Patents by Inventor William E. Staib
William E. Staib 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).
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Patent number: 8543457Abstract: A method of collecting data from pages viewed by a user of at least one web site, comprises receiving from at least one activity message reporter a plurality of access reports wherein an access report includes content from at least one web page of the at least one web site. Thereafter the method accumulates the received access reports, and formats content from the received access reports in accordance with a document template.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2006Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: STB Enterprises, LLCInventors: William E. Staib, Dean Scott Blodgett
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Publication number: 20120259764Abstract: The invention provides a method and system to estimate demand, pricing, allocation and aftermarket demand for public offerings via a simulation auction using collaborative forecasting. The simulation auction incorporates features to enhance participant knowledge about a particular company and its proposed auction. The simulation auction may be used to collect information regarding likely or equilibrium pricing of actual offerings, as well as to generate demand curve provides for different types of participants (e.g. retail and institutional investors).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: Well Auctioned, LLCInventors: William E. Staib, F. Burke Dempsey
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Patent number: 8204821Abstract: The invention provides a method and system to estimate demand, pricing, allocation and aftermarket demand for public offerings via a simulation auction using collaborative forecasting. The simulation auction incorporates features to enhance participant knowledge about a particular company and its proposed auction. The simulation auction may be used to collect information regarding likely or equilibrium pricing of actual offerings, as well as to generate demand curve provides for different types of participants (e.g. retail and institutional investors).Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2011Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Well Auctioned, LLCInventors: William E. Staib, F. Burke Dempsey
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Publication number: 20120046998Abstract: A method for setting a price for a product sold online by a subject merchant is provided. The method comprises accessing price information of at least one other merchant of the same product by applying a shopping robot to two or more shopping sites, including at least one price comparison site, with other offerings of the same product by other merchants; accessing pricing rules for the subject merchant that cover sales originating from the comparison site; applying the pricing rules to adjust the current product price at which the subject merchant offers the product on the two or more shopping sites to be more competitive; and responsive to a price adjustment that would reduce the product price so as to violate a specified profitability goal, increasing the shipping charges with which the merchant offers the product with the price adjustment on the two or more shopping sites.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2011Publication date: February 23, 2012Inventors: William E. Staib, Raymond J. Mlejnek
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Patent number: 8055548Abstract: A method for cataloging and reporting Internet merchant data uses a data center for receiving a plurality of site activity messages regarding two or more seller sites and provides a standardized taxonomy schema with a node for each of two or more products. The method derives from the plurality of site activity messages a sales metric for the two or more products and for a specific time period, aggregates the sales metric data for each of the two or more seller sites and the two or more products, then derives a comparative report for the sales metric for the two or more seller sites, by reference to at least one of the two or more products in the standardized taxonomy schema.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2006Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: STB Enterprises, LLCInventors: William E. Staib, Dean Scott Blodgett
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Patent number: 8050976Abstract: A method for setting a price for a product sold online by a subject merchant is provided. The method comprises accessing price information of at least one other merchant of the same product by applying a shopping robot to two or more shopping sites, including at least one price comparison site, with other offerings of the same product by other merchants; accessing pricing rules for the subject merchant that cover sales originating from the comparison site; applying the pricing rules to adjust the current product price at which the subject merchant offers the product on the two or more shopping sites to be more competitive; and responsive to a price adjustment that would reduce the product price so as to violate a specified profitability goal, increasing the shipping charges with which the merchant offers the product with the price adjustment on the two or more shopping sites.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: STB Enterprises, LLCInventors: William E. Staib, Raymond J. Mlejnek
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Publication number: 20110196780Abstract: The invention provides a method and system to estimate demand, pricing, allocation and aftermarket demand for public offerings via a simulation auction using collaborative forecasting. The simulation auction incorporates features to enhance participant knowledge about a particular company and its proposed auction. The simulation auction may be used to collect information regarding likely or equilibrium pricing of actual offerings, as well as to generate demand curve provides for different types of participants (e.g. retail and institutional investors).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: Well Auctioned, LLCInventors: William E. Staib, F. Burke Dempsey
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Publication number: 20070299743Abstract: A method for cataloging and reporting Internet merchant data uses a data center for receiving a plurality of site activity messages regarding two or more seller sites and provides a standardized taxonomy schema with a node for each of two or more products. The method derives from the plurality of site activity messages a sales metric for the two or more products and for a specific time period, aggregates the sales metric data for each of the two or more seller sites and the two or more products, then derives a comparative report for the sales metric for the two or more seller sites, by reference to at least one of the two or more products in the standardized taxonomy schema.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2006Publication date: December 27, 2007Inventors: William E. Staib, Dean Scott Blodgett
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Publication number: 20070282693Abstract: A method of collecting data from pages viewed by a user of at least one web site, comprises receiving from at least one activity message reporter a plurality of access reports wherein an access report includes content from at least one web page of the at least one web site. Thereafter the method accumulates the received access reports, and formats content from the received access reports in accordance with a document template.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2006Publication date: December 6, 2007Inventors: William E. Staib, Dean Scott Blodgett
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Patent number: 5406581Abstract: An improved arc furnace regulator employs neural circuits connected in a multi-layer network configuration with various weighted relationships between the successive layers which are automatically changed over time as a function of an error signal by means of the back-propagation method so that the regulator gradually improves its control algorithm as a result of accumulated experience. The network is implemented in software which can be developed and run on a PC with extra co-computing capability for greater execution speed. A second trainable neural network which emulates the arc furnace is used to develop the error signal, and is trained in mutually exclusive time periods with the training of the regular network.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1993Date of Patent: April 11, 1995Assignee: Milltech-HOH, Inc.Inventors: William E. Staib, Robert B. Staib
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Patent number: 5204872Abstract: An improved arc furnace regulator employs neural circuits connected in a multi-layer network configuration with various weighted relationships between the successive layers which are automatically changed over time as a function of an error signal by means of the back-propagation method so that the regulator gradually improves its control algorithm as a result of accumulated experience. The network is implemented in software which can be developed and run on a PC with extra co-computing capability for greater execution speed. A second trainable neural network which emulates the arc furnace is used to develop the error signal, and is trained in mutually exclusive time periods with the training of the regular network.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1991Date of Patent: April 20, 1993Assignee: Milltech-HOH, Inc.Inventors: William E. Staib, Robert B. Staib