Patents by Inventor James Pitkow

James Pitkow 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: 20190147471
    Abstract: A system for providing account compensation includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive a set of activity events associated with a user. The processor is configured to: determine a user compensation event from the set of activity events; determine a stakeholder associated with the user compensation event; determine an attention level associated with the user compensation event; determine a value for the user compensation event based at least in part on the stakeholder and the attention level; and provide an indication to compensate an account associated with the user by a compensation amount corresponding to the value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: James Morgan McKelvey, JR., Faaiz Khan, Daniel Lohman, Shekhar Yadev, Michael Orlowski, James Pitkow
  • Publication number: 20070198526
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for generating contextualized feeds. The method of generating contextualized feeds comprises receiving context data from a user. The method further comprises generating contextualized feeds based on the context data, as the context data is received. The method, in one embodiment, includes receiving a selection of one or more of the contextualized feeds from user, the selected feeds to be displayed with content entered by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventor: James Pitkow
  • Publication number: 20070192204
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for generating contextualized live auction feeds. The method of generating contextualized live auction feeds comprises receiving context data from a user. The method further comprises utilizing the context data received from the user to search auctions. The method, in one embodiment, includes generating contextualized live auction feeds for an auction based on the context data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventor: James Pitkow
  • Publication number: 20060167749
    Abstract: A system and method is described for controlling the provision of advertising presented to an end user in a feed of news content that is delivered from a publisher to an end user, wherein the system comprises: one or more advertisements which each possess a unique identifier that has been attributed by the publisher; reader software deployed in the system to analyse the delivered feed of news content and the one or more advertisements, wherein the reader software is adapted to ensure that any duplication of the one or more advertisements is identified by reference to the unique identifier of each advertisement; and wherein the reader software controls the presentation of news content and a predefined number of non-duplicate advertisements to the end user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2005
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: James Pitkow, Angus Bankes, Kenneth Smith
  • Patent number: 6631451
    Abstract: A system and method of caching uses quality or value attributes, provided for example, by a recommender system or by a dynamical analysis of site accesses, which are attached to cached information to prioritize items in the cache. Documents are prioritized in the cache according to the relative value of their content. Value data may be provided from a recommender system which provides a value for a document according to user recommendations (using explicit recommendations) or from statistical analysis of site visits from unique users (implicit recommendations) or a combination of the two to identify the higher value documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Natalie S. Glance, Bernardo A. Huberman, Lada A. Adamic, James Pitkow
  • Publication number: 20020147895
    Abstract: A system and method of caching uses quality or value attributes, provided for example, by a recommender system or by a dynamical analysis of site accesses, which are attached to cached information to prioritize items in the cache. Documents are prioritized in the cache according to the relative value of their content. Value data may be provided from a recommender system which provides a value for a document according to user recommendations (using explicit recommendations) or from statistical analysis of site visits from unique users (implicit recommendations) or a combination of the two to identify the higher value documents. The caching method may also be used to improve performance of a recommender system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Natalie S. Glance, Bernardo A. Huberman, Lada A. Adamic, James Pitkow
  • Patent number: 6415368
    Abstract: A system and method of caching uses quality or value attributes, provided for example, by a recommender system or by a dynamical analysis of site accesses, which are attached to cached information to prioritize items in the cache. Documents are prioritized in the cache according to the relative value of their content. Value data may be provided from a recommender system which provides a value for a document according to user recommendations (using explicit recommendations) or from statistical analysis of site visits from unique users (implicit recommendations) or a combination of the two to identify the higher value documents. The caching method may also be used to improve performance of a recommender system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Natalie S. Glance, Bernardo A. Huberman, Lada A. Adamic, James Pitkow