Patents by Inventor Bob Gilson

Bob Gilson 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).

  • SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING DYNAMIC COMMUNITY FORMATION PROCESSES WITHIN AN ONLINE CONTEXT-DRIVEN INTERACTIVE SOCIAL NETWORK
    Publication number: 20090055369
    Abstract: A method for showing a user navigating to a first website a collection of other websites relating to the first website comprising: identifying a first, second and third user having navigated to the first website; collecting navigation history tails from the first, second and third users, the navigation history tails identify websites navigated to by the first, second and third users, the navigation history tails further have an identification of each of the users; combining the navigation history tails to form a cumulative navigation history tail; generating a rank of some of the websites identified in the cumulative navigation history tail, the rank indicating a popularity of some of the websites identified in the cumulative navigation history tail; and providing the rank to an applet so the applet can generate an indication of websites based on the rank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Jonathan Phillips, Peter Newcomb, Robert Reich, Bob Gilson