Patents by Inventor Linnea A. Dunn

Linnea A. Dunn 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: 10713285
    Abstract: Specified streets or intersections that are within a specified distance of a specified city can be found by a search, even when they are not actually in that city. For computational efficiency, some addresses are included in search results even when they exceed the specified distance from the specified city by a small amount (“false positives”). The search method guarantees that no instance of the street name within the specified distance of the specified city is erroneously missed (“false negatives”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian E. Smartt, Richard F. Poppen, Linnea A. Dunn
  • Publication number: 20160364411
    Abstract: Specified streets or intersections that are within a specified distance of a specified city can be found by a search, even when they are not actually in that city. For computational efficiency, some addresses are included in search results even when they exceed the specified distance from the specified city by a small amount (“false positives”). The search method guarantees that no instance of the street name within the specified distance of the specified city is erroneously missed (“false negatives”).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Brian E. Smartt, Richard F. Poppen, Linnea A. Dunn
  • Patent number: 9453739
    Abstract: Specified streets or intersections that are within a specified distance of a specified city can be found by a search, even when they are not actually in that city. For computational efficiency, some addresses are included in search results even when they exceed the specified distance from the specified city by a small amount (“false positives”). The search method guarantees that no instance of the street name within the specified distance of the specified city is erroneously missed (“false negatives”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian E. Smartt, Richard F. Poppen, Linnea A. Dunn
  • Publication number: 20110004399
    Abstract: Specified streets or intersections that are within a specified distance of a specified city can be found by a search, even when they are not actually in that city. For computational efficiency, some addresses are included in search results even when they exceed the specified distance from the specified city by a small amount (“false positives”). The search method guarantees that no instance of the street name within the specified distance of the specified city is erroneously missed (“false negatives”).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventors: Brian E. Smartt, Richard F. Poppen, Linnea A. Dunn
  • Patent number: 7813873
    Abstract: Specified streets or intersections that are within a specified distance of a specified city can be found by a search, even when they are not actually in that city. For computational efficiency, some addresses are included in search results even when they exceed the specified distance from the specified city by a small amount (“false positives”). The search method guarantees that no instance of the street name within the specified distance of the specified city is erroneously missed (“false negatives”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: deCarta Inc.
    Inventors: Brian E. Smartt, Richard F. Poppen, Linnea A. Dunn
  • Publication number: 20050171691
    Abstract: Specified streets or intersections that are within a specified distance of a specified city can be found by a search, even when they are not actually in that city. For computational efficiency, some addresses are included in search results even when they exceed the specified distance from the specified city by a small amount (“false positives”). The search method guarantees that no instance of the street name within the specified distance of the specified city is erroneously missed (“false negatives”).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Brian Smartt, Richard Poppen, Linnea Dunn
  • Patent number: 5706503
    Abstract: A method of clustering multi-dimensional related data performed by identifying features from a collection of data, each of said features being represented by a vertex, selecting pairs of features that it is desirable to cluster together, connecting the pair of vertices representing every selected pair of features by an edge, assigning a score to every edge according to a predetermined formula, selecting an edge having the highest score, creating a new vertex by merging the vertices connected by the selected edge, creating new edges between the new vertex and the vertices previously connected to the merged vertices, and repeating this procedure until every edge has a predetermined score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Inventors: Richard F. Poppen, Brian E. Smartt, Linnea A. Dunn, Frank J. Derose