Patents by Inventor Patrick Allan McDevitt

Patrick Allan McDevitt 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: 10915926
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for location-based advertisements. In accordance with one exemplary implementation, a method is provided for providing advertisements to a user of a navigation system. The method may include identifying high-value intersections in a map. The method may also include identifying, based on the high-value intersections, a set of landmark locations and associating the landmark locations with the high-value intersections in a database. The method may also include detecting at least one of the high-value intersections in a route requested by the user. The method may also include presenting, on a device of the user, an advertisement associated with at least one landmark location while presenting maneuver information for the at least one high-value intersection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Allan McDevitt, G. Duane Gearhart, John Patrick O'Dwyer
  • Publication number: 20140006160
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for location-based advertisements. In accordance with one exemplary implementation, a method is provided for providing advertisements to a user of a navigation system. The method may include identifying high-value intersections in a map. The method may also include identifying, based on the high-value intersections, a set of landmark locations and associating the landmark locations with the high-value intersections in a database. The method may also include detecting at least one of the high-value intersections in a route requested by the user. The method may also include presenting, on a device of the user, an advertisement associated with at least one landmark location while presenting maneuver information for the at least one high-value intersection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Patrick Allan McDevitt, G. Duane Gearhart, John Patrick O'Dwyer
  • Publication number: 20090100031
    Abstract: Data related to changes in real-world geography are collected promptly for incorporating into a geographic database. Query strings are created using keywords targeted to detect data related to changes in real-world geography. Automatic Web search technology is utilized to search the World Wide Web for instances that match the created query strings. References to Web pages, references to Web pages accompanied by brief abstracts, Web pages, and hard copies of documents by mail are automatically collected that potentially refer to changes in real-world geography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: TELE ATLAS NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas William Gilligan, Patrick Allan McDevitt, George T. Angwin