Patents by Inventor Phillip G. Rorex

Phillip G. Rorex 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).

  • Method and apparatus for identifying related searches in a database search system
    Publication number: 20100106706
    Abstract: A method of generating a search result list also provides related searches for use by a searcher. Search listings which generate a match with a search request submitted by the searcher are identified in a pay-for-placement database which includes a plurality of search listings. Related search listings contained in a related search database generated from the pay-for-placement database are identified as relevant to the search request. A search result list is returned to the searcher including the identified search listings and one or more of the identified search listings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip G. Rorex, Thomas A. Soulanille, Bradley R. Haugaard
  • Method and apparatus for identifying related searches in a database search system
    Patent number: 7657555
    Abstract: A method of generating a search result list also provides related searches for use by a searcher. Search listings which generate a match with a search request submitted by the searcher are identified in a pay-for-placement database which includes a plurality of search listings. Related search listings contained in a related search database generated from the pay-for-placement database are identified as relevant to the search request. A search result list is returned to the searcher including the identified search listings and one or more of the identified search listings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: YAHOO! Inc
    Inventors: Phillip G. Rorex, Thomas A. Soulanille, Bradley R. Haugaard
  • Speech recognition for recognizing speaker-independent, continuous speech
    Patent number: 7089184
    Abstract: A speech recognition method and apparatus are provided for converting a voice stream into a digital voice stream representation. A method for performing speech recognition on a voice stream according to a first method embodiment includes the steps of determining one or more candidate transnemes in the voice stream, mapping the one or more candidate transnemes to a transneme table to convert the one or more candidate transnemes to one or more found transnemes, and mapping the one or more found transnemes to a transneme-to-vocabulary database to convert the one or more found transnemes to one or more speech units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: NURV Center Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Phillip G. Rorex
  • Method and apparatus for indentifying related searches in a database search system
    Patent number: 6876997
    Abstract: A method of generating a search result list also provides related searches for use by a searcher. Search listings which generate a match with a search request submitted by the searcher are identified in a pay for placement database which includes a plurality of search listings. Related search listings contained in a related search database generated from the pay for placement database are identified as relevant to the search request. A search result list is returned to the searcher including the identified search listings and one or more of the identified search listings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Overture Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip G. Rorex, Thomas A. Soulanille, Bradley R. Haugaard
  • Speech recognition for recognizing speaker-independent, continuous speech
    Publication number: 20020184024
    Abstract: A speech recognition method and apparatus are provided for converting a voice stream into a digital voice stream representation. A method for performing speech recognition on a voice stream according to a first method embodiment includes the steps of determining one or more candidate transnemes in the voice stream, mapping the one or more candidate transnemes to a transneme table to convert the one or more candidate transnemes to one or more found transnemes, and mapping the one or more found transnemes to a transneme-to-vocabulary database to convert the one or more found transnemes to one or more speech units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventor: Phillip G. Rorex