Patents by Inventor Marcel D. Janssens
Marcel D. Janssens 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).
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Patent number: 9430744Abstract: Method and apparatus for dynamic information connection search engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. Determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information may be extracted electronically from, e.g., third party websites, direct supplier connections, and/or intermediate databases. Suppliers may be automatically selected in response to the user search. Queries may be formulated from the user search and transferred to one or more selected suppliers over a network coupling (e.g., the Internet and/or intranet). Queries may include one or more requests for information. One or more responses may be received from suppliers, and responses may be used to generate results for the user. Results may include information and/or query status information. An electronic link may be provided to a website of one or more suppliers from which information was derived.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens, Matthew S. Garman
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Publication number: 20150199621Abstract: Method and apparatus for dynamic information connection search engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. Determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information may be extracted electronically from, e.g., third party websites, direct supplier connections, and/or intermediate databases. Suppliers may be automatically selected in response to the user search. Queries may be formulated from the user search and transferred to one or more selected suppliers over a network coupling (e.g., the Internet and/or intranet). Queries may include one or more requests for information. One or more responses may be received from suppliers, and responses may be used to generate results for the user. Results may include information and/or query status information. An electronic link may be provided to a website of one or more suppliers from which information was derived.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2014Publication date: July 16, 2015Applicant: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens, Matthew S. Garman
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Patent number: 8738599Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Brian E. Barth, Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens
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Publication number: 20130275425Abstract: Method and apparatus for dynamic information connection search engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. Determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information may be extracted electronically from, e.g., third party websites, direct supplier connections, and/or intermediate databases. Suppliers may be automatically selected in response to the user search. Queries may be formulated from the user search and transferred to one or more selected suppliers over a network coupling (e.g., the Internet and/or intranet). Queries may include one or more requests for information. One or more responses may be received from suppliers, and responses may be used to generate results for the user. Results may include information and/or query status information. An electronic link may be provided to a website of one or more suppliers from which information was derived.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventors: Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens, Matthew S. Garman
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Publication number: 20130246103Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Brian E. Barth, Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens
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Patent number: 8458162Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2011Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Brian E. Barth, Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens
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Publication number: 20120179578Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2011Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Brian E. Barth, Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens
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Publication number: 20120179673Abstract: Method and apparatus for dynamic information connection search engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. Determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information may be extracted electronically from, e.g., third party websites, direct supplier connections, and/or intermediate databases. Suppliers may be automatically selected in response to the user search. Queries may be formulated from the user search and transferred to one or more selected suppliers over a network coupling (e.g., the Internet and/or intranet). Queries may include one or more requests for information. One or more responses may be received from suppliers, and responses may be used to generate results for the user. Results may include information and/or query status information. An electronic link may be provided to a website of one or more suppliers from which information was derived.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2012Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens, Matthew S. Garman
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Patent number: 8095536Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection search engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information may be extracted electronically from, for example, third party websites, direct supplier connections, and/or intermediate databases. Potential suppliers may be automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries may be formulated from the user search and transferred to one or more selected suppliers over a network coupling (e.g., the Internet and/or an intranet). The queries may include one or more requests for information. One or more responses may be received from the suppliers, and the responses may be used to generate a result list for the user. The result list may include information and/or query status information.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2010Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens, Matthew S. Garman
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Publication number: 20100268623Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2010Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: KAYAK SOFTWARE CORPORATIONInventors: Brian E. Barth, Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens
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Patent number: 7774331Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2005Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Brian E. Barth, Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens
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Patent number: 7668809Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information may be extracted electronically from, for example, third party websites, direct supplier connections, and/or intermediate databases. Potential suppliers may be automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries may be formulated from the user search and transferred to one or more selected suppliers. Responses may be received from the suppliers, and used to generate a result list for the user. The result list may include information and/or query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a website of one or more of the suppliers from which the information was derived.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2005Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens, Matthew S. Garman
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Patent number: 7668811Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2006Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Marcel D. Janssens, Philipp M. B. Winkler
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Patent number: 7483883Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2005Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Brian E. Barth, Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens, Philipp M. B. Winkler
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Patent number: 7349894Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2004Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Sidestep, Inc.Inventors: Brian E. Barth, Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens
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Publication number: 20010054020Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2001Publication date: December 20, 2001Inventors: Brian E. Barth, Lawrence A. Gunn, Glen E. Ivey, Marcel D. Janssens, Stewart A. Kelly, Yingmei Lavin, Brent J. Stewart, Gary L. Waldman, Philipp M. B. Winkler
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Patent number: 5659797Abstract: A computer system includes a single-chip central processor (20) with handshaking and direct memory access (DMA) controllers for accommodating first and second types of DMA to a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) (34). The single-chip central processor (20) has a kernel processor (22) having cache, a memory management and control unit (26), and a coprocessor (24). The computer system further includes a bundle of lines (28), including data lines, address lines and row address strobe (RAS), column address strobe (CAS), output enable (OE), and write enable (WE) lines for coupling the memory management and control unit (26) to the DRAM (34), and a plurality of data exchanges (33, 37) coupled to a plurality of first and second attach controllers (32, 36). The coprocessor includes a plurality of DMA controllers (240-246) for storing addresses and for storing a length representing a number of data items to be transferred.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1992Date of Patent: August 19, 1997Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventors: Frederik Zandveld, Matthias Wendt, Marcel D. Janssens
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Patent number: 5524195Abstract: A graphical user interface for displaying and selecting video programs, such as video on demand, includes a video on demand server coupled to a communication medium. A plurality of settop box receivers are coupled to the communication medium for receiving digitized programming in the form of movies and the like from the video on demand server. The settop box includes a central processing unit (CPU) coupled to a memory and other electronic modules. The CPU generates and displays the graphical user interface on the subscriber's television. The graphical user interface is based upon a metaphor in which a world of spaces are organized as part of a studio back lot through which a user may navigate. The back lot includes a Poster wall which presents to the user a series of movie posters representing available selections.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1994Date of Patent: June 4, 1996Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.Inventors: Charles H. Clanton, III, Emilie Young, Joseph M. Palrang, Marcel D. Janssens