Patents by Inventor Timothy Hatcher

Timothy Hatcher 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: 8600967
    Abstract: An automatic organization into topics for a browsing history. In one embodiment, a system identifies groups of browsing actions as related, and clusters the browsing history (e.g. a web browsing history) into sessions based on heuristics used to determine relationships. Latent semantic analysis can be used to determine the relationships which can be considered topics. User interfaces for displaying or otherwise presenting these sessions can include icons representative of topics, and these icons can have different sizes depending on a frequency of web page visits within a topic. The topics can be displayed in time ranges or in a cover flow view or both time ranges and cover flow view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jing Jin, Kevin Decker, Timothy Hatcher, Raymond Sepulveda, Michael Thole
  • Publication number: 20110191344
    Abstract: An automatic organization into topics for a browsing history. In one embodiment, a system identifies groups of browsing actions as related, and clusters the browsing history (e.g. a web browsing history) into sessions based on heuristics used to determine relationships. Latent semantic analysis can be used to determine the relationships which can be considered topics. User interfaces for displaying or otherwise presenting these sessions can include icons representative of topics, and these icons can have different sizes depending on a frequency of web page visits within a topic. The topics can be displayed in time ranges or in a cover flow view or both time ranges and cover flow view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventors: Jing Jin, Kevin Decker, Timothy Hatcher, Raymond Sepulveda, Michael Thole