Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Roger DEVRIES

Jeffrey Roger DEVRIES 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).

  • Image reranking and presentation for visual exploration
    Patent number: 11797632
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods for a visual exploration of search engine results. The systems, devices, and methods may present, in response to receiving the search engine results for a query to perform a task, a search result webpage with a cascading waterfall layout that includes a plurality of images from a plurality of webpages included in the search results. The search result webpage may also present, adjacent to the plurality of images, structured data corresponding to a selected image from the plurality of images where the structured data includes details from the webpage to complete the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nikita Astrakhantsev, Parthasarathy Govindarajen, Nektarios Ioannides, Arun Sacheti, Alexander Jack Sunell, Avinash Vemuluru, Xiaodong Fan, Dong Han Wang, Alexandra Victoria Foote, Jun Liu, Elena Usinskiene, Diane Ash Shambaugh, Qianyue You, Liang Tang, Souvick Sarkar, Jeffrey Roger Devries, Adam Jeffrey Curtis
  • IN-CONTEXT VISUAL SEARCH
    Publication number: 20230103575
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing a visual search within a browser. The systems and methods allow users to trigger a visual search from the browser within the user's browsing context. The users may trigger a visual search by hovering over an image and selecting a visual search icon or selecting a visual search option within a context menu. Selecting the visual searches may cause a sidebar to open with visual search results or a flyout to display with visual search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Nicholas Fredrick RAY, Adam Jeffrey CURTIS, Jeffrey Roger DEVRIES, Cheyenne ISMAILCIUC, Niveah Tefillah ABRAHAM, Nektarios IOANNIDES, Arun SACHETI, Avinash VEMULURU
  • IMAGE RERANKING AND PRESENTATION FOR VISUAL EXPLORATION
    Publication number: 20220277056
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods for a visual exploration of search engine results. The systems, devices, and methods may present, in response to receiving the search engine results for a query to perform a task, a search result webpage with a cascading waterfall layout that includes a plurality of images from a plurality of webpages included in the search results. The search result webpage may also present, adjacent to the plurality of images, structured data corresponding to a selected image from the plurality of images where the structured data includes details from the webpage to complete the task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Nikita ASTRAKHANTSEV, Parthasarathy GOVINDARAJEN, Nektarios IOANNIDES, Arun SACHETI, Alexander Jack SUNELL, Avinash VEMULURU, Xiaodong FAN, Dong Han WANG, Alexandra Victoria FOOTE, Jun LIU, Elena USINSKIENE, Diane Ash SHAMBAUGH, Qianyue YOU, Liang TANG, Souvick SARKAR, Jeffrey Roger DEVRIES, Adam Jeffrey CURTIS