Patents by Inventor Herbert Van De Sompel

Herbert Van De Sompel 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).

  • Method of recommending items to a user based on user interest
    Patent number: 8577831
    Abstract: Although recording of usage data is common in scholarly information services, its exploitation for the creation of value-added services remains limited due to concerns regarding, among others, user privacy, data validity, and the lack of accepted standards for the representation, sharing and aggregation of usage data. A technical, standards-based architecture for sharing usage information is presented. In this architecture, OpenURL-compliant linking servers aggregate usage information of a specific user community as it navigates the distributed information environment that it has access to. This usage information is made OAI-PMH harvestable so that usage information exposed by many linking servers can be aggregated to facilitate the creation of value-added services with a reach beyond that of a single community or a single information service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Los Alamos Security,LLC
    Inventors: Johan Bollen, Herbert Van De Sompel
  • Method of Recommending Items to a User Based on User Interest
    Publication number: 20120078876
    Abstract: Although recording of usage data is common in scholarly information services, its exploitation for the creation of value-added services remains limited due to concerns regarding, among others, user privacy, data validity, and the lack of accepted standards for the representation, sharing and aggregation of usage data. A technical, standards-based architecture for sharing usage information is presented. In this architecture, OpenURL-compliant linking servers aggregate usage information of a specific user community as it navigates the distributed information environment that it has access to. This usage information is made OAI-PMH harvestable so that usage information exposed by many linking servers can be aggregated to facilitate the creation of value-added services with a reach beyond that of a single community or a single information service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC
    Inventors: Johan Bollen, Herbert Van De Sompel
  • Usage based indicators to assess the impact of scholarly works: architecture and method
    Patent number: 8135662
    Abstract: Although recording of usage data is common in scholarly information services, its exploitation for the creation of value-added services remains limited due to concerns regarding, among others, user privacy, data validity, and the lack of accepted standards for the representation, sharing and aggregation of usage data. A technical, standards-based architecture for sharing usage information is presented. In this architecture, OpenURL-compliant linking servers aggregate usage information of a specific user community as it navigates the distributed information environment that it has access to. This usage information is made OAI-PMH harvestable so that usage information exposed by many linking servers can be aggregated to facilitate the creation of value-added services with a reach beyond that of a single community or a single information service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Los Alamos National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Johan Bollen, Herbert Van De Sompel