Patents by Inventor James Anthony Landay

James Anthony Landay 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).

  • Automated research tool
    Patent number: 6859784
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically gathering research data for a website. The method includes forming questions in a question set that are a measure of a research metric to be gathered for the website, partitioning the question set into a plurality of subsets of questions, identifying participants to query, and only presenting a subset of questions from the question set to each participant. Responses are gathered from each participant to the questions presented for the research metric and the participants' responses are combined to produce an index of the research metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Keynote Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas King van Duyne, James Anthony Landay, Mark Newman