Patents by Inventor Doug Asherman

Doug Asherman 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: 20130198204
    Abstract: A set of content items is identified that is relevant to a topic. The communications provided with a plurality of social networking mediums are processed to identify individual communications that reference content items from the set. A score is determined for each of the one or more content items. The score of each of the one or more content items can be based at least in part on a number of instances in which that content item is referenced by the communications of the social networking mediums. A presentation can be provided that identifies a plurality of content items, as well as the score for each of the plurality of content items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Timothy Peter WILLIAMS, Yew Sun Ding, Daniel Hobbs, Daniel Schmidt, Doug Asherman
  • Publication number: 20120131013
    Abstract: Techniques to rank content based on social media metrics are described. In some embodiments, a method rank content based on social media metrics may include selecting a plurality of content contained on one or more web servers, requesting social media trending information for the plurality of content from one or more social media servers, calculating a social metric score for each of the plurality of content using the social media trending information and ranking the content based on the social metric score. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: CBS INTERACTIVE INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Hobbs, Daniel Schmidt, Doug Asherman