Patents by Inventor Ann Nelson

Ann Nelson 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: 7844894
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for defining landing pages to test different landing page designs. User input specifies a landing page having sections, each section having an original version of content. User input also specifies one or more additional versions of content, the original and the additional versions together constituting alternative versions, and the landing page with the alternative versions together constituting an experiment. Page fragments are determined. The fragments are added to the landing page and are operable, when interpreted by a client-side browser, to choose one of the alternative versions of each identified section and make each chosen alternative version the content of the corresponding section before the landing page is displayed by the browser. A designer can insert the page fragments into the landing page to produce an instrumented landing page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Chirag Khopkar, Kenneth Eric Vasilik, Zhen Lin, Ariel Bardin, Dorothy Ann Nelson
  • Patent number: 7831658
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for showing different landing page designs to a user. One method includes displaying an advertisement on a starting page to a user interacting with a client, the advertisement having a hyperlink to an instrumented landing page; in response to the user selecting the advertisement, downloading the instrumented landing page to the client, the instrumented landing page having one or more sections, each section having a corresponding plurality of alternative versions; choosing in the client a combination of one alternative version for each of the one or more sections; generating in the client a landing page variant, each section of the landing page variant being the corresponding alternative version of the section defined by the combination; notifying a server that the instrumented landing page was reached; notifying the server which combination was chosen; and displaying the landing page variant to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Chirag Khopkar, Kenneth Eric Vasilik, Zhen Lin, Ariel Bardin, Dorothy Ann Nelson
  • Patent number: 7801779
    Abstract: A method of correcting a computerized ledger for deposit discrepancies uses a display such as a window to record a deposit transaction. An amount of receipts and an amount of adjustment are provided to account for cash over and cash under adjustments to a bank deposit. The data is stored in a computerized ledger system. A real time output is provided from the computerized ledger system that represents the amount of receipts adjusted by the amount of adjustment. Real time, such as same day, accounting data relating to deposits is available for reporting and decision-making.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kimberly Ann Nelson, Michael W. Moberg, Nancy Lee Egeberg, Scott Wesley McIntyre
  • Publication number: 20070271511
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for defining landing pages to test different landing page designs. User input specifies a landing page having sections, each section having an original version of content. User input also specifies one or more additional versions of content, the original and the additional versions together constituting alternative versions, and the landing page with the alternative versions together constituting an experiment. Page fragments are determined. The fragments are added to the landing page and are operable, when interpreted by a client-side browser, to choose one of the alternative versions of each identified section and make each chosen alternative version the content of the corresponding section before the landing page is displayed by the browser. A designer can insert the page fragments into the landing page to produce an instrumented landing page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Inventors: Chirag Khopkar, Kenneth Eric Vasilik, Zhen Lin, Ariel Bardin, Dorothy Ann Nelson
  • Publication number: 20070271392
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for showing different landing page designs to a user. One method includes displaying an advertisement on a starting page to a user interacting with a client, the advertisement having a hyperlink to an instrumented landing page; in response to the user selecting the advertisement, downloading the instrumented landing page to the client, the instrumented landing page having one or more sections, each section having a corresponding plurality of alternative versions; choosing in the client a combination of one alternative version for each of the one or more sections; generating in the client a landing page variant, each section of the landing page variant being the corresponding alternative version of the section defined by the combination; notifying a server that the instrumented landing page was reached; notifying the server which combination was chosen; and displaying the landing page variant to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Inventors: Chirag Khopkar, Kenneth Eric Vasilik, Zhen Lin, Ariel Bardin, Dorothy Ann Nelson
  • Publication number: 20070271352
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for monitoring an experiment relating to the conversion rates of landing page variants to test landing page designs. One method includes computing respective conversion rates for each of a plurality of corresponding landing page variants, based on the number of times a conversion page is reached from the corresponding landing page variant, and based on the number of times the corresponding landing page variant is reached from one or more advertisements; and computing a confidence interval for each conversion rate. A user monitoring the experiment can be notified if winning or losing variants emerge. A time to completion of the experiment can be estimated. Presentation to browsing users of winning variants can be favored, and losing variants can be disfavored, during the experiment as they emerge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Inventors: Chirag Khopkar, Kenneth Eric Vasilik, Zhen Lin, Ariel Bardin, Dorothy Ann Nelson
  • Publication number: 20040249794
    Abstract: A method and system to identify a suggested location for storing a data entry in a database including a plurality of divisions is provided. The method includes receiving entry criteria associated with the data entry, and searching the database using the entry criteria to locate similar stored data entries. At least one division for data entries is identified wherein the stored data entries are located. The at least one division is then presented to a user as the suggested location. The method and system may be applied in a network-based auction facility and the data entry may then be a user listing. The method may thus include identifying at least one potentially relevant category for the user listing as the suggested location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Dorothy Ann Nelson, David Jesse, Petra Gross
  • Patent number: 6472227
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a fluorescence polarization immunoassay for barbiturates, to the various components needed for preparing and carrying out such an assay, and to methods of making these components. Specifically, tracers, immunogens and antibodies are disclosed, as well as methods for preparing them and a reagent kit containing them. The tracers and the immunogens are made from substituted barbiturate compounds. A fluorescein moiety is included in the tracer, while a poly(amino acid) forms a part of the immunogen. The assay is conducted by measuring the degree of polarization retention of plane—polarized light that has been passed through a sample containing antiserum and tracer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Maciej Adamczyk, Luis A. Cantarero, Robert Edward Dubler, Jonathan Grote, Patrick J. Jonas, Jane Ann Nelson
  • Patent number: 6382551
    Abstract: A reusable container for holding and dispensing rolls of disposal bags of large, medium and small axial lengths has a top panel, a bottom panel and first and second side panels formed from a unitary piece of corrugated cardboard, or the like, into a parallelpied container having a cavity divided into individual compartments for rolls with which elongated dispensing openings communicate. Opposed inwardly-projecting end flaps hingedly connected to the bottom panel have a substantially flat abutment panel located inside the cavity of the container and located a predetermined minimum distance from an associated end of the cavity. The ends of each dispensing opening associated with large rolls are substantially aligned with the abutment panels of both inwardly-projecting end flaps. One end of each dispensing opening associated with the medium and small rolls are substantially aligned with one of the abutment panels of the inwardly-projecting end flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Medical Action Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Ann Nelson
  • Patent number: 6031095
    Abstract: This invention relates to a highly selective process for preparation of E-.omega.-phenyl-.omega.-(3-pyridyl)-.omega.-alkenoic acid derivatives bearing a carbamoyl substituted oxazolyl or oxazolinyl group on the phenyl ring which demonstrate utility for thromboxane receptor antagonism and/or thromboxane synthase inhibition, as well as to intermediates therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Katrina Ann Nelson, Joseph John Nunes
  • Patent number: 5990308
    Abstract: This invention relates to a highly selective process for preparation of E-.omega.-phenyl-.omega.-(3-pyridyl)-.omega.-alkenoic acid derivatives bearing a carbamoyl substituted oxazolyl or oxazolinyl group on the phenyl ring which demonstrate utility for thromboxane receptor antagonism and/or thromboxane synthase inhibition, as well as to intermediates therefore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Katrina Ann Nelson, Joseph John Nunes
  • Patent number: 5849922
    Abstract: This invention relates to a highly selective process for preparation of E-.omega.-phenyl-.omega.-(3-pyridyl)-.omega.-alkenoic acid derivatives bearing a carbamoyl substituted oxazolyl or oxazolinyl group on the phenyl ring which demonstrate utility for thromboxane receptor antagonism and/or thromboxane synthase inhibition, as well as to intermediates therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Katrina Ann Nelson, Joseph John Nunes