Patents by Inventor Edwin R. Cooper

Edwin R. Cooper 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).

  • App store searching
    Patent number: 10394838
    Abstract: Methods and systems for searching for applications in an app store use, in one embodiment, distribution data to create an association between a first application and a first set of other applications in the app store, and the association is used to provide search results in response to a navigational search query that specifies the first application by name so that the search results include the first application and the first set of other applications. The distribution data indicates the number of downloads for applications in the app store that resulted from each search query in a set of search queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Edwin R. Cooper
  • APP STORE SEARCHING
    Publication number: 20170132294
    Abstract: Methods and systems for searching for applications in an app store use, in one embodiment, distribution data to create an association between a first application and a first set of other applications in the app store, and the association is used to provide search results in response to a navigational search query that specifies the first application by name so that the search results include the first application and the first set of other applications. The distribution data indicates the number of downloads for applications in the app store that resulted from each search query in a set of search queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventor: Edwin R. Cooper
  • GENERATION OF DATA FOR A DENDROGRAMMATIC TREE DATA STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20160092556
    Abstract: Methods and systems which can be used to create data for one or more nodes of a tree data structure by searching through another data structure containing, for example, metadata that describes digital assets such as apps (applications) available through an app store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Edwin R. Cooper, Nicholas A. Tucey, Peter Leong