Patents by Inventor Richard DOWLING

Richard DOWLING 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).

  • Publication number: 20240364965
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for determining use cases for a content selection interface that provides user selectable indications of content available from a content provider according to the use cases. The indications of available content are selectable by a user to have the content provided to the user by the content provider. The method comprises, using a computing system: accessing, from at least one computer readable data store, historical data representing previous user actions of a plurality of users using a content selection interface; identifying, using the computing system, one or more attributes associated with the user actions from the historical data; and using the identified attributes to configure one or more use cases for providing indications of available content on the content selection interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: ThinkAnalytics Ltd.
    Inventors: Richard DOWLING, Bryan BOSSARD, Peter DOCHERTY, Christopher MCGUIRE
  • Publication number: 20240330353
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining desirable content for a content distribution system is disclosed. The method comprises: for each of a plurality of user devices, monitoring user activity including identifying content that the user of the user device has interacted with; obtaining metadata concerning the identified items of content, the metadata representing at least some properties of the identified items of content; aggregating the metadata for a plurality of users; using the aggregated metadata to identify one or more items or combinations of metadata popular with the plurality of users; and using the identified metadata to determine desirable content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: ThinkAnalytics Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter DOCHERTY, Christopher MCGUIRE, Richard DOWLING, Bryan BOSSARD