Patents by Inventor Ellen Konar

Ellen Konar 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: 10325281
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which contextual bids for an auction are provided for advertisement requests for presentation of an advertisement in an identified context. Each contextual bid is based on an effectiveness measure associated with a corresponding advertisement and the identified context. Each corresponding advertisement can be served in a plurality of contexts, and the corresponding advertisement has a corresponding plurality of effectiveness measures, each effectiveness measure determined from evaluation results received from evaluations conducted in the plurality of contexts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Ellen Konar
  • Publication number: 20170200188
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which contextual bids for an auction are provided for advertisement requests for presentation of an advertisement in an identified context. Each contextual bid is based on an effectiveness measure associated with a corresponding advertisement and the identified context. Each corresponding advertisement can be served in a plurality of contexts, and the corresponding advertisement has a corresponding plurality of effectiveness measures, each effectiveness measure determined from evaluation results received from evaluations conducted in the plurality of contexts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Ellen Konar
  • Publication number: 20170178156
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for measuring strengths of associations between branding content and branding content. In an aspect, branding content associations are collected from sessions of psychometric tools for branding content at client devices. Determined are orders of mention defining an order in which the branding content associations were input at each of the client devices, frequencies of mention for each of the branding content associations, and latencies of mention for each of the branding content associations. One or more of these metrics can be used to determine association strengths for each branding content association.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Sean M. Bruich, Frederick R. Leach, Ellen Konar
  • Patent number: 9262147
    Abstract: At a server, during one or more first time periods, event data is received from a first client with respect to one or more events that occur at the first client. The event data is sent by the first client under control of a first application resident on a removable storage device. At the server, during one or more second time periods, event data is received from a second client with respect to one or more events that occur at the second client. The event data is sent by the second client under control of the first application resident on the removable storage device. The first and second time periods are non-overlapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Yevgeniy Gutnik, Omer Shakil, Gueorgui N. Djabarov, Sanjeev Radhakrishnan, Shrikant S. Kelkar, Benjamin Lewis, Ellen Konar, Daniel M. Slotwiner
  • Publication number: 20090106087
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which contextual bids for an auction are provided for advertisement requests for presentation of an advertisement in an identified context. Each contextual bid is based on an effectiveness measure associated with a corresponding advertisement and the identified context. Each corresponding advertisement can be served in a plurality of contexts, and the corresponding advertisement has a corresponding plurality of effectiveness measures, each effectiveness measure determined from evaluation results received from evaluations conducted in the plurality of contexts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Ellen Konar
  • Publication number: 20090106070
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which evaluation versions of advertisements are generated and served in different contexts. Based on received evaluation results, engagement rates, brand linkage and advertisement effectiveness measures are generated for each of the different contexts and for an overall context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Ellen Konar
  • Publication number: 20070233503
    Abstract: A system receives bids associated with placement of respective surveys. The system selects one or more of the surveys based on their respective bids and associates the selected one or more surveys with documents hosted at one or more servers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Meyer, Ellen Konar