Patents by Inventor Timothy P. Kilbourn

Timothy P. Kilbourn 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: 9009146
    Abstract: In general, in one aspect, embodiments of the invention feature a computer-implemented method for providing input to a document ranking process for ranking a plurality of documents, the document ranking process taking as input a quality of result statistic for an individual document in the plurality of documents, the plurality of documents having been identified in response to a query, the quality of results statistic being for the query and the individual document. The method for providing input can include, for a first document identified as a search result of a user-submitted query, scoring one or more other queries based upon a similarity to the user-submitted query, each of the one or more other queries being different from the user-submitted query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrei Lopatenko, Hyung-Jin Kim, Sandor Dornbush, Leonard Wei, Timothy P. Kilbourn, Mikhail Lopyrev