Patents by Inventor Robert Liander

Robert Liander 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 watches for new paths to a target in a social graph
    Patent number: 9443274
    Abstract: A system gathers information on important and influential people and builds a social graph. The information is organized based on this social graph and provided to users as a service. The system continually updates information in the social graph by crawling websites and other sources of information. When a user wants to keep updated with a person of the system, the user can establish a watch. The system processes the requirements of the user from the watch and alerts the user when the requirements are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Relationship Science LLC
    Inventors: Neal Goldman, John C. Dingee, Robert Liander
  • Determining the likelihood persons in a social graph know each other
    Patent number: 9189567
    Abstract: A system gathers information on important and influential people and builds a social graph. The social graph can be processed to determine a likelihood that two persons know each other. The system takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining the likelihood two persons know each other. For example, it is more likely that two people who work at a small company know each other better than two people at a big company.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Relationship Science LLC
    Inventors: Neal Goldman, John C. Dingee, Scott Penberthy, Robert Liander
  • Completing queries using transitive closures on a social graph
    Patent number: 9026524
    Abstract: A system gathers information on influential people and builds a social graph. The system is flexible in what types of information it gathers so that a detailed picture on influential persons can be determined. The information is organized to allow users of the system to make fast searches with the system and draw meaningful conclusions from the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Relationship Science LLC
    Inventors: Neal Goldman, John C. Dingee, Robert Liander, Brett Brown