Patents by Inventor RICHARD T. LEIGH

RICHARD T. LEIGH 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: 9183299
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program for a search engine to rank a set of pages returned as search results from a search query. The search query and a first origin page are received. The search query includes one or more keywords and the first origin page is chosen based on information associated with the search query. A set of results is generated based on the one or more keywords. The click distance from the first origin page to each page in the returned set is then calculated. The click distance represents the number of intermediate pages that a user would need to traverse in order to progress from the first origin page to a page in the set of search results. The set of search results are then ranked based on the calculated click distance from the first origin page to a page in the set of results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Julian L. Friedman, Richard T. Leigh
  • Publication number: 20120170663
    Abstract: A video stream comprising a plurality of sequential frames of pixels is processed. For each pixel in a frame, a pixel data stream comprising the color components of the specific pixel is extracted from each frame with a processor. For each pixel data stream, a transformation of the pixel data stream into a plurality of detail components is performed with the processor. From each transformed pixel data stream, a detail component defining a lowest level of detail for the respective pixel data stream is collected with the processor. The collected lowest level of detail components is stored, sequentially in a primary block. At least one additional block containing remaining detail components is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard T. LEIGH, Michael A. RICKETTS
  • Publication number: 20120130974
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program for a search engine to rank a set of pages returned as search results from a search query. The search query and a first origin page are received. The search query includes one or more keywords and the first origin page is chosen based on information associated with the search query. A set of results is generated based on the one or more keywords. The click distance from the first origin page to each page in the returned set is then calculated. The click distance represents the number of intermediate pages that a user would need to traverse in order to progress from the first origin page to a page in the set of search results. The set of search results are then ranked based on the calculated click distance from the first origin page to a page in the set of results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard T. Leigh, Julian L. Friedman
  • Publication number: 20110142137
    Abstract: A video stream comprising a plurality of sequential frames of pixels is processed. For each pixel in a frame, a pixel data stream comprising the color components of the specific pixel is extracted from each frame with a processor. For each pixel data stream, a transformation of the pixel data stream into a plurality of detail components is performed with the processor. From each transformed pixel data stream, a detail component defining a lowest level of detail for the respective pixel data stream is collected with the processor. The collected lowest level of detail components is stored, sequentially in a primary block. At least one additional block containing remaining detail components is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: RICHARD T. LEIGH, MICHAEL A. RICKETTS