Patents by Inventor Paul K. Young

Paul K. Young 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: 10423707
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing third party content are described. In one embodiment, the method includes storing information for a plurality of third party content elements that were selected by a user for display with a page of content, in response to a user request corresponding to a page associated with one of the plurality of third party content elements specified by the stored information, rendering for display on the page a third party content module associated with the third party content element, and, in response to a user modification of the third party content module, storing information corresponding to the user modification. The modified content module is rendered for display on a page of content according to the stored information. The user has the ability to customize and control the parameters of content modules selected by the user to be rendered on the accessed page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: IMDb.com, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul K. Young
  • Publication number: 20160283451
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing third party content are described. In one embodiment, the method includes storing information for a plurality of third party content elements that were selected by a user for display with a page of content, in response to a user request corresponding to a page associated with one of the plurality of third party content elements specified by the stored information, rendering for display on the page a third party content module associated with the third party content element, and, in response to a user modification of the third party content module, storing information corresponding to the user modification. The modified content module is rendered for display on a page of content according to the stored information. The user has the ability to customize and control the parameters of content modules selected by the user to be rendered on the accessed page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventor: Paul K. Young
  • Patent number: 9418388
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing third party content are described. In one embodiment, the method includes storing information for a plurality of third party content elements that were selected by a user for display with a page of content, in response to a user request corresponding to a page associated with one of the plurality of third party content elements specified by the stored information, rendering for display on the page a third party content module associated with the third party content element, and, in response to a user modification of the third party content module, storing information corresponding to the user modification. The modified content module is rendered for display on a page of content according to the stored information. The user has the ability to customize and control the parameters of content modules selected by the user to be rendered on the accessed page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: IMDb.com, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul K. Young
  • Patent number: 8543648
    Abstract: Various embodiments enable finding collaborations in a network. One embodiment obtains collaboration data for a plurality of nodes, receives a request to locate at least one collaboration for a user, generates a search tree starting by determining a source node of the collaboration data, the search tree including at least two levels, and expanding the search tree until at least one target node is located that corresponds to a solution for the request, optimizes the search tree to attempt to reduce the number of solutions, generates an adjacency list of adjacent nodes in the optimized search tree, searches the adjacency list to locate at least one shortest path to the target node, and generates a list of collaboration data that is associated with the at least one shortest path from the source node to the target node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: IMDb.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher G. Rhodes, Paul K. Young
  • Publication number: 20080168091
    Abstract: A method for ranking the quality of a set of tabular data includes determining one or more quality metrics corresponding to a set of tabular data. The quality metrics are combined to form a quality score for the set of tabular data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Paul K. Young, David Quinn-Jacobs
  • Publication number: 20080168036
    Abstract: A method for searching computer data to obtain tabular data includes selecting a data node and obtaining the data content of the node. Possible tabular data contained within the data content is identified. The possible tabular data is analyzed to recognize tabular data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Paul K. Young, David Quinn-Jacobs
  • Patent number: RE47479
    Abstract: Various embodiments enable finding collaborations in a network. One embodiment obtains collaboration data for a plurality of nodes, receives a request to locate at least one collaboration for a user, generates a search tree starting by determining a source node of the collaboration data, the search tree including at least two levels, and expanding the search tree until at least one target node is located that corresponds to a solution for the request, optimizes the search tree to attempt to reduce the number of solutions, generates an adjacency list of adjacent nodes in the optimized search tree, searches the adjacency list to locate at least one shortest path to the target node, and generates a list of collaboration data that is associated with the at least one shortest path from the source node to the target node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: IMDB.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher G. Rhodes, Paul K. Young, Thomas William Whitcomb