Patents by Inventor Timothy Howe

Timothy Howe 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).

  • Publication number: 20110264992
    Abstract: To provide a shortened version of a link that conveys useful information about the link's associated content, embodiments of the invention generate a shortened version of the link that comprises meaningful information about the original link. For example, in some embodiments such information includes portions of the link itself, such as domain and/or path components of the link's address text, content to which the link points, such as the text of a web page or other document referenced by the link's address text, or a rating of the content to which the link points. Thus, rather than generating an essentially random link, embodiments of the invention adaptively generate the shortened link to take into account the information about the link. Consequently, a user viewing the adaptively-generated shortened link can determine useful information about the content to which the shortened link leads based on the text of the shortened link itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: ROCKMELT, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Vishria, Timothy Howes, Robert Churchill
  • Publication number: 20110225197
    Abstract: A system for recommending feeds for a user comprises a client with a web browser, an application server, and a content server. The browser tracks the user's browsing activity and transmits user data related to the user's browsing activity to the application server. The application server searches the content server to determine feeds that may be relevant to the user's browsing activity and then communicates those feeds to the browser. The browser displays the received feeds to the user as feed recommendations, prompting the user to select from among the recommended feeds. Once the user has selected one or more feeds, the browser transmits the user's selection to the application server, which enables the feeds to be presented subsequently to the user. In this way, the system uses the user's browsing activity to obtain automatically for a user feeds that are likely to be relevant to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Timothy Howes, Eric Vishria
  • Publication number: 20110191314
    Abstract: To provide an improved user experience for users of a web browser, embodiments of the invention save queries entered by a user via the web browser. The queries may be for execution on different network search services, such as search engines, social networks, message posting services, and the like. At various times in the future, the web browser then executes the saved search queries on their corresponding network search services, identifies search results that are new and highly relevant to the user, and provides the identified search results to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: ROCKMELT, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy Howes, Eric Vishria
  • Publication number: 20110173569
    Abstract: An application such as a web browser obtains a set of data items, such as search results received in response to a search query, or a set of articles received from a web feed, the data items collectively comprising links to do external documents, such as web pages. Previewing functionality enables the application to pre-fetch content of the documents associated with the links, and to pre-render images of the documents. Thus, when the user selects a link to preview, a preview is rapidly displayed by reading the pre-rendered image corresponding to the selected link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: ROCKMELT, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy Howes, Eric Vishria
  • Publication number: 20100211685
    Abstract: A computing device capable of communicating over multiple types of communication channel pairing data for use with a further type of communication channel, the device being arranged to communicate pairing data with another device in response to a pairing stimulus and to communicate that pairing data over each of said multiple types of communication channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ian McDowall, Timothy Howes
  • Publication number: 20100144274
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided for determining proximity between computing apparatuses. A method may include extracting information indicating a transmit signal strength from each of a plurality of electromagnetic transmissions sent by a plurality of second computing apparatuses and received by a first computing apparatus. The method may further include determining received signal strengths of the electromagnetic transmissions. The method may additionally include determining proximities between the first computing apparatus and each of the second computing apparatuses based at least in part upon transmit signal strengths and the received signal strengths. The method may also include generating a list listing the second computing apparatuses and providing an indication of the determined proximities of the second computing apparatuses. Corresponding apparatuses and systems are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ian Mcdowall, Andrew Harker, Timothy Howes, Marcel de Kogel
  • Publication number: 20060276160
    Abstract: A vehicle locating unit with improved power management. A receiver receives a signal from a network of communication sources. A signal strength monitoring subsystem determines which of the communication sources are transmitting the strongest signals. A power management subsystem is responsive to the signal strength monitoring subsystem and is configured to alternatively enter sleep and wake-up modes, synchronize the wake-up mode to the communication source transmitting the strongest signal, and test the signal strength of at least one additional communication source according to a predefined sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Frank Romano, Sampath Krishna, Son Nguyen, Jesse Rhodes, Philip Crewe, Daniel Finchley Cletheroe, Mark Marsden, Steven Walter Greendale, Nigel Watson, Ian Stroud, Timothy Howe, Gerard Smith
  • Publication number: 20060261934
    Abstract: A vehicle locating unit with a receiver for receiving a signal from a network of communication sources, a transponder activated when a communication source sends a message to the receiver, and a power supply regulating circuit for regulating a nominal input voltage and powering the receiver and the transponder. A protection circuit is responsive to an injected input voltage and configured to clamp the injected (high level) input voltage at a predetermined maximum voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Frank Romano, Sampath Krishna, Son Nguyen, Jesse Rhodes, Philip Crewe, Daniel Finchley Cletheroe, Mark Marsden, Steven Greendale, Nigel Watson, Ian Stroud, Timothy Howe, Gerard Smith, Colin Smithers
  • Publication number: 20060261981
    Abstract: A vehicle locating unit features a receiver which receives a signal from a network of communication sources and a transponder activated when a communication source sends a message to the receiver. There is a transmitter for sending signals to the communication sources and a proof of life subsystem configured to periodically send a proof of life message via the transmitter to the communication sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Frank Romano, Sampath Krishna, Son Nguyen, Jesse Rhodes, Philip Crewe, Daniel Finchley Cletheroe, Mark Marsden, Steven Greendale, Nigel Watson, Ian Stroud, Timothy Howe, Gerard Smith