Patents by Inventor Andrew Bard Hanson

Andrew Bard Hanson 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: 8127007
    Abstract: Systems and methods of tracking activity over networks and, in particular, tracking web activity over the Internet are described. Exemplary systems and methods may include a receiver for receiving a request from a visitor for a data object, a processor for providing a cookie to track the visitor's web activity, and a transmitter for transmitting the cookie to the visitor in response to the request. The cookie may comprise tracking information for a plurality of web sites visited by the visitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Webtrends, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Bard Hanson, Martin Waugh
  • Publication number: 20110302306
    Abstract: Systems and methods of tracking activity over networks and, in particular, tracking web activity over the Internet are described. Exemplary systems and methods may include a receiver for receiving a request from a visitor for a data object, a processor for providing a cookie to track the visitor's web activity, and a transmitter for transmitting the cookie to the visitor in response to the request. The cookie may comprise tracking information for a plurality of web sites visited by the visitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: WEBTRENDS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Bard Hanson, Martin Waugh
  • Patent number: 8024463
    Abstract: Systems and methods of tracking activity over networks and, in particular, tracking web activity over the Internet are described. Exemplary systems and methods may include a receiver for receiving a request from a visitor for a data object, a processor for providing a cookie to track the visitor's web activity, and a transmitter for transmitting the cookie to the visitor in response to the request. The cookie may comprise tracking information for a plurality of web sites visited by the visitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Webtrends, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Bard Hanson, Martin Waugh
  • Publication number: 20100299434
    Abstract: Systems and methods of tracking activity over networks and, in particular, tracking web activity over the Internet are described. Exemplary systems and methods may include a receiver for receiving a request from a visitor for a data object, a processor for providing a cookie to track the visitor's web activity, and a transmitter for transmitting the cookie to the visitor in response to the request. The cookie may comprise tracking information for a plurality of web sites visited by the visitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: WEBTRENDS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Bard Hanson, Martin Waugh
  • Patent number: 7792954
    Abstract: Systems and methods of tracking activity over networks and, in particular, tracking web activity over the Internet are described. Exemplary systems and methods may include a receiver for receiving a request from a visitor for a data object, a processor for providing a cookie to track the visitor's web activity, and a transmitter for transmitting the cookie to the visitor in response to the request. The cookie may comprise tracking information for a plurality of web sites visited by the visitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Webtrends, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Bard Hanson, Martin Waugh
  • Patent number: 7130850
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods are described for, first, characterizing a specific category of information content—pornography, for example—and then accurately identifying instances of that category of content within a real-time media stream, such as a web page, e-mail or other digital dataset. This content-recognition technology enables a new class of highly scalable applications to manage such content, including filtering, classifying, prioritizing, tracking, etc. An illustrative application of the invention is a software product for use in conjunction with web-browser client software for screening access to web pages that contain pornography or other potentially harmful or offensive content. A target attribute set of regular expression, such as natural language words and/or phrases, is formed by statistical analysis of a number of samples of datasets characterized as “containing,” and another set of samples characterized as “not containing,” the selected category of information content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian Peter Russell-Falla, Andrew Bard Hanson
  • Patent number: 6675162
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods are described for, first, characterizing a specific category of information content—pornography, for example—and then accurately identifying instances of that category of content within a real-time media stream, such as a web page, e-mail or other digital dataset. This content-recognition technology enables a new class of highly scalable applications to manage such content, including filtering, classifying, prioritizing, tracking etc. An illustrative application of the invention is a software product for use in conjunction with web-browser client software for screening access to web pages that contain pornography or other potentially harmful or offensive content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian Peter Russell-Falla, Andrew Bard Hanson
  • Patent number: 6266664
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods are described for, first, characterizing a specific category of information content—pornography, for example—and then accurately identifying instances of that category of content within a real-time media stream, such as a web page, e-mail or other digital dataset. This content-recognition technology enables a new class of highly scalable applications to manage such content, including filtering, classifying, prioritizing, tracking, etc. An illustrative application of the invention is a software product for use in conjunction with web-browser client software for screening access to web pages that contain pornography or other potentially harmful or offensive content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Rulespace, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Peter Russell-Falla, Andrew Bard Hanson