Patents by Inventor Michael Truman Goodrich

Michael Truman Goodrich 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).

  • High refresh-rate retrieval of freshly published content using distributed crawling
    Patent number: 7299219
    Abstract: A system for maximal gathering of fresh information added to a network such as the as the Internet and for processing the gathered fresh information. A link server (2) sends a batch of links to check (3) to a crawler (1B). Crawler (1B) them executes its crawling assignment by filtering the encountered content and extracting only that which is new or changed (4). Crawler (1B) then returns this content (4) to at least one data center and any interested web mining application (5). By using the crawlers (1A-E) to filter the data and only return or notify regarding, the fresh content, less bandwidth is needed to get the information to the web mining application (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Jacob William Green, John Lane Schultz, Yair Amir, Michael Truman Goodrich
  • Relevant search rankings using high refresh-rate distributed crawling
    Publication number: 20040044962
    Abstract: A system for maximal gathering of fresh information added to a network such as the as the Internet and for processing the gathered fresh information. A link server (2) sends a batch of links to check (3) to a crawler (1B). Crawler (1B) them executes its crawling assignment by filtering the encountered content and extracting only that which is new or changed (4). Crawler (1B) then returns this content (4) to at least one data center and any interested web mining application (5). By using the crawlers (1A-E) to filter the data and only return or notify regarding, the fresh content, less bandwidth is needed to get the information to the web mining application (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Jacob William Green, John Lane Schultz, Yair Amir, Michael Truman Goodrich