Patents by Inventor Benjamin P. Dimock

Benjamin P. Dimock 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).

  • Incenting Answer Quality
    Publication number: 20140025477
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are described for online content management. Online content in the form of answer sets are exposed to a user posing a question to a question and answer service. The question and answer service causes an award amount to be debited from an account associated with the user. The question and answer service receives a user input that (i) selects one or more answers from the answer set, and (ii) specifies a distribution of a portion of the award amount among the selected answers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Benjamin P. Dimock
  • Incenting answer quality
    Patent number: 8504418
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are described for online content management. Online content in the form of answer sets are exposed to a user posing a question to a question and answer service. The question and answer service causes an award amount to be debited from an account associated with the user. The question and answer service receives a user input that (i) selects one or more answers from the answer set, and (ii) specifies a distribution of a portion of the award amount among the selected answers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Inventor: Benjamin P. Dimock