Patents by Inventor Minkoo Seo

Minkoo Seo 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: 9672253
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for ranking one or more documents that are responsive to a search query. A document that is responsive to the search query may be ranked based on a data measure of the document that is indicative of an amount of data usage required to load the document. In some implementations, the data measure of the document may be a measured value based on actual data usage during retrieval of the document. In some implementations, the ranking of two or more documents may be based on comparison of the data measures of the two or more documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventor: Minkoo Seo
  • Patent number: 9201929
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for ranking one or more documents that are responsive to a search query. A document that is responsive to the search query may be ranked based on a data measure of the document that is indicative of an amount of data usage required to load the document. In some implementations, the data measure of the document may be a measured value based on actual data usage during retrieval of the document. In some implementations, the ranking of two or more documents may be based on comparison of the data measures of the two or more documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Google, Inc.
    Inventor: Minkoo Seo
  • Publication number: 20150161281
    Abstract: A computing device may receive a request for sitelinks corresponding to a document and identify a plurality of hyperlinks corresponding to the document. Each hyperlink, of the plurality of hyperlinks, may include a hyperlink object within the document. The computing device may determine a visual location corresponding to each hyperlink of the plurality of hyperlinks corresponding to the document, and assign a score to each hyperlink, of the plurality of hyperlinks, based on the visual location corresponding to the hyperlink. The computing device may provide a sitelink, corresponding to a hyperlink, of the plurality of hyperlinks, based on the score assigned to the hyperlink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventor: Minkoo SEO
  • Patent number: 9053177
    Abstract: A computing device may receive a request for sitelinks corresponding to a document and identify a plurality of hyperlinks corresponding to the document. Each hyperlink, of the plurality of hyperlinks, may include a hyperlink object within the document. The computing device may determine a visual location corresponding to each hyperlink of the plurality of hyperlinks corresponding to the document, and assign a score to each hyperlink, of the plurality of hyperlinks, based on the visual location corresponding to the hyperlink. The computing device may provide a sitelink, corresponding to a hyperlink, of the plurality of hyperlinks, based on the score assigned to the hyperlink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Minkoo Seo
  • Patent number: 8631097
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide systems and methods for determining a mobile URL from a specified non-mobile URL or vice versa. In various embodiments, the determined mobile URL (or the determined non-mobile URL) may be tested to verify that it corresponds to the specified non-mobile URL (or mobile URL). In various embodiments, after one or more sets of mobile and corresponding non-mobile URLs are identified, the differences in the mobile and corresponding non-mobile URLs may be analyzed to create or define rules for converting from a non-mobile URL to a mobile URL, and vice versa. The rules may then be employed by search services, mobile device applications, etc. to synthesize or search for a mobile URL that corresponds to a give non-mobile URL, and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Minkoo Seo, Jaeho Kang, Seokgyo Jung, Junyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 8498984
    Abstract: A server is configured to receive a search query from a client device; identify documents as search results relevant to the search query, where each of the search results has a respective first score; rank the search results, based on the respective first scores, to form a ranked list of search results, where each of the search results has a respective position, within the ranked list, that is based on the ranking; determine a selection rate corresponding to each of the positions in the ranked list; identify categories with which the search results are associated; generate second scores for the categories based on the selection rates; select search results for the selected categories; generate a search result document that includes information regarding the selected categories and information regarding the selected search results; and provide the search result document for display on the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Soo Hwang, Jaeho Kang, Jungyeol Lee, Junyoung Lee, Minkoo Seo