Patents by Inventor Allan Mackenzie

Allan Mackenzie 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).

  • Patent number: 8626757
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for intercepting user interactions without network provided content. The intercepted information can be used for prioritizing search results by statistical and other analysis of user interactions with a network resource and/or network content. A server connected to a network can receive captured information from an agent that is installed in a device connected to the network. The captured information can be related to an interaction of a user with a network resource. An aggregator may be provided to aggregate the captured information with other captured information related to a plurality of network resources and maintains a repository of aggregated captured information. A prioritizer can determine the relevance of network content based on characteristics of the aggregated captured information. The prioritizer determines relevance for a plurality of search results based on frequency of prior user interactions with the content of the search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Tynt Multimedia, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Ball, Dayton Foster, Allan MacKenzie
  • Patent number: 8275766
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for intercepting user interactions without network-provided content. The intercepted information can be used for prioritizing search results by statistical and other analyses of user interactions with a network resource and/or network content. A server connected to a network can receive captured information from an agent that is installed in a device connected to the network. The captured information can be related to an interaction of a user with a network resource. An aggregator may be provided to aggregate the captured information with other captured information related to a plurality of network resources and maintains a repository of aggregated captured information. A prioritizer can determine the relevance of network content based on characteristics of the aggregated captured information. The prioritizer determines relevance for a plurality of search results based on frequency of prior user interactions with the content of the search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Tynt Multimedia Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Ball, Dayton Foster, Allan MacKenzie
  • Publication number: 20110082898
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that may be used for the creation of user defined objects arising from the implicit interaction of a user with a network resource. The objects are made generally available within the network. A network resource in communication with a network maintains content accessible by a plurality of users of the network. An agent provided to a user device identifies an implicit interaction with a portion of the content and transmits information associated with the implicit interaction to another computing system communicatively connected to the network. The information includes a URL identifying the network resource and the portion of the content and is provided in a user-defined object on the network. Frequency of occurrence of a URL in a plurality of the objects can be used to determine relevance of a network resource and its content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: Tynt Multimedia Inc.
    Inventors: Dayton Foster, Derek Ball, Allan MacKenzie
  • Publication number: 20100174708
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for intercepting user interactions without network-provided content. The intercepted information can be used for prioritizing search results by statistical and other analyses of user interactions with a network resource and/or network content. A server connected to a network can receive captured information from an agent that is installed in a device connected to the network. The captured information can be related to an interaction of a user with a network resource. An aggregator may be provided to aggregate the captured information with other captured information related to a plurality of network resources and maintains a repository of aggregated captured information. A prioritizer can determine the relevance of network content based on characteristics of the aggregated captured information. The prioritizer determines relevance for a plurality of search results based on frequency of prior user interactions with the content of the search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: Tynt Multimedia Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Ball, Dayton Foster, Allan MacKenzie
  • Patent number: 5954137
    Abstract: Completion method for avoiding formation impairment in the completion of a wellbore by anchoring and activating a plug at a selected position in the wellbore to seal off a selected portion of the wellbore from other portions of the wellbore. The plug is positioned at the selected position in the wellbore and anchored at that position. A seal in the plug is then activated such that fluid cannot pass the plug. Other parts of the wellbore can then be operated at different pressures than the isolated part of the wellbore without impairment of the formation resulting from the loss of well fluids into the formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Martin Coronado, Peter Fontana, Allan Mackenzie