Patents by Inventor Kevin A. Gibbs

Kevin A. Gibbs 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: 8027974
    Abstract: A set of ordered predicted completion strings are presented to a user as the user enters text in a text entry box (e.g., a browser or a toolbar). The predicted completion strings can be in the form of URLs or query strings. The ordering may be based on any number of factors (e.g., a query's frequency of submission from a community of users). URLs can be ranked based on an importance value of the URL. Privacy is taken into account in a number of ways, such as using a previously submitted query only when more than a certain number of unique requesters have made the query. The sets of ordered predicted completion strings is obtained by matching a fingerprint value of the user's entry string to a fingerprint to table map which contains the set of ordered predicted completion strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin A. Gibbs
  • Patent number: 8005950
    Abstract: In an application execution system having a plurality of application servers, each application server includes non-volatile storage for storing a plurality of applications, volatile storage and computational resources for executing applications in response to requests received by the application execution system and for returning results to the requestors. In addition, each application server includes instructions for conditionally terminating execution of the respective application prior to returning the result if the respective application violates any of a plurality of execution restrictions. The execution restrictions in aggregate maintain scalability of the application execution system with respect to at least one or more of the following limits: number of applications that can be executed and number of requests that can be processed per period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Ashcraft, Jon P. McAlister, Kevin A. Gibbs, Ryan C Barrett
  • Patent number: 7979791
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes generating, within a web-accessible document, a parent container document associated with a first Internet domain and one or more child container documents within the parent container document and associated with a second Internet domain. The method also includes receiving, by the parent container document, information requested from a server associated with the first Internet domain, and communicating the information from the first Internet domain to the second Internet domain using the parent container document associated with the first Internet domain to transmit the information to the one or more child container documents associated with the second Internet domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Yang, Mark E. Stahl, Kevin A. Gibbs
  • Patent number: 7877482
    Abstract: In a distributed application execution system having an application master and a plurality of application servers, each application server includes one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs. The one of more programs include instructions for storing in non-volatile storage a plurality of applications distributed to the application server by the application master, for loading into volatile storage and executing a respective application in response to a received request, and for returning a result to the request. In addition, the one of more programs include instructions for conditionally retaining the respective application in volatile storage, for responding to a future request, when criteria, including at least predefined usage level criteria, are met by the respective application, and otherwise removing the respective application from volatile storage upon returning the result to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Ashcraft, Jon P. McAlister, Kevin A. Gibbs, Ryan Barrett
  • Publication number: 20090132529
    Abstract: A set of ordered predicted completion strings are presented to a user as the user enters text in a text entry box (e.g., a browser or a toolbar). The predicted completion strings can be in the form of URLs or query strings. The ordering may be based on any number of factors (e.g., a query's frequency of submission from a community of users). URLs can be ranked based on an importance value of the URL. Privacy is taken into account in a number of ways, such as using a previously submitted query only when more than a certain number of unique requesters have made the query. The sets of ordered predicted completion strings is obtained by matching a fingerprint value of the user's entry string to a fingerprint to table map which contains the set of ordered predicted completion strings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventor: Kevin A. Gibbs
  • Publication number: 20090119289
    Abstract: A set of ordered predicted completion strings are presented to a user as the user enters text in a text entry box (e.g., a browser or a toolbar). The predicted completion strings can be in the form of URLs or query strings. The ordering may be based on any number of factors (e.g., a query's frequency of submission from a community of users). URLs can be ranked based on an importance value of the URL. Privacy is taken into account in a number of ways, such as using a previously submitted query only when more than a certain number of unique requesters have made the query. The sets of ordered predicted completion strings is obtained by matching a fingerprint value of the user's entry string to a fingerprint to table map which contains the set of ordered predicted completion strings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Kevin A. Gibbs, Sepandar D. Kamvar, Taher H. Haveliwala, Glen M. Jeh
  • Patent number: 7499940
    Abstract: A set of ordered predicted completion strings are presented to a user as the user enters text in a text entry box (e.g., a browser or a toolbar). The predicted completion strings can be in the form of URLs or query strings. The ordering may be based on any number of factors (e.g., a query's frequency of submission from a community of users). URLs can be ranked based on an importance value of the URL. Privacy is taken into account in a number of ways, such as using a previously submitted query only when more than a certain number of unique requestors have made the query. The sets of ordered predicted completion strings is obtained by matching a fingerprint value of the user's entry string to a fingerprint to table map which contains the set of ordered predicted completion strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin A. Gibbs
  • Publication number: 20090037806
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes generating, within a web-accessible document, a parent container document associated with a first Internet domain and one or more child container documents within the parent container document and associated with a second Internet domain. The method also includes receiving, by the parent container document, information requested from a server associated with the first Internet domain, and communicating the information from the first Internet domain to the second Internet domain using the parent container document associated with the first Internet domain to transmit the information to the one or more child container documents associated with the second Internet domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Jun Yang, Mark E. Stahl, Kevin A. Gibbs
  • Patent number: 7487145
    Abstract: A set of ordered predicted completion strings are presented to a user as the user enters text in a text entry box (e.g., a browser or a toolbar). The predicted completion strings can be in the form of URLs or query strings. The ordering may be based on any number of factors (e.g., a query's frequency of submission from a community of users). URLs can be ranked based on an importance value of the URL. Privacy is taken into account in a number of ways, such as using a previously submitted query only when more than a certain number of unique requestors have made the query. The sets of ordered predicted completion strings is obtained by matching a fingerprint value of the user's entry string to a fingerprint to table map which contains the set of ordered predicted completion strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin A. Gibbs, Sepandar D. Kamvar, Taher H. Haveliwala, Glen M. Jeh