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Veveo Intellectual Property

Key Technology Areas covered by our IP

  • Incremental Search in Televisions and Mobile Devices
  • Personalization in Television and Mobile Devices
  • Broad coverage of user interface methods, systems and algorithms in the areas of search/machine learning algorithms for use in Television and Mobile Devices
  • Analytics

Summary of Patents

Veveo has 18 patents granted to date.

46 patents filed to date – 33 original applications (29 utility, 2 provisional, and 2 Design), 13 continuations

Issued – 16 Utility and 2 Design

Incremental Search Patents

No. Original Filing Date Title Status Patent Number Domain
1 14 Sept 2007 Methods and systems for dynamically rearranging search results into hierarchically organized concept clusters Issued. May 19, 2009 7,536,384 Mobile & TV
2 24 May 2005 Method and system for performing searches for television content using reduced text input Published 20060101503 Mobile & TV
3 15 August 2005 Method and system for performing searches for television content and channels using a non-intrusive television interface and with reduced text input Published 20060101504 TV
4 7 October 2005 Method and system for incremental search with reduced text entry where the relevance of results is a dynamically computed function of user input search string character count Published 20070005563 Mobile & TV
5 20 December 2005 Method and system for dynamically processing ambiguous, reduced text search queries and highlighting results thereof Published 20070050337 Mobile & TV
6 17 November 2006 System and method for finding desired results by incremental search using an ambiguous keypad with the input containing orthographic and typographic errors Issued. Jan 5, 2010 7,644,054 Mobile & TV
7 27 September 2005 Method and system for processing ambiguous, multi term search queries Issued. Aug 31, 2010 7,788,266 Mobile & TV
8 17 February 2006 Method and system for offsetting network latencies during incremental searching using local caching and predictive fetching of results from a remote server Published 20070088681 Mobile
9 26 January 2007 Methods and systems for transmission of subsequences of incremental query actions and selection of content items based on later received subsequences Published 20070260703 Mobile
10 27 September 2007 A linear character selection display interface for ambiguous text input on devices without a keypad Published 20080086704 Mobile & TV
11 23 May 2008 System and method for text disambiguation and context designation in incremental search Published 20080313564 Mobile & TV
12 25 August 2006 User interface for visual cooperation between text input and display device Issued. Jun 15, 2010 7,737,999 TV
13 23 January 2008 Methods and systems for finding desired search results and predicting ideal search engines based on partial text query input Published 20080114743 Mobile & TV
14 20 May 2008 System and method for search with reduced physical interaction requirements Published 20080313574 Mobile & TV
15 23 May 2008 Method and system for unified searching across and within multiple documents Published 20080313174 Mobile
16 2 May 2007 Method and system for performing actions using a non-intrusive television interface with reduced text input for making a phone call or consummating a transaction Published 20070266406 TV

Personalization Patents

No. Original Filing Date Title Status Patent Number Domain
1 20 April 2007 User interface methods and systems for selecting and presenting content based on user navigation and selection actions associated with the content Issued. Dec 2, 2008 7,461,061 Mobile & TV
2 20 April 2007 User interface methods and systems for selecting and presenting content based on relationships between the user and other members of an organization Issued. May 26, 2009 7,539,676 Mobile & TV
3 6 March 2007 Methods and systems for segmenting relative user preferences into fine-grain and course-grain collections Issued. May 5, 2009 7,529,741 Mobile & TV
4 6 March 2007 Methods and systems for selecting and presenting content based on learned periodicity of user content selection Issued. Aug 10, 2010 7,774,294 Mobile & TV
5 20 March 2006 A system and method for service solicitation enhanced with relevant personal context to elicit targeted response Issued. Nov. 16, 2010 7,835,998 Mobile & TV
6 30 March 2007 User interface method and system for incrementally searching and selecting content items for presenting advertising in response to search activities Published 20070255693 Mobile & TV
7 13 November 2007 Method of and system for selecting and presenting content based on user identification Published 20080209229 Mobile & TV
8 06 March 2007 Methods and systems for selecting and presenting content based on a comparison of preference signatures from multiple users Published 20070219984 Mobile & TV
9 06 March 2007 Methods and systems for selecting and presenting content based on user preference information extracted from an aggregate preference signature Issued. Jun 15, 2010 7,739,280 Mobile & TV
10 06 March 2007 Methods and systems for selecting and presenting content based on activity level spikes associated with the content Issued. Feb 2, 2010 7,657,526 Mobile & TV
11 06 March 2007 Methods and systems for selecting and presenting content based on dynamically identifying micro genres associated with the content Issued. Aug 10, 2010 7,774,341 Mobile & TV
12 06 March 2007 Methods and systems for selecting and presenting content based on context sensitive user preferences Issued. Sep 7, 2010 7,792,815 Mobile & TV

Design Patents

No. Original Filing Date Title Status Patent Number Domain
1 18 November 2005 User interface for a portion of a display screen Issued D549,714 Mobile & TV
2 16 November 2005 Television remote control device Issued D603,841 Mobile & TV