Patents by Inventor Lars Nilsen

Lars Nilsen 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).

  • Publication number: 20050228775
    Abstract: A system for dynamically adaptively personalizing at least one navigation control for a web site. Based on collected behaviors for a user, at least one navigation control is dynamically updated to link to a portion of the web site that may be of most interest to the user. Personalized navigation controls for accessing portions of the web site can be dynamically arranged on the web page displayed to the user. Additionally, the personalized navigation may be employed to drives screens of a mobile or living room device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Lars Nilsen, Donna Boyer, Nilesh Gohel, Nitin Sharma, Pete Orelup, Ken Thomas, Scott Gatz, Jawahar Malhotra, Harry Fung
  • Publication number: 20050193002
    Abstract: A method and system for generating recommendations across multiple product or service domains are disclosed. The system includes a plurality of domain servers for handling user events and for interfacing with users via the Internet, a database for storing the user events, and a recommendation engine. The recommendation engine further includes one or more computer programs containing instructions for collecting the user events across a plurality of product or service domains in the database, receiving a triggering event for recommendations, analyzing the user events to formulate correlations between the user events in the database, and generating recommendations in response to the triggering event in accordance with the correlations between the user events in the database. The disclosure uses user input data from different domains for producing recommendations in any of those domains. The disclosure allows for access to a greater amount of user input data which in turn improves the quality of recommendations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Steven Souders, Lars Nilsen, Scott Gatz, Ashvinkumar Patel