search results to the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: RockMelt, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Howes, Eric Vishria
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Publication number: 20120023390Abstract: To enhance the user experience for users of an application, such as a web browser, the application obtains statistics on shortened links that are displayed in an application or that are associated with displayed unshortened links. The statistics may include, for example, a number of times that content available via an unshortened link was viewed via its associated shortened link. The statistics are applied to enhance the ability of users of the application to locate relevant content. For example, the statistics may be shown in visual association with a link, or a set of links may be ordered at least in part based on the statistics associated with the links, or the links may be visually emphasized based on the statistics.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2010Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: ROCKMELT, INC.Inventors: Timothy Howes, Eric Vishria
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Publication number: 20110264992Abstract: To provide a shortened version of a link that conveys useful information about the link's associated content, embodiments of the invention generate a shortened version of the link that comprises meaningful information about the original link. For example, in some embodiments such information includes portions of the link itself, such as domain and/or path components of the link's address text, content to which the link points, such as the text of a web page or other document referenced by the link's address text, or a rating of the content to which the link points. Thus, rather than generating an essentially random link, embodiments of the invention adaptively generate the shortened link to take into account the information about the link. Consequently, a user viewing the adaptively-generated shortened link can determine useful information about the content to which the shortened link leads based on the text of the shortened link itself.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2010Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: ROCKMELT, INC.Inventors: Eric Vishria, Timothy Howes, Robert Churchill
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Publication number: 20110191314Abstract: To provide an improved user experience for users of a web browser, embodiments of the invention save queries entered by a user via the web browser. The queries may be for execution on different network search services, such as search engines, social networks, message posting services, and the like. At various times in the future, the web browser then executes the saved search queries on their corresponding network search services, identifies search results that are new and highly relevant to the user, and provides the identified search results to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2010Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: ROCKMELT, INC.Inventors: Timothy Howes, Eric Vishria
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Publication number: 20110173569Abstract: An application such as a web browser obtains a set of data items, such as search results received in response to a search query, or a set of articles received from a web feed, the data items collectively comprising links to do external documents, such as web pages. Previewing functionality enables the application to pre-fetch content of the documents associated with the links, and to pre-render images of the documents. Thus, when the user selects a link to preview, a preview is rapidly displayed by reading the pre-rendered image corresponding to the selected link.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: ROCKMELT, INC.Inventors: Timothy Howes, Eric Vishria
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Patent number: D677268Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: RockMelt, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Howes, Eric Vishria
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Patent number: D678313Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2011Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: RockMelt, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Howes, Eric Vishria