Patents by Inventor Ademir de Alvarenga Oliveira

Ademir de Alvarenga Oliveira has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Managing information about entities using observations
    Patent number: 9940381
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for managing entities using observations. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data identifying an entity; generating a user interface document that, when rendered by a user device, presents a plurality of attribute values to a user and allows the user to modify one or more of the plurality of attribute values; and storing an observation in a data store, the observation including a user-modified value of one of the plurality of attribute values and a context including one or more of the presented attribute values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Janos, Alan C. Strohm, Boulos Harb, Steven M. Stern, Arnaud Sahuguet, Ademir de Alvarenga Oliveira
  • Managing information about entities using clusters of received observations
    Patent number: 8706732
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for managing entities using observations. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an observation, the observation including an updated piece of information about an entity and a context, wherein the context includes at least one value of an attribute describing the entity to which the updated piece of information relates; matching the received observation with a first cluster of observations representing the entity using the context; and associating the received observation with the first cluster of observations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Janos, Alan C. Strohm, Steven M. Stern, Arnaud Sahuguet, Ademir de Alvarenga Oliveira, Boulos Harb
  • Managing information about entities using observations generated from user modified values
    Patent number: 8676804
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for managing entities using observations. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data identifying an entity; generating a user interface document that, when rendered by a user device, presents a plurality of attribute values to a user and allows the user to modify one or more of the plurality of attribute values; and storing an observation in a data store, the observation including a user-modified value of one of the plurality of attribute values and a context including one or more of the presented attribute values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Janos, Alan C. Strohm, Boulos Harb, Steven M. Stern, Arnaud Sahuguet, Ademir de Alvarenga Oliveira