Patents by Inventor Alan Strohm

Alan Strohm 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).

  • Universal scores for location search queries
    Patent number: 8463774
    Abstract: A method for performing a location search includes receiving a location search query, identifying one or more geographic feature documents that satisfy the location search query, ranking the identified geographic feature documents in accordance with scores that are based, at least in part, on corresponding address support scores, to produce a set of ranked documents, and providing results, in accordance with the ranked documents, that identify at least one geographic feature corresponding to at least one of the ranked documents. An address support score for an identified geographic feature document can be based on one or more of: a standalone support score and a template support score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Florian Michel Buron, Alex Bailey, Alan Strohm, László Lukács, Diana Stroe, Fabrice Caillette, Johan Larsson Tibell
  • Mobile sitemaps
    Publication number: 20070050338
    Abstract: A method of analyzing documents or relationships between documents includes receiving a notification of an available metadata document containing information about one or more network-accessible documents, obtaining a document format indicator associated with the metadata document, selecting a document crawler using the document format indicator, and crawling at least some of the network-accessible documents using the selected document crawler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Alan Strohm, Feng Hu, Sascha Brawer, Maximilian Ibel, Ralph Keller, Narayanan Shivakumar, Elad Gil