Jay M Ponte

6374241, Apr 16, 2002

Mar 31, 1999

09/282495

Leonid Lamburt - Marlborough MA
Lazar Koyfman - Sudbury MA
Jay Ponte - Waltham MA

Verizon Laboratories Inc. - Waltham MA

G06F 1730

707 6, 707 1, 707 3, 707 5

Disclosed is a system for performing online data queries. The system for performing online data queries is a distributed computer system with a plurality of server nodes each fully redundant and capable of processing a user query request. Each server node includes a data query cache and other caches that may be used in performing data queries. The data query, as well as request allocation, is performed in accordance with an adaptive partitioning technique with a bias towards an initial partitioning scheme. Generic objects are created and used to represent business listings upon which the user may perform queries. Various data processing and integration techniques are included which enhance data queries. An update technique is used for synchronizing data updates as needed in updating the plurality of server nodes. A multi-media data transfer technique is used to transfer non-text or multi-media data between various components of the online query tool.

6496818, Dec 17, 2002

Jun 19, 2000

09/596644

Jay Michael Ponte - Burlington MA

Verizon Laboratories Inc. - Waltham MA

G06F 1730

707 2, 707 3, 707 5, 707 6, 707104

Disclosed are methods and systems for indexing or retrieving materials accessible through computer networks.

6507839, Jan 14, 2003

Jun 19, 2000

09/596616

Jay Michael Ponte - Burlington MA

Verizon Laboratories Inc. - Waltham MA

G06F 1730

707 3, 707 1, 707 4, 707 6, 707 10, 707100

Disclosed are methods and systems for selecting electronic documents, such as Web pages or sites, from among documents in a collection, based upon the occurrence of selected terms in segments of the documents. The method may be applied where index terms have previously been assigned to the documents. The method may be used to select supercategories of banner advertisements from which to choose an advertisement to display for a user.

6569206, May 27, 2003

Oct 29, 1999

09/429731

Jayanta Kumar Dey - Cambridge MA
Jay Michael Ponte - Waltham MA

Verizon Laboratories Inc. - Waltham MA

G06F 1500

7155011, 707101, 707102

Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the user of a document, such as a video or audio selection, whose content varies with time. The method takes advantage of information retrieval techniques to select documents related to the portion of the temporal document in which the user has expressed interest.

6640228, Oct 28, 2003

Nov 10, 2000

09/710436

Steven Kendall Handerson - Old Lyme CT
Jay Michael Ponte - Burlington MA

Verizon Laboratories Inc. - Waltham MA

G06F 700

707 6, 707 1, 707 3, 707100

A method for detecting incorrect categorization of data includes obtaining a database containing a plurality of entry-category pairs, calculating a score for each entry-category pair that corresponds to a likelihood that the pair contains an incorrect category assignment, and verifying the correctness of the assignment based on the score. The verification step can be conducted manually. The score assists users in focusing any manual verification efforts on data that may actually contain incorrect category assignments, thereby making the verification process more efficient. The method can be used to review and correct business name and phone number listings in telephone directories.

6665665, Dec 16, 2003

Jul 30, 1999

09/365326

Jay Michael Ponte - Waltham MA

Verizon Laboratories Inc. - Waltham MA

G06F 1730

707 5, 707 4, 7155011, 715513

Disclosed is a method and device for storing information about Web documents such as pages or sites in a manner which may be used in conjunction with inverted term lists to facilitate the retrieval of documents of interest from the Web. The method involves constructing compressed surrogates for documents, such that various operations may be performed without the need to retrieve a copy of the document from the Web. The method permits the efficient updating of inverted term lists when documents on the Web have been modified or deleted, and also permits the efficient processing of search queries in a variety of circumstances.

6718363, Apr 6, 2004

Jul 30, 1999

09/364782

Jay Michael Ponte - Waltham MA

Verizon Laboratories, Inc. - Waltham MA

G06F 1516

709203, 709238, 709224, 707 5, 707203, 7075011, 370254

Disclosed is a method and device and computer storage medium for determining whether two pages linked on the World Wide Web are a part of the same World Wide Web site. The method involves examining and comparing the IP addresses of the Web pages, and can also be extended to finding other pages to which a given Web page is linked on the Web, and to determining whether a Web page of interest is part of a Web site with a desired characteristic, such as being part of an electronic commerce site.

6757866, Jun 29, 2004

Oct 29, 1999

09/430597

Jayanta Kumar Dey - Cambridge MA
Jay Michael Ponte - Waltham MA

Verizon Laboratories Inc. - Waltham MA

G06F 1500

7155001, 707 3, 707 4, 707 6, 345716, 345717, 345721

Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the user of a document, such as a video or audio selection, whose content varies with time. The method takes advantage of information retrieval techniques to select documents related to the portion of the temporal document in which the user has expressed interest. The method generates the search query to use to select documents by reference to text associated with the portion of the temporal document in which the user has expressed interest, as by using the closed caption test associated with the video, or by using speech recognition techniques.