Patents by Inventor Benjamin J. Mann

Benjamin J. Mann 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).

  • Identifying and ranking attributes of entities
    Patent number: 10185751
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for query analysis. Queries are identified in query data, and an entity-descriptive portion and a suffix are determined in each query. Query counts are determined for a number of times that the respective queries occur in the query data. Based on the query counts, an entity-level count is estimated, which represents a number of query submissions that include the particular suffix and are considered to refer to a first entity. The entity is determined to be a particular type of entity. A type-level count is determined, which represents a number of query submissions that include the first suffix and are estimated to refer to entities of the particular type of entity. A score is assigned to the particular suffix based on the entity-level count and the type-level count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Mann, Randolph G. Brown, John R. Provine, Vinicius J. Fortuna, Andrew W. Hogue
  • Identifying and ranking attributes of entities
    Patent number: 9047278
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for query analysis. Queries are identified in query data, and an entity-descriptive portion and a suffix are determined in each query. Query counts are determined for a number of times that the respective queries occur in the query data. Based on the query counts, an entity-level count is estimated, which represents a number of query submissions that include the particular suffix and are considered to refer to a first entity. The entity is determined to be a particular type of entity. A type-level count is determined, which represents a number of query submissions that include the first suffix and are estimated to refer to entities of the particular type of entity. A score is assigned to the particular suffix based on the entity-level count and the type-level count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Mann, Randolph G. Brown, John R. Provine, Vinicius J. Fortuna, Andrew W. Hogue