Patents by Inventor Will Ashton

Will Ashton 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: 8793238
    Abstract: An automatic account organization tool is provided to organize a large adgroup into smaller adgroups with semantically meaningful names. For example, a set of input keywords is received, semantically related pairs of keywords are identified from the set of input keywords, and hierarchical clustering is applied to the pairs of keywords to identify a set of clusters of keywords, each cluster having semantically related keywords. A name can be determined for each of the clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Anton Carver, Will Ashton, Nick Jakobi
  • Patent number: 8392396
    Abstract: An automatic account organization tool is provided to organize a large adgroup into smaller adgroups with semantically meaningful names. For example, a set of input keywords is received, semantically related pairs of keywords are identified from the set of input keywords, and hierarchical clustering is applied to the pairs of keywords to identify a set of clusters of keywords, each cluster having semantically related keywords. A name can be determined for each of the clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Anton Carver, Will Ashton, Nick Jakobi
  • Patent number: 8180760
    Abstract: An automatic account organization tool is provided to organize a large adgroup into smaller adgroups with semantically meaningful names. For example, a set of input keywords is received, semantically related pairs of keywords are identified from the set of input keywords, and hierarchical clustering is applied to the pairs of keywords to identify a set of clusters of keywords, each cluster having semantically related keywords. A name can be determined for each of the clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Anton Carver, Will Ashton, Nick Jakobi