Patents by Inventor Terry Dean Blankers

Terry Dean Blankers 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).

  • Systems and methods for measuring and managing distributed online conversations
    Patent number: 8983975
    Abstract: A system (10) for measuring and managing distributed online conversations accessible via a network (20) comprises memory (3812) and an online conversation monitoring system (12) communicatively coupled to the network and communicatively coupled to the memory and being configured to create and manage search topics and queries, to search sites on the network utilizing the search topics and queries to identify relevant online conversations related to an entity, to capture relevant online conversations related to the entity, to store in the memory each captured relevant online conversation as a discrete incident associated with the entity to which it is relevant, to score each discrete incident according to a set of metrics, and to present scored incidents to the entity to which relevant online conversation relates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Inventors: Christopher Kenton, Terry Dean Blankers, Aria Haghighi
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING AND MANAGING DISTRIBUTED ONLINE CONVERSATIONS
    Publication number: 20100325107
    Abstract: A system (10) for measuring and managing distributed online conversations accessible via a network (20) comprises memory (3812) and an online conversation monitoring system (12) communicatively coupled to the network and communicatively coupled to the memory and being configured to create and manage search topics and queries, to search sites on the network utilizing the search topics and queries to identify relevant online conversations related to an entity, to capture relevant online conversations related to the entity, to store in the memory each captured relevant online conversation as a discrete incident associated with the entity to which it is relevant, to score each discrete incident according to a set of metrics, and to present scored incidents to the entity to which relevant online conversation relates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Christopher Kenton, Terry Dean Blankers, Aria Haghighi