Patents by Inventor Alec Reitter

Alec Reitter 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).

  • Publication number: 20070288468
    Abstract: A system receives context data associated with a context and a user. The system then associates the context data to a user identifier and retrieves data associated with the context. The system then filters the data according to the context data to create result data. In another embodiment, the system also receives context data from a plurality of users, where the context data pertains to one or more attributes of a context. The system then using the context data ranks the one or more attributes of the context to create ranked data and generates a user interface based on the ranked data. In yet another embodiment, the system communicates context data associated with a context and a user to a server, and receives result data created by the server filtering data retrieved based on the context data. The system then generates a user interface based on the result data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Neelakantan Sundaresan, Alec Reitter
  • Publication number: 20070288431
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for keyword extraction and contextual advertisement generation are disclosed. The system in an example embodiment includes a keyword extraction service to receive from a consumer application a request for activation of a keyword extraction service via an application programming interface, the request including an identity of a content source, the request further including an identification of a particular extraction process to be used by the keyword extraction service on the identified content source; determine if the keyword extraction service has already processed the identified content source and retained extracted keywords in a data store; extract keywords from the identified content source using the particular extraction process identified in the request; and make the extracted keywords accessible to the consumer application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventors: Alec Reitter, Barb Chang, Ken Sun, Raghav Gupta, Alvaro Bolivar, Alan Lewis