Patents by Inventor Brett Kiefer

Brett Kiefer 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).

  • Publication number: 20130081036
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described for facilitating interactions between task requesters who have tasks that are available to be performed and task performers who are available to perform tasks. In some situations, the tasks to be performed are human performance tasks that use cognitive and other mental skills of human task performers, such as to employ judgment, perception and/or reasoning skills of the human task performers. In addition, in some situations the available tasks are submitted by human task requesters via application programs that programmatically invoke one or more application program interfaces of an electronic marketplace in order to request that the tasks be performed and to receive corresponding results of task performance in a programmatic manner, so that an ensemble of unrelated human agents can interact with the electronic marketplace to collectively perform a wide variety and large number of tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Peter D. Cohen, Daniel A. Sanderson, Mikhail Seregine, Brett Kiefer, Jang Han Goo, Jeffrey P. Bezos
  • Patent number: 8306840
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described for facilitating interactions between task requesters who have tasks that are available to be performed and task performers who are available to perform tasks. In some situations, the tasks to be performed are human performance tasks that use cognitive and other mental skills of human task performers, such as to employ judgment, perception and/or reasoning skills of the human task performers. In addition, in some situations the available tasks are submitted by human task requesters via application programs that programmatically invoke one or more application program interfaces of an electronic marketplace in order to request that the tasks be performed and to receive corresponding results of task performance in a programmatic manner, so that an ensemble of unrelated human agents can interact with the electronic marketplace to collectively perform a wide variety and large number of tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter D. Cohen, Daniel A. Sanderson, Mikhail Seregine, Brett Kiefer, Jang Han Goo, Jeffrey P. Bezos
  • Patent number: 7945469
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described for facilitating interactions between task requesters who have tasks that are available to be performed and task performers who are available to perform tasks. In some situations, the tasks to be performed are human performance tasks that use cognitive and other mental skills of human task performers, such as to employ judgment, perception and/or reasoning skills of the human task performers. In addition, in some situations the available tasks are submitted by human task requesters via application programs that programmatically invoke one or more application program interfaces of an electronic marketplace in order to request that the tasks be performed and to receive corresponding results of task performance in a programmatic manner, so that an ensemble of unrelated human agents can interact with the electronic marketplace to collectively perform a wide variety and large number of tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter D. Cohen, Daniel A. Sanderson, Mikhail Seregine, Brett Kiefer, Jang Han Goo, Jeffrey P. Bezos
  • Publication number: 20090287532
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described for facilitating interactions between task requesters who have tasks that are available to be performed and task performers who are available to perform tasks. In some situations, the tasks to be performed are human performance tasks that use cognitive and other mental skills of human task performers, such as to employ judgment, perception and/or reasoning skills of the human task performers. In addition, in some situations the available tasks are submitted by human task requesters via application programs that programmatically invoke one or more application program interfaces of an electronic marketplace in order to request that the tasks be performed and to receive corresponding results of task performance in a programmatic manner, so that an ensemble of unrelated human agents can interact with the electronic marketplace to collectively perform a wide variety and large number of tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: Peter D. Cohen, Daniel A. Sanderson, Mikhail Seregine, Brett Kiefer, Jang Han Goo, Jeffrey P. Bezos
  • Publication number: 20060106774
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described for facilitating interactions between task requesters who have tasks that are available to be performed and task performers who are available to perform tasks. In some situations, the tasks to be performed are human performance tasks that use cognitive and other mental skills of human task performers, such as to employ judgment, perception and/or reasoning skills of the human task performers. In addition, in some situations the performance of tasks is facilitated by using information about qualifications of task performers that are related to performance of tasks Various types of qualifications about task performers can be specified, and qualification information can be specified and used in various ways, such as to limit task performance and/or access to other functionality to users having appropriate qualifications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventors: Peter Cohen, Daniel Sanderson, Mikhail Seregine, Brett Kiefer, Jang Goo, Yuhui Jin
  • Publication number: 20060106675
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described for facilitating interactions between task requesters who have tasks that are available to be performed and task performers who are available to perform tasks. In some situations, the tasks to be performed are human performance tasks that use cognitive and other mental skills of human task performers, such as to employ judgment, perception and/or reasoning skills of the human task performers. In addition, in some situations the available tasks are submitted by human task requesters via application programs that programmatically invoke one or more application program interfaces of an electronic marketplace in order to request that the tasks be performed and to receive corresponding results of task performance in a programmatic manner, so that an ensemble of unrelated human agents can interact with the electronic marketplace to collectively perform a wide variety and large number of tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventors: Peter Cohen, Daniel Sanderson, Mikhail Seregine, Brett Kiefer, Jang Goo, Jeffrey Bezos