Patents by Inventor Douwe Osinga

Douwe Osinga 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: 8577401
    Abstract: The subject matter of this document can be embodied in, among other things, a computer-method that includes receiving a text message associated with a first telephone number, and establishing a communication session associated with the received text message. The communication session is established by modifying the received text message so that the received text message is associated with a second telephone number that is different from the first telephone number, and subsequent text messages associated with the second telephone number are included as part of the communication session. The method also includes transmitting the text message to a text messaging system, such that the text message appears to have originated from the second telephone number. Upon receiving a text message reply from a user in response to the transmitted text message, the text message reply is associated with the established communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Douwe Osinga
  • Patent number: 8577866
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for identifying original content. In one aspect a method is described that includes deriving a plurality of content pieces from a collection of documents, each content piece occurring in one or more documents in the collection of documents. Each document in the collection of documents is associated with a time and an author. A first document in the collection of documents is identified, the identified first document being the earliest document containing an occurrence of a first piece of content. A first author associated with the first document is ranked based on a number of documents that contain at least one occurrence of the content piece and that are associated with an author other than the first author.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Googe Inc.
    Inventors: Douwe Osinga, Stefan Christoph
  • Patent number: 8332399
    Abstract: A system identifies a set of documents from a corpus of documents that are relevant to a word, phrase or sentence and that were published at approximately a same time period, where each document of the set of documents includes news content and has an associated headline. The system extracts headlines from the set of documents and derives a score for each headline of the extracted headlines based on how many times selected words in each headline occurs among all of the extracted headlines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Douwe Osinga
  • Patent number: 8265672
    Abstract: The subject matter of this document can be embodied in, among other things, a computer-method that includes receiving a text message associated with a first telephone number, and establishing a communication session associated with the received text message. The communication session is established by modifying the received text message so that the received text message is associated with a second telephone number that is different from the first telephone number, and subsequent text messages associated with the second telephone number are included as part of the communication session. The method also includes transmitting the text message to a text messaging system, such that the text message appears to have originated from the second telephone number. Upon receiving a text message reply from a user in response to the transmitted text message, the text message reply is associated with the established communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Douwe Osinga
  • Patent number: 8224362
    Abstract: The subject matter of this document can be embodied in, among other things, a computer-method that includes receiving a text message associated with a first telephone number, and establishing a communication session associated with the received text message. The communication session is established by modifying the received text message so that the received text message is associated with a second telephone number that is different from the first telephone number, and subsequent text messages associated with the second telephone number are included as part of the communication session. The method also includes transmitting the text message to a text messaging system, such that the text message appears to have originated from the second telephone number. Upon receiving a text message reply from a user in response to the transmitted text message, the text message reply is associated with the established communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Douwe Osinga
  • Patent number: 7739254
    Abstract: A system identifies a set of documents from a corpus of documents that are relevant to a word, phrase or sentence and that were published at approximately a same time period, where each document of the set of documents includes news content and has an associated headline. The system extracts headlines from the set of documents and derives a score for each headline of the extracted headlines based on how many times selected words in each headline occurs among all of the extracted headlines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Douwe Osinga