Patents by Inventor Karthic Neelands Epker

Karthic Neelands Epker 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: 10410270
    Abstract: A search system extracts, for each property known to the system, historical information comprising data for itineraries associated with a partner system associated with the property. The search system determines, for each property-itinerary combination, an update frequency comprising based on historical information data. The search system extracts a history of user impressions of itineraries comprising the property. The search system determines a relative impression weight for each itinerary, an absolute impression weight for the property, and an expected impression weight of each property-itinerary combination. For each current property-itinerary combination, the search system determines a utility value based on the expected update frequency and expected impression weight to satisfy bandwidth constraints for each partner system. The search system schedules, for each partner system, queries for property-itinerary combinations having values greater than threshold utility value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Karthic Neelands Epker, Ying Liu, Alan Howard Davis
  • Publication number: 20180182012
    Abstract: A search system extracts, for each property known to the system, historical information comprising data for itineraries associated with a partner system associated with the property. The search system determines, for each property-itinerary combination, an update frequency comprising based on historical information data. The search system extracts a history of user impressions of itineraries comprising the property. The search system determines a relative impression weight for each itinerary, an absolute impression weight for the property, and an expected impression weight of each property-itinerary combination. For each current property-itinerary combination, the search system determines a utility value based on the expected update frequency and expected impression weight to satisfy bandwidth constraints for each partner system. The search system schedules, for each partner system, queries for property-itinerary combinations having values greater than threshold utility value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Karthic Neelands Epker, Ying Liu, Alan Howard Davis