Patents by Inventor Christopher P. Bergh

Christopher P. Bergh 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: 8620740
    Abstract: An offer delivery system provides a mechanism for coordinating presentation of offers to customers that may originate from multiple different sources and that may be delivered to the customers over different channels. The systems makes use of rules to prioritize, select, and time the delivery of offers to any particular customer, allocate limited resources in the channels to deliver offers to a set of customers, and provide mechanisms for users or their agents to limit the delivery of offers, for example, by their frequency or type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher P. Bergh, Michael S. Bauer, Sidra Michon, Zack Miloushev, Kevin Furbish, Charles Evett, Gregory Erman, John Mandel
  • Patent number: 8533038
    Abstract: An offer delivery system provides a mechanism for coordinating presentation of offers to customers that may originate from multiple different sources and that may be delivered to the customers over different channels. The systems makes use of rules to prioritize, select, and time the delivery of offers to any particular customer, allocate limited resources in the channels to deliver offers to a set of customers, and provide mechanisms for users or their agents to limit the delivery of offers, for example, by their frequency or type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher P. Bergh, Michael S. Bauer, Sidra Michon, Zack Miloushev, Kevin Furbish, Charles Evett, Gregory Erman, John Mandel
  • Publication number: 20110208578
    Abstract: An offer delivery system provides a mechanism for coordinating presentation of offers to customers that may originate from multiple different sources and that may be delivered to the customers over different channels. The systems makes use of rules to prioritize, select, and time the delivery of offers to any particular customer, allocate limited resources in the channels to deliver offers to a set of customers, and provide mechanisms for users or their agents to limit the delivery of offers, for example, by their frequency or type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Christopher P. Bergh, Michael S. Bauer, Sidra Michon, Zack Miloushev, Kevin Furbish, Charles Evett, Gregory Erman, John Mandel
  • Publication number: 20020026356
    Abstract: An offer delivery system provides a mechanism for coordinating presentation of offers to customers that may originate from multiple different sources and that may be delivered to the customers over different channels. The systems makes use of rules to prioritize, select, and time the delivery of offers to any particular customer, allocate limited resources in the channels to deliver offers to a set of customers, and provide mechanisms for users or their agents to limit the delivery of offers, for example, by their frequency or type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Inventors: Christopher P. Bergh, Michael S. Bauer, Sidra Michon, Zack Miloushev, Kevin Furbish, Charles Evett, Gregory Erman, John Mandel
  • Patent number: 6112186
    Abstract: A system for facilitating exchange of user information and opinion using automated collaborative filtering includes memory elements for storing item profiles and user profiles. The data contained in those profiles is used to calculate a number of similarity factors representing how closely the preferences of one user correlate with another. The similarity factors are evaluated to select a set of neighboring users for each user which represents the set of users which most closely correlate with a particular user. The system assigns a weight to each one of the neighboring users. The system uses the ratings given to items by those neighboring users to recommend an item to a user. The system may be distributed, i.e. the system may include a number of nodes connected to a central server. The central server includes a memory element for storing user profile data and the nodes may be the type of system described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher P. Bergh, Max E. Metral, David Henry Ritter, Jonathan Ari Sheena, James J. Sullivan