Patents by Inventor Greg Laughlin

Greg Laughlin 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: 11568334
    Abstract: Systems and methods of adaptive workflow definition of crowd sourced tasks and quality control mechanisms for multiple business applications are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for generating and distributing tasks to workers to optimize product categorization in an online marketplace, generating and distributing tasks to workers for search engine optimization of a website, and/or generating and distributing tasks to workers for business data verification and enhancement. Results can be aggregated from multiple workers to enhance or improve site information, site organization, or other business information to improve site placement in search results and/or to enhance/improve user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Figure Eight Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher R. Van Pelt, John Le, Greg Laughlin, David Oleson, Brian Hahn
  • Publication number: 20180240138
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to collecting survey information, performing a statistical test on the collected survey information, and providing a presentation of a statistical result via a virtual workspace. In particular, systems and methods disclosed herein facilitate administering an electronic survey and collecting survey information based on responses to electronic survey questions. In addition, systems and methods disclosed herein facilitate preparing the survey information for analysis using one or more identified statistical tests. Moreover, systems and methods disclosed herein facilitate performing the statistical test(s) to determine a statistical result and providing a presentation of the statistical result including a plain text description of the statistical result within a virtual workspace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: John Le, Greg Laughlin
  • Publication number: 20140039985
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating a worker in performing crowd sourced tasks and providing in-task training are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for selecting a job distributed through a job distribution platform for workers to work on, for use to generate a test task, the job being associated with a known correct result, associating a manipulated result, known to be an incorrect result for the job, with the job to generate the test task, and/or presenting the job with the manipulated result as the test task to a worker for evaluation of work quality of the worker. The job distribution platform crowd sources tasks online to workers to work on via their respective computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: CROWDFLOWER, INC.
    Inventors: David Oleson, Alexander Sorokin, Greg Laughlin, Vaughn Hester, John Le, Christopher R. Van Pelt, Lukas A. Biewald
  • Patent number: 8554605
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating a worker in performing crowd sourced tasks and providing in-task training are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for selecting a job distributed through a job distribution platform for workers to work on, for use to generate a test task, the job being associated with a known correct result, associating a manipulated result, known to be an incorrect result for the job, with the job to generate the test task, and/or presenting the job with the manipulated result as the test task to a worker for evaluation of work quality of the worker. The job distribution platform crowd sources tasks online to workers to work on via their respective computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: CrowdFlower, Inc.
    Inventors: David Oleson, Alexander Sorokin, Greg Laughlin, Vaughn Hester, John Le, Christopher R. Van Pelt, Lukas A. Biewald
  • Publication number: 20130231969
    Abstract: Systems and methods of adaptive workflow definition of crowd sourced tasks and quality control mechanisms for multiple business applications are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for generating and distributing tasks to workers to optimize product categorization in an online marketplace, generating and distributing tasks to workers for search engine optimization of a website, and/or generating and distributing tasks to workers for business data verification and enhancement. Results can be aggregated from multiple workers to enhance or improve site information, site organization, or other business information to improve site placement in search results and/or to enhance/improve user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: CROWDFLOWER, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher R. Van Pelt, John Le, Greg Laughlin, David Oleson, Brian Hahn
  • Publication number: 20130006717
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating a worker in performing crowd sourced tasks and providing in-task training are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for selecting a job distributed through a job distribution platform for workers to work on, for use to generate a test task, the job being associated with a known correct result, associating a manipulated result, known to be an incorrect result for the job, with the job to generate the test task, and/or presenting the job with the manipulated result as the test task to a worker for evaluation of work quality of the worker. The job distribution platform crowd sources tasks online to workers to work on via their respective computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: David Oleson, Alexander Sorokin, Greg Laughlin, Vaughn Hester, John Le, Christopher R. Van Pelt, Lukas Biewald