Patents by Inventor Bruce D. D'Ambrosio

Bruce D. D'Ambrosio 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).

  • Patent number: 8799080
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems associated with providing request-time auctioning of web content and web services. The auction may be performed by a request-time web content auctioning service, which may accept bids of content and/or services from content and/or service providers, and may auction these bids against offers of space on webpages in websites. The auction may, in various embodiments, be performed in real time, such as, for example, during generation of a webpage in response to a request to view a webpage from a visitor to the webpage. The auction service may, in various embodiments, also provide for the auctioning of web services for webpages, such as, for example, content filtering. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: DigitalScirocco, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce D. D'Ambrosio, Michael Wellman
  • Patent number: 8112320
    Abstract: Embodiments may provide for multi-attribute auctioning. Bids and offers which comprise non-price attributes may be received by an auction service, such as web content bids and offers for space on webpages. The service may evaluate attributes of bids and offers in a quantitative manner, developing a value for the bid and offer that includes both price information and other non-price attributes. Valuation may be performed through the use of willingness-to-pay functions which, based on a knowledge of an agent, may determine a numerical value for that agent's willingness to pay according to the non-price attributes. The result from evaluating this function may then be used to determine which auction bids and offers may be matched. The bid or offer can include one or more probability distributions for future performance, based on the published statistics about past performance of agents. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: DigitalScirocco, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce D. D'Ambrosio, Michael Wellman
  • Publication number: 20100324974
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems which may provide for multi-attribute auctioning. Bids and offers which comprise non-price attributes may be received by an auction service, such as web content bids and offers for space on webpages. The service may evaluate the various attributes of the bids and offers in a quantitative manner, developing a value for the bid and offer that includes both price information and other non-price attributes. This valuation may be performed through the use of one or more willingness-to-pay functions which, based on a knowledge of an agent, determine a numerical value for that agent's willingness to pay according to the non-price attributes. The result from evaluating this function may then be used to determine which auction bids and offers may be matched. The auction service may publish statistics about past performance of agents and the bid or offer can include one or more probability distributions for future performance, based on the published statistics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: DIGITALSCIROCCO, INC.
    Inventors: Bruce D. D'Ambrosio, Michael Wellman
  • Publication number: 20100324973
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems associated with providing request-time auctioning of web content and web services. The auction may be performed by a request-time web content auctioning service, which may accept bids of content and/or services from content and/or service providers, and may auction these bids against offers of space on webpages in websites. The auction may, in various embodiments, be performed in real time, such as, for example, during generation of a webpage in response to a request to view a webpage from a visitor to the webpage. The auction service may, in various embodiments, also provide for the auctioning of web services for webpages, such as, for example, content filtering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: DIGITALSCIROCCO, INC.
    Inventors: Bruce D. D'Ambrosio, Michael Wellman
  • Patent number: 6631362
    Abstract: To identify the best choice from a set of alternatives, team members select the criteria to be used in identifying the best choice. Each criterion describes at least one feature of the alternatives. Each team member then, for each alternative, defines a target value for the feature of the criteria and sets a level of knowledge about the feature of the criteria. Using the target values and the team member's knowledge of each feature, each team member estimates how well the alternatives meet the target values for the features. The system then calculates an expected utility for each alternative based on the team member's estimations and a probability that each alternative is the best choice. Finally, based on the expected utility and probability that each alternative is best, a best choice is identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Robust Decisions
    Inventors: David G. Ullman, Bruce D. D'Ambrosio