Patents by Inventor Matthew McEuen

Matthew McEuen 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).

  • Method and apparatus for providing a recommendation for learning about an interest of a user
    Patent number: 10331679
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a recommendation for learning about an interest are disclosed. For example, the method receives a query for a recommendation for one or more articles for learning about an interest, determines whether the interest of the user is in a list of interests, wherein each particular interest is an interest for which a database contains at least one article for learning about the particular interest, wherein the database is used for storing for each particular article: the particular article and a normalized relationship score for the interest, retrieves from the database, one or more articles having the normalized relationship score related to the interest when the interest is in the list of interests, and presents the recommendation to an endpoint device of the user, wherein the recommendation comprises the one or more articles related to the interest that are retrieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Bryan Strassner, Allen Brown, Michael Lemen, Trevor Lovett, Douglas McCullough, Matthew McEuen
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A RECOMMENDATION FOR LEARNING ABOUT AN INTEREST OF A USER
    Publication number: 20170124080
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a recommendation for learning about an interest are disclosed. For example, the method receives a query for a recommendation for one or more articles for learning about an interest, determines whether the interest of the user is in a list of interests, wherein each particular interest is an interest for which a database contains at least one article for learning about the particular interest, wherein the database is used for storing for each particular article: the particular article and a normalized relationship score for the interest, retrieves from the database, one or more articles having the normalized relationship score related to the interest when the interest is in the list of interests, and presents the recommendation to an endpoint device of the user, wherein the recommendation comprises the one or more articles related to the interest that are retrieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Bryan Strassner, Allen Brown, Michael Lemen, Trevor Lovett, Douglas McCullough, Matthew McEuen