Patents by Inventor Richard Bruce MacVarish

Richard Bruce MacVarish 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).

  • System and method for determining social rank, relevance and attention
    Patent number: 8583634
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for determining social rank, relevance and attention is presented. Persons who communicate with a user are determined. A Communications Rank (CommRank) is determined for the persons for said user, the CommRank taking into account a damping factor of prestige of the persons who communicate with the user, a total number of persons communicating with the user; a rank of a collection of linked communications to and from the user, and a proportional distribution of prestige between the user and the collection of linked communications to and from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Bruce MacVarish
  • System and method for aggregation of user conversations and visualizing personal communications map
    Patent number: 7765259
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for mapping user conversations is presented. Communications and conversations between a user and people across multiple modes of communication are aggregated to provide an aggregated set of user data. The aggregated set of user data is filtered to provide filtered user data. Additionally, the filtered user data is mapped to determine at least one of social rank, relevance and attention for a user's social network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Bruce MacVarish
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATION OF USER CONVERSATIONS AND VISUALIZING PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS MAP
    Publication number: 20080133581
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for mapping user conversations is presented. Communications and conversations between a user and people across multiple modes of communication are aggregated to provide an aggregated set of user data. The aggregated set of user data is filtered to provide filtered user data. Additionally, the filtered user data is mapped to determine at least one of social rank, relevance and attention for a user's social network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventor: Richard Bruce MacVarish
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING SOCIAL RANK, RELEVANCE AND ATTENTION
    Publication number: 20080133605
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for determining social rank, relevance and attention is presented. Persons who communicate with a user are determined. A Communications Rank (CommRank) is determined for the persons for said user, the CommRank taking into account a damping factor of prestige of the persons who communicate with the user, a total number of persons communicating with the user; a rank of a collection of linked communications to and from the user, and a proportional distribution of prestige between the user and the collection of linked communications to and from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventor: Richard Bruce MacVarish