Patents by Inventor Marissa Ann Mayer

Marissa Ann Mayer 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: 11314822
    Abstract: A search engine may perform a search for a user search query over a number of possible search categories. For example, the search query may be performed for general web documents, images, and news documents. The search engine ranks categories based on the search query and/or the documents returned for each category and presents the search results to the user by category. Higher ranking categories may be presented more prominently than lower ranking categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Bret S. Taylor, Marissa Ann Mayer, Orkut Buyukkokten
  • Publication number: 20190347300
    Abstract: A search engine may perform a search for a user search query over a number of possible search categories. For example, the search query may be performed for general web documents, images, and news documents. The search engine ranks categories based on the search query and/or the documents returned for each category and presents the search results to the user by category. Higher ranking categories may be presented more prominently than lower ranking categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Bret S. Taylor, Marissa Ann Mayer, Orkut Buyukkokten
  • Publication number: 20190340207
    Abstract: A system customizes a news document associated with a user of a news aggregation service. The system includes multiple news source servers that store news content and a remote news aggregation server. The news aggregation server creates a customized news document based on one or more personalized search queries received from a user. The news aggregation server fetches the news content from the multiple news source servers, aggregates the news content, and searches the aggregated news content based on the one or more personalized search queries. The news aggregation server provides selected news content to the customized news document based on results of the search.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Krishna Bharat, Michael Schmitt, Michael Curtiss, Marissa Ann Mayer, Kerah Cottrell, Brian D. Rakowski, Anurag Acharya
  • Patent number: 10409865
    Abstract: A search engine may perform a search for a user search query over a number of possible search categories. For example, the search query may be performed for general web documents, images, and news documents. The search engine ranks categories based on the search query and/or the documents returned for each category and presents the search results to the user by category. Higher ranking categories may be presented more prominently than lower ranking categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Bret S. Taylor, Marissa Ann Mayer, Orkut Buyukkokten
  • Publication number: 20160232239
    Abstract: A search engine may perform a search for a user search query over a number of possible search categories. For example, the search query may be performed for general web documents, images, and news documents. The search engine ranks categories based on the search query and/or the documents returned for each category and presents the search results to the user by category. Higher ranking categories may be presented more prominently than lower ranking categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Bret S. Taylor, Marissa Ann Mayer, Orkut Buyukkokten
  • Patent number: 9342563
    Abstract: A search engine may perform a search for a user search query over a number of possible search categories. For example, the search query may be performed for general web documents, images, and news documents. The search engine ranks categories based on the search query and/or the documents returned for each category and presents the search results to the user by category. Higher ranking categories may be presented more prominently than lower ranking categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bret S. Taylor, Marissa Ann Mayer, Orkut Buyukkokten
  • Publication number: 20160026727
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating additional content. In one aspect, a method includes identifying one or more central entities, wherein each central entity represents a topic of a first resource being presented in a user interface; generating one or more search queries, each of the one or more search queries being derived from one or more of the central entities; obtaining search results for the one or more search queries from a search engine; selecting resources relevant to the first resource from resources referenced by the obtained search results; generating additional content for presentation in a user interface element of the user interface based on the selected resources; and categorizing the generated additional content into a plurality of categories, wherein each category of additional content is displayed in a separate portion of the user interface element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Ziv Bar-Yossef, David Kadouch, Michal Levin, Tomer Shmiel, Tal Cohen, David Oren, Adi Mano, Philip A. McDonnell, Eran Ofek, Haran Pilpel, Asaf Cidon, Yossi Matias, Marissa Ann Mayer
  • Publication number: 20150261762
    Abstract: A search engine may perform a search for a user search query over a number of possible search categories. For example, the search query may be performed for general web documents, images, and news documents. The search engine ranks categories based on the search query and/or the documents returned for each category and presents the search results to the user by category. Higher ranking categories may be presented more prominently than lower ranking categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Bret C. Taylor, Marissa Ann Mayer, Orkut Buyukkokten
  • Patent number: D533561
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Google, Inc.
    Inventors: Kerah Cottrell Pelczarski, Nikhil Bhatla, Adam Smith, Bay-Wei Chang, Dylan Parker, Jennifer McGrath Fitzpatrick, Uri Lerner, Marissa Ann Mayer, Marcellus Paulus van Lohuizen, Karen Anne White
  • Patent number: D599372
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kerah Cottrell Pelczarski, Nikhil Bhatla, Adam Smith, Bay-Wei Chang, Dylan Parker, Jennifer McGrath Fitzpatrick, Uri Lerner, Marissa Ann Mayer, Marcellus Paulus van Lohuizen, Karen Anne White
  • Patent number: D601154
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kerah Cottrell Pelczarski, Nikhil Bhatla, Adam Smith, Bay-Wei Chang, Dylan Parker, Jennifer McGrath Fitzpatrick, Uri Lerner, Marissa Ann Mayer, Marcellus Paulus van Lohuizen, Karen Anne White
  • Patent number: D607465
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kerah Cottrell Pelczarski, Nikhil Bhatla, Adam Smith, Bay-Wei Chang, Dylan Parker, Jennifer McGrath Fitzpatrick, Uri Lerner, Marissa Ann Mayer, Marcellus Paulus van Lohuizen, Karen Anne White
  • Patent number: D685384
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Dylan M. Casey, Marcin K. Wichary, Marissa Ann Mayer
  • Patent number: D736222
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Dylan M. Casey, Marcin K. Wichary, Marissa Ann Mayer