Paul A Graham

US Patent:

6631372, Oct 7, 2003

Filed:

Feb 12, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/249828

Inventors:

Paul Graham - Los Altos CA

Assignee:

Yahoo!; Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

G06F 17300

US Classification:

707 5, 707 4, 705 26

Abstract:

A search engine selects one or more search hits from among a plurality of hits, wherein a hit is a reference to a page or a site, based on a user interest, comprising an input module for accepting a query from a user, the query representing an interest of the user; a tracking module for tracking the users navigation through the plurality of pages, including at least a destination purchase page, the destination purchase page being a page from which the user makes a purchase; a sales module which records associations between purchases and queries where the associations are provided, at least in part by an output of the tracking module; and a search module, which takes as its inputs at least a query and sales associations of that query provided by the sales module, and which outputs one or more search hits based on at least the query and the sales associations of that query. In some systems, instead of using sales data to alter the weights of the search results, merchant bidding is used to alter the weights of the search results, or a combination of the two is used.

US Patent:

20140006168, Jan 2, 2014

Filed:

May 7, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/889087

Inventors:

Paul Graham - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Dropbox, Inc. - San Francisco CA

International Classification:

G06Q 30/02

US Classification:

705 1466

Abstract:

Offers are targeted to consumers by comparing offer profiles and consumer profiles. Offer profiles are created by analyzing the cumulative content of communications associated with consumers who respond to the offers. Consumer profiles are created by analyzing the cumulative content of communications associated with a user of an electronic communications system. An offer may be selected to be sent to a user based on the relative similarity between the user's consumer profile and the offer profile.

US Patent:

60564393, May 2, 2000

Filed:

Jan 28, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/238556

Inventors:

Paul H. Graham - Lansdale PA

Assignee:

Fres-co System USA, Inc. - Telford PA

International Classification:

B65D 3301

US Classification:

383103

Abstract:

A package including a degassing valve for holding a material, e. g. , a particulate material, within the package isolated from the ambient atmosphere. The degassing valve is mounted on the wall panel and basically comprises a cap, a base, and a flexible disk. The cap is a hollow cylindrical member from which three peripheral portions are cut away to form three equidistantly spaced peripheral outlet ports disposed above an uninterrupted ring-like portion of the cap. The base is a generally cup-shaped member having first portion arranged to be located and snap-fit within the cap member and which forms a valve seat. An inlet port extends to the valve. The disk is located on the valve seat and covering the inlet port but is movable with respect thereto. The inlet port of the valve is in communication with the interior of the package and the peripheral outlet ports are in communication with the ambient atmosphere, whereupon gas within the package is enabled to flow through the inlet port, under the disk member to cause at least a portion of the disk member to move off of the valve seat, and out through the outlet port to the ambient atmosphere. The disk may include at least one aperture so that the degassing valve is of the two-way type, instead of a one-way type.