Patents by Inventor Eric Edmund Gilbert

Eric Edmund Gilbert 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).

  • Tie strength prediction and social media filtration
    Patent number: 8965967
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of predicting tie strength between persons within a social media network includes: modeling tie strengths between a user of the social media network and connected persons in the network as a combination of: a plurality of predictive variables, interactions between dimensions of the predictive variables, and network structure of the social media network; altering or filtering a stream of social media content from the connected persons using the tie strength as associated with the respective connected persons according to the modeling; and delivering the altered or filtered stream of social media content to a communications device of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Eric Edmund Gilbert, Kyratso (Karrie) George Karahalios
  • TIE STRENGTH PREDICTION AND SOCIAL MEDIA FILTRATION
    Publication number: 20110167115
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of predicting tie strength between persons within a social media network includes: modeling tie strengths between a user of the social media network and connected persons in the network as a combination of: a plurality of predictive variables, interactions between dimensions of the predictive variables, and network structure of the social media network; altering or filtering a stream of social media content from the connected persons using the tie strength as associated with the respective connected persons according to the modeling; and delivering the altered or filtered stream of social media content to a communications device of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Eric Edmund Gilbert, Kyratso (Karrie) George Karahalios