Patents by Inventor Stephen D. Durbin

Stephen D. Durbin 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: 8600734
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for determining the emotional content of an electronic correspondence to route or prioritize the information, to set the expectations of a customer support worker, to flag those workers who are using inappropriate language with the customer, or to determine another best course to send the correspondence. In a preferred embodiment, a customer sends an electronic correspondence to a company via email. Emotionally charged words or symbols in each sentence are detected. The message is then given an emotional ranking which is used to determine what future action is most appropriate for the correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Oracle OTC Subsidiary, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas K. Warner, James Neal Richter, Stephen D. Durbin, Greg Gianforte
  • Patent number: 8505027
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for selectively sharing data between different implementations of the same software program in a network environment. The program implementations are otherwise independent with each executing its own private memory space in a single computer or on multiple computers in the network. The present invention enables a first implementation of a program to borrow or utilize data collected, derived or otherwise utilized by a second implementation of the same program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Oracle OTC Subsidiary LLC
    Inventors: Douglas K. Warner, J. Neal Richter, Stephen D. Durbin
  • Publication number: 20100100418
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring and adapting marketing campaigns are described. Various aspects of the systems and methods include dynamically adjusting presented campaign frequency based upon measured success criteria, identifying important or superfluous portions of a campaign to adjust campaign sub-part frequency based upon measured success criteria, and/or recombining campaign sub-parts into entirely new campaigns and selecting for successful campaigns based upon measured success criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: J. Neal Richter, Douglas K. Warner, Stephen D. Durbin, Anthony Arnone
  • Patent number: 7289949
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for determining the emotional content of an electronic correspondence to route or prioritize the information, to set the expectations of a customer support worker, to flag those workers who are using inappropriate language with the customer, or to determine another best course to send the correspondence. In a preferred embodiment, a customer sends an electronic correspondence to a company via email. Emotionally charged words or symbols in each sentence are detected. The message is then given an emotional ranking which is used to determine what future action is most appropriate for the correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Right Now Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas K. Warner, James Neal Richter, Stephen D. Durbin, Greg Gianforte
  • Publication number: 20030069936
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for determining the emotional content of an electronic correspondence to route or prioritize the information, to set the expectations of a customer support worker, to flag those workers who are using inappropriate language with the customer, or determine another best course to send the correspondence. In a preferred embodiment, a customer sends an electronic correspondence to a company via email. Emotionally charged words or symbols in each sentence are detected. The message is then given an emotional ranking which is used to determine what future action is most appropriate for the correspondence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventors: Douglas K. Warner, James Neal Richter, Stephen D. Durbin, Greg Gianforte