Patents by Inventor Sanjay Chand Sood

Sanjay Chand Sood 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: 10049166
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating geo-aware auto-suggestions for searching are provided. Characters corresponding to user input for a search query to a searching service may be processed prior to completion of the search query. Information about a geographical location may be processed. A geographical area of interest and potential correction(s) may be identified. Geo-specific suggestions may be determined based on the search query and/or a selected correction. The geo-specific suggestions may correspond to one or more identified businesses located in the geographical area of interest. The determining the geo-specific suggestions may include identifying business listing information corresponding to the geographical area of interest and the search query and/or a selected correction. The geo-specific suggestions may be indicated as a user-selectable option to complete the search query in a search query field for a search engine and/or to submit to the search engine as a selected search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: YP LLC
    Inventors: Sanjay Chand Sood, Sudheer Sahu, Guobin He, Krishna Krishnamaneni, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Kiran Sugana, Nathan Lih Feng Diep
  • Publication number: 20160357767
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating geo-aware auto-suggestions for searching are provided. Characters corresponding to user input for a search query to a searching service may be processed prior to completion of the search query. Information about a geographical location may be processed. A geographical area of interest and potential correction(s) may be identified. Geo-specific suggestions may be determined based on the search query and/or a selected correction. The geo-specific suggestions may correspond to one or more identified businesses located in the geographical area of interest. The determining the geo-specific suggestions may include identifying business listing information corresponding to the geographical area of interest and the search query and/or a selected correction. The geo-specific suggestions may be indicated as a user-selectable option to complete the search query in a search query field for a search engine and/or to submit to the search engine as a selected search query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Sanjay Chand Sood, Sudheer Sahu, Guobin He, Krishna Krishnamaneni, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Kiran Sugana, Nathan Lih Feng Diep
  • Patent number: 9443036
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating geo-aware auto-suggestions for searching are provided. Characters corresponding to user input for a search query to a searching service may be processed prior to completion of the search query. Information about a geographical location may be processed. A geographical area of interest and potential correction(s) may be identified. Geo-specific suggestions may be determined based on the search query and/or a selected correction. The geo-specific suggestions may correspond to one or more identified businesses located in the geographical area of interest. The determining the geo-specific suggestions may include identifying business listing information corresponding to the geographical area of interest and the search query and/or a selected correction. The geo-specific suggestions may be indicated as a user-selectable option to complete the search query in a search query field for a search engine and/or to submit to the search engine as a selected search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: YP LLC
    Inventors: Sanjay Chand Sood, Sudheer Sahu, Guobin He, Krishna Krishnamaneni, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Kiran Sugana, Nathan Lih Feng Diep
  • Publication number: 20140207748
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating geo-aware auto-suggestions for searching are provided. Characters corresponding to user input for a search query to a searching service may be processed prior to completion of the search query. Information about a geographical location may be processed. A geographical area of interest and potential correction(s) may be identified. Geo-specific suggestions may be determined based on the search query and/or a selected correction. The geo-specific suggestions may correspond to one or more identified businesses located in the geographical area of interest. The determining the geo-specific suggestions may include identifying business listing information corresponding to the geographical area of interest and the search query and/or a selected correction. The geo-specific suggestions may be indicated as a user-selectable option to complete the search query in a search query field for a search engine and/or to submit to the search engine as a selected search query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: YP Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Sanjay Chand Sood, Sudheer Sahu, Guobin He, Krishna Krishnamaneni, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Kiran Sugana, Nathan Lih Feng Diep
  • Patent number: 7657518
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and presents search results against a user's current work context by comparing statistical and heuristic models of the search results to a statistical and heuristic model of the user's current work context. In this manner, search results are assessed, ranked, organized, and/or presented with the benefit of attributes of the user's current work context that are predictive of relevance, such as words in a user's document (e.g., web page or word processing document) that may not have been included in the search query. In addition, search results from multiple search engines are combined into an organization scheme that best reflects the user's current task. As a result, lists of search results from different search engines can be more usefully presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignees: Northwestern University, Perfect Market, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Louis Budzik, Sanjay Chand Sood, Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond, Andrew Joseph Crossen
  • Patent number: 7644072
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and presents search results against a user's current work context by comparing statistical and heuristic models of the search results to a statistical and heuristic model of the user's current work context. In this manner, search results are assessed, ranked, organized, and/or presented with the benefit of attributes of the user's current work context that are predictive of relevance, such as words in a user's document (e.g., web page or word processing document) that may not have been included in the search query. In addition, search results from multiple search engines are combined into an organization scheme that best reflects the user's current task. As a result, lists of search results from different search engines can be more usefully presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignees: Perfect Market, Inc., Northwestern University
    Inventors: Jerome Louis Budzik, Sanjay Chand Sood, Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond, Andrew Joseph Crossen
  • Patent number: 7627565
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and presents search results against a user's current work context by comparing statistical and heuristic models of the search results to a statistical and heuristic model of the user's current work context. In this manner, search results are assessed, ranked, organized, and/or presented with the benefit of attributes of the user's current work context that are predictive of relevance, such as words in a user's document (e.g., web page or word processing document) that may not have been included in the search query. In addition, search results from multiple search engines are combined into an organization scheme that best reflects the user's current task. As a result, lists of search results from different search engines can be more usefully presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignees: Northwestern University, Perfect Market, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Louis Budzik, Sanjay Chand Sood, Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond, Andrew Joseph Crossen
  • Patent number: 7617200
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and presents search results against a user's current work context by comparing statistical and heuristic models of the search results to a statistical and heuristic model of the user's current work context. In this manner, search results are assessed, ranked, organized, and/or presented with the benefit of attributes of the user's current work context that are predictive of relevance, such as words in a user's document (e.g., web page or word processing document) that may not have been included in the search query. In addition, search results from multiple search engines are combined into an organization scheme that best reflects the user's current task. As a result, lists of search results from different search engines can be more usefully presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignees: Northwestern University, Perfect Market, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Louis Budzik, Sanjay Chand Sood, Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond, Andrew Joseph Crossen
  • Patent number: 7617199
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and presents search results against a user's current work context by comparing statistical and heuristic models of the search results to a statistical and heuristic model of the user's current work context. In this manner, search results are assessed, ranked, organized, and/or presented with the benefit of attributes of the user's current work context that are predictive of relevance, such as words in a user's document (e.g., web page or word processing document) that may not have been included in the search query. In addition, search results from multiple search engines are combined into an organization scheme that best reflects the user's current task. As a result, lists of search results from different search engines can be more usefully presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignees: Northwestern University, Perfect Market, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Louis Budzik, Sanjay Chand Sood, Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond, Andrew Joseph Crossen
  • Patent number: 7610279
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and presents search results against a user's current work context by comparing statistical and heuristic models of the search results to a statistical and heuristic model of the user's current work context. In this manner, search results are assessed, ranked, organized, and/or presented with the benefit of attributes of the user's current work context that are predictive of relevance, such as words in a user's document (e.g., web page or word processing document) that may not have been included in the search query. In addition, search results from multiple search engines are combined into an organization scheme that best reflects the user's current task. As a result, lists of search results from different search engines can be more usefully presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignees: Perfect Market, Inc., Northwestern University
    Inventors: Jerome Louis Budzik, Sanjay Chand Sood, Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond, Andrew Joseph Crossen