Patents by Inventor Michael Kline

Michael Kline 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: 20070239528
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for dynamic network address identification and replacement for delivering a web page to a data processing device associated with a customer, for performing a marketing campaign on behalf of an advertiser. A browser request message is received over a data network from a browser program executing on the data processing device. The browser request message requests an origin web page at an origin web site on the data network. The origin web site is associated with the advertiser. A network address of the origin web site on the data network is determined. Responsive to the browser request message, content of the origin web page is retrieved from the origin web site at the determined network address. A network address is located in the retrieved content of the origin web page. The located network address is replaced with a proxy network address to define a modified web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventors: Shunxing Xie, Robert Spitz, Michael Kline
  • Publication number: 20060214472
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a chassis, a passenger compartment disposed on the chassis, a control center for remote, controllable equipment, the control center being disposed in the passenger compartment, and a dedicated interface for connecting the control center to the controllable equipment. A method for making a motor vehicle is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2005
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Applicant: MACK TRUCKS, INC.
    Inventors: Bruce Hollenbeck, Michael Kline, Chris Hillman
  • Publication number: 20060074746
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for tracking and reporting campaign status information for an advertiser having an associated computer in communication with a data network. The campaign status information describes the progress of a marketing campaign performed on behalf of the advertiser using a plurality of electronic publishers in communication with the data network. In one aspect, the method includes determining an amount spent on or for each of the electronic publishers. Campaign event information is determined for the marketing campaign. An electronic report can be prepared, including a compilation of one or more of the determined amount spent and campaign event information. The electronic report can be provided for the advertiser computer over the data network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Michael Kline, Robert Spitz, Leon Simmonds, Jonathan Myron, Thomas Hubbard, Truoc Duong, Shunxing Xie
  • Publication number: 20060074749
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for allocating a campaign budget among a plurality of electronic publishers for performing a marketing campaign on behalf of an advertiser. The advertiser has an associated computer in communication with a data network. In one aspect, the method includes providing a budget amount for the marketing campaign. A plurality of parameters defining the marketing campaign are also provided. These parameters include marketing campaign parameters associated with the marketing campaign, and publisher parameters associated with the electronic publishers. The publisher parameters include a minimum campaign spend amount and a maximum campaign spend amount for each electronic publisher. Certain ones of the electronic publishers are selected. The budget amount is allocated among the electronic publishers according to at least one of a plurality of allocation rules, to define an allocated budget.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Michael Kline, Leon Simmonds, Robert Spitz
  • Publication number: 20060074747
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for performing a marketing campaign on behalf of an advertiser. A plurality of electronic publishers are in communication with a data network. The advertiser has an associated computer also in communication with the data network. An advertising apparatus, in one aspect of the present invention, includes one or more engines. A user interface engine is configured to interact with the advertiser computer over the data network for generating a budget amount, marketing campaign parameters associated with and defining the marketing campaign, and information describing the marketing campaign. A campaign allocation engine is configured to allocate the budget amount among the electronic publishers based on the generated marketing campaign parameters and publisher parameters associated with the electronic publishers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Michael Kline, Robert Spitz, Zorik Gordon, Robert Wright, Leon Simmonds, Jonathan Myron, Truoc Duong, Shunxing Xie, Thomas Hubbard
  • Publication number: 20060074748
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for generating advertisement information for performing a marketing campaign on behalf of an advertiser. The advertiser has an associated computer in communication with a data network. A plurality of electronic publishers in communication with the data network are used. In one aspect, the method includes receiving, over the data network, information describing subject matter of the marketing campaign. Advertisement information is generated based on the received information describing the marketing campaign subject matter. A plurality of instantiations of the advertisement information are generated using publisher parameters associated with the electronic publishers. Each instantiation is in a format appropriate for a respective one of the electronic publishers. At least one of the generated instantiations is provided to the respective electronic publisher over the data network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Michael Kline, Robert Spitz, Leon Simmonds, Jonathan Myron, Thomas Hubbard
  • Publication number: 20060074751
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for dynamically rendering an advertiser web page as a proxied web page associated with an online marketing campaign on behalf of an advertiser. The advertiser has an associated computer in communication with a data network. The method is performed for customizing data presented to a customer having a computer in communication with the data network without requiring intervention by the advertiser. In one aspect, the method includes providing the advertiser web page on a processor-readable storage medium in communication with the data network. A request is received on behalf of the customer for the advertiser web page. Responsive to the customer request, the advertiser web page is retrieved from the processor-readable storage medium. The advertiser web page is dynamically edited to produce the proxied web page. The proxied web page is provided over the data network for the customer computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Michael Kline, Robert Spitz, Truoc Duong, Shunxing Xie
  • Publication number: 20060054522
    Abstract: A carton for containing a number of articles with each article having an article diameter. The carton may include a front wall, a top wall, a pair of sidewalls, and an access aperture formed along the front wall, the top wall, and the sidewalls. The access aperture extends along the front wall from the top wall for less than one article diameter and extends along each of the sidewalls from the top wall for more than one article diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Applicant: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Kline, Noel Stewart