Yu U Feng

US Patent:

7003517, Feb 21, 2006

Filed:

May 24, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/865735

Inventors:

John C. Seibel - Austin TX, US
Yu Feng - Maplewood NJ, US
Robert L. Foster - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

iNetProfit, Inc. - Austin TX

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 6, 707 3, 707 10, 7071041, 705 10, 709203, 709219

Abstract:

A text mining system for collecting business intelligence about a client, as well as for identifying prospective customers of the client, for use in a lead generation system accessible by the client via the Internet. The text mining system has various components, including a data acquisition process that extracts textual data from various Internet sources, a database for storing the extracted data, a text mining server that executes query-based searches of the database, and an output repository. A web server provides client access to the repository, and to the mining server.

US Patent:

7043531, May 9, 2006

Filed:

Oct 4, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/970563

Inventors:

John C. Seibel - Austin TX, US
Yu Feng - Maplewood NJ, US
Robert L. Foster - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

iNetProfit, Inc. - Austin TX

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 17/30

US Classification:

709206, 709203, 709204, 705 10, 705 14, 707 3, 707 6, 707 10

Abstract:

A web-based customer lead generator system. The system is based on an application service model, with the programming for the system being accessible to users of the system via web browsers and the Internet. The users are typically business enterprises that maintain e-commerce web sites. The pre-emptive profiling process searches the Internet to obtain email addresses of potential web site buyers. It performs a reverse look-up process to obtain demographic data about each potential buyer. This data is used to provide a purchasing profile of the buyer, which is then forwarded to the e-commerce business enterprise.

US Patent:

7082427, Jul 25, 2006

Filed:

May 24, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/865805

Inventors:

John C Seibel - Austin TX, US
Yu Feng - Maplewood NJ, US
Robert L. Foster - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

ReachForce, Inc. - Austin TX

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 4, 707 6, 707 10, 7071041, 709203, 705 26

Abstract:

A text indexing system for collecting business intelligence about a client, as well as for identifying prospective customers of the client, for use in a lead generation system accessible by the client via the Internet. The text indexing system has various components, including a data acquisition process that extracts textual data from various Internet sources, a database for storing the extracted data, a text indexing server that executes keyword searches of the database, and an output repository. A web server provides client access to the repository, and to the indexing server.

US Patent:

7096220, Aug 22, 2006

Filed:

May 21, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/862814

Inventors:

John C. Seibel - Austin TX, US
Yu Feng - Maplewood NJ, US
Robert L. Foster - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

ReachForce, Inc. - Austin TX

International Classification:

G06F 7/00
G06F 15/16

US Classification:

707 10, 707 3, 7071041, 707201, 709201

Abstract:

A web-based customer lead harvesting system. The system is based on an application service model, with the programming for the system being accessible to users of the system via web browsers and the Internet. The users, who are typically business enterprises, may access the system to search unstructured Internet data to obtain leads for prospective customers. The system accepts criteria from the user that describes a type or types of potential customers, as well as addresses of Internet sites of interest. A crawler process retrieves the web site data, and stores the data in a web archive. A harvester process then searches the Internet data according to the client-provided criteria. The system returns the names or the identifying information about the prospect together with a link to the document that verifies the prospect's match to the criteria.

US Patent:

7120629, Oct 10, 2006

Filed:

May 24, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/865802

Inventors:

John C. Seibel - Austin TX, US
Yu Feng - Maplewood NJ, US
Robert L. Foster - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

ReachForce, Inc. - Austin TX

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 7/00
G06F 15/173
G06Q 40/00

US Classification:

707 5, 707102, 707200, 709225, 705 37

Abstract:

A system and method for providing profile data representing profiles of potential customers of a business enterprise. The system is based on an application service provider architecture, where the business enterprise accesses the profile data via the Internet using a web browser. The system is capable of using internal data of the business enterprise generated by a variety of accounting, sales, and enterprise planning tools.

US Patent:

7275083, Sep 25, 2007

Filed:

Mar 13, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/276743

Inventors:

John C. Seibel - Austin TX, US
Yu Feng - Bayside NY, US
Robert L. Foster - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

ReachForce, Inc. - Austin TX

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 17/30

US Classification:

709206, 709204, 705 10, 705 14, 707 3, 707 6, 707 10

Abstract:

A web-based customer lead generator system. The system is based on an application service model, with the programming for the system being accessible to users of the system via web browsers and the Internet. The users are typically business enterprises that maintain e-commerce web sites. The pre-emptive profiling process searches the Internet to obtain email addresses of potential web site buyers. It performs a reverse look-up process to obtain demographic data about each potential buyer. This data is used to provide a purchasing profile of the buyer, which is then forwarded to the e-commerce business enterprise.

US Patent:

7315861, Jan 1, 2008

Filed:

Jul 11, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/178721

Inventors:

John C. Seibel - Austin TX, US
Yu Feng - Maplewood NJ, US
Robert L. Foster - Austin TX, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 10, 707 3, 7071041, 707204, 705 10, 705 14, 709206, 709219

Abstract:

A text mining system for collecting business intelligence about a client, as well as for identifying prospective customers of the client, for use in a lead generation system accessible by the client via the Internet. The text mining system has various components, including a data acquisition process that extracts textual data from various Internet sources, a database for storing the extracted data, a text mining server that executes query-based searches of the database, and an output repository. A web server provides client access to the repository, and to the mining server.

US Patent:

7330850, Feb 12, 2008

Filed:

Oct 4, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/971334

Inventors:

John C. Seibel - Austin TX, US
Yu Feng - Maplewood NJ, US
Robert L. Foster - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

ReachForce, Inc. - Austin TX

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 4, 707 6, 707 7, 707 10, 709203, 709217

Abstract:

A text mining system for collecting business intelligence about a client, as well as for identifying prospective customers of the client, for use in a lead generation system accessible by the client via the Internet. The text mining system has various components, including a data acquisition process that extracts textual data from Internet web sites, including their logs, content, processes, and transactions. The system compares log data to content and process data, and relates the results of the comparison to transaction data. This permits the system to provide aggregate cluster data representing statistics useful for customer lead generation.