Patents by Inventor Michael R. Gaiman

Michael R. Gaiman 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: 9201925
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting information. In one aspect, a method includes receiving search result data representing a search result and extended result content for the search result, where at least a portion of the received extended result content including off-page content that was obtained from a resource that is not referenced by the search result. The search result is presented and a user interaction with a search result is determined to have occurred. In response to determining that the user interaction occurred, a portion of extended result content for the search result is presented. The extended result content can be presented while maintaining presentation of at least a portion of the search result. A size of the search result location in which the extended result content is presented can be expanded to present a larger portion of the extended result content in the expanded search result location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Sophia Yang, Michael R. Gaiman, Nicholas G. Fey
  • Publication number: 20150161212
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting information. In one aspect, a method includes receiving search result data representing a search result and extended result content for the search result, where at least a portion of the received extended result content including off-page content that was obtained from a resource that is not referenced by the search result. The search result is presented and a user interaction with a search result is determined to have occurred. In response to determining that the user interaction occurred, a portion of extended result content for the search result is presented. The extended result content can be presented while maintaining presentation of at least a portion of the search result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Sophia Yang, Michael R. Gaiman, Nicholas G. Fey