Patents by Inventor David Duane Hall

David Duane Hall 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: 8041723
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for identifying premium content items (such as video content items) that are responsive to a query. According to one embodiment, a method for identifying one or more items of video content responsive to a given query comprises receiving a query comprising one or more terms from a given user, identifying one or more items of video content responsive to the received query and generating a result set comprising one or more links to the one or more items of video content responsive to the received query. The one or more links in the result set associated with items of premium video content are identified and the one or more links in the result set associated with items of premium video content are filtered on the basis of information associated with the user from which the query was received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh R. Sarukkai, David Duane Hall, Wei Dai, Ulf Sigurd Carlin
  • Publication number: 20110087649
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for identifying premium content items (such as video content items) that are responsive to a query. According to one embodiment, a method for identifying one or more items of video content responsive to a given query comprises receiving a query comprising one or more terms from a given user, identifying one or more items of video content responsive to the received query and generating a result set comprising one or more links to the one or more items of video content responsive to the received query. The one or more links in the result set associated with items of premium video content are identified and the one or more links in the result set associated with items of premium video content are filtered on the basis of information associated with the user from which the query was received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC
    Inventors: Ramesh R. Sarukkai, David Duane Hall, Wei Dai, Ulf Sigurd Carlin
  • Patent number: 7877395
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for identifying premium content items (such as video content items) that are responsive to a query. According to one embodiment, a method for identifying one or more items of video content responsive to a given query comprises receiving a query comprising one or more terms from a given user, identifying one or more items of video content responsive to the received query and generating a result set comprising one or more links to the one or more items of video content responsive to the received query. The one or more links the result set associated with items of premium video content are identified and the one or more links in the result set associated with items of premium video content are filtered on the basis information associated with the user from which the query was received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh R. Sarukkai, David Duane Hall, Wei Dai, Ulf Sigurd Carlin
  • Publication number: 20080147613
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for identifying premium content items (such as video content items) that are responsive to a query. According to one embodiment, a method for identifying one or more items of video content responsive to a given query comprises receiving a query comprising one or more terms from a given user, identifying one or more items of video content responsive to the received query and generating a result set comprising one or more items of video content responsive to the received query. The one or more links the result set associated with items of premium video content are identified and the one or more links in the result set associated with items of premium video content are filtered on the basis information associated with the user from which the query was received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh R. Sarukkai, David Duane Hall, Wei Dai, Ulf Sigurd Carlin