Patents by Inventor Roy Ben-Yoseph

Roy Ben-Yoseph 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: 20110213849
    Abstract: Distinctively treating digital communications sent by bulk message senders includes providing a set of bulk sender behavior policies and monitoring compliance by a bulk message sender with the set of policies. Based on compliance by the bulk message sender with the set of policies, digital communications sent by the bulk message sender are distinctively treated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventors: Roy BEN-YOSEPH, Sylvia M. Koschier
  • Patent number: 7925709
    Abstract: Distinctively treating digital communications sent by bulk message senders includes providing a set of bulk sender behavior policies and monitoring compliance by a bulk message sender with the set of policies. Based on compliance by the bulk message sender with the set of policies, digital communications sent by the bulk message sender are distinctively treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Ben-Yoseph, Sylvia M. Koschier
  • Patent number: 7707261
    Abstract: An apparatus for classifying digital communications includes an interface module, an identification module, and a notification module. The interface module enables a recipient to perceive information relating to one or more digital communications received by the recipient. The identification module enables a first interface element capable of enabling the recipient to classify the digital communications among at least one category. The notification module notifies a network server of a classification received from the recipient using the first interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: AOL Inc.
    Inventors: Lorin R. Sutton, Jr., Roy Ben-Yoseph
  • Patent number: 7613776
    Abstract: The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user's communications. For example, a display of e-mail may only show the user e-mails from known people.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: AOL LLC
    Inventor: Roy Ben-Yoseph
  • Patent number: 7603417
    Abstract: The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. For example, people a user knows may be inferred based on a combination of two or more user actions, each of which separately support an inference that the person is associated with the user. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user's communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: AOL LLC
    Inventor: Roy Ben-Yoseph
  • Patent number: 7472163
    Abstract: Distinctively treating digital communications sent by bulk message senders includes providing a set of bulk sender behavior policies and monitoring compliance by a bulk message sender with the set of policies. Based on compliance by the bulk message sender with the set of policies, digital communications sent by the bulk message sender are distinctively treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC
    Inventors: Roy Ben-Yoseph, Sylvia M. Koschier
  • Patent number: 7406506
    Abstract: An apparatus for classifying digital communications includes an interface module, an identification module, and a notification module. The interface module enables a recipient to perceive information relating to one or more digital communications received by the recipient. The identification module enables a first interface element capable of enabling the recipient to classify the digital communications among at least one category. The notification module notifies a network server of a classification received from the recipient using the first interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC
    Inventors: Lorin R. Sutton, Jr., Roy Ben-Yoseph
  • Publication number: 20080052637
    Abstract: Replacing display content in a window of a graphical user interface includes displaying a window in a graphical user interface, and displaying first display content in the window. A request initiated by a user to change a size of the window is received. Second display content is accessed based on the request. The second display content is different from the first display content. In response to the request, the window is resized and the second display content is substituted for the first display content in the resized window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: AOL LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
    Inventors: Roy Ben-Yoseph, Iain Langridge, Cian Chang
  • Patent number: 7222157
    Abstract: An apparatus for classifying digital communications includes an interface module, an identification module, and a notification module. The interface module enables a recipient to perceive information relating to one or more digital communications received by the recipient. The identification module enables a first interface element capable of enabling the recipient to classify the digital communications among at least one category. The notification module notifies a network server of a classification received from the recipient using the first interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: AOL LLC
    Inventors: Lorin R. Sutton, Jr., Roy Ben-Yoseph
  • Publication number: 20040210639
    Abstract: The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. For example, the people within a certain number of degrees of separation from the user may be considered as known to the user. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user's communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Roy Ben-Yoseph, Barry Appelman
  • Publication number: 20040205127
    Abstract: The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. For example, people a user knows may be inferred based on interactions between the user and a received message. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user's communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventor: Roy Ben-Yoseph
  • Publication number: 20040205126
    Abstract: The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. For example, people a user knows may be inferred based on a combination of two or more user actions, each of which separately support an inference that the person is associated with the user. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user's communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventor: Roy Ben-Yoseph
  • Publication number: 20040193684
    Abstract: The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user's communications. For example access to a user's online presence may be restricted based on the known people such that access to presence is provided only to those people that the user knows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventor: Roy Ben-Yoseph