Patents by Inventor Paul Taylor Ogilvie

Paul Taylor Ogilvie 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).

  • Segmentation of professional network update data
    Patent number: 11086942
    Abstract: Users belonging to a particular category at a networking site are monitored by a system and according to a method for their selection of articles from a networking update stream. The characteristics of the users, including the categories they belong to, are received as metadata corresponding to the each respective article. Periodically an article database is queried according to the category and a selected time period to determine the number of users that have chosen to follow the industry and that have initiated selection actions towards articles in the database. Articles from the query are ranked according to their popularity among users having interest in the same industry category and are presented to a viewing user at the networking site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Allen J. Blue, Jonathan Redfern, Paul Taylor Ogilvie, Joseph Paul Betz
  • SEGMENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL NETWORK UPDATE DATA
    Publication number: 20170351760
    Abstract: Users belonging to a particular category at a networking site are monitored by a system and according to a method for their selection of articles from a networking update stream. The characteristics of the users, including the categories they belong to, are received as metadata corresponding to the each respective article. Periodically an article database is queried according to the category and a selected time period to determine the number of users that have chosen to follow the industry and that have initiated selection actions towards articles in the database. Articles from the query are ranked according to their popularity among users having interest in the same industry category and are presented to a viewing user at the networking site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Allen J. Blue, Joff Redfern, Paul Taylor Ogilvie, Joseph Paul Betz
  • Segmentation of professional network update data
    Patent number: 9697285
    Abstract: Users belonging to a particular category at a networking site are monitored by a system and according to a method for their selection of articles from a networking update stream. The characteristics of the users, including the categories they belong to, are received as metadata corresponding to the each respective article. Periodically an article database is queried according to the category and a selected time period to determine the number of users that have chosen to follow the industry and that have initiated selection actions towards articles in the database. Articles from the query are ranked according to their popularity among users having interest in the same industry category and are presented to a viewing user at the networking site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Allen Blue, Joff Redfern, Paul Taylor Ogilvie, Joseph Paul Betz
  • SEGMENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL NETWORK UPDATE DATA
    Publication number: 20150149453
    Abstract: Users belonging to a particular category at a networking site are monitored by a system and according to a method for their selection of articles from a networking update stream. The characteristics of the users, including the categories they belong to, are received as metadata corresponding to the each respective article. Periodically an article database is queried according to the category and a selected time period to determine the number of users that have chosen to follow the industry and that have initiated selection actions towards articles in the database. Articles from the query are ranked according to their popularity among users having interest in the same industry category and are presented to a viewing user at the networking site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Allen Blue, Joff Redfern, Paul Taylor Ogilvie, Joseph Paul Betz
  • SEGMENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL NETWORK UPDATE DATA
    Publication number: 20120197881
    Abstract: Users belonging to a particular category at a networking site are monitored by a system and according to a method for their selection of articles from a networking update stream. The characteristics of the users, including the categories they belong to, are received as metadata corresponding to the each respective article. Periodically an article database is queried according to the category and a selected time period to determine the number of users that have chosen to follow the industry and that have initiated selection actions towards articles in the database. Articles from the query are ranked according to their popularity among users having interest in the same industry category and are presented to a viewing user at the networking site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Allen Blue, Joff Redfern, Paul Taylor Ogilvie, Joseph Paul Betz