Patents by Inventor Sean Joey Summers

Sean Joey Summers 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: 20250124098
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable storage media for uniform resource locator (URL) customization. A request for URL customization may be received by one or more processors. The one or more processors may translate a URL associated with the request into a destination objection. One or more customized links may be generated based on the destination object. The destination object may include one or more of a brand, scheme, host, path, or query. Prior to translating the URL associated with the request into the destination object, the one or more processors may determine whether the URL associated with the request contains a known host by comparing a host of the URL to a list of known hosts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Button, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher James Maddern, Wesley Duncan Smith, William Griffin Myers, Sean Joey Summers
  • Publication number: 20250126166
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer storage media, for adaptively routing web traffic. A system can receive from a user computing device accessing a web resource, a content request, including data characterizing user interaction by the user computing device with the web resource before or after receiving the first content request. The system can identify a policy from a plurality of policies to execute in accordance with one or more objectives, wherein the plurality of policies are generated using data from a plurality of content requests and data characterizing user interaction with the web resource after serving a respective response to each of the plurality of content requests. The system can perform, in response to the content request, one or more actions of the ranked list of actions of the identified policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Button, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Joey Summers, Christopher James Maddern, Keith Austin Johnson
  • Patent number: 12067073
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable storage media for uniform resource locator (URL) customization. A request for URL customization may be received by one or more processors. The one or more processors may translate a URL associated with the request into a destination objection. One or more customized links may be generated based on the destination object. The destination object may include one or more of a brand, scheme, host, path, or query. Prior to translating the URL associated with the request into the destination object, the one or more processors may determine whether the URL associated with the request contains a known host by comparing a host of the URL to a list of known hosts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Button, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher James Maddern, Wesley Duncan Smith, William Griffin Myers, Sean Joey Summers
  • Patent number: 12047432
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer storage media, for adaptively routing web traffic. A system can receive from a user computing device accessing a web resource, a content request, including data characterizing user interaction by the user computing device with the web resource before or after receiving the first content request. The system can identify a policy from a plurality of policies to execute in accordance with one or more objectives, wherein the plurality of policies are generated using data from a plurality of content requests and data characterizing user interaction with the web resource after serving a respective response to each of the plurality of content requests. The system can perform, in response to the content request, one or more actions of the ranked list of actions of the identified policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Button, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Joey Summers, Christopher James Maddern, Keith Austin Johnson
  • Publication number: 20240048608
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer storage media, for adaptively routing web traffic. A system can receive from a user computing device accessing a web resource, a content request, including data characterizing user interaction by the user computing device with the web resource before or after receiving the first content request. The system can identify a policy from a plurality of policies to execute in accordance with one or more objectives, wherein the plurality of policies are generated using data from a plurality of content requests and data characterizing user interaction with the web resource after serving a respective response to each of the plurality of content requests. The system can perform, in response to the content request, one or more actions of the ranked list of actions of the identified policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Sean Joey Summers, Christopher James Maddern, Keith Austin Johnson
  • Patent number: 11757972
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer storage media, for adaptively routing web traffic. A system can receive from a user computing device accessing a web resource, a content request, including data characterizing user interaction by the user computing device with the web resource before or after receiving the first content request. The system can identify a policy from a plurality of policies to execute in accordance with one or more objectives, wherein the plurality of policies are generated using data from a plurality of content requests and data characterizing user interaction with the web resource after serving a respective response to each of the plurality of content requests. The system can perform, in response to the content request, one or more actions of the ranked list of actions of the identified policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Button, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Joey Summers, Chritopher James Maddern, Keith Austin Johnson
  • Publication number: 20230153371
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable storage media for uniform resource locator (URL) customization. A request for URL customization may be received by one or more processors. The one or more processors may translate a URL associated with the request into a destination objection. One or more customized links may be generated based on the destination object. The destination object may include one or more of a brand, scheme, host, path, or query. Prior to translating the URL associated with the request into the destination object, the one or more processors may determine whether the URL associated with the request contains a known host by comparing a host of the URL to a list of known hosts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Button, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher James Maddern, Wesley Duncan Smith, William Griffin Myers, Sean Joey Summers
  • Patent number: 11489908
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer storage media, for adaptively routing web traffic. A system can receive from a user computing device accessing a web resource, a content request, including data characterizing user interaction by the user computing device with the web resource before or after receiving the first content request. The system can identify a policy from a plurality of policies to execute in accordance with one or more objectives, wherein the plurality of policies are generated using data from a plurality of content requests and data characterizing user interaction with the web resource after serving a respective response to each of the plurality of content requests. The system can perform, in response to the content request, one or more actions of the ranked list of actions of the identified policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Button, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Joey Summers, Christopher James Maddern, Keith Austin Johnson
  • Publication number: 20220084074
    Abstract: The technology is drawn to targeting advertisements and offers to consumers while maintaining the consumer's anonymity. One or more processors may receive a set of campaigns, each campaign in the set of campaigns including an eligibility set defined by a set of consumer identifiers. The eligibility set of each campaign may be converted into a privacy preserving model that maps the set of consumer identifiers to any number of advertisements or offers in the set of campaigns. The one or more processors may provide the privacy preserving model to a publisher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Button, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher James Maddern, Sean Joey Summers
  • Publication number: 20180088752
    Abstract: A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is received at a server and from a mobile web browser executing on a mobile computing device. At least one contextual action is identified based on at least content of a web page associated with the URL. At least one service provider associated with the at least one contextual action is identified. At least one service provider is communicated with for inventory information associated with the at least one contextual action. At least one data object including information associated with the at least one contextual action and the inventory information is sent to the mobile web browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: Button Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Wakerly, Sean Joey Summers