Paul S Howe

US Patent:

20090265251, Oct 22, 2009

Filed:

Nov 30, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/948884

Inventors:

Scott Howard Dunlap - Woodside CA, US
Dan Steinman - Palo Alto CA, US
Jeff Piper - Palo Alto CA, US
Josh Schaefer - Redwood Shores CA, US
Johannes Erdfelt - San Jose CA, US
Quyen Tran - San Jose CA, US
Wesley Chun - Los Altos CA, US
Paul Howe - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

NearbyNow - Los Altos CA

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00
G06F 17/30
G06N 5/02
G06Q 10/00
G06T 11/20

US Classification:

705 26, 707 5, 707 2, 706 47, 705 28, 345441, 707E17017, 707E17018, 707E17109

Abstract:

Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for searching a defined area. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method comprising receiving a plurality of product data, wherein the product data describes a plurality of products offered for sale by a plurality of businesses. Product data may be associated with a defined area, where the businesses each have a point-of-sale store located in the defined area. A user may enter a search request, and the system searches product data for a plurality of products in a plurality of point-of-sale stores in the defined area. The system outputs product data for point-of-sale stores located in said defined area matching said search request.

US Patent:

55070434, Apr 16, 1996

Filed:

Mar 25, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/217709

Inventors:

Paul S. Howe - Alameda CA

International Classification:

A41D 1900

US Classification:

2159

Abstract:

A device made of thin, flat, flexible material for shaping various sheet materials into coverings for the human hand. A strap long enough to encircle the smallest circumference of the wrist has means for adjustably fastening its opposite ends. Extending outward from the wrist strap is a connector with a through hole or slit at its extreme end. Said hole or slit is large enough to encircle the the base of the thumb near the level of the joint of the thumb metacarpal bone and proximal thumb phalanx bone. The wrist strap and thumb hole are placed over a suitable flexible sheet material to shape and retain said material into a mitten-like covering on the hand. The hand covering is thereby retained from dislodgement and the grasping function of the human opposable thumb is thereby facilitated.

US Patent:

20210352446, Nov 11, 2021

Filed:

Jul 21, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/382191

Inventors:

- San Francisco CA, US
Paul Howe - Mill Valley CA, US

International Classification:

H04W 4/08
G06Q 50/00
H04W 4/029
H04L 29/08
H04L 12/58

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for creation and storage of online community groups is provided. In various implementations, digital communication data is stored representing interactions between users as part of an online community platform. In various implementations, a user of the online community platform indicates the desire to create a group comprising digital accounts which have interacted with the user as indicated by the digital communication data. In various implementations, a digital communication group is created comprising digital accounts specifically chosen by a user of an online community platform.

US Patent:

20210250734, Aug 12, 2021

Filed:

Feb 7, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/784593

Inventors:

- San Francisco CA, US
Paul Howe - Mill Valley CA, US

International Classification:

H04W 4/08
H04L 29/08
H04L 12/58
H04W 4/029
G06Q 50/00

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for creation and storage of online community groups is provided. In various implementations, digital communication data is stored representing interactions between users as part of an online community platform. In various implementations, a user of the online community platform indicates the desire to create a group comprising digital accounts which have interacted with the user as indicated by the digital communication data. In various implementations, a digital communication group is created comprising digital accounts specifically chosen by a user of an online community platform.

US Patent:

20190068727, Feb 28, 2019

Filed:

Oct 23, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/168025

Inventors:

- SAN FRANCISCO CA, US
RISHI MUKHOPADHYAY - SAN FRANCISCO CA, US
RYAN SIMS - SAN FRANCISCO CA, US
PAUL HOWE - MILL VALLEY CA, US
MORGAN HALLMON - OAKLAND CA, US

International Classification:

H04L 29/08
G06Q 30/02
G06Q 50/26
H04W 4/08
H04W 4/021
G06Q 50/00

Abstract:

Users of social networking computer systems provide location information that is transformed into geo-coded coordinates specifying user locations. Providers of content, such as messages or documents, also participate in the social networking system and use drawing tools or provide data files that define one or more geographical areas or regions of a map, which may define a larger geographical area that encompasses the users of the social networking system. Data specifying the areas is stored. The content providers create one or more messages and associate each of the one or more messages with one or more of the areas. The users communicate requests for messages to the social networking system; in response, the system associates the user location data with the stored areas and messages and returns only those messages that have been associated with the particular areas in which the users are located. As a result, users receive only messages for their areas, and only messages that the content providers have designated as intended for or relevant to their areas.

US Patent:

20160350831, Dec 1, 2016

Filed:

Nov 2, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/930469

Inventors:

- San Francisco CA, US
Aaron Webber - San Francisco CA, US
Rishi Mukhopadhyay - San Francisco CA, US
Sean Bromage - San Francisco CA, US
Kevin Liu - San Francisco CA, US
Paul Howe - Mill Valley CA, US
Ryan Sims - San Francisco CA, US
Daniel J. Clancy - Los Altos CA, US
Morgan Hallmon - Oakland CA, US
Daniel Masquelier - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06Q 30/06
H04L 12/58
G06F 3/0484
H04L 29/08

Abstract:

A system and method for generating a recommendation counter for a business entity based on social networking interactions is provided. In an embodiment, a social networking server provides an interface for users of social networking accounts to request recommendations for business entities and to reply to the requests with recommendations. When the social networking server computer receives a recommendation for a particular business entity, the social networking server computer determines whether the recommending social networking account has recommended the particular business entity in the past. In response to determining that the social networking account has not recommended the particular business entity in the past, the social networking server computer increments a recommendation counter for the particular business entity.

US Patent:

20150264143, Sep 17, 2015

Filed:

Mar 10, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/644112

Inventors:

- SAN FRANCISCO CA, US
RISHI MUKHOPADHYAY - SAN FRANCISCO CA, US
RYAN SIMS - SAN FRANCISCO CA, US
PAUL HOWE - MILL VALLEY CA, US
MORGAN HALLMON - OAKLAND CA, US

International Classification:

H04L 29/08
G06Q 50/26
H04L 29/06
G06Q 50/00
H04W 4/02
H04W 4/08

Abstract:

Users of social networking computer systems provide location information that is transformed into geo-coded coordinates specifying user locations. Providers of content, such as messages or documents, also participate in the social networking system and use drawing tools or provide data files that define one or more geographical areas or regions of a map, which may define a larger geographical area that encompasses the users of the social networking system. Data specifying the areas is stored. The content providers create one or more messages and associate each of the one or more messages with one or more of the areas. The users communicate requests for messages to the social networking system; in response, the system associates the user location data with the stored areas and messages, and returns only those messages that have been associated with the particular areas in which the users are located. As a result, users receive only messages for their areas, and only messages that the content providers have designated as intended for or relevant to their areas.