Patents by Inventor Christopher Jacob Durr

Christopher Jacob Durr 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: 11551003
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimized graph traversal are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a given phrase that is input through a user interface by a digital component provider. The actions further include determining an entity that is being referred to by the given phrase. The actions further include identifying properties of the entity. The actions further include selecting a subset of the properties that were identified for the entity. The actions further include identifying additional phrases. The actions further include updating the user interface to present at least some of the additional phrases with programmatic controls that assign one or more of the additional phrase as distribution criteria for digital components of the digital component provider in response to activation of the programmatic controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Jacob Durr, Hector Mauricio Ayala, Mayank Jain
  • Publication number: 20200387671
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimized graph traversal are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a given phrase that is input through a user interface by a digital component provider. The actions further include determining an entity that is being referred to by the given phrase. The actions further include identifying properties of the entity. The actions further include selecting a subset of the properties that were identified for the entity. The actions further include identifying additional phrases. The actions further include updating the user interface to present at least some of the additional phrases with programmatic controls that assign one or more of the additional phrase as distribution criteria for digital components of the digital component provider in response to activation of the programmatic controls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher Jacob Durr, Hector Mauricio Ayala, Mayank Jain
  • Patent number: 10789428
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimized graph traversal are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a given phrase that is input through a user interface by a digital component provider. The actions further include determining an entity that is being referred to by the given phrase. The actions further include identifying properties of the entity. The actions further include selecting a subset of the properties that were identified for the entity. The actions further include identifying additional phrases. The actions further include updating the user interface to present at least some of the additional phrases with programmatic controls that assign one or more of the additional phrase as distribution criteria for digital components of the digital component provider in response to activation of the programmatic controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Jacob Durr, Hector Mauricio Ayala, Mayank Jain
  • Publication number: 20190155899
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimized graph traversal are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a given phrase that is input through a user interface by a digital component provider. The actions further include determining an entity that is being referred to by the given phrase. The actions further include identifying properties of the entity. The actions further include selecting a subset of the properties that were identified for the entity. The actions further include identifying additional phrases. The actions further include updating the user interface to present at least some of the additional phrases with programmatic controls that assign one or more of the additional phrase as distribution criteria for digital components of the digital component provider in response to activation of the programmatic controls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Christopher Jacob Durr, Hector Mauricio Ayala, Mayank Jain
  • Patent number: 10140286
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimized graph traversal are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a given phrase that is input through a user interface by a digital component provider. The actions further include determining an entity that is being referred to by the given phrase. The actions further include identifying properties of the entity. The actions further include selecting a subset of the properties that were identified for the entity. The actions further include identifying additional phrases. The actions further include updating the user interface to present at least some of the additional phrases with programmatic controls that assign one or more of the additional phrase as distribution criteria for digital components of the digital component provider in response to activation of the programmatic controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Jacob Durr, Hector Mauricio Ayala, Mayank Jain
  • Publication number: 20180239751
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimized graph traversal are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a given phrase that is input through a user interface by a digital component provider. The actions further include determining an entity that is being referred to by the given phrase. The actions further include identifying properties of the entity. The actions further include selecting a subset of the properties that were identified for the entity. The actions further include identifying additional phrases. The actions further include updating the user interface to present at least some of the additional phrases with programmatic controls that assign one or more of the additional phrase as distribution criteria for digital components of the digital component provider in response to activation of the programmatic controls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher Jacob Durr, Hector Mauricio Ayala, Mayank Jain