Patents by Inventor Annette Taberner-Miller

Annette Taberner-Miller 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).

  • Geotargeting of content by dynamically detecting geographically dense collections of mobile computing devices
    Patent number: 10445774
    Abstract: Provided is a process of selectively providing content to computing devices based on geographic proximity to dynamically detected events drawing crowds, the process including: obtaining, with one or more computers, data indicative of current geolocations of more than 5,000 mobile computing devices based on information reported by an application executing on the mobile computing devices; inferring, with one or more computers, that an event with a crowd is occurring based on the data indicative of the geolocations indicating an amount of people and a proximity of the people; selecting, with one or more computers, content in response to the inference; and sending, with one or more computers, the selected content to one or more user computing devices for presentation based on proximity between the one or more user computing devices and a geographic location of the event with the crowd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: RetailMeNot, Inc.
    Inventors: David John Reese, Annette Taberner-Miller, Lipphei Adam, Rachel Renee Bell, Nicholas James Shiffert
  • GEOTARGETING OF CONTENT BY DYNAMICALLY DETECTING GEOGRAPHICALLY DENSE COLLECTIONS OF MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES
    Publication number: 20160196577
    Abstract: Provided is a process of selectively providing content to computing devices based on geographic proximity to dynamically detected events drawing crowds, the process including: obtaining, with one or more computers, data indicative of current geolocations of more than 5,000 mobile computing devices based on information reported by an application executing on the mobile computing devices; inferring, with one or more computers, that an event with a crowd is occurring based on the data indicative of the geolocations indicating an amount of people and a proximity of the people; selecting, with one or more computers, content in response to the inference; and sending, with one or more computers, the selected content to one or more user computing devices for presentation based on proximity between the one or more user computing devices and a geographic location of the event with the crowd.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: David John Reese, Annette Taberner-Miller, Lipphei Adam, Rachel Renee Bell, Nicholas James Shiffert