Patents by Inventor Sam Michelson
Sam Michelson 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).
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Patent number: 8732750Abstract: This invention discloses a method for displaying advertisements transmitted to a user unit, the method includes receiving, at the user unit, at least one advertisement tagged with a delay tag indicating whether display of the at least one advertisement can be delayed and only if the delay tag allows delaying display of the at least one advertisement, storing the at least one advertisement at the user unit, retrieving the at least one advertisement and displaying the at least one advertisement. A billing system for reporting a commercial broadcast to a multiplicity of users is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Reuven Wachtfogel, Jonathan Maissel, Moshe Kranc, David Richardson, Ezra Darshan, Ron Katz, Yossi Tsuria, Sam Michelson, Mika Krause, Steve Epstein, Moshe Shlissel, Doron Handelman, Shlomo Kipnis, Chaim Shen-Orr
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Patent number: 8495002Abstract: A software tool for creating, training and testing a knowledge base of a computerized customer relationship management system is disclosed. The software tool includes corpus editing processes for displaying and editing text-based corpus items, and assigning selected categories to individual corpus items. Knowledge base construction processes construct a knowledge base by analyzing a first subset of the corpus items, and testing processes test the knowledge base on a second subset of the corpus items. Reporting processes generate reports containing indicia representative of the testing results, which may be utilized to edit the corpus items and retrain the knowledge base so as to improve performance.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2004Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yoram Nelken, Ronen Hod, Amir Navot, Sam Michelson, Randy Jessee, Tsachy Shacham, Beth Lanin, Nissan Hajaj, Avi Margalit, Josemina Magdalen, Dani Cohen
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Publication number: 20110093884Abstract: This invention discloses a method for displaying advertisements transmitted to a user unit, the method includes receiving, at the user unit, at least one advertisement tagged with a delay tag indicating whether display of the at least one advertisement can be delayed and only if the delay tag allows delaying display of the at least one advertisement, storing the at least one advertisement at the user unit, retrieving the at least one advertisement and displaying the at least one advertisement. A billing system for reporting a commercial broadcast to a multiplicity of users is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventors: Reuven WACHTFOGEL, Jonathan Maissel, Moshe Kranc, David Richardson, Ezra Darshan, Ron Katz, Yossi Tsuria, Sam Michelson, Mika Krause, Steve Epstein, Moshe Shlissel, Doron Handelman, Shlomo Kipnis, Chaim Shen-Orr
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Patent number: 7882519Abstract: This invention discloses a method for displaying advertisements transmitted to a user unit, the method includes receiving, at the user unit, at least one advertisement tagged with a delay tag indicating whether display of the at least one advertisement can be delayed and only if the delay tag allows delaying display of the at least one advertisement, storing the at least one advertisement at the user unit, retrieving the at least one advertisement and displaying the at least one advertisement. A billing system for reporting a commercial broadcast to a multiplicity of users is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2009Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: NDS LimitedInventors: Reuven Wachtfogel, Jonathan Maissel, Moshe Kranc, David Richardson, Ezra Darshan, Ron Katz, Yossi Tsuria, Sam Michelson, Mika Krause, Steve Epstein, Moshe Shlissel, Doron Handelman, Shlomo Kipnis, Chaim Shen-Orr
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Patent number: 7756810Abstract: A software tool for creating, training and testing a knowledge base of a computerized customer relationship management system is disclosed. The software tool includes corpus editing processes for displaying and editing text-based corpus items, and assigning selected categories to individual corpus items. Knowledge base construction processes construct a knowledge base by analyzing a first subset of the corpus items, and testing processes test the knowledge base on a second subset of the corpus items. Reporting processes generate reports containing indicia representative of the testing results, which may be utilized to edit the corpus items and retrain the knowledge base so as to improve performance.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2007Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yoram Nelken, Ronen Hod, Amir Navot, Sam Michelson, Randy Jessee, Tsachy Shacham, Beth Lanin, Nissan Hajaj, Avi Margalit, Josemina Magdalen, Dani Cohen
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Publication number: 20100070993Abstract: This invention discloses a method for displaying advertisements transmitted to a user unit, the method includes receiving, at the user unit, at least one advertisement tagged with a delay tag indicating whether display of the at least one advertisement can be delayed and only if the delay tag allows delaying display of the at least one advertisement, storing the at least one advertisement at the user unit, retrieving the at least one advertisement and displaying the at least one advertisement. A billing system for reporting a commercial broadcast to a multiplicity of users is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Inventors: Reuven Wachtfogel, Jonathan Maissel, Moshe Kranc, David Richardson, Ezra Darshan, Ron Katz, Yossi Tsuria, Sam Michelson, Mika Krause, Steve Epstein, Moshe Shlissel, Doron Handelman, Shlomo Kipnis, Chaim Shen-Orr
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Patent number: 7647609Abstract: This invention discloses a method for displaying advertisements transmitted to a user unit, the method includes receiving, at the user unit, at least one advertisement tagged with a delay tag indicating whether display of the at least one advertisement can be delayed and only if the delay tag allows delaying display of the at least one advertisement, storing the at least one advertisement at the user unit, retrieving the at least one advertisement and displaying the at least one advertisement. A billing system for reporting a commercial broadcast to a multiplicity of users is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2008Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: NDS LimitedInventors: Reuven Wachtfogel, Jonathan Maissel, Moshe Kranc, David Richardson, Ezra Darshan, Ron Katz, Yossi Tsuria, Sam Michelson, Mika Krause, Steve Epstein, Moshe Shlissel, Doron Handelman, Shlomo Kipnis, Chaim Shen-Orr
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Publication number: 20080127251Abstract: This invention discloses a method for displaying advertisements transmitted to a user unit, the method includes receiving, at the user unit, at least one advertisement tagged with a delay tag indicating whether display of the at least one advertisement can be delayed and only if the delay tag allows delaying display of the at least one advertisement, storing the at least one advertisement at the user unit, retrieving the at least one advertisement and displaying the at least one advertisement. A billing system for reporting a commercial broadcast to a multiplicity of users is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2008Publication date: May 29, 2008Inventors: Reuven Wachtfogel, Jonathan Maissel, Moshe Kranc, David Richardson, Ezra Darshan, Ron Katz, Yossi Tsuria, Sam Michelson, Mika Krause, Steve Epstein, Moshe Shlissel, Doron Handelman, Shlomo Kipnis, Chaim Shen-Orr
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Publication number: 20080109842Abstract: This invention discloses a method for displaying advertisements transmitted to a user unit, the method includes receiving, at the user unit, at least one advertisement tagged with a delay tag indicating whether display of the at least one advertisement can be delayed and only if the delay tag allows delaying display of the at least one advertisement, storing the at least one advertisement at the user unit, retrieving the at least one advertisement and displaying the at least one advertisement. A billing system for reporting a commercial broadcast to a multiplicity of users is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2008Publication date: May 8, 2008Inventors: Reuven Wachtfogel, Johathan Maissel, Moshe Kranc, David Richardson, Ezra Darshan, Ron Katz, Yossi Tsuria, Sam Michelson, Mika Krause, Steve Epstein, Moshe Shlissel, Doron Handelman, Shlomo Kipnis, Chaim Shen- Orr
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Patent number: 7340760Abstract: This invention discloses a method for displaying advertisements transmitted to a user unit, the method includes receiving, at the user unit, at least one advertisement tagged with a delay tag indicating whether display of the at least one advertisement can be delayed and only if the delay tag allows delaying display of the at least one advertisement, storing the at least one advertisement at the user unit, retrieving the at least one advertisement and displaying the at least one advertisement. A billing system for reporting a commercial broadcast to a multiplicity of users is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2001Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: NDS LimitedInventors: Reuven Wachtfogel, Jonathan Maissel, Moshe Kranc, David Richardson, Ezra Darshan, Ron Katz, Yossi Tsuria, Sam Michelson, Mika Krause, Steve Epstein, Moshe Shlissel, Doron Handelman, Shlomo Kipnis, Chaim Shen-Orr
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Publication number: 20070294201Abstract: A software tool for creating, training and testing a knowledge base of a computerized customer relationship management system is disclosed. The software tool includes corpus editing processes for displaying and editing text-based corpus items, and assigning selected categories to individual corpus items. Knowledge base construction processes construct a knowledge base by analyzing a first subset of the corpus items, and testing processes test the knowledge base on a second subset of the corpus items. Reporting processes generate reports containing indicia representative of the testing results, which may be utilized to edit the corpus items and retrain the knowledge base so as to improve performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2007Publication date: December 20, 2007Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: YORAM NELKEN, RONEN HOD, AMIR NAVOT, SAM MICHELSON, RANDY JESSEE, TSACHY SHACHAM, BETH LANIN, NISSAN HAJAJ, AVI MARGALIT, JOSEMINA MAGDALEN, DANI COHEN
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Publication number: 20040225653Abstract: A software tool for creating, training and testing a knowledge base of a computerized customer relationship management system is disclosed. The software tool includes corpus editing processes for displaying and editing text-based corpus items, and assigning selected categories to individual corpus items. Knowledge base construction processes construct a knowledge base by analyzing a first subset of the corpus items, and testing processes test the knowledge base on a second subset of the corpus items. Reporting processes generate reports containing indicia representative of the testing results, which may be utilized to edit the corpus items and retrain the knowledge base so as to improve performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2004Publication date: November 11, 2004Inventors: Yoram Nelken, Ronen Hod, Amir Navot, Sam Michelson, Randy Jessee, Tsachy Shacham, Beth Lanin, Nissan Hajaj, Avi Margalit, Josemina Magdalen, Dani Cohen
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Publication number: 20020138831Abstract: This invention discloses a method for displaying advertisements transmitted to a user unit, the method includes receiving, at the user unit, at least one advertisement tagged with a delay tag indicating whether display of the at least one advertisement can be delayed and only if the delay tag allows delaying display of the at least one advertisement, storing the at least one advertisement at the user unit, retrieving the at least one advertisement and displaying the at least one advertisement. A billing system for reporting a commercial broadcast to a multiplicity of users is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2001Publication date: September 26, 2002Inventors: Reuven Wachtfogel, Jonathan Maissel, Moshe Kranc, David Richardson, Ezra Darshan, Ron Katz, Yossi Tsuria, Sam Michelson, Mika Krause, Steve Epstein, Moshe Shlissel, Doron Handelman, Shlomo Kipnis, Chaim Shen-Orr