Patents by Inventor Martha Welsh

Martha Welsh 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: 9110982
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer programs, and user interfaces are provided to receive location tags from a plurality of user devices (a location tag including a location category and a location corresponding to a geographic location of a user device from which the location tag is received), identify a first set of location tags comprising a given location category, determine whether a cluster location exists for locations of the set of location tags, generate a moderation request for a location tag of the set of location tags in response to determining that a cluster location does not exists for locations of the set of location tags, receive moderator approval of the location tag, and store a geographic location corresponding to the location tag as a point of interest associated with the given location category in response to receiving moderator approval of the location tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Martha Welsh, Douglas Rinckes
  • Patent number: 8521128
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer programs, and user interfaces are provided to receive a first location tag from a first user device, the first location tag including a first location category and a first device location of the first user device, receive a second location tag from a second user device, the second location tag including the first location category and a second device location of the second user device, determine that a distance between the first device location and the second device location is less than a distance threshold, and store the first device location as a first point of interest in a points of interest layer in response to determining that the distance is less than the distance threshold, the points of interest layer being associated with the first location category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Martha Welsh, Douglas Rinckes