Patents by Inventor Christopher M. Atenasio

Christopher M. Atenasio 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: 8959084
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving in a query a location identifier from a user of a remote device, parsing the input location identifier to generate one or more location-related tokens, querying a repository of location information with the one or more location-related tokens to identify locations for one or more documents having a substantial match to the tokens, scoring the one or more documents using a mass of location for each document that represents the geographical size of a location associated with the document, and presenting information relating to the one or more documents for display using the mass of location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher M. Atenasio