Patents by Inventor Eytan D. Seidman

Eytan D. Seidman 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: 7953631
    Abstract: The subject invention provides for systems and methods that visually enhance paid inclusion listings to facilitate offering a clear and substantial value to paid inclusion advertisers while retaining ordering rights to keep listings relevant to users. More specifically, the systems and methods allow paid inclusion listings to be visually modified at the discretion of the advertiser, the user, and/or the search service provider (e.g., publisher of search results) to facilitate differentiation among advertisers, companies, and the like. The ordering of the enhanced paid inclusion listings is not compromised based on the number or type of enhancement selected by the paid inclusion customer. A search service provider or search result publisher (“service provider”) can offer a plurality, or at least one, of different types of enhancements to paid inclusion customers (“advertisers”) to affect the rendering of any paid inclusion listing to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Moss, Eric Watson, Eytan D. Seidman
  • Patent number: 7676553
    Abstract: A system and method facilitating incremental web crawl(s) using chunk(s) is provided. The system can be employed, for example, to facilitate a web-crawling system that crawls (e.g., continuously) the Internet for information (e.g., data) and indexes the information so that it can be used as part of a web search engine. The system facilitates incremental re-crawls and/or selective updating of information (e.g., documents) using a structure called a chunk to simplify the process of an incremental crawl. A chunk is a set of documents that can be manipulated as a set (e.g., of up to 65,536 (64K) documents). “Document” refers to a corpus of data that is stored at a particular URL (e.g., HTML, PDF, PS, PPT, XLS, and/or DOC Files etc.) A chunk is created by an indexer. The indexer can place into a chunk documents that have similar property(ies). These property(ies) include but are not limited to: average time between change and average importance. These property(ies) can be stored at the chunk level in a chunk map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew S. Laucius, Darren A. Shakib, Eytan D. Seidman, Jonathan Forbes, Keith A. Birney
  • Publication number: 20080306933
    Abstract: Displaying a list of search-engine results in the same web-browser window as a viewing frame that is configured to display one of the results is described herein. A user's web search is performed on a search engine, and results are returned to a client computing device. The results are listed in a web-browser window that is configured to simultaneously display any result selected by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: JAMIL VALLIANI, NITIN AGRAWAL, DARINEE LOUVAU, EYTAN D. SEIDMAN, LEI WANG, YESHENG LI, DEQING CHEN, VIVEK J. JHAVERI, RAMEZ NAAM