Tag Archives: patents

Thu 4th October 2012
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Verisign wants obvious on “non-existent domain” research tools - Company files patent application related to NXD data analysis. Verisign has made great strides in opening up its treasure trove of data related to traffic to non-existent domain names (NXD). Now it wants to patent some of its methods. The company filed a patent application (pdf) for “Traffic Like NXDomains” in March last year. The application was just published today. The application explains how its NXD tools benefit domainers: Maintaining and interpreting records ... read more ...
Tue 25th September 2012
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Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a amicable website” - Patent describes way to announce your latest domain name registration. Last year I wrote about Go Daddy’s patent applications related to announcing a domain name registration on a social network. Today the United States Patent and Trademark office granted the domain name registrar a patent for “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”. U.S. patent number 8,276,057 (pdf) describes a way in which a domain name registrar account could be connected ... read more ...
Thu 10th May 2012
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Google wants to obvious creation online ads social - Company files two patent applications for making online ads social. Google has filed two patent applications related to social interactions with online advertisements. The applications, 20120116871 and 20120116867 (pdf), were filed in November and just published today. Both are titled “Social Overlays On Ads”. The patent applications describe systems in which social overlays are placed on ads. For example, an ad my show how many people in your particular Google+ ... read more ...
Sat 5th May 2012
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Google wants to obvious associated links functionality - Lookout, YARPP. Are you a blogger that uses Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)? There are a lot of similar plugins (hence the funny name). But Google apparently thinks it’s novel, as the company has filed a patent application (pdf) for precisely this. United States patent application 20120109932, titled “Related Links”, covers the process of identifying keywords within an article and then displaying related articles (or searches) based on those keywords. In ... read more ...
Thu 13th October 2011
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Go Daddy Wants to Patent Way to Monetize URL Shorteners - A way to make money off of shortened URLs? There’s not a whole lot of money in shortening links. Go Daddy has devised a way to change that. The company filed a trio of patent applications (here’s one) for methods of monetizing shortened URLs. The applications were filed in April 2010 and just published today. The idea is to monetize each visitor to a shortened URL with some sort of advertising. The method parses the URL that was shortened to come up with relevant ... read more ...
Tue 22nd March 2011
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Go Daddy Wants Patents for Announcing Domain Registrations on Facebook - Domain name registrar files two patent applications for promoting newly registered domain names. The Go Daddy Group, parent company of domain name registrar GoDaddy, has filed a pair of patent applications related to announcing a new domain registration on social networking sites such as Facebook. The patent applications are 12/561408 for “Social Website Domain Registration Announcement” and 12/561439 for “Social Website Domain Registration Search Engine Feed”. The ... read more ...
Tue 10th August 2010
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VeriSign Gets Patent Related to Internationalized Domain Names - Patent is for method of registering and using IDNs. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted U.S. patent number 7,774,432 to VeriSign for Registering and using multilingual domain names. The patent application was a continuation of a 2001 application that was abandoned, and a provisional application from 2000. This particular application was filed in 2007. The abstract for the patent sums it up: A method, system, and computer-readable medium are described ... read more ...
Thu 29th April 2010
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GoDaddy Files Patent App for “Jointly Auctioning Expiring Domain Names” - Registrar files patent applications related to helping owners of expired domains sell them. Domain name registrar Go Daddy has filed two patents describing a system for jointly selling an expiring domain name in conjunction with the current owner of the domain name. United States Patent publications 2010/0106650 and 2010/0106616 describe a system whereby a deal is struck between the owners of expiring domain names and a domain seller to sell the domain names and ... read more ...
Thu 18th February 2010
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Domain Title Insurance? There’s a (Patent) App for That. - Application filed nearly a decade ago covers domain name title insurance. Over the past few years, a number of domain industry experts have been calling for domain name title insurance. The basic idea is that a title search would be run on previous owners of a domain name to make sure it hasn’t been stolen, and insurance issued. A domain buyer (or financier) could use this to warrant against buying a stolen domain. So I was surprised to see that someone thought ... read more ...
Tue 16th February 2010
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VeriSign Gets Patent for Suggesting Alternative Domain Names - Patent describes system for providing alternatives to already registered domain names. When you search for a domain name at any major registrar, and the domain isn’t available, the registrar will likely serve up a list of similar domain names that are available for registration. VeriSign just got a patent for part of that process. U.S. Patent 7,664,831 (pdf) was applied for in 2001, based on a provisional patent application filed in 2000. Here’s the abstract: A ... read more ...
Thu 4th February 2010
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IBM Wants to Patent Semantic Web Tag Clouds - IBM files patent application for overcoming limitations of tagging. The past few years on the web have been all about tagging. Tagging blog posts, tagging products, tagging pictures, etc. Blogs often times represent their tags in tag clouds. But what is that, other than a collection of links weighted by the number of times the content has been tagged? IBM wants to improve upon tagging, bringing the idea of the semantic web to tag clouds. And it just filed a patent ... read more ...
Tue 1st December 2009
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SnapNames Awarded Patent for “Demand formed domain name auctionability” - Domain auction site awarded another patent. Domain name auction platform SnapNames has been awarded U.S. patent 7,627,628 (pdf) for “Demand based domain name auctionability.” The patent’s abstract describes a system that triggers a domain as auction worthy if there is a certain level of demand for it: A method for identifying a registered domain name as auctionable is provided. The registered domain names may be pulled from a database of desired domain names, ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Scores Another Whois Privacy Patent - Domain name registrar firms up patents related to whois privacy. GoDaddy was today awarded U.S. patent 7,627,633 (pdf), a divisional patent for its previously awarded whois proxy patent 7,130,878. This patent for “Proxy email method and system” relates to the email masking portion of its whois privacy service. In the system, a proxy email address is displayed in whois. Email sent to this proxy email address is then forwarded to the domain owner’s actual email ... read more ...
Tue 24th November 2009
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Google Awarded Patent for Local Search Integrated with Whois - Google gets patent for integrating local contact information with search results. Google has been awarded U.S. patent 7624101 for “Enhanced Search Results”. The enhancements are related to Google’s local search capabilities, including returning a result for a business that includes a phone number, address, and map. You’ve probably seen these search results at the top of a Google results page: The patent describes a system that captures phone and address ... read more ...
Tue 27th October 2009
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Sendori Hits Roadblocks on Patent Applications - Many claims in Sendori’s patent applications are denied. Sendori, a domain name advertising service acquired by IAC in January, has hit some major roadblocks on patents it filed. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has sent a final notice of rejection (pdf) on a number of claims in Sendori’s application for “Domain Name Marketplace”, publication number 20080189192. It has also rejected a few of the claims in “Electronic Marketplace Used to Lease Domain ... read more ...
Tue 6th October 2009
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Yahoo Awarded Patent for Human-Enhanced Search Engine - Yahoo gets patent for human editor enhancements to search results. Yahoo was awarded U.S. patent 7,599,911 today for “Method and apparatus for search ranking using human input and automated ranking”. The patent was filed in 2002. Essentially, this method calculates search rankings based on both automated search algorithms and human editor input. In the patent, Yahoo describes a way that previously-collected input from human editors can be mixed in, or “blended”, ... read more ...
Fri 2nd October 2009
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GoDaddy Files 3 Patents for Domain Suggestion and Advertising Method - Company files patents for improving current domain suggestion and advertising systems. Go Daddy Group, Inc., parent company of domain name registrar GoDaddy, has filed three patents for a method of suggesting possible domain names. The applications also suggest this method can be used for targeted advertising, search results, and web site content. The applications were filed in 2008 and published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on October 1. In the patent ... read more ...
Fri 25th September 2009
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Go Daddy Files Patents for Enhanced Whois and DNS Records - Go Daddy files three patents for whois and DNS. Go Daddy Group, Inc., parent company of domain name registrar GoDaddy, has filed three patents related to interactive and enhanced whois and DNS records. The three applications were published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday. The applications cover various aspects of how to add additional information to whois and DNS records, such as information about whether the domain name is for sale and ... read more ...
Tue 7th July 2009
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Sun Microsystems Awarded Patent for Detecting Spoofed Domain Names - Sun awarded patent to detect spoofed domains and send web users to intended domain name. Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) has been awarded U.S. patent 7,559,085 for “Detection for deceptively similar domain names”. The patent was filed in 2004 and awarded today. The system includes a number of methods for detecting that someone is accessing a spoofed domain name and redirecting them to the correct domain name. For example, a web user may click on an email containing ... read more ...
Thu 2nd July 2009
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GoDaddy Files Patent for Method of Selling Equity in Domain Names - Domain registrar files patents for system to sell equity in domain names. Go Daddy Group Inc. has filed a patent for a method of selling equity in domain names and protecting the domain names in which the equity is issued. The patent is for a system that will facilitate the sale of shares in a domain name. The patent application explains that a number of institutions are interested in investing in domain names, but there isn’t a simple mechanism to do so. Conversely, ... read more ...
Fri 22nd August 2008
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GoDaddy Files Patents for “Hosting Connection” - Recent patent filings appear to cover aspects of GoDaddy’s Hosting Connection service. A series of four related patent applications filed by GoDaddy and published by the USPTO yesterday appear to cover GoDaddy’s “Hosting Connection” service that lets customers purchase add-on applications for their web hosting accounts. The patents were filed in February 2007. The patent applications, including “Web hosting community”, “Community web site for creating ... read more ...
Wed 4th June 2008
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GoDaddy Looks to Social Networking for Growth - Domain registrar and web hosting company files patents for aggregating social network sites. The world’s biggest domain registrar, GoDaddy, may be looking to social networking to grow its business. The company filed three patents this year, published last month, that describe a web portal that aggregates a person’s social networks. For example, you may register your name as a domain name at GoDaddy, and GoDaddy’s product would generate a web portal that has ... read more ...