Patents by Inventor Nathaniel John Thurston

Nathaniel John Thurston 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: 8527869
    Abstract: The invention includes a method and system for personalizing displays of published Web pages provided by Web content providers to meet the interests of Web users accessing the pages, based on profiles of the users. The system preferably provides to the requesting user, through a proxy server, an edited version of the HTML file for the original published Web page that is served by a host Web server. The system uses user profiles that may include demographic and psychographic data to edit the requested Web page. The content of a Web page as published by a host Web server may be coded to correlate components of the Web page with demographic and psychographic data. The user profiles may then be used to filter the content of a coded Web page for delivery to a requesting user. The system may rearrange content on a published Web page so that content determined to be of higher interest to a user is more prominently featured or more easily or quickly accessible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Devin F. Hosea, Richard Scott Zimmerman, Arthur P. Rascon, Anthony Scott Oddo, Nathaniel John Thurston
  • Publication number: 20020138331
    Abstract: The invention includes a method and system for personalizing displays of published Web pages provided by Web content providers to meet the interests of Web users accessing the pages, based on profiles of the users. The system preferably provides to the requesting user, through a proxy server, an edited version of the HTML file for the original published Web page that is served by a host Web server. The system uses user profiles that may include demographic and psychographic data to edit the requested Web page. The content of a Web page as published by a host Web server may be coded to correlate components of the Web page with demographic and psychographic data. The user profiles may then be used to filter the content of a coded Web page for delivery to a requesting user. The system may rearrange content on a published Web page so that content determined to be of higher interest to a user is more prominently featured or more easily or quickly accessible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Inventors: Devin F. Hosea, Richard Scott Zimmerman, Arthur P. Rascon, Anthony Scott Oddo, Nathaniel John Thurston