Patents by Inventor Kevin D. Lacker

Kevin D. Lacker 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: 8990210
    Abstract: Web pages of a Website may be processed to improve search results. For example, information likely to pertain to more than just the Web page it is directly associated with may be identified. One or more other, related, Web pages that such information is likely to pertain to is also identified. The identified information is associated with the identified other Web page(s) and this association is saved in a way to affect a search result score of the Web page(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Egnor, Paul Haahr, Kevin D. Lacker, John Ogden Lamping, Amitabh K. Singhal, Ke Yang
  • Publication number: 20140052735
    Abstract: Web pages of a Website may be processed to improve search results. For example, information likely to pertain to more than just the Web page it is directly associated with may be identified. One or more other, related, Web pages that such information is likely to pertain to is also identified. The identified information is associated with the identified other Web page(s) and this association is saved in a way to affect a search result score of the Web page(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Daniel EGNOR, Paul HAAHR, Kevin D. LACKER, John Ogden LAMPING, Amitabh K. SINGHAL, Ke YANG
  • Patent number: 8433512
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying points-of-interest. In one aspect, a method includes accessing, by a mobile device, two or more search results, each of the search results identifying a respective point-of-interest (POI), and determining a distance between the mobile device and each POI. The method may also include selecting a directional icon for each POI based on the distance to the respective POI, and displaying, by the mobile device, information identifying the POIs and, for each POI, the directional icon selected for the respective POI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrei Lopatenko, Trystan Upstill, Soham Mazumdar, Kevin D. Lacker