Patents by Inventor Duncan Watts

Duncan Watts 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: 20170019494
    Abstract: Various techniques of content virality determination and visualization are disclosed herein. For example, a method of determining network content virality metric includes constructing a diffusion cascade for a computer network content based on a plurality of time points at which individual users adopt the network content and connection information of the users. The method also includes calculating, with a processor, a virality metric of the network content based on a structural characteristic of the constructed diffusion cascade. Based on the calculated virality metric, one may determine if the network content is viral.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Jake Hofman, Robert Gruen, Sharad Goel, Duncan Watts
  • Patent number: 9491038
    Abstract: Various techniques of content virality determination and visualization are disclosed herein. For example, a method of determining network content virality metric includes constructing a diffusion cascade for a computer network content based on a plurality of time points at which individual users adopt the network content and connection information of the users. The method also includes calculating, with a processor, a virality metric of the network content based on a structural characteristic of the constructed diffusion cascade. Based on the calculated virality metric, one may determine if the network content is viral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jake Hofman, Robert Gruen, Sharad Goel, Duncan Watts
  • Publication number: 20140237093
    Abstract: Various techniques of content virality determination and visualization are disclosed herein. For example, a method of determining network content virality metric includes constructing a diffusion cascade for a computer network content based on a plurality of time points at which individual users adopt the network content and connection information of the users. The method also includes calculating, with a processor, a virality metric of the network content based on a structural characteristic of the constructed diffusion cascade. Based on the calculated virality metric, one may determine if the network content is viral.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jake Hofman, Robert Gruen, Sharad Goel, Duncan Watts
  • Patent number: 6150617
    Abstract: An agricultural vehicle is provided with means for continuously sensing the weight of an accumulated payload and a GPS navigation system (18). Weight and positional information, and optionally also sensed vehicle speed, are analysed in an analysis/display unit (14) and a map generated of e.g. weight/hectare. The principal application is an agricultural trailer with payload weight sensors (15), towed by a tractor with GPS and analysis systems. A map of yield of e.g. a root crop may be generated as the crop is harvested and continuously deposited into the trailer as it moves along.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: AGCO Limited
    Inventors: Peter John Hart, David Forbes Smith, Benjamin Simon Blackmore, Richard John Godwin, Paul Nicholas Wheeler, Colin Duncan Watt
  • Patent number: 4074503
    Abstract: A brick laying device comprises a rectangular frame which fits on a course of bricks. The central aperture in the frame defines a trough for a mortar layer to be laid on top of the bricks. At least one longitudinally extending member of the frame has a right angle section, of which one arm extends inwardly over the top of the bricks, and the other extends downwardly on the outside of the bricks to locate the frame on the bricks and to check the linearity of the course.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1978
    Inventors: Robert Duncan Watt, Brian William Gordon Orr