Patents by Inventor Ralph M. Keller

Ralph M. Keller 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: 8655864
    Abstract: A method of analyzing documents or relationships between documents includes receiving a notification of an available metadata document containing information about one or more network-accessible documents, obtaining a document format indicator associated with the metadata document, selecting a document crawler using the document format indicator, and crawling at least some of the network-accessible documents using the selected document crawler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Strohm, Feng Hu, Sascha B. Brawer, Maximilian Ibel, Ralph M. Keller, Narayanan Shivakumar, Elad Gil
  • Publication number: 20140046925
    Abstract: A method of analyzing documents or relationships between documents includes receiving a notification of an available metadata document containing information about one or more network-accessible documents, obtaining a document format indicator associated with the metadata document, selecting a document crawler using the document format indicator, and crawling at least some of the network-accessible documents using the selected document crawler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventors: Alan C. Strohm, Feng Hu, Sascha B. Brawer, Maximilian Ibel, Ralph M. Keller, Narayanan Shivakumar, Elad Gil
  • Patent number: 8234266
    Abstract: A method of analyzing documents or relationships between documents includes receiving a notification of an available metadata document containing information about one or more network-accessible documents, obtaining a document format indicator associated with the metadata document, selecting a document crawler using the document format indicator, and crawling at least some of the network-accessible documents using the selected document crawler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Strohm, Feng Hu, Sascha B. Brawer, Maximilian Ibel, Ralph M. Keller, Narayanan Shivakumar, Elad Gil
  • Patent number: 8200652
    Abstract: A method of analyzing documents or relationships between documents includes receiving a notification of an available metadata document containing information about one or more network-accessible documents, obtaining a document format indicator associated with the metadata document, selecting a document crawler using the document format indicator, and crawling at least some of the network-accessible documents using the selected document crawler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Strohm, Feng Hu, Sascha B. Brawer, Maximilian Ibel, Ralph M. Keller, Narayanan Shivakumar, Elad Gil
  • Publication number: 20100125564
    Abstract: A method of analyzing documents or relationships between documents includes receiving a notification of an available metadata document containing information about one or more network-accessible documents, obtaining a document format indicator associated with the metadata document, selecting a document crawler using the document format indicator, and crawling at least some of the network-accessible documents using the selected document crawler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Alan C. Strohm, Feng Hu, Sascha B. Brawer, Maximilian Ibel, Ralph M. Keller, Narayanan Shivakumar, Elad Gil
  • Patent number: 7653617
    Abstract: A method of analyzing documents or relationships between documents includes receiving a notification of an available metadata document containing information about one or more network-accessible documents, obtaining a document format indicator associated with the metadata document, selecting a document crawler using the document format indicator, and crawling at least some of the network-accessible documents using the selected document crawler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Strohm, Feng Hu, Sascha B. Brawer, Maximilian Ibel, Ralph M. Keller, Narayanan Shivakumar, Elad Gil