Patents Assigned to The Motley Fool, LLC
  • System, method, and computer program product for scoring items based on user sentiment and for determining the proficiency of predictors
    Patent number: 7882006
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems, methods, computer program products, and combinations and subcombinations thereof for scoring items based on user sentiment and for determining the proficiency of a predictor and for aiding an investment decision on an item by an individual. The invention includes one or more user devices and a prediction system server having a sentiment rating module, a user proficiency ranking module, a content creation module, and a database. Devices access the prediction system server directly via a communications medium or indirectly through links provided on a third party server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: The Motley Fool, LLC
    Inventors: David Herr Gardner, Tracy Randall Sigler, Todd Lewis Etter, Robert Glenn Etter, Jr.
  • System, method, and computer program product for scoring items based on user sentiment and for determining the proficiency of predictors
    Patent number: 7813986
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems, methods, computer program products, and combinations and subcombinations thereof for scoring items based on user sentiment and for aiding an investment decision on an item by an individual. The invention includes one or more user devices and a prediction system server having a sentiment rating module, a user proficiency ranking module, a content creation module, and a database. Devices access the prediction system server directly via a communications medium or indirectly through links provided on a third party server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: The Motley Fool, LLC
    Inventors: David Herr Gardner, Tracy Randall Sigler, Todd Lewis Etter, Robert Glenn Etter, Jr., John Earnest Keeling, Jr.
  • System, method, and computer program product for scoring items based on user sentiment and for determining the proficiency of predictors
    Patent number: 7769660
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems, methods, computer program products, and combinations and subcombinations thereof for scoring items based on user sentiment and for determining the proficiency of a predictor and for aiding an investment decision on an item by an individual. The invention includes one or more user devices and a prediction system server having a sentiment rating module, a user proficiency ranking module, a content creation module, and a database. Devices access the prediction system server directly via a communications medium or indirectly through links provided on a third party server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: The Motley Fool, LLC
    Inventors: David Herr Gardner, Tracy Randall Sigler, Todd Lewis Etter, Robert Glenn Etter, Jr.