Patents by Inventor Brian D. Friedman

Brian D. Friedman 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: 20130151429
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a computing system includes at least one computing device including a processor configured to use a logistic regression model to provide an indication of a relationship between a user's position within an enterprise and how the user interacts with other users of an enterprise social network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Inventors: Jin CAO, Li Erran LI, Hongyu GAO, Brian D. FRIEDMAN
  • Publication number: 20110296345
    Abstract: A weighted list may be visually shown on a website, e.g., as a tag cloud, object cloud, etc. The font size of each item in the weighted list indicates its strength relative to the other items in the same. The strength of a weighted list item is determined based at least on individual weights associated with the users who applied a given tag to an object. For example, the item in the weighted list may represent the given tag in a tag cloud, or the object in an object cloud. The respective weights associated with the users when applying the given tag to the object may be different from one another because of different qualities of the users. For example, the weight associated with a user varies with the number of times the given tag was applied to that user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
    Inventor: Brian D. Friedman
  • Publication number: 20110295859
    Abstract: A weighted list may be visually shown on a website, e.g., as a tag cloud, object cloud, etc. The font size of each item in the weighted list may indicate its strength relative to the other items in the same. The strength of a weighted list item is determined based at least on multi-dimensional weights accorded to applications by users of a given tag to an object. For example, each multi-dimensional weight may be an aggregate of weight measures of two or more of quantity-based dimensions, time-based dimensions, social distance-based dimensions, semantic similarity dimensions, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
    Inventors: Brian D. Friedman, Christophe Senot, Michael J. Burns