Patents by Inventor Anthony Bryan Waters

Anthony Bryan Waters 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).

  • TARGETED E-COMMERCE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100211463
    Abstract: A system for displaying products for purchase on any document displayed on any computer device, comprising conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the document to determine the primary subject matter of the document and/or keywords in the document, selecting products which are relevant to the subject matter and keywords of the document, either by manual selection or by automatic selection. Automatic selection is accomplished by conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the product descriptions to determine the keywords in the product descriptions and matching the keywords from the document with the keywords from the product descriptions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M. Black, Anthony Bryan Waters
  • Targeted e-commerce system
    Patent number: 7702541
    Abstract: A system for displaying products for purchase on any document displayed on any computer device, comprising conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the document to determine the primary subject matter of the document and/or keywords in the document, selecting products which are relevant to the subject matter and keywords of the document, either by manual selection or by automatic selection. Automatic selection is accomplished by conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the product descriptions to determine the keywords in the product descriptions and matching the keywords from the document with the keywords from the product descriptions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M. Black, Anthony Bryan Waters
  • Metatag-based datamining
    Patent number: 7464086
    Abstract: A system for displaying products or services for purchase on any document displayed on any computer device, comprising conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the document to determine the primary subject matter of the document and/or keywords in the document, selecting products which are relevant to the subject matter and keywords of the document, either by manual selection or by automatic selection. Conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the product or service descriptions, to determine the keywords in the product descriptions, and matching the keywords from the document with the keywords from the product descriptions accomplish automatic selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M. Black, Anthony Bryan Waters
  • Brilliant query system
    Patent number: 6546386
    Abstract: A system for conducting queries from any document displayed on any computer device, comprising the creation of more focused “brilliant queries” by conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the document to determine both the primary subject matter (the hook) of the corpus and the keywords in the corpus, using editorial judgment or filtering of the keyword list to determine the most important keywords, application and tuning of the keyword set to target particular databases and adding the suggested hook/keyword combinations to the document for use by the computer user in selecting queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: etronica.com
    Inventors: Peter M. Black, Anthony Bryan Waters
  • Metatag-based datamining
    Publication number: 20020035573
    Abstract: A system for displaying products or services for purchase on any document displayed on any computer device, comprising conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the document to determine the primary subject matter of the document and/or keywords in the document, selecting products which are relevant to the subject matter and keywords of the document, either by manual selection or by automatic selection. Conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the product or service descriptions, to determine the keywords in the product descriptions, and matching the keywords from the document with the keywords from the product descriptions accomplish automatic selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Inventors: Peter M. Black, Anthony Bryan Waters
  • Targeted e-commerce system
    Publication number: 20020016741
    Abstract: A system for displaying products for purchase on any document displayed on any computer device, comprising conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the document to determine the primary subject matter of the document and/or keywords in the document, selecting products which are relevant to the subject matter and keywords of the document, either by manual selection or by automatic selection. Automatic selection is accomplished by conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the product descriptions to determine the keywords in the product descriptions and matching the keywords from the document with the keywords from the product descriptions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: Peter M. Black, Anthony Bryan Waters