Patents by Inventor Chris Pennock

Chris Pennock 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: 20150169751
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for client state result de-duping may comprise receiving from a client a first query comprising one or more search terms; obtaining from a data store a first list of search results relevant to the one or more search terms; generating state information representing the first list of search results; sending a first response to the client that includes the first list of search results and the state information; receiving from the client a second query comprising the one or more search terms and the state information; obtaining a second list of search results comprising items that have been added to the data store since the first query; removing from the second list of search results one or more search results represented by the received state information; and sending a second response to the client that includes the second list of search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Chris Pennock, Kumar Mayur Thakur
  • Patent number: 9058392
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for client state result de-duping may comprise receiving from a client a first query comprising one or more search terms; obtaining from a data store a first list of search results relevant to the one or more search terms; generating state information representing the first list of search results; sending a first response to the client that includes the first list of search results and the state information; receiving from the client a second query comprising the one or more search terms and the state information; obtaining a second list of search results comprising items that have been added to the data store since the first query; removing from the second list of search results one or more search results represented by the received state information; and sending a second response to the client that includes the second list of search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Pennock, Kumar Mayur Thakur