Patents by Inventor Michael Smolin

Michael Smolin 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: 8768766
    Abstract: The system provides an automatically targeted network for text and graphical advertising based on cost-per-action bidded pricing, wherein actions comprise any of acquisitions, purchases, downloads, registrations, donations, clicks, and impressions. Contextual, search and behavioral relevance features are integrated to optimize ad selection for advertisers, who enter action objectives, associated bids, and creatives or catalog assets. The assets are automatically analyzed and stored, and ads are automatically constructed for catalog assets. When an ad request is received from a user terminal in regard to a publisher asset, e.g. a web page, the ad request is matched to a stored contextual analysis of at least a portion the publisher asset if available, and preferably to a profile associated with the user of the user terminal. The best advertisements are determined, based upon a predicted response, and are then served, i.e. displayed, at the user terminal, based upon available ad space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Turn Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Ellis, Satish Katiyar, Philip Michael Smolin
  • Patent number: 4165641
    Abstract: An inductance element, such as a coil, cooperates with a detector/amplifier circuit to detect the level of a liquid in a container by quenching oscillations in an electrical circuit when the liquid is brought into close proximity to the inductance element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1979
    Assignee: P. R. Mallory & Co. Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel I. Pomerantz, Michael Smolin