Patents Examined by Luke S Wassum
  • Patent number: 7464086
    Abstract: A system for displaying products or services for purchase on any document displayed on any computer device, comprising conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the document to determine the primary subject matter of the document and/or keywords in the document, selecting products which are relevant to the subject matter and keywords of the document, either by manual selection or by automatic selection. Conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the product or service descriptions, to determine the keywords in the product descriptions, and matching the keywords from the document with the keywords from the product descriptions accomplish automatic selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M. Black, Anthony Bryan Waters
  • Patent number: 7464108
    Abstract: A method of managing ideas includes the following steps: (a) maintaining a computer database for accumulating ideas for prospectively patentable inventions; (b) systematically establishing contractual obligations by contributors of said ideas to said database to transfer property rights to inventions respectively derived at least in part from said contributed ideas to a proprietor of said database or to a party in concert with said proprietor; and (c) prior to filing any patent applications for inventions respectively derived at least in part from said accumulated ideas, systematically publishing said accumulated ideas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignees: Sorensen Research and Development Trust
    Inventors: Jens Erik Sorensen, Jens Ole Sorensen
  • Patent number: 7461058
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide a recommendation server that receives a recommendation request from a user of a client computer. The recommendation server contains software to provide recommendations to the user. To provide the recommendations, the recommendation server applies a constraint filter and a recommendation filter on a set of items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Thalveg Data Flow LLC
    Inventors: John Rauser, Valerie Guralnik
  • Patent number: 7457823
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems and software for analyzing data. In particular embodiments, for example, a set of data about a web site may be analyzed to determine whether the web site is likely to be illegitimate (e.g., to be involved in a fraudulent scheme, such as a phishing scheme, the sale of gray market goods, etc.). In an exemplary embodiment, a set of data may be divided into a plurality of components (each of which, in some cases, may be considered a separate data set). Merely by way of example, a set of data may comprise data gathered from a plurality of data sources, and/or each component may comprise data gathered from one of the plurality of data sources. As another example, a set of data may comprise a document with a plurality of sections, and each component may comprise one of the plurality of sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Markmonitor Inc.
    Inventors: Ihab Shraim, Mark Shull
  • Patent number: 7457796
    Abstract: A method for improved data sharing within a cluster of nodes having a database management system. The method defines a virtual replicated table as being useable in a hybrid of a shared-cache and shared-nothing architecture. The virtual replicated table is a physically single table sharable among a plurality of cluster nodes for data read operations and not sharable with other cluster nodes for data modification operations. Default owner node is assigned for each virtual replicated table to ensure the page validity and provide requested pages to the requesting node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Scott David Lashley, Paul Sherwood Taylor
  • Patent number: 7433884
    Abstract: A portable database can be used by a client organization with substantial numbers of patents to identify target organizations that may be interested in licensing said patents. The database combines the power of citation analysis for identifying licensing targets with the power of citation neighbor searching for identifying similar patents and for overcoming some of the weaknesses inherent with citation analysis. A company can identify targets outside of its core industry that may be interested in licensing the technology in its patents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignees: Chi Research, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony F. Breitzman
  • Patent number: 7428522
    Abstract: Information is generated indicative of frequency of search terms presented to at least one online search service. As event indications, indicative of user interaction generally with front end servers, are being provided for persistent storage, ones of the event indications that are indicative of search events are detected. The detected ones of the search event indications are processed and it is determined, based at least in part thereon, by location, frequency data indicative of a frequency of each of a plurality of search terms presented to the at least one online search service. An indication of at least some of the frequency data is caused to be associated with indications of locations to which the frequency data corresponds. For example, the frequency data may be displayed superimposed on a map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventor: Vijay Raghunathan
  • Patent number: 7412461
    Abstract: The food safety system and method of the present invention provides a comprehensive consumer risk distribution model, which can be applied to any food item. Additionally, the present invention automatically evaluates consumer risk based on how much contaminated food is at each stage of the food distribution process according to the consumer risk distribution model, allowing for quick and accurate determinations as to the efficacy of a trace recall effort. A further element of the present invention provides expert analysis of data to detect and identify food events from sporadic information. Finally, the real time detection system provides early warning data in order to intercept isolated food contamination events before the contaminated food products reach the consuming public.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: BTSafety LLC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Sholl, Andrew Martin Jaine, Susan Kay Harlander
  • Patent number: 7392248
    Abstract: Improved method of and apparatus for joining and aggregating data elements integrated within a relational database management system (RDBMS) using a non-relational multi-dimensional data structure (MDD). The improved RDBMS system of the present invention can be used to realize achieving a significant increase in system performance (e.g. deceased access/search time), user flexibility and ease of use. The improved RDBMS system of the present invention can be used to realize an improved Data Warehouse for supporting on-line analytical processing (OLAP) operations or to realize an improved informational database system or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Hyperroll Israel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Reuven Bakalash, Guy Shaked, Joseph Caspi
  • Patent number: 7386579
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for creating and managing a database. Product test results are efficiently stored in a database in such a way that the database updates test result entries on the basis of result changes as successive build tests are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Inventors: Barnaby Henderson, Keir Finlow-Bates
  • Patent number: 7386555
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a post-session advertising system that may be used in media such as computers, personal digital assistants, telephones, televisions, radios, and similar devices. In one preferred embodiment, a first display is viewed in a first platform in the foreground of a media by a viewer. A viewer initiates a load triggering event and in response, a post-session platform is opened to display a post-session display in the background of the media. Significantly, in the preferred embodiment, the post-session platform stays in said background until a view triggering event occurs. The type of platform and display used will depend significantly on the media. In one preferred embodiment of the present invention an optional focus timer is activated by the view triggering event to allow an accurate assessment of the actual time a viewer focuses on the display in the post-session platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Inventors: Andrew J. Vilcauskas, Jr., Robert D. Bloodgood, III, Matthew G. Middleton
  • Patent number: 7383272
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for managing information is disclosed. The information is stored in a database accessible to a plurality of users. A part of the information is isolated from the database. A user can modify the isolated part of the information. The modified information is compared with the isolated information and a set of changes is extracted from the comparison. The set of changes are appended to the information in the database. Each part of the information in the database has a version associated with it. When changes to a part of the information are appended, the modified part is versioned in an incremental fashion. Prior versions of a part of the information can be accessed and modified by the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Boardwalktech, Inc.
    Inventors: Ganesh Krishnan, Sarang Kulkarni, Dharmesh Kirit Dadbhawala
  • Patent number: 7353229
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a post-session advertising system that may be used in media such as computers, personal digital assistants, telephones, televisions, radios, and similar devices. In one preferred embodiment, a first display is viewed in a first platform in the foreground of a media by a viewer. A viewer initiates a load triggering event and in response, a post-session platform is opened to display a post-session display in the background of the media. Significantly, in the preferred embodiment, the post-session platform stays in said background until a view triggering event occurs. The type of platform and display used will depend significantly on the media. In one preferred embodiment of the present invention an optional focus timer is activated by the view triggering event to allow an accurate assessment of the actual time a viewer focuses on the display in the post-session platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Inventors: Andrew J. Vilcauskas, Jr., Robert D. Bloodgood, III, Matthew G. Middleton
  • Patent number: 7346614
    Abstract: This invention relates to the subject matter identified in the title. An effective interaction is conducted by giving the user adequate information during information search so as to improve the search efficiency and accuracy. A CPU initially sets a set G containing deleted solution candidates to null and receives input for a search question Q from the user (S1). The CPU refers to a database storage section and creates a solution candidate set F as the result of the search of the database (D) in response to the search question Q by using the similarity of labels defined by a thesaurus T or a subset R of the thesaurus T (S2). The CPU presents the user the information concerning the solution candidates and search question Q as the help for interaction on a display part (S3). The user can check if there is a solution among the solution candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignees: Japan Science and Technology Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventor: Koiti Hasida
  • Patent number: 7343372
    Abstract: A method of document retrieval is provided. The method includes assigning concept labels to documents contained in a collection according to grammar rules, receiving a query, converting the query to a query concept using the grammar rules, and mapping the query concept to a concept label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jane Wen Chang, Kenney Ng
  • Patent number: 7340457
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for customizing television content uses an application (70) operating on a computing platform (12) associated with a display device (40). The platform (12) accesses a display component database (48) containing display components (6). The application (70) includes a profile database (80) that stores a viewer profile (84) and a filter module (76) that is coupled to the profile database (80). The filter module (76) accesses the viewer profile (84) and display components (6) and, in response, selects a preferred display component (6?) according to the viewer profile (84) and the display components (6). The preferred display component (6?) facilitates the targeting of viewers based on demographic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Todd Killian, Philip Thrift
  • Patent number: 7340489
    Abstract: Accessing stored data includes providing a virtual storage area having a table of pointers that point to sections of at least two other storage areas, where the virtual storage area contains no sections of data, in response to a request for accessing data of the virtual storage area, determining which particular one of the other storage areas contain the data, and accessing the data on the particular one of the other storage areas using the table of pointers. Accessing stored data may also include associating a first one of the other storage areas with the virtual storage area, where the virtual area device represents a copy of data of the first one of the other storage areas. Accessing stored data may also include causing all of the pointers of the table to initially point to sections of the first one of the other storage areas when the virtual storage area is initially associated with the first one of the other storage areas. The storage areas may be storage devices. The sections may be tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Natan Vishlitzky, Haim Kopylovitz, Hana Moreshet, Adi Ofer
  • Patent number: 7337172
    Abstract: An interactive system provides journaling and life coaching. Storage of information, images and the like is provided. Users can request referrals to product and service vendors providing appropriate advice, goods and services as may be desired at specific stages of life. The system can be divided into life phase portions, to assist in keeping of journals or memories at specific phases of life, and to provide information and advice appropriate to experiences one encounters at those particular phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Rosario Giacobbe
    Inventor: Saul Shapiro
  • Patent number: RE40520
    Abstract: Machine automated techniques are described for a method of data processing called Relationships Processing. A computing system is disclosed which provides for the high speed recording and extraction of data objects (entities) and for the development data representing a queried relationship between the entities. The system is expandable to handle the relatively voluminous data bases of large, commercial data repositories. A user defines set of entities and allowed relationships between the entities. The user can expand this set of allowed entities and relationships at any time during the life of the system without reprogramming or compiling of computer program code or disrupting concurrent operational use of the system. Large systems can now be built that are no longer limited to a scope of design requirements known during initial systems development.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Financial Systems Technology (Intellectual Property) Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Karol Doktor
  • Patent number: RE40526
    Abstract: A relationships processing computing system provides for the recording and extraction of data objects (entities) and for development data representing a queried relationship between data objects (entities). The set of entities and relationships may be expanded at any time during the life of the system without reprogramming or compiling computer code and without disrupting concurrent use of the system. Complex inquiries, normally requiring multiple nested queries, may be performed without code level programming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Financial Systems Technology (Intellectual Property) Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Karol Doktor