Patents by Inventor Terry Van Belle

Terry Van Belle 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: 10957002
    Abstract: Various methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for communicating location-based digital components to a mobile and other devices. A natural language processor component can parse an input audio signal to identify a request and a keyword. A content selector can select digital components based on keyword and request. An audio signal generator component can generate an output signal that includes a selected digital components. An interface can transmit the output signal to cause a client computing device to drive a speaker to generate an acoustic wave corresponding to the output signal prior to occurrence of at least one of the first action and the second action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Surojit Chatterjee, Terry Van Belle, Anshul Kothari, Jian Zhou, Paul Feng, Ravi Jain, Nandita Narasimha Prabhu, Yun Huang, Gaurav Bhaya, Robert Stets
  • Publication number: 20180240211
    Abstract: Various methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for communicating location-based digital components to a mobile and other devices. A natural language processor component can parse an input audio signal to identify a request and a keyword. A content selector can select digital components based on keyword and request. An audio signal generator component can generate an output signal that includes a selected digital components. An interface can transmit the output signal to cause a client computing device to drive a speaker to generate an acoustic wave corresponding to the output signal prior to occurrence of at least one of the first action and the second action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Surojit Chatterjee, Terry Van Belle, Anshul Kothari, Jian Zhou, Paul Feng, Ravi Jain, Nandita Narasimha Prabhu, Yun Huang, Gaurav Bhaya, Robert Stets
  • Patent number: 9208512
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for transferring promotional messages to a mobile communication device. A promotional message is generated for display on a mobile communication device. The promotional message is associated with an entity having a physical location. The promotional message has a plurality of different types of content each associated with a different distance between the mobile communication device and a physical location of the entity. The generated promotional message is thereafter stored in a memory. A controller selects and transfers the promotional message to the mobile communication device responsive to a detected distance between the mobile communication device and the physical location. The transferred promotional message displays, on the device, a selected one of the different types of content corresponding to the detected distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Google, Inc.
    Inventors: Surojit Chatterjee, Terry Van Belle, Anshul Kothari, Jian Zhou, Paul Feng, Ravi Jain, Nandita Narasimha Prabhu, Yun Huang
  • Patent number: 8849694
    Abstract: Various methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for communicating location-based promotional messages to a mobile communication device. The method may include receiving a request associated with a mobile communication device. In response to the request, the method may include determining a location of the mobile communication device and a potential interest of a user of the mobile communication device. Based on the location of the mobile communication device and the potential interest of the user, the method may include identifying a promotional message from among other promotional messages. Upon identification, the method may include communicating the promotional message to be displayed at the mobile communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Surojit Chatterjee, Terry Van Belle, Anshul Kothari, Jian Zhou, Paul Feng, Ravi Jain, Nandita Narasimha Prabhu, Yun Huang
  • Patent number: 8799061
    Abstract: This specification describes technologies relating to content presentation. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of determining a location history for a user, where the location history includes a plurality of location data points for the user; analyzing the location history to derive a category for the user; associating the user with the category; and using the user's associated category to boost one or more candidate content items for delivery to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Surojit Chatterjee, Terry Van Belle, Anshul Kothari, Jian Zhou
  • Patent number: 7809697
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method can include accessing a network-accessible document that is formatted according to a hypertext markup language and that has a plurality of hyperlinks; producing a transcoded document from the network-accessible document; and providing the transcoded document to a computing device. Producing the transcoded document can include concatenating two or more of the plurality of hyperlinks to form a compression seed, compressing the compression seed with a compression algorithm to form a compressed seed, storing the compressed seed as a base hyperlink in the transcoded document, and compressing each of the plurality of hyperlinks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Kanefsky, Alex Nicolaou, Terry Van Belle