Patents by Inventor Donna Romer

Donna Romer 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: 20130327671
    Abstract: Multisource fusion of data is used on a handheld device to create a portable analytical verifier, including the ability to verify based on product wrapping or using a returned code to check the product or wrapping. Data words are extracted from authentication media by testing to see whether particular taggants are present, using spectroscopic analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Emil Walter Ciurczak, Sharon Flank, William H. Flank, Vojislav Maksimovic, Gary Ritchie, Donna Romer
  • Patent number: 8517274
    Abstract: Multisource fusion of data is used on a handheld device to create a portable analytical verifier, including the ability to verify based on product wrapping or using a re-turned code to check the product or wrapping. Data words are extracted from authentication media by testing to see whether particular taggants are present, using spectroscopic analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Verrana LLC
    Inventors: Emil Walter Ciurczak, Sharon Flank, William H. Flank, Vojislav Maksimovic, Gary Ritchie, Donna Romer
  • Publication number: 20120286046
    Abstract: Multisource fusion of data is used on a handheld device to create a portable analytical verifier, including the ability to verify based on product wrapping or using a re-turned code to check the product or wrapping. Data words are extracted from authentication media by testing to see whether particular taggants are present, using spectroscopic analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: VERRANA, LLC
    Inventors: Emil Walter Ciurczak, Sharon Flank, William H. Flank, Vojislav Maksimovic, Gary Ritchie, Donna Romer
  • Publication number: 20120245996
    Abstract: A method and system for generating a profile for a web page. The method and system includes extracting one or more phrases associated with one or more referring URLs to the web page and determining a phrase relevance distribution including a phrase relevance probability for each of the one or more extracted phrases. The method and system further includes applying at least one phrase relevance probability in the phrase relevance distribution to social media traffic directed to the web page and generating an inferred phrase relevance probability for the social media traffic based on the application of the at least one phrase relevance probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Jonathan Mendez, Donna Romer, Richard Shea
  • Patent number: 7418444
    Abstract: A system stories digital media records and includes a search engine searching the stored digital media records. It receives search requests from users, logs the search requests, expands the search requests, applies a statistical clustering algorithm, thereby grouping similar search requests together, identifies, using a semantic net hierarchy, a lowest-level term in the hierarchy that subsumes all of the queries in a grouping of search requests, and communicates the identified term to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Corbis Corporation
    Inventors: Sharon Flank, Ruth Sperer, Donna Romer
  • Patent number: 6944611
    Abstract: A system stores digital media records and has a search engine searching the stored digital media records. The system receives first search requests from a plurality of first users. The system performs, by the search engine, searches based upon the first search requests, yielding respective first search results, each first search result defining first selected digital media records. The first search results are logged. Information is received from the first users indicative of subsequent actions by the first users selecting particular ones of the selected digital media records. A second search request is received from a second user. A search is performed, by the search engine, based upon the second search request, yielding respective second search results, the second search results defining second selected digital media records. The second selected media records are then ranked differently, for example upward or downward, based upon the longed first search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Emotion, Inc.
    Inventors: Sharon Flank, Ruth Sperer, Donna Romer
  • Patent number: 6895407
    Abstract: The software incorporates a glossary management tool that makes it easy for each client to customize terminology to the needs of a particular business. With this tool, termed a glossary manager, a company can customize a number of feature names in the system to provide a more familiar context for their users. A system administrator can also customize the manner in which “thumbnail” or “preview” images are presented. The system performs clustering on search queries, and searches media records multi-modally, using two or more approaches such as image searching and text searching. An administrator can tune search parameters. Two or more streams of metadata may be aligned and correlated with a media file, facilitating later searching. The system evaluates itself. It folds popularity information into rankings of search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Emotion, Inc.
    Inventors: Donna Romer, James Rothey
  • Publication number: 20030004968
    Abstract: The software according to the invention incorporates a glossary management tool that makes it easy for each client to customize terminology to the needs of a particular business. With this tool, termed a glossary manager, a company can customize a number of feature names in the system to provide a more familiar context for their users. A system administrator can also customize the manner in which “thumbnail” or “preview” images are presented. The system performs clustering on search queries, and searches media records multi-modally, using two or more approaches such as image searching and text searching. An administrator can tune search parameters. Two or more streams of metadata may be aligned and correlated with a media file, facilitating later searching. The system evaluates itself. It folds popularity information into rankings of search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Applicant: eMotion Inc.
    Inventors: Donna Romer, James Rothey
  • Publication number: 20020194200
    Abstract: The software according to the invention incorporates a glossary management tool that makes it easy for each client to customize terminology to the needs of a particular business. With this tool, termed a glossary manager, a company can customize a number of feature names in the system to provide a more familiar context for their users. A system administrator can also customize the manner in which “thumbnail” or “preview” images are presented. The system performs clustering on search queries, and searches media records multi-modally, using two or more approaches such as image searching and text searching. An administrator can tune search parameters. Two or more streams of metadata may be aligned and correlated with a media file, facilitating later searching. The system evaluates itself. It folds popularity information into rankings of search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Applicant: eMotion Inc.
    Inventors: Sharon Flank, Ruth Sperer, Donna Romer
  • Publication number: 20020188621
    Abstract: The software according to the invention incorporates a glossary management tool that makes it easy for each client to customize terminology to the needs of a particular business. With this tool, termed a glossary manager, a company can customize a number of feature names in the system to provide a more familiar context for their users. A system administrator can also customize the manner in which “thumbnail” or “preview” images are presented. The system performs clustering on search queries, and searches media records multi-modally, using two or more approaches such as image searching and text searching. An administrator can tune search parameters. Two or more streams of metadata may be aligned and correlated with a media file, facilitating later searching. The system evaluates itself. It folds popularity information into rankings of search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Applicant: eMotion Inc.
    Inventors: Sharon Flank, Ruth Sperer, Donna Romer