Patents by Inventor Eric Steinlauf

Eric Steinlauf 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: 10691746
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing an image with an answer to a question query. A method receiving a first query that is determined to be a question query; generating a second query form the first query; causing a search of a plurality of resources of a first corpus using the second query as input, wherein the first corpus of resources are resources that include images and textual data rendered with the images; receiving data indicating a set of resources determined to be responsive to the second query; causing a search for images in the set of resources; selecting, from the set of images and based in part on the search for images in the first set of resources, an image to be provided with the answer in response to the query; and providing, by the data processing apparatus, and with the answer, the image in response to the first query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Eric Steinlauf, Grant Dasher, Matthew K. Gray, Steven D. Baker, Namrata U. Godbole, Samer Hassan Hassan, Ionut Georgescu
  • Publication number: 20170017668
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing an image with an answer to a question query. A method receiving a first query that is determined to be a question query; generating a second query form the first query; causing a search of a plurality of resources of a first corpus using the second query as input, wherein the first corpus of resources are resources that include images and textual data rendered with the images; receiving data indicating a set of resources determined to be responsive to the second query; causing a search for images in the set of resources; selecting, from the set of images and based in part on the search for images in the first set of resources, an image to be provided with the answer in response to the query; and providing, by the data processing apparatus, and with the answer, the image in response to the first query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Eric Steinlauf, Grant Dasher, Matthew K. Gray, Steven D. Baker, Namrata U. Godbole, Samer Hassan Hassan, Ionut Georgescu
  • Patent number: 9483528
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for calculating social ranking scores for websites. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: process user interaction data describing user social activities associated with a website; classify the user social activities based on a plurality of social activity types associated with the user social activities, the plurality of social activity types including one or more characteristics describing the user social activities; determine candidate user social activities based on the classified user social activities, the candidate user social activities configured to calculate a social ranking score for the website; and calculate the social ranking score for the website based on the candidate user social activities, the social ranking score indicating a social ranking for the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Evan Gilbert, Eric Steinlauf, Richard Daniel Borovoy, Julie Heather Farago, Dhyanesh Damania, Jeffrey Korn, Aleksandra Korolova, Jessica Staddon, Zachary Maier