Patents by Inventor William Sears
William Sears 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: 12118589Abstract: A method of providing Internet commercialization services to a content owner may include obtaining rights from an owner of Web page contents on a Web page to commercialize the Web page contents, obtaining an ad from an advertiser for placement on the Web page, the advertiser agreeing to pay for placement of the ad, paying for traffic to the Web page based on a bid to a traffic partner and sharing profits with the owner of the Web page contents, if any, from payments by the advertiser above payment to the traffic partner for the traffic. The content owner may be a publisher of content on the Internet. The traffic partner may be a search engine. The method may include automatically providing Internet commercialization services to an Internet publisher. Various aspects of the method may be modified in a closed loop fashion to optimize profits.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: TABOOLA.COM LTD.Inventors: William Sears, David Hull, Warren Gibbons, Tim Whalen, William Gross, Thomas McGoven
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Patent number: 11526913Abstract: A method of providing Internet commercialization services to a content owner may include obtaining rights from an owner of Web page contents on a Web page to commercialize the Web page contents, obtaining an ad from an advertiser for placement on the Web page, the advertiser agreeing to pay for placement of the ad, paying for traffic to the Web page based on a bid to a traffic partner and sharing profits with the owner of the Web page contents, if any, from payments by the advertiser above payment to the traffic partner for the traffic. The content owner may be a publisher of content on the Internet. The traffic partner may be a search engine. The method may include automatically providing Internet commercialization services to an Internet publisher. Various aspects of the method may be modified in a closed loop fashion to optimize profits.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: TABOOLA.COM LTD.Inventors: William Sears, David Hull, Warren Gibbons, Tim Whalen, William Gross, Thomas McGoven
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Publication number: 20200302484Abstract: A method of providing Internet commercialization services to a content owner may include obtaining rights from an owner of Web page contents on a Web page to commercialize the Web page contents, obtaining an ad from an advertiser for placement on the Web page, the advertiser agreeing to pay for placement of the ad, paying for traffic to the Web page based on a bid to a traffic partner and sharing profits with the owner of the Web page contents, if any, from payments by the advertiser above payment to the traffic partner for the traffic. The content owner may be a publisher of content on the Internet. The traffic partner may be a search engine. The method may include automatically providing Internet commercialization services to an Internet publisher. Various aspects of the method may be modified in a closed loop fashion to optimize profits.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: William SEARS, David HULL, Warren GIBBONS, Tim WHALEN, William GROSS, Thomas MCGOVEN
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Publication number: 20200302485Abstract: A method of providing Internet commercialization services to a content owner may include obtaining rights from an owner of Web page contents on a Web page to commercialize the Web page contents, obtaining an ad from an advertiser for placement on the Web page, the advertiser agreeing to pay for placement of the ad, paying for traffic to the Web page based on a bid to a traffic partner and sharing profits with the owner of the Web page contents, if any, from payments by the advertiser above payment to the traffic partner for the traffic. The content owner may be a publisher of content on the Internet. The traffic partner may be a search engine. The method may include automatically providing Internet commercialization services to an Internet publisher. Various aspects of the method may be modified in a closed loop fashion to optimize profits.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: William SEARS, David HULL, Warren GIBBONS, Tim WHALEN, William GROSS, Thomas MCGOVEN
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Patent number: 10719855Abstract: A method of providing Internet commercialization services to a content owner may include obtaining rights from an owner of Web page contents on a Web page to commercialize the Web page contents, obtaining an ad from an advertiser for placement on the Web page, the advertiser agreeing to pay for placement of the ad, paying for traffic to the Web page based on a bid to a traffic partner and sharing profits with the owner of the Web page contents, if any, from payments by the advertiser above payment to the traffic partner for the traffic. The content owner may be a publisher of content on the Internet. The traffic partner may be a search engine. The method may include automatically providing Internet commercialization services to an Internet publisher. Various aspects of the method may be modified in a closed loop fashion to optimize profits.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: TABOOLA.COM LTD.Inventors: William Sears, David Hull, Warren Gibbons, Tim Whalen, William Gross, Thomas McGoven
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Patent number: 10244084Abstract: Applications that run on an overlay network-based managed service achieve high performance gains using a set of TCP optimizations. In a first optimization, a typical single TCP connection between a client and an origin server is broken into preferably three (3) separate TCP connections. These connections are: an edge-to-client connection, an edge-to-edge connection, and edge-to-origin connection. A second optimization replicates TCP state along the connection to increase fault tolerance. In this approach, preferably a given TCP connection is maintained on two servers. When a packet is received by one server, called the primary, its state is updated and then passed to a second server, called the backup. Only when the backup sends an acknowledgement back to the primary can it then send a TCP acknowledgement back to the host that originally sent the packet. Another optimization reduces connection establishment latency.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Fletcher, Kevin Harmon, Brandon Williams, William Sears
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Publication number: 20150381771Abstract: Applications that run on an overlay network-based managed service achieve high performance gains using a set of TCP optimizations. In a first optimization, a typical single TCP connection between a client and an origin server is broken into preferably three (3) separate TCP connections. These connections are: an edge-to-client connection, an edge-to-edge connection, and edge-to-origin connection. A second optimization replicates TCP state along the connection to increase fault tolerance. In this approach, preferably a given TCP connection is maintained on two servers. When a packet is received by one server, called the primary, its state is updated and then passed to a second server, called the backup. Only when the backup sends an acknowledgement back to the primary can it then send a TCP acknowledgement back to the host that originally sent the packet. Another optimization reduces connection establishment latency.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Gregory Fletcher, Kevin Harmon, Brandon Williams, William Sears
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Patent number: 9137339Abstract: Applications that run on an overlay network-based managed service achieve high performance gains using a set of TCP optimizations. In a first optimization, a typical single TCP connection between a client and an origin server is broken into preferably three (3) separate TCP connections. These connections are: an edge-to-client connection, an edge-to-edge connection, and edge-to-origin connection. A second optimization replicates TCP state along the connection to increase fault tolerance. In this approach, preferably a given TCP connection is maintained on two servers. When a packet is received by one server, called the primary, its state is updated and then passed to a second server, called the backup. Only when the backup sends an acknowledgement back to the primary can it then send a TCP acknowledgement back to the host that originally sent the packet. Another optimization reduces connection establishment latency.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Fletcher, Kevin Harmon, Brandon Williams, William Sears
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Publication number: 20140031941Abstract: An interbody spacer includes concave lateral surfaces extending at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis. In one aspect, the interbody spacer includes upper and lower convex surfaces defined by an arc extending from a center point offset from the spacer midpoint. In another aspect, lateral edges of the upper and lower surfaces are also defined by convex arcs extending from a center point offset from the spacer midpoint.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC, INC.Inventors: Peter McCombe, B. Thomas Barker, William Sears, David Warmbold, Russell Powers
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Patent number: 8613769Abstract: An apparatus and method for supporting upper and lower vertebral bodies, including first and second end members adapted for engagement with the vertebral bodies, and at least one elongate support member coupled between the end members to maintain an axial space between the vertebral bodies. In one aspect of the invention, each of the end members has a parametrical or horseshoe-shaped configuration extending about an open inner region and defining a lateral passage communicating with the open inner region to facilitate insertion of the apparatus or the individual end members into the intervertebral space via a posterior surgical approach. In a further aspect of the invention, a fusion member is positioned within the axial space to promote bony fusion between the upper and lower vertebral bodies.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2011Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.Inventors: William Sears, B. Thomas Barker
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Patent number: 8591589Abstract: An interbody spacer includes concave lateral surfaces extending at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis. In one aspect, the interbody spacer includes upper and lower convex surfaces defined by an arc extending from a center point offset from the spacer midpoint. In another aspect, lateral edges of the upper and lower surfaces are also defined by convex arcs extending from a center point offset from the spacer midpoint.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Warsaw Orhtopedic, Inc.Inventors: Peter McCombe, B. Thomas Barker, William Sears, David Warmbold, Russell Powers
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Publication number: 20130304809Abstract: Applications that run on an overlay network-based managed service achieve high performance gains using a set of TCP optimizations. In a first optimization, a typical single TCP connection between a client and an origin server is broken into preferably three (3) separate TCP connections. These connections are: an edge-to-client connection, an edge-to-edge connection, and edge-to-origin connection. A second optimization replicates TCP state along the connection to increase fault tolerance. In this approach, preferably a given TCP connection is maintained on two servers. When a packet is received by one server, called the primary, its state is updated and then passed to a second server, called the backup. Only when the backup sends an acknowledgement back to the primary can it then send a TCP acknowledgement back to the host that originally sent the packet. Another optimization reduces connection establishment latency.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventors: Gregory Fletcher, Kevin Harmon, Brandon Williams, William Sears
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Patent number: 8489670Abstract: Applications that run on an overlay network-based managed service achieve high performance gains using a set of TCP optimizations. In a first optimization, a typical single TCP connection between a client and an origin server is broken into preferably three (3) separate TCP connections. These connections are: an edge-to-client connection, an edge-to-edge connection, and edge-to-origin connection. A second optimization replicates TCP state along the connection to increase fault tolerance. In this approach, preferably a given TCP connection is maintained on two servers. When a packet is received by one server, called the primary, its state is updated and then passed to a second server, called the backup. Only when the backup sends an acknowledgement back to the primary can it then send a TCP acknowledgement back to the host that originally sent the packet. Another optimization reduces connection establishment latency.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2007Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Fletcher, Kevin Harmon, Brandon Williams, William Sears
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Patent number: 8062368Abstract: Illustrative embodiments disclosed herein are directed to vertebral implants and methods of use. In one embodiment, the implant includes first and second end members with an intermediate cage. The cage may be inflatable such that the implant is positionable between a collapsed state with a first reduced height to facilitate insertion between the first and second vertebral members, and an extended state with a second height greater than the first height that positions the first end member against the first vertebral member and the second end member against the second vertebral member to maintain an intervertebral axial space.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2008Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.Inventors: Eric Steven Heinz, William Sears
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Patent number: 8012213Abstract: An apparatus and method for supporting upper and lower vertebral bodies, including first and second end members adapted for engagement with the vertebral bodies, and at least one elongate support member coupled between the end members to maintain an axial space between the vertebral bodies. In one aspect of the invention, each of the end members has a parametrical or horseshoe-shaped configuration extending about an open inner region and defining a lateral passage communicating with the open inner region to facilitate insertion of the apparatus or the individual end members into the intervertebral space via a posterior surgical approach. In a further aspect of the invention, a fusion member is positioned within the axial space to promote bony fusion between the upper and lower vertebral bodies.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.Inventors: William Sears, B. Thomas Barker
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Publication number: 20110208314Abstract: An apparatus and method for supporting upper and lower vertebral bodies, including first and second end members adapted for engagement with the vertebral bodies, and at least one elongate support member coupled between the end members to maintain an axial space between the vertebral bodies. In one aspect of the invention, each of the end members has a parametrical or horseshoe-shaped configuration extending about an open inner region and defining a lateral passage communicating with the open inner region to facilitate insertion of the apparatus or the individual end members into the intervertebral space via a posterior surgical approach. In a further aspect of the invention, a fusion member is positioned within the axial space to promote bony fusion between the upper and lower vertebral bodies.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2011Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventors: William Sears, B. Thomas Barker
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Publication number: 20110196496Abstract: An interbody spacer includes concave lateral surfaces extending at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis. In one aspect, the interbody spacer includes upper and lower convex surfaces defined by an arc extending from a center point offset from the spacer midpoint. In another aspect, lateral edges of the upper and lower surfaces are also defined by convex arcs extending from a center point offset from the spacer midpoint.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC, INC.Inventors: Peter McCombe, B. Thomas Barker, William Sears, David Warmbold, Russell Powers
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Patent number: 7951203Abstract: An interbody spacer includes concave lateral surfaces extending at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis. In one aspect, the interbody spacer includes upper and lower convex surfaces defined by an arc extending from a center point offset from the spacer midpoint. In another aspect, lateral edges of the upper and lower surfaces are also defined by convex arcs extending from a center point offset from the spacer midpoint.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2008Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.Inventors: Peter McCombe, B. Thomas Barker, William Sears, David Warmbold, Russell Powers
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Patent number: D689619Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2013Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Waterway PlasticsInventor: William Sears
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Patent number: D700972Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Waterway PlasticsInventors: William Sears, Patricia Kirsch