Patents by Inventor Steven Robert Olson

Steven Robert Olson 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).

  • Apparatus and method for controllably retrieving and/or filtering content from the world wide web with a profile based search engine
    Publication number: 20010054054
    Abstract: A method of controllably retrieving information from the World Wide Web or from a given database in cooperation with a user's composite profile, comprising the steps of: (a) prompting a user to respond to at least one profile query; (b) generating a composite user profile from response(s) to said at least one query; (c) generating at least one portal having one or more records of information from a central repository; (d) matching said composite user profile with said at least one portal; (e) entering at least one search or retrieval instruction; and (f) controllably retrieving one or more records of information from said at least one matched portal in response to said at least one search instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Inventor: Steven Robert Olson