Patents by Inventor Frances Annie Pettit

Frances Annie Pettit 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: 8725773
    Abstract: An online marketing research measurement that allows a user to derive and/or monitor knowledge metrics, such as awareness metrics, recommendation metrics, advocacy metrics, etc. about a target subject, such as the user's brands and/or products using existing data on the Internet. Rather than requiring responses solicited from active participants in a survey (as in traditional surveys), unsolicited opinion data residing on the Internet can be gathered and processed for deriving various types of knowledge metrics. A recommendation metric can be derived from opinion data gathered from the Internet, which reflects a measure of recommendation opinions about the target subject. Users may identify the specific brand in which they are interested. After an Internet crawler is sent out to select data, the engine cleans the results of poor quality data, codes the data according to the appropriate constructs or variables, and then scores the sentiment using the system's sentiment engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: e-Rewards, Inc.
    Inventor: Frances Annie Pettit
  • Patent number: 8694357
    Abstract: An online marketing research system where users identify a specific brand and/or competitive brands in which they are interested. An internet crawler engine collects sentiments relating to the identified brands according to a sampling method, which may be created by the user. The results from the internet crawler are refined using a refinement engine. The refined sentiments are then scored by a sentiment engine. Users may view the scored results via a user interface, which itself includes an interactive sentiment modeler. The interactive sentiment modeler provides quantified insights and allows users to select types of charts, the constructs, and timelines that are important to them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: e-Rewards, Inc.
    Inventors: Tessie C. Ting, Jean Davis, Frances Annie Pettit
  • Publication number: 20130054559
    Abstract: An online marketing research measurement that allows a user to derive and/or monitor knowledge metrics, such as awareness metrics, recommendation metrics, advocacy metrics, etc. about a target subject, such as the user's brands and/or products using existing data on the Internet. Rather than requiring responses solicited from active participants in a survey (as in traditional surveys), unsolicited opinion data residing on the Internet can be gathered and processed for deriving various types of knowledge metrics. A recommendation metric can be derived from opinion data gathered from the Internet, which reflects a measure of recommendation opinions about the target subject. Users may identify the specific brand in which they are interested. After an Internet crawler is sent out to select data, the engine cleans the results of poor quality data, codes the data according to the appropriate constructs or variables, and then scores the sentiment using the system's sentiment engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: e-Rewards, Inc.
    Inventor: Frances Annie Pettit
  • Publication number: 20110004483
    Abstract: An online marketing research system is provided that allows users to monitor the sentiment of their brand via existing data on the internet. Users identify the specific brand and competitive brands in which they are interested. After selecting one of the system's sampling methods, or creating a sampling method unique to their needs, the internet crawler is sent out to select according to the plan a specified number of sentiments. The engine cleans the results of poor quality data such as astro-turfing and re-blogging. The sentiments are then scored using the system's sentiment engine, and further cleaned with the hate and profanity engine. The system's crawling engine also gathers data for competitive brands within the same subcategory, category and industry as well as a variety of unrelated brands. Clients use the system's engine interface to visualize the data in an appealing qualitative format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: Conversition Strategies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tessie C. Ting, Jean Davis, Frances Annie Pettit