Patents by Inventor Scott Hamilton Shattuck

Scott Hamilton Shattuck 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).

  • SEARCH QUERY REFORMULATION USING A USER-SELECTED TERM
    Publication number: 20170220680
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing voice commands. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining one or more search results that a search engine has identified as being responsive to a search query, receiving a term that the user has selected from the search results, receiving user input selecting promotion, demotion, or phrase search criteria for the term, and automatically reformulating the search query based on the term and the promotion, demotion, or phrase search criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventor: Scott Hamilton Shattuck
  • Search query reformulation using result term occurrence count
    Patent number: 9110993
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing voice commands. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining an occurrence count for terms that occur in resources that a search engine has identified as being responsive to an original search query, identifying a term that occurs in the resources, based on the occurrence count, providing the term and a control for display on a client device, the control being associated with the term and with promotion or demotion criteria, receiving a signal indicating that the user has selected the control, and automatically reformulating the original search query based on the term and the promotion or demotion criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Hamilton Shattuck
  • Search query reformulation using result term occurrence count
    Patent number: 8849785
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing voice commands. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining an occurrence count for terms that occur in resources that a search engine has identified as being responsive to an original search query, identifying a term that occurs in the resources, based on the occurrence count, providing the term and a control for display on a client device, the control being associated with the term and with promotion or demotion criteria, receiving a signal indicating that the user has selected the control, and automatically reformulating the original search query based on the term and the promotion or demotion criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Hamilton Shattuck