Patents by Inventor Vidar Hokstad

Vidar Hokstad 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: 20080270909
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide premium content over Internet with in place preview. In one embodiment, a method includes: providing a representation of content to a first user, the representation of the content embeddable by the first user into a web page; receiving a request from a browser after the web page having the representation of the content is rendered in the browser; responsive to the request, presenting a user interface to process a payment to access the content without the browser leaving the web page; and upon completion of the payment, presenting the content in the browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: LOOKSMART, LTD.
    Inventors: Matthew KAUFMAN, John DOWD, Vidar HOKSTAD
  • Publication number: 20070136252
    Abstract: A novel listing republication system and methods are provided for republication of sales listings from websites with syndication feed websites of commercial retailers. Users mark websites with syndication feed entries for republication using a unique tag keyword. Other tags of the website with a syndication feed or taxonomy-like hierarchical organization of commercial retailers are used to index each republished listing to make it searchable. The system automatically monitors the original listings for changes periodically using a syndication feed analyzer or a ping-server. A geographical identification system is used to allow users to search based on geography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Keith Teare, Matt Kaufman, Vidar Hokstad