Patents by Inventor David Lloyd-Jones

David Lloyd-Jones 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).

  • Publication number: 20230214878
    Abstract: A system for providing advertisements with search results in response to a search query comprises a front end and an advertisement server. The front end is configured: to receive a search query; to send a first search request to a search server and sending a first advertisement request to an advertisement server, wherein the first search request includes the search query or information based on the search query, and wherein the first advertisement request includes the search query or information based on the search query and an indication that an advertisement response is not to be provided; to receive search results from the search server; and to send at least some of the search results to the advertisement server in a second advertisement request, wherein the second advertisement request includes an indication that an advertisement response is to be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Shivakumar Venkataraman, Srdjan Petrovic, Arnar Mar Hrafnkelsson, William Sands Robinson, Alan Wayne Blount, David Lloyd Jones, Tarun Kumar Jain
  • Patent number: 10963909
    Abstract: A system for providing advertisements with search results in response to a search query comprises a front end and an advertisement server. The front end is configured: to receive a search query; to send a first search request to a search server and sending a first advertisement request to an advertisement server, wherein the first search request includes the search query or information based on the search query, and wherein the first advertisement request includes the search query or information based on the search query and an indication that an advertisement response is not to be provided; to receive search results from the search server; and to send at least some of the search results to the advertisement server in a second advertisement request, wherein the second advertisement request includes an indication that an advertisement response is to be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Shivakumar Venkataraman, Srdjan Petrovic, Arnar Mar Hrafnkelsson, William Sands Robinson, Alan Wayne Blount, David Lloyd Jones, Tarun Kumar Jain
  • Publication number: 20160171527
    Abstract: A system for providing advertisements with search results in response to a search query comprises a front end and an advertisement server. The front end is configured: to receive a search query; to send a first search request to a search server and sending a first advertisement request to an advertisement server, wherein the first search request includes the search query or information based on the search query, and wherein the first advertisement request includes the search query or information based on the search query and an indication that an advertisement response is not to be provided; to receive search results from the search server; and to send at least some of the search results to the advertisement server in a second advertisement request, wherein the second advertisement request includes an indication that an advertisement response is to be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Shivakumar Venkataraman, Srdjan Petrovic, Arnar Mar Hrafnkelsson, William Sands Robinson, Alan Wayne Blount, David Lloyd Jones, Tarun Kumar Jain
  • Patent number: 6229446
    Abstract: The present invention provides an alarm apparatus suitable for use with an object or person, which apparatus is activated upon energisation of the object or person, wherein said alarm apparatus comprises a power source, at least one alarm means, actuating means associated with an unearthed sensor which actuates said alarm means in the event of the energisation of said object or person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Inventors: David Lloyd-Jones, Roger Vernon Rufus Link