Patents by Inventor Michael Dewar

Michael Dewar 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).

  • Publication number: 20180240119
    Abstract: An apparatus for identifying an end node bank account in a network of bank accounts for funds from a fraudulent transaction, comprising processing circuitry configured to: identify a node account into which funds from the fraudulent transaction are paid; determine the number of account relationships associated with the node account; and identify the node account as an end node bank account when the number of account relationships is above a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: IPCO 2012 LIMITED
    Inventors: Syed Asim Ali SHAH, Jeremy Stephens, Michael Dewar, Marc Corbalan, David Divitt
  • Patent number: 9135211
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for identifying which phrases are trending across an aggregate of users that are relevant to a specific user. The method may include receiving, by a server, identification of a user. The server may identify a plurality of phrases that are trending upwards based on velocity of clicks to content containing, related to or associated with the plurality of phrases. The server may identify trending or temporally popular phrases based on aggregating multiple users' interactions with an aggregate of content. The server may determine a relevance score for each phrase of the plurality of phrases that are trending upwards based on identification of the user and actions of the user on content associated with each phrase, such as user clicking on content identifying or related to each phrase. The server may identify one or more phrases of the plurality of phrases based on relevance score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Bitly, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Stern, Hilary Mason, Michael Dewar
  • Patent number: 9128896
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods to identify trending or temporally popular phrases based on aggregating multiple users' interactions with an aggregate of content. A server may receive identification of a plurality of clicks of encoded uniform resource locator (URL) links. The server may identify, for each of the plurality of clicks, in content identified from decoding the encoded URL links, a plurality of phrases that correspond to a predetermined set of keywords. The server may determine a velocity of clicks on content corresponding to each phrase of the plurality of phrases and identify a trend in one or more phrases of the plurality of phrases based on the velocity of clicks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Bitly, Inc.
    Inventors: Hilary Mason, Michael Dewar
  • Publication number: 20130159506
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for identifying which phrases are trending across an aggregate of users that are relevant to a specific user. The method may include receiving, by a server, identification of a user. The server may identify a plurality of phrases that are trending upwards based on velocity of clicks to content containing, related to or associated with the plurality of phrases. The server may identify trending or temporally popular phrases based on aggregating multiple users' interactions with an aggregate of content. The server may determine a relevance score for each phrase of the plurality of phrases that are trending upwards based on identification of the user and actions of the user on content associated with each phrase, such as user clicking on content identifying or related to each phrase. The server may identify one or more phrases of the plurality of phrases based on relevance score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Peter Stern, Hilary Mason, Michael Dewar
  • Publication number: 20130159505
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods to identify trending or temporally popular phrases based on aggregating multiple users' interactions with an aggregate of content. A server may receive identification of a plurality of clicks of encoded uniform resource locator (URL) links. The server may identify, for each of the plurality of clicks, in content identified from decoding the encoded URL links, a plurality of phrases that correspond to a predetermined set of keywords. The server may determine a velocity of clicks on content corresponding to each phrase of the plurality of phrases and identify a trend in one or more phrases of the plurality of phrases based on the velocity of clicks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Hilary Mason, Michael Dewar