Patents by Inventor Alex TOLKE

Alex TOLKE 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).

  • System, computer program product and computer-implemented method for sharing academic user profiles and ranking academic users
    Patent number: 9111319
    Abstract: A system for sharing academic articles and credential information for a plurality of academic users is described herein. Embodiments of the system, computer program product and computer-implemented method perform a process for gathering data related to the academic user and a process for determining a reputation ranking for the academic user by executing the steps of: creating a user profile for the academic user from attribute information gathered from a user profile prompt, enabling the user profile from the academic user to be viewed by academic and non-academic users and selected for ranking by other academic users, enabling the other academic users to provide a rank selection for the user profile for the academic user according to at least one of research quality, credentials, research articles, and user activity, and determining a reputation ranking for the user profile from the rank selection of the other academic users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: ResearchGate GmbH
    Inventors: Soren Hofmayer, Viacheslav Zholudev, Ijad Madisch, Horst Fickenscher, Michael Hausler, Alex Tolke
  • SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR SHARING ACADEMIC USER PROFILES AND RANKING ACADEMIC USERS
    Publication number: 20130346497
    Abstract: A system for sharing academic articles and credential information for a plurality of academic users is described herein. Embodiments of the system, computer program product and computer-implemented method perform a process for gathering data related to the academic user and a process for determining a reputation ranking for the academic user by executing the steps of: creating a user profile for the academic user from attribute information gathered from a user profile prompt, enabling the user profile from the academic user to be viewed by academic and non-academic users and selected for ranking by other academic users, enabling the other academic users to provide a rank selection for the user profile for the academic user according to at least one of research quality, credentials, research articles, and user activity, and determining a reputation ranking for the user profile from the rank selection of the other academic users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: ResearchGate Corporation
    Inventors: Soren HOFMAYER, Viacheslav ZHOLUDEV, Ijad MADISCH, Horst FICKENSCHER, Michael HAUSLER, Alex TOLKE