Patents by Inventor Kenny J. Leftin

Kenny J. Leftin 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).

  • Providing context-relevant information to users
    Patent number: 9363634
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for predicting context-relevant information based on large-scale aggregations of data. One of the methods includes receiving a user context of a user, wherein the user context specifies a location of a user device being used by the user. Data that represents counts of websites visited by users matching the user context is obtained. Data that represents counts of websites visited by users in general is obtained. Using the obtained counts, one or more likely websites visited by users matching the user context more frequently than by users in general is determined. Information identifying the one or more likely websites in response to receiving the user context is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Kirmse, Kenny J. Leftin, Ivan Young Lee, Andrew T. Wansley, Emanuel Taropa, Alec W. Berryman, Yaxin Liu, Rajesh Venkataraman
  • Providing context-relevant information to users
    Patent number: 9195703
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for predicting context-relevant information based on large-scale aggregations of data. One of the methods includes receiving a user context of a user, wherein the user context specifies a location of a user device being used by the user. Data that represents counts of websites visited by users matching the user context is obtained. Data that represents counts of websites visited by users in general is obtained. Using the obtained counts, one or more likely websites visited by users matching the user context more frequently than by users in general is determined. Information identifying the one or more likely websites in response to receiving the user context is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Kirmse, Kenny J. Leftin, Ivan Young Lee, Andrew T. Wansley, Emanuel Taropa, Alec W. Berryman, Yaxin Liu, Rajesh Venkataraman