Patents by Inventor Amit Akhouri

Amit Akhouri 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: 9202220
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses to provide access to advertisement database through an application programming interface. One embodiment includes receiving a request according to an application program interface over a network connection; and in response to the request, providing at least a portion of an advertisement according to the application programming interface. The advertisement is designed to generate communication leads for a party; and the party is to be charged for the advertisement according to a count of communication leads generated for the party via the advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC
    Inventors: Scott Faber, Virginia Hong-Jia Yang, Ebbe Altberg, Mark Halstead, Amit Akhouri, Katherine Maureen Slemmer
  • Publication number: 20070189520
    Abstract: A method and system to facilitate the conversion from communications to commerce. In one embodiment, a method includes: establishing a communication session between a first user and a second user; facilitating communications between the first user and the second user for a first period of time of the communication session; after the first period of time, receiving from the first user a request to charge the second user during the communication session; responsive to the request received from the first user, prompting the second user to accept a price to continue the communication session; and responsive to a response from the second user, charging the second user according to the price for a second period of time of the communication session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: UTBK, INC.
    Inventors: Ebbe ALTBERG, Scott FABER, Ron HIRSON, Sean VAN DER LINDEN, Paul MANCA, Amit AKHOURI
  • Publication number: 20070143182
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses to provide access to advertisement database through an application programming interface. One embodiment includes receiving a request according to an application program interface over a network connection; and in response to the request, providing at least a portion of an advertisement according to the application programming interface. The advertisement is designed to generate communication leads for a party; and the party is to be charged for the advertisement according to a count of communication leads generated for the party via the advertisement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: UTBK, INC.
    Inventors: Scott FABER, Virginia YANG, Ebbe ALTBERG, Mark HALSTEAD, Amit AKHOURI, Katherine SLEMMER
  • Publication number: 20070121847
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses to provide access to manage advertisements which provide references usable to request real time communication connections. One embodiment includes receiving a request according to an application programming interface over a network connection; and providing access to manage an advertisement of an advertiser via the application programming interface in response to the request (e.g., to create, update, query, delete the advertisement, such as a pay per call advertisement). In one embodiment, the advertisement is to be embedded with a real time communication reference assigned to the advertiser; the real-time communication reference is to be used to request a real time communication connection with the advertiser; and the advertiser is to be charged for communication leads generated via the real-time communication reference embedded in the advertisement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: UTBK, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Faber, Virginia Yang, Ebbe Altberg, Mark Halstead, Amit Akhouri, Katherine Slemmer