Patents by Inventor Jonathan Gifford

Jonathan Gifford 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).

  • INTERNET BOOK MARKING AND SEARCH RESULTS DELIVERY
    Publication number: 20090265321
    Abstract: A method of enhancing search results provided over the Internet may include providing a service over the Internet to members of a group of service users, the service resulting in multiple selections of each of a plurality of web pages by different members of the group, maintaining a first database of web pages selected by members of the group, maintaining a first index of web pages from the first database excluding identification of members of the group, maintaining a global index of web pages, searching the first index and the global index in response to a query string provided by a search engine user and providing a search results set to the search engine user including search results from both the first index and the global index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: LOOKSMART, LTD.
    Inventors: Michael L. Grubb, Jonathan Gifford, Jiye Yu
  • INTERNET BOOK MARKING AND SEARCH RESULTS DELIVERY
    Publication number: 20070244868
    Abstract: A method of enhancing search results provided over the Internet may include providing a service over the Internet to members of a group of service users, the service resulting in multiple selections of each of a plurality of web pages by different members of the group, maintaining a first database of web pages selected by members of the group, maintaining a first index of web pages from the first database excluding identification of members of the group, maintaining a global index of web pages, searching the first index and the global index in response to a query string provided by a search engine user and providing a search results set to the search engine user including search results from both the first index and the global index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Grubb, Jonathan Gifford, Jiye Yu