Patents by Inventor Erik Todd Collier

Erik Todd Collier 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: 20130290313
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of distributing representations in a network environment having a host computer system connected over at least one network to a plurality of user computer systems and to a data provider computer system. Domains of representations are ranked in a first historical data set. A query is received from a user computer system within a website. A call number that depends on the rank of the domains of the representations in the first historical data set for the query is calculated, recorded and transmitted from the host computer system over the network to the data provider computer system together with the query. A plurality of representations for the query are received from the data provider computer system over the network at the host computer system and transmitted from the host computer system over the network to the user computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: IAC SEARCH & MEDIA, INC.
    Inventors: Erik Todd Collier, Wahid Chrabakh, Neeraj Bhatnagar
  • Publication number: 20130290315
    Abstract: A query is received from a user computer system within a website, a call is transmitted from the host computer system to the data provider computer system corresponding to the query, including the call number for the query, a plurality of representations for the query are received from the data provider computer system at the host computer system and transmitted from the host computer system over the network to the user computer system. The call number is calculated based on a rank of the representations in a first historical data set. An access control module periodically resets the call number to higher number, whereafter a determination is made to maintain the call number at the higher or to reduce the call number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: IAC SEARCH & MEDIA, INC.
    Inventors: Neeraj Bhatnagar, Wahid Chrabakh, Erik Todd Collier
  • Publication number: 20130290316
    Abstract: A website receives a query from a user computer system, transmitting a call from the host computer system to a data provider computer system corresponding to the query representations from the data provider computer system, transmitting the representations to the user computer system and receives responses from the user computer system. An application shell receives the representations for the query and the response from the website and builds an application logic in real time. A first representation system inserted into the application shell includes a first ranking module ranking the representations in a first historical data set, calculates the call number, the call number depending on the rank of the representations in the first historical data set for the query, records the call number for the query and recording the response within the first historical data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: IAC SEARCH & MEDIA, INC
    Inventors: Neeraj Bhatnagar, Wahid Chrabakh, Erik Todd Collier