Patents by Inventor Michael Patrick Matthews

Michael Patrick Matthews 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: 9367633
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided that may be utilized to rank related news predictions and to provide one or more predictions to a user. In a particular implementation, one or more digital signals representing a query may be generated at least partially in response to an article being accessed by a user. One or more digital signals representing one or more predictions comprising one or more sentence portions having one or more references to one or more future dates may be obtained based at least in part on a comparison of the one or more digital signals representing the query with one or more digital signals representing a prediction index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Roi Blanco, Michael Patrick Matthews, Peter Mika
  • Patent number: 8868558
    Abstract: A user search for quotes attributable to people or information regarding the quotes is fulfilled by providing the relevant information from a quote index. The quote index is built from a data store comprising articles that include quotes given by people. Quotes are extracted from the articles along with the relevant attributes such as the keywords, topics and entities. The extracted keywords, topics and entities are indexed with unique identifiers. A quote index is built by storing the quotes along with the keywords, topics and related entities. Quotes or information associated with the quotes based on various criteria is retrieved and presented in different formats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Roi Blanco, Michael Patrick Matthews, Peter Mika
  • Publication number: 20140006328
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided that may be utilized to rank related news predictions and to provide one or more predictions to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Roi Blanco, Michael Patrick Matthews, Peter Mika
  • Publication number: 20130159340
    Abstract: A user search for quotes attributable to people or information regarding the quotes is fulfilled by providing the relevant information from a quote index. The quote index is built from a data store comprising articles that include quotes given by people. Quotes are extracted from the articles along with the relevant attributes such as the keywords, topics and entities. The extracted keywords, topics and entities are indexed with unique identifiers. A quote index is built by storing the quotes along with the keywords, topics and related entities. Quotes or information associated with the quotes based on various criteria is retrieved and presented in different formats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Roi Blanco, Michael Patrick Matthews, Peter Mika