Posts Tagged ‘Patent Trademark’

GoDaddy Files 3 Patents for Domain Suggestion and Advertising Method

Friday, October 2nd, 2009
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 applications, Go Dadd

Go Daddy Files Patents for Enhanced Whois and DNS Records

Friday, September 25th, 2009
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 where 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 comments about the

Google Search Algorithm Patent Application Creates Spring Buzz!

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Google applied for a patent on their ranking algorithm as of 15 months ago on December 31, 2003 and that application was posted on March 31st at the US Patent Office. It got the discussion forums buzzing this weekend. Even though I had substantial work to do and was behind on a project, I couldn’t resist the temptation to read the very long 14,000 word, 45 page application and see what it could mean to the volatile world of search. So I tripped on over to the the US Patent & Trademark Offi

Google Files Patent for Unified Address Bar/Search Box

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Company files patent for allowing searches to be conducted in the address bar. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has filed for a patent to allow users to enter either search terms and domain names into a search box (such as an address bar), and having the computer figure out if the search term was meant to be a specific domain name or web site. Patent application 20090006389 was filed last year and just published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this month. The abstract reads: Methods and syste