Patents by Inventor Claire McLeod

Claire McLeod 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).

  • TRIGGERING LOCAL EXTENSIONS BASED ON INFERRED INTENT
    Publication number: 20220327130
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining cluster data, determining a portion of the search queries within the given query cluster that trigger a local search feature, assigning to the intent flag a value indicating that the given cluster is high local intent cluster when the portion of the search queries within the given query cluster that trigger the local search feature meets the local intent threshold, assigning to the intent flag a value indicating that the given cluster is a low local intent cluster when the portion of the search queries within the given query cluster that trigger the local search feature fails to meet the local intent threshold, and modifying a content item including adding a local content feature to the content item when the search query is determined to be included in the high local intent cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Qian Zhong, Claire McLeod, Yebin Tao
  • Triggering local extensions based on inferred intent
    Patent number: 11397737
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining cluster data, determining a portion of the search queries within the given query cluster that trigger a local search feature, assigning to the intent flag a value indicating that the given cluster is high local intent cluster when the portion of the search queries within the given query cluster that trigger the local search feature meets the local intent threshold, assigning to the intent flag a value indicating that the given cluster is a low local intent cluster when the portion of the search queries within the given query cluster that trigger the local search feature fails to meet the local intent threshold, and modifying a content item including adding a local content feature to the content item when the search query is determined to be included in the high local intent cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Qian Zhong, Claire McLeod, Yebin Tao
  • TRIGGERING LOCAL EXTENSIONS BASED ON INFERRED INTENT
    Publication number: 20200356569
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining cluster data, determining a portion of the search queries within the given query cluster that trigger a local search feature, assigning to the intent flag a value indicating that the given cluster is high local intent cluster when the portion of the search queries within the given query cluster that trigger the local search feature meets the local intent threshold, assigning to the intent flag a value indicating that the given cluster is a low local intent cluster when the portion of the search queries within the given query cluster that trigger the local search feature fails to meet the local intent threshold, and modifying a content item including adding a local content feature to the content item when the search query is determined to be included in the high local intent cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Qian Zhong, Claire McLeod, Yebin Tao