Patents by Inventor Geoffrey B. Mack

Geoffrey B. Mack 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: 20020198882
    Abstract: A system provides session-specific web page or web site recommendations to a user based upon an identification of web pages previously viewed by the user during a browsing session. During a sequence of proximately visited locations, users tend to view web pages with similar content. To collect data, a client program executes in conjunction with a web browser on each of multiple users' computers. Each client program identifies pages viewed by the user and transmits the sequence of identifications to a server application executing on a recommendation system. The recommendation system creates tables of similar web pages based upon the sequences of locations visited by users. To create session-specific web page recommendations, the system uses the client program to identify a set of locations visited by the user during the session. The system then identifies similar web pages based upon the created tables and combines, sorts, and filters the results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: Gregory D. Linden, Brent R. Smith, Nida K. Zada, Jonathan O. Aizen, Geoffrey B. Mack