Peter K Hong

US Patent:

8140990, Mar 20, 2012

Filed:

Jun 18, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/818222

Inventors:

Elin R. Pedersen - Portola Valley CA, US
Peter Hong - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G06F 3/048
G06F 3/00

US Classification:

715764, 715765, 715766, 715767, 715243, 715204

Abstract:

Aspects of the invention pertain to user interface visualizations, enabling efficient display of content on a display device. At least some content is presented having diagonal views to emphasize certain portions of the content while deemphasizing other portions of the content.

US Patent:

8180778, May 15, 2012

Filed:

Feb 5, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/701444

Inventors:

Elin Pedersen - Portola Valley CA, US
Karl A. Gyllstrom - Chapel Hill NC, US
Shengyin Gu - Sunnyvale CA, US
Peter Jin Hong - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707739

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating action trails from web history are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a web content access history of a user, the content access history including one or more user actions, each user action being associated with a content item upon which the user action is performed and identifying one or more action trails from the content access history, each action trail including a sequence of user actions performed one content items relating to a topic. Identifying a particular action trail includes clustering the user actions into a series of segments using temporal criteria; calculating semantic similarities between the content items, and adding a segment of the series of segments to the action trail when the semantic similarities between the segment and another segment satisfy a similarity threshold.

US Patent:

8484187, Jul 9, 2013

Filed:

Oct 5, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/253746

Inventors:

Peter Jin Hong - San Francisco CA, US
Dragan Zivkovic - Sunnyvale CA, US
Yoshitake Matsumoto - Kanagawa-ken, JP

Assignee:

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/00

US Classification:

707706, 715200

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for presenting search results. A method includes displaying a search engine results page in a first or a second presentation mode, wherein, in the first and in the second presentation modes, the search engine results page includes (i) a text region that displays textual information relating to one or more search results that are responsive to a search query and (ii) an image region, wherein, in the first presentation mode, the image region displays contextual information relating to two or more of the search results that are responsive to the search query, and wherein, in the second presentation mode, the image region displays contextual information relating to a single search result that is responsive to the search query; and receiving user input, then switching the search engine results page between the first and second presentation modes.

US Patent:

8560549, Oct 15, 2013

Filed:

May 14, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/471391

Inventors:

Elin R. Pedersen - Portola Valley CA, US
Karl A. Gyllstrom - Chapel Hill NC, US
Shengyin Gu - Sunnyvale CA, US
Peter Jin Hong - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707739

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating action trails from web history are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a web content access history of a user, the content access history including one or more user actions, each user action being associated with a content item upon which the user action is performed and identifying one or more action trails from the content access history, each action trail including a sequence of user actions performed one content items relating to a topic. Identifying a particular action trail includes clustering the user actions into a series of segments using temporal criteria; calculating semantic similarities between the content items, and adding a segment of the series of segments to the action trail when the semantic similarities between the segment and another segment satisfy a similarity threshold.

US Patent:

20100274775, Oct 28, 2010

Filed:

Apr 23, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/766100

Inventors:

Paul Fontes - Mountain View CA, US
Othar Hansson - Sunnyvale CA, US
Peter Jin Hong - San Francisco CA, US
Benjamin N. Lee - Sunnyvale CA, US
April Lehman - Mountain View CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707706, 707E17108

Abstract:

A system facilitates the display of thumbnail images containing images of websites related to a website currently being viewed by a user. The system may include several different components to provide the thumbnail images to the user, such as a graphical user interface, an input interface, and a processor. The graphical user interface may display a website for viewing by a user and the input interface may receive an input representative of a request for a related website. The processor may transmit the request for the related website to a search engine, and, in response, the processor may obtain a search result representative of the related website. Moreover, the search result may include several components, such as a related website image representative of the related website and a uniform resource locator (“URL”) representative of a location of the related website.

US Patent:

20120042270, Feb 16, 2012

Filed:

Sep 30, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/249905

Inventors:

Elin R. Pedersen - Portola Valley CA, US
Peter Hong - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

GOOGLE INC. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G06F 3/048

US Classification:

715767

Abstract:

Aspects of the invention pertain to user interface visualizations, enabling efficient display of content on a display device. At least some content is presented having diagonal views to emphasize certain portions of the content while deemphasizing other portions of the content.

US Patent:

20130124511, May 16, 2013

Filed:

Nov 14, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/676230

Inventors:

Noah Levin - San Francisco CA, US
Peter Jin Hong - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707723, 707E17082

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting a visual search history. Presentation data is received indicating that a resource has been presented by a user device, the resource having been presented in response to user interaction with a search result that referenced the resource. In response to receipt of the presentation data, an image of the resource is acquired. The acquired image is associated with a search query for which the search result was provided. In response to receipt of a request for a search history for the user device, the acquired image and the associated search query are displayed.

US Patent:

20130218861, Aug 22, 2013

Filed:

Feb 22, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/775005

Inventors:

Peter Jin Hong - San Francisco CA, US
Pravir K. Gupta - Mountain View CA, US
Nathaniel J. Gaylinn - Mountain View CA, US
Kavi J. Goel - San Francisco CA, US
Omer Bar-or - Mountain View CA, US
Jack W. Menzel - Mountain View CA, US
Christina R. Dhanaraj - Sunnyvale CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707706

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a first search query from a user device; receiving search results for the first search query provided by a search engine, wherein each of the search results identifies a respective resource; determining from the search results that the first search query relates to a first entity of a first entity type; determining that one or more entities of a second entity type have a predetermined relationship with the first entity; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second type to the user device as part of a response to the first search query.