Paul H Young

US Patent:

8543648, Sep 24, 2013

Filed:

Dec 13, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/966926

Inventors:

Christopher G. Rhodes - North Hollywood CA, US
Paul K. Young - Sherman Oaks CA, US

Assignee:

IMDb.com, Inc. - Seattle WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 15/173
G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

US Classification:

709205, 709238, 707798

Abstract:

Various embodiments enable finding collaborations in a network. One embodiment obtains collaboration data for a plurality of nodes, receives a request to locate at least one collaboration for a user, generates a search tree starting by determining a source node of the collaboration data, the search tree including at least two levels, and expanding the search tree until at least one target node is located that corresponds to a solution for the request, optimizes the search tree to attempt to reduce the number of solutions, generates an adjacency list of adjacent nodes in the optimized search tree, searches the adjacency list to locate at least one shortest path to the target node, and generates a list of collaboration data that is associated with the at least one shortest path from the source node to the target node.

US Patent:

20160283451, Sep 29, 2016

Filed:

Jun 7, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/175882

Inventors:

- Seattle WA, US
Paul K. Young - Sherman Oaks CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/22
H04L 29/08
G06F 3/0484

Abstract:

Systems and methods for managing third party content are described. In one embodiment, the method includes storing information for a plurality of third party content elements that were selected by a user for display with a page of content, in response to a user request corresponding to a page associated with one of the plurality of third party content elements specified by the stored information, rendering for display on the page a third party content module associated with the third party content element, and, in response to a user modification of the third party content module, storing information corresponding to the user modification. The modified content module is rendered for display on a page of content according to the stored information. The user has the ability to customize and control the parameters of content modules selected by the user to be rendered on the accessed page.