Patents by Inventor BYRON EDWARD DORN

BYRON EDWARD DORN 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).

  • METHOD FOR INTERACTIVELY CREATING AN INFORMATION DATABASE INCLUDING PREFERRED INFORMATION ELEMENTS, SUCH AS PREFERRED AUTHORITY, WORLD
    Publication number: 20010039544
    Abstract: A method for cataloging, filtering and ranking information; as for example, World Wide Web pages of the Internet. The method is preferably implemented in computer software and features steps for enabling a user to interactively create an information database including preferred information elements such as preferred-authority World Wide Web pages. The method including steps for enabling a user to interactively creating a frame-based, hierarchical organizational structure for the information elements, and steps for identifying and automatically filtering and ranking by relevance, information elements, such as World Wide Web pages for populating the structure, to form; for example, a searchable, World Wide Web page database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 1998
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Inventors: SOUMEN CHAKRABARTI, BYRON EDWARD DORN, DAVID ANDREW GIBSON, PRABHAKAR RAGHAVAN, SRIDHAR RAJAGOPALAN, SHANMUGASUNDARAM RAVIKUMAR, ANDREW TOMKINS