Patents by Inventor Gary D. Mellott

Gary D. Mellott 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: 20040205065
    Abstract: A system for automatically creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user opinions about subjects, particularly exceptional experiences. Described is an Internet system assisting/motivating a population of users interested in information about certain categories of subjects to automatically maintain the database content and to improve the usefulness and quality of the database information without any substantial management by the website owner-manager. The user opinions are primarily in the form of both comments and ratings about which natural-language terms best describe a particular subject, enabling user searches of the subject database to be by way of preferred such descriptive natural-language terms, which terms are further preferred to be evaluative and approving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Gregory J. Petras, Jeffrey T. Zywicki, Flori N. Parham, Mark A. Fisher, Robert R. Martin, Andrew F. Mason, Cory Osborn, Lisa J. Cramer, Craig P. Thompson, Norman White, Gary D. Mellott, Kimberly A. Cameron, Kory Kredit, Rachael A. Thomas, Connie Riffel, Richard W. Hill