Patents Examined by K. Shanmugasundaram
  • Patent number: 9721014
    Abstract: A method includes determining, via a database interface system, a first number of database queries received from a query source during a time period. The method includes preventing, via the database interface system, access to requested information by the query source when the first number does not satisfy a first threshold. The method also includes preventing, via the database interface system, access to the requested information by the query source when no click-through commands associated with a second number of consecutive prior search results were received during the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Balachander Krishnamurthy