Patents by Inventor Sean P. Forde

Sean P. Forde 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: 20180060427
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for navigating a taxonomy using search queries. A search query is parsed in order to identify one or more item categories. A confidence score for each item categories is generated. When the confidence score meets a threshold, a pool of items associated with a respective category is selected. When the confidence score fails to meets the threshold, the pool of items is selected from the collection of items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Blair L. Hotchkies, Brent Robert Mills, Jennica Jane Pounds, Sikandar Saifullah, Alexandru I. Indrei, Jason P. Patrikios, Daniel R. Parshall, David Aaron Lichterman, Dan Catalin Teodorescu, Sean P. Forde
  • Patent number: 9842162
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for navigating a taxonomy using search queries. An unstructured search query is parsed in order to identify one or more categories of a taxonomy of a collection of items. Each one of the one or more categories is associated with a confidence score. When the confidence score meets a threshold, a pool of items is selected from a respective one of the one or more categories. When no confidence score meets the threshold, the pool of items is selected from the collection of items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Blair L. Hotchkies, Brent Robert Mills, Jennica Jane Pounds, Sikandar Saifullah, Alexandru I. Indrei, Jason P. Patrikios, Daniel R. Parshall, David Aaron Lichterman, Dan Catalin Teodorescu, Sean P. Forde
  • Patent number: 8988450
    Abstract: Effective color-aware search of a collection of content associated with one or more images is enabled. Content and/or its associated images may be automatically associated with representative palette colors in a suite of color palettes. Color palettes may be of a variety of types and have a hierarchical structure in which lower levels enable increasingly subtle distinctions between shades of color. Color palette hierarchies may be effectively presented, and appropriate portions emphasized based on associated search result sets. Search result sets may be refined and/or reordered in accordance with color palette selections and/or representative confidences of color palette selections for items at least referenced therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Max L. Kanter, Sachin B. Singh, Michel Goldstein, Carl N. Meister, David Charles Couvrette, Walter Manching Tseng, Blair L. Hotchkies, Sarah E. Williams, Sikander Saifullah, Sean P. Forde, John M. Nilles, Jason P. Patrikios, Brent Robert Mills, Alexandru I. Indrei, Paul Daniel Jaye, Daniel R. Parshall
  • Patent number: 8587604
    Abstract: Effective color-aware search of a collection of content associated with one or more images is enabled. Content and/or its associated images may be automatically associated with representative palette colors in a suite of color palettes. Color palettes may be of a variety of types and have a hierarchical structure in which lower levels enable increasingly subtle distinctions between shades of color. Color palette hierarchies may be effectively presented, and appropriate portions emphasized based on associated search result sets. Search result sets may be refined and/or reordered in accordance with color palette selections and/or representative confidences of color palette selections for items at least referenced therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Max L. Kanter, Sachin B. Singh, Michel Goldstein, Carl N. Meister, David Charles Couvrette, Walter Manching Tseng, Blair L. Hotchkies, Sarah E. Williams, Sikandar Saifullah, Sean P. Forde, John M. Nilles, Jason P. Patrikios, Brent Robert Mills, Alexandru I. Indrei, Paul Daniel Jaye, Daniel R. Parshall
  • Patent number: 8576241
    Abstract: Effective color-aware search of a collection of content associated with one or more images is enabled. Content and/or its associated images may be automatically associated with representative palette colors in a suite of color palettes. Color palettes may be of a variety of types and have a hierarchical structure in which lower levels enable increasingly subtle distinctions between shades of color. Color palette hierarchies may be effectively presented, and appropriate portions emphasized based on associated search result sets. Search result sets may be refined and/or reordered in accordance with color palette selections and/or representative confidences of color palette selections for items at least referenced therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Max L Kanter, Sachin B. Singh, Michel Goldstein, Carl N. Meister, David Charles Couvrette, Walter Manching Tseng, Blair L. Hotchkies, Sarah E. Williams, Sikandar Saifullah, Sean P. Forde, John M. Nilles, Jason P. Patrikios, Brent Robert Mills, Alexandru I. Indrei, Paul Daniel Jaye, Daniel R. Parshall