Patents by Inventor Marshall Uy Alexander

Marshall Uy Alexander 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).

  • Enhancing and optimizing enterprise search
    Patent number: 8832084
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention improve the quality of search results returned for a given set of search terms based on metadata associated with the user performing the search. A search query may specify metadata elements to consider in ranking the search results. The metadata used may include bookmarks set by the user (either locally or at a social bookmaking site), group bookmarks, etc. In such a case, search results may be reordered to improve the ranking of websites that are both in the search results and in the bookmarks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Alpesh S. Patel, Gilbert C. Yu, Marshall Uy Alexander, Stephen Joseph Moffett
  • ENHANCING AND OPTIMIZING ENTERPRISE SEARCH
    Publication number: 20110225137
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention improve the quality of search results returned for a given set of search terms based on metadata associated with the user performing the search. A search query may specify metadata elements to consider in ranking the search results. The metadata used may include bookmarks set by the user (either locally or at a social bookmaking site), group bookmarks, etc. In such a case, search results may be reordered to improve the ranking of websites that are both in the search results and in the bookmarks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: ALPESH S. PATEL, Gilbert C. Yu, Marshall Uy Alexander, Stephen Joseph Moffett
  • Enhancing and optimizing enterprise search
    Patent number: 7953731
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention improve the quality of search results returned for a given set of search terms based on metadata associated with the user performing the search. A search query may specify metadata elements to consider in ranking the search results. The metadata used may include bookmarks set by the user (either locally or at a social bookmaking site), group bookmarks, etc. In such a case, search results may be reordered to improve the ranking of websites that are both in the search results and in the bookmarks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Alpesh S. Patel, Gilbert C. Yu, Marshall Uy Alexander, Stephen Joseph Moffett
  • ENHANCING AND OPTIMIZING ENTERPRISE SEARCH
    Publication number: 20090132516
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention improve the quality of search results returned for a given set of search terms based on metadata associated with the user performing the search. A search query may specify metadata elements to consider in ranking the search results. The metadata used may include bookmarks set by the user (either locally or at a social bookmaking site), group bookmarks, etc. In such a case, search results may be reordered to improve the ranking of websites that are both in the search results and in the bookmarks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Alpesh S. Patel, Gilbert C. Yu, Marshall Uy Alexander, Stephen Joseph Moffett