Patents by Inventor James Robert Muller

James Robert Muller 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: 9418156
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing local data with search results. One of the methods includes obtaining a plurality of documents responsive to a query; determining that a first document of the plurality of documents is associated with at least one business; determining that the first document is a candidate local document in response to the determining; in response to determining that the first document is a candidate local document, verifying that the first document is a local document, the verifying based on one or more second documents of the plurality of documents; and in response to verifying that the first document is a local document, providing local data associated with the first document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: James Robert Muller, Qingzhao Tan
  • Publication number: 20150169789
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing local data with search results. One of the methods includes obtaining a plurality of documents responsive to a query; determining that a first document of the plurality of documents is associated with at least one business; determining that the first document is a candidate local document in response to the determining; in response to determining that the first document is a candidate local document, verifying that the first document is a local document, the verifying based on one or more second documents of the plurality of documents; and in response to verifying that the first document is a local document, providing local data associated with the first document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: James Robert Muller, Qingzhao Tan
  • Patent number: 7912837
    Abstract: A method for performing a location search includes receiving a location search query, determining key words corresponding to the location search query, identifying one or more documents that correspond to the key words in the location search query, and providing to a client system information identifying at least one location corresponding to the one or more documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Florian Michel Buron, Ramesh Balakrishnan, James Christopher Norris, James Robert Muller, Thai Tran, Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20100257162
    Abstract: A method for performing a location search includes receiving a location search query, determining key words corresponding to the location search query, identifying one or more documents that correspond to the key words in the location search query, and providing to a client system information identifying at least one location corresponding to the one or more documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Florian Michel Buron, Ramesh Balakrishnan, James Christopher Norris, James Robert Muller, Thai Tran, Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 7792883
    Abstract: A method for performing a location search includes receiving a location search query, identifying one or more geographical features that satisfy the location search query, ranking the identified geographical features in accordance with a score that is based, at least in part, on proximity of the geographical features to a geographical viewport region of a client system, to produce a set of ranked geographical features, and providing results, in accordance with the ranked documents, that identify at least one geographic feature corresponding to the at least one of the ranked geographical features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Florian Michel Buron, Ramesh Balakrishnan, James Christopher Norris, James Robert Muller, Thai Tran, Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 7747598
    Abstract: A method for performing a location search includes receiving a location search query, determining key words corresponding to the location search query, identifying one or more documents that correspond to the key words in the location search query, and providing to a client system information identifying at least one location corresponding to the one or more documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Florian Michel Buron, Ramesh Balakrishnan, James Christopher Norris, James Robert Muller, Thai Tran, Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20080154888
    Abstract: A method for performing a location search includes receiving a location search query, identifying one or more geographical features that satisfy the location search query, ranking the identified geographical features in accordance with a score that is based, at least in part, on proximity of the geographical features to a geographical viewport region of a client system, to produce a set of ranked geographical features, and providing results, in accordance with the ranked documents, that identify at least one geographic feature corresponding to the at least one of the ranked geographical features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: FLORIAN MICHEL BURON, RAMESH BALAKRISHNAN, JAMES CHRISTOPHER NORRIS, JAMES ROBERT MULLER, THAI TRAN, LARS EILSTRUP RASMUSSEN