Patents by Inventor Horst FICKENSCHER

Horst FICKENSCHER 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: 11611596
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for managing user reviews of publications within an online user network. Various user interfaces may provide access to view a publication and request a review thereof, solicit and receive reviewing information from the requesting or another user (or multiple users), and provide access to a review generated from the received reviewing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: ResearchGate GmbH
    Inventors: Ijad Madisch, Horst Fickenscher, Sören Hofmayer, Axel Tölke, Eduardo Ojeda, Volker Dusch, Andrew Clark
  • Patent number: 10990631
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to linking documents using citations. A server accesses a stored document in a data repository. The server determines a set of candidate citing documents that cite the stored document. The server obtains, for each candidate citing document from the set, first information representing an impact of the candidate citing document taken as a whole and second information representing a citation context within the candidate citing document. The server determines a subset of citing documents, from the set of candidate citing documents, based on the obtained first information and the obtained second information. The server provides a digital transmission of the stored document, including visible indicia of the subset of citing documents, for display at a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: ResearchGate GmbH
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Zholudev, Michael Häusler, Ijad Madisch, Horst Fickenscher, Darren Alvares
  • Patent number: 10949472
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to linking documents using citations. A server accesses a stored document in a data repository. The server determines a set of candidate citing documents that cite the stored document. The server obtains, for each candidate citing document from the set, first information representing an impact of the candidate citing document taken as a whole and second information representing a citation context within the candidate citing document. The server determines a subset of citing documents, from the set of candidate citing documents, based on the obtained first information and the obtained second information. The server provides a digital transmission of the stored document, including visible indicia of the subset of citing documents, for display at a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: ResearchGate GmbH
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Zholudev, Michael Häusler, Ijad Madisch, Horst Fickenscher, Darren Alvares
  • Patent number: 10733256
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for creating, storing, structuring, displaying, enhancing, and/or referencing publications and related content in an online user network are described. In some embodiments, documents are stored in the form of individually addressable document elements in conjunction with an ordered list of the document elements. Updates to a document can then be analyzed to identify omissions of document elements and/or additions of new document elements, which can be reflected in an updated list of document elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: ResearchGate GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Fickenscher, Niall Kelly, Vyacheslav Zholudev, Darren Alvares, Stephen Mansfield
  • Patent number: 10650059
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for enhanced tracking of user interactions with online documents, such as, in accordance with various embodiments, interaction tracking on a sub-document level of granularity and/or interaction tracking that involves storing one or more interaction parameters (e.g., an identifier of the document or of the interacting user) for each interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ResearchGate GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Haeusler, Vyacheslav Zholudev, Darren Alvares, Horst Fickenscher, Niall Kelly
  • Publication number: 20190319995
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for managing user reviews of publications within an online user network. Various user interfaces may provide access to view a publication and request a review thereof, solicit and receive reviewing information from the requesting or another user (or multiple users), and provide access to a review generated from the received reviewing information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Ijad Madisch, Horst Fickenscher, Sören Hofmayer, Axel Tölke, Eduardo Ojeda, Volker Dusch, Andrew Clark
  • Patent number: 10389767
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for managing user reviews of publications within an online user network. Various user interfaces may provide access to view a publication and request a review thereof, solicit and receive reviewing information from the requesting or another user (or multiple users), and provide access to a review generated from the received reviewing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: ResearchGate GmbH
    Inventors: Ijad Madisch, Horst Fickenscher, Sören Hofmayer, Axel Tölke, Eduardo Ojeda, Volker Dusch, Andrew Clark
  • Publication number: 20190213220
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to linking documents using citations. A server accesses a stored document in a data repository. The server determines a set of candidate citing documents that cite the stored document. The server obtains, for each candidate citing document from the set, first information representing an impact of the candidate citing document taken as a whole and second information representing a citation context within the candidate citing document. The server determines a subset of citing documents, from the set of candidate citing documents, based on the obtained first information and the obtained second information. The server provides a digital transmission of the stored document, including visible indicia of the subset of citing documents, for display at a client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Zholudev, Michael Häusler, Ijad Madisch, Horst Fickenscher, Darren Alvares
  • Publication number: 20190213221
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to linking documents using citations. A server accesses a stored document in a data repository. The server determines a set of candidate citing documents that cite the stored document. The server obtains, for each candidate citing document from the set, first information representing an impact of the candidate citing document taken as a whole and second information representing a citation context within the candidate citing document. The server determines a subset of citing documents, from the set of candidate citing documents, based on the obtained first information and the obtained second information. The server provides a digital transmission of the stored document, including visible indicia of the subset of citing documents, for display at a client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Zholudev, Michael Häusler, Ijad Madisch, Horst Fickenscher, Darren Alvares
  • Patent number: 10282424
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to linking documents using citations. A server accesses a stored document in a data repository. The server determines a set of candidate citing documents that cite the stored document. The server obtains, for each candidate citing document from the set, first information representing an impact of the candidate citing document taken as a whole and second information representing a citation context within the candidate citing document. The server determines a subset of citing documents, from the set of candidate citing documents, based on the obtained first information and the obtained second information. The server provides a digital transmission of the stored document, including visible indicia of the subset of citing documents, for display at a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: ResearchGate GmbH
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Zholudev, Michael Häusler, Ijad Madisch, Horst Fickenscher, Darren Alvares
  • Publication number: 20190108179
    Abstract: Described herein are computer-implemented systems and methods for automatically disambiguating author names for a plurality of publications so as to create clusters of author name mentions that are with high probability associated with a single author identity for each cluster. Also described are systems and methods for assigning the clusters to respective unique author identities, automatically and/or based on human input (e.g., as received from authors, co-authors, or administrative curators).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Häusler, Vyacheslav Zholudev, Horst Fickenscher, Ijad Madisch, Sören Hofmayer
  • Patent number: 10157218
    Abstract: Described herein are computer-implemented systems and methods for automatically disambiguating author names for a plurality of publications so as to create clusters of author name mentions that are with high probability associated with a single author identity for each cluster. Also described are systems and methods for assigning the clusters to respective unique author identities, automatically and/or based on human input (e.g., as received from authors, co-authors, or administrative curators).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: ResearchGate GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Häusler, Vyacheslav Zholudev, Horst Fickenscher, Ijad Madisch, Sören Hofmayer
  • Patent number: 10133807
    Abstract: Described herein are computer-implemented systems and methods for automatically disambiguating author names for a plurality of publications so as to create clusters of author name mentions that are with high probability associated with a single author identity for each cluster. Also described are systems and methods for assigning the clusters to respective unique author identities, automatically and/or based on human input (e.g., as received from authors, co-authors, or administrative curators).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: ResearchGate GmbH
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Zholudev, Vincenz Priesnitz, Horst Fickenscher, Michael Häusler, Ijad Madisch, Sören Hofmayer
  • Patent number: 10102298
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for creating, storing, structuring, displaying, enhancing, and/or referencing publications and related content in an online user network are described. In some embodiments, external documents are converted into an internal format and stored in the form of entries for a plurality of document elements and one or more views each comprising an ordered list of document elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: ResearchGate GmbH
    Inventors: Ijad Madisch, Vyacheslav Zholudev, Horst Fickenscher, Michael Häusler, Niall Kelly, Daniel Tschinder, Peter Magenheimer, Stefan Savev, Sören Hofmayer
  • Patent number: 9942362
    Abstract: Client requests for electronic files (e.g., requests for download from a website) can be leveraged by augmenting the electronic files with unique identifiers and/or enriching (e.g., dynamic) content, and tracking distribution or usage of the files based on network requests associated with the electronic files, such as attempts to upload a previously downloaded file or content requests originating from links included in the augmented electronic files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: ResearchGate Corporation
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Zholudev, Michael Häusler, Horst Fickenscher, Ijad Madisch, Darren Alvares, Tim Einfeldt, Volker Dusch
  • Patent number: 9928291
    Abstract: Described herein are computer-implemented systems and methods for automatically disambiguating author names for a plurality of publications so as to create clusters of author name mentions that are with high probability associated with a single author identity for each cluster. Also described are systems and methods for assigning the clusters to respective unique author identities, automatically and/or based on human input (e.g., as received from authors, co-authors, or administrative curators).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: ResearchGate GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Häusler, Viacheslav Zholudev, Horst Fickenscher, Stephen Mansfield, Mark Howard-Banks, Eduardo Ojeda, Vincenz Priesnitz
  • Publication number: 20170344541
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for enhanced tracking of user interactions with online documents, such as, in accordance with various embodiments, interaction tracking on a sub-document level of granularity and/or interaction tracking that involves storing one or more interaction parameters (e.g., an identifier of the document or of the interacting user) for each interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Haeusler, Vyacheslav Zholudev, Darren Alvares, Horst Fickenscher, Niall Kelly
  • Publication number: 20170255663
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for propagating data changes in a distributed computing system from source components to target components. In accordance with various embodiments, one or more producer components of a data-conveyor system may detect changes to data records in one or more source components, and store backlog entries responsive to detecting the changes, wherein these backlog entries do not include contents of the data record. One or more consumer components of the data-conveyor system may retrieve updated data of changed data records based on the backlog entries and provide the updated data to one or more target component(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Janosch Woschitz, Kyryl Bilokurov, Michael Häusler, Horst Fickenscher, Michael Kleen
  • Patent number: 9753922
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for enhanced tracking of user interactions with online documents, such as, in accordance with various embodiments, interaction tracking on a sub-document level of granularity. In some embodiment, user interests or expertise are determined based at least in part on the tracked user interactions with document elements and topics associated with the elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: ResearchGate GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Häusler, Vyacheslav Zholudev, Darren Alvares, Horst Fickenscher, Niall Kelly
  • Publication number: 20170004198
    Abstract: Described herein are computer-implemented systems and methods for automatically disambiguating author names for a plurality of publications so as to create clusters of author name mentions that are with high probability associated with a single author identity for each cluster. Also described are systems and methods for assigning the clusters to respective unique author identities, automatically and/or based on human input (e.g., as received from authors, co-authors, or administrative curators).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Viacheslav Zholudev, Vincenz Priesnitz, Horst Fickenscher, Michael Häusler, Ijad Madisch, Sören Hofmayer