Patents by Inventor Vikki Ku

Vikki Ku 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).

  • Providing commercial information in a geographic application
    Patent number: 9451581
    Abstract: A current context of a geographic application executing on a user device is determined. Commercial geographic content is selected for presentation at the user device based at least in part on the determined current context, and the commercial geographic content is provided to the user device via a communication network. A first indication is received, indicating that the commercial geographic content was presented at a first level of detail via a user interface of the user device. In response to the first indication, a first metric is updated. As second indication is received, indicating that the commercial geographic content was presented at a second level of detail via the user interface of the user device in response to user input, where the second level of detail is higher than the first level of detail. A second metric is updated in response to the second indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Pawel Szczepanski, Taj J. Campbell, Koichi Suematsu, Fred Vaucher, Vikki Ku, Rishi Agarwal, Salahuddin Choudhary