MICHAEL L GRUBB, PH.D.
Social Work at Scott St, San Francisco, CA

7725464, May 25, 2010

Sep 27, 2006

11/535958

Michael L. Grubb - San Francisco CA, US
Jeffrey D. Arena - San Francisco CA, US
Michael A. Schoen - Tiburon CA, US
Bruce M. Martin - San Mateo CA, US

LookSmart, Ltd. - San Francisco CA

G05F 7/00

707723

Advertisements over a network, such as the Internet, by extracting an index file of suppliers of search result sets for a plurality of keywords and/or an index of ads to be placed. A keyword in a received query may be matched to the suppliers of related search result sets and/or the ads to be placed in the index file(s). The search results may be ranked based on various criteria such as yield, click through rates and history of dealings. Search result sets for the keywords from the matching suppliers and the ads to be placed may be combined to produce a search result set ranked in accordance with estimated yields for advertisements associated with each result in the search result set and delivered in response to the received query. The search results in the combined set may be reranked and/or repriced.

2007024, Oct 18, 2007

Oct 31, 2006

11/555224

Michael Grubb - San Francisco CA, US
Jonathan Gifford - San Francisco CA, US
Jiye Yu - Menlo Park CA, US

G06F 17/30

707003000

A method of enhancing search results provided over the Internet may include providing a service over the Internet to members of a group of service users, the service resulting in multiple selections of each of a plurality of web pages by different members of the group, maintaining a first database of web pages selected by members of the group, maintaining a first index of web pages from the first database excluding identification of members of the group, maintaining a global index of web pages, searching the first index and the global index in response to a query string provided by a search engine user and providing a search results set to the search engine user including search results from both the first index and the global index.

2007025, Oct 25, 2007

Feb 2, 2007

11/670904

Michael Grubb - San Francisco CA, US
Ledio Ago - San Leandro CA, US

G06F 17/30

707005000, 707E17017

A method of delivering search results may include segmenting a query to obtain one or more word groups, such as nGrams, analyzing each word group to determine a degree of relatedness between that word group and a group of Internet websites related to each other by a common factor, for example by matching hash tables of bigrams, and applying each word group to a secondary index of words in the group of related websites to produce a set of search results which may be combined with another set of search results for the searcher.

2007026, Nov 8, 2007

May 5, 2006

11/429329

Michael Schoen - Tiburon CA, US
Michael Grubb - San Francisco CA, US
Martin Price - Daly City CA, US

G06Q 30/00

705014000

A method and system for pacing online advertisement deliveries are disclosed. According to one aspect of the invention, the present invention overcomes the problems in the existing art described above by providing a method and system for pacing the delivery of online advertisements. In one embodiment, a method, that is to be implemented on a system, is provided to identify a rate at which billable events for an online advertisement occur; and adjust at least one of a pace the online advertisement is served, or an amount charged for the advertisement being selected, based on the rate the online advertisement is selected and a budget limit.

2007026, Nov 8, 2007

May 5, 2006

11/429331

Michael Schoen - Tiburon CA, US
Bruce Martin - San Mateo CA, US
Michael Grubb - San Francisco CA, US
Mark Kidwell - Oakland CA, US
Michael Campbell - San Francisco CA, US

G06Q 30/00

705014000

A method and system for billing for online ad delivery services are disclosed. According to one aspect of the invention, an advertiser establishes an account with an online ad delivery service, and provides an initial amount of funds for the account. In addition, the advertiser establishes a budget limit for a specified budget period. As ads are served and clicked by end-users, a predetermined fee is debited from the advertiser's account. However, the ad server includes budget analysis logic to determine when to stop serving ads to ensure that the advertiser's budget limit is not exceeded, thereby ensuring that the advertiser's initial funds are not used up more quickly than desired.

2009026, Oct 22, 2009

Apr 1, 2009

12/416427

Michael L. Grubb - San Francisco CA, US
Jonathan Gifford - San Francisco CA, US
Jiye Yu - Menlo Park CA, US

LOOKSMART, LTD. - San Francisco CA

G06F 17/30

707 3, 707 10, 707 2, 707E17014, 707E17107

A method of enhancing search results provided over the Internet may include providing a service over the Internet to members of a group of service users, the service resulting in multiple selections of each of a plurality of web pages by different members of the group, maintaining a first database of web pages selected by members of the group, maintaining a first index of web pages from the first database excluding identification of members of the group, maintaining a global index of web pages, searching the first index and the global index in response to a query string provided by a search engine user and providing a search results set to the search engine user including search results from both the first index and the global index.