Patents by Inventor Randall Winston Puttick

Randall Winston Puttick 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).

  • Item attribute generation using query and item data
    Patent number: 10296622
    Abstract: Arrangements and methods provide item data information to one or more merchants. A Web server includes various modules that interact with customer item search queries and item data to create a set of attributes that is sent to a merchant as part of an item data form. The set of attributes included on the form is designed to aid in describing and identifying various items that a merchant may offer or currently offer for purchase on an e-commerce service provider. The set of attributes may also be used to augment or generate an item attribute index usable in conjunction with a service provider searching mechanism related to items offered for sale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pratik Suresh Dave, Randall Winston Puttick
  • Detecting synonyms and merging synonyms into search indexes
    Patent number: 8335791
    Abstract: Tools and techniques are described herein for detecting synonyms and merging synonyms into search indexes. The tools provide methods that include receiving input documents for indexing into a search index file. The tools may compare parts of the input documents to parts of other documents already indexed into the search index file. The methods may also evaluate, based on these comparisons, whether the input document and the existing document are sufficiently similar to justify an inference that any dissimilar terms between the input document and the existing document are candidate synonyms. Other methods may include receiving requests to perforin searches that include one or more input keywords. The method then searches for links to synonyms of the input keyword, and returns search results responsive to the input keyword and to the synonyms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michel L. Goldstein, Walter Manching Tseng, Randall Winston Puttick
  • Item attribute generation using query and item data
    Patent number: 8156073
    Abstract: Arrangements and methods provide item data information to one or more merchants. A Web server includes various modules that interact with customer item search queries and item data to create a set of attributes that is sent to a merchant as part of an item data form. The set of attributes included on the form is designed to aid in describing and identifying various items that a merchant may offer or currently offer for purchase on an e-commerce service provider. The set of attributes may also be used to augment or generate an item attribute index usable in conjunction with a service provider searching mechanism related to items offered for sale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pratik Suresh Dave, Randall Winston Puttick