Patents by Inventor Russell Paul Cowdrey

Russell Paul Cowdrey 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: 20160246790
    Abstract: User profiles associated with a social networking application may be updated and compared to identify potential user interests and groups for users to connect and meet via their user devices. One example method of operation provides identifying a number of user profiles stored on a server comparing the user profiles to a predetermined category and creating numerical scores corresponding to each of the user profiles. The method may also include filtering the numerical scores based on a predetermined threshold value, and establishing a group for the user profiles which are above the predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Russell Paul Cowdrey, Jason Hemmings Cone
  • Patent number: 8600790
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for providing a survey to a user comprises accessing a web site by the user, determining if the user is qualified to partake in a survey related to the web site, tracking the user's interaction with the web site when the user is qualified to partake in the survey, presenting the survey to the user based on the user's interaction, receiving responses to the survey, tracking the user's further interaction with the web site, determining if a page unload event followed by a page load event occurs within a period of time, determining if the user has left the web site when the page unload event followed by the page load event does not occur within the period of time, presenting a static first portion of an additional survey to the user, and presenting a dynamic second portion of the additional survey to the user based on at least one of: the user's further interaction with the web site, the user's interaction with the web site, and the user's re
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Usability Sciences Corporation
    Inventors: Frank Charles Peacock, III, Russell Paul Cowdrey, Lon Cartwright Ingram