Christopher M Rohrs, Age 58Chandler, AZ

7451398, Nov 11, 2008

Nov 18, 2003

10/716951

Christopher Rohrs - Palo Alto CA, US

Google, Inc. - Mountain View CA

G06F 15/00
G06F 17/00

715271, 715255, 715256, 715257, 715258, 715259, 715260, 715261

Providing capitalization correction for unstructured excerpts is described. An excerpt of unstructured content is tokenized into a set of words. The set of words is analyzed for correct capitalization. Individual characters constituting at least one such word in the set of words are evaluated. The at least one such word is skipped if determined to be of a predefined type.

7587309, Sep 8, 2009

Dec 1, 2003

10/725883

Christopher Rohrs - Palo Alto CA, US
Thorsten Brants - Palo Alto CA, US

Google, Inc. - Mountain View CA

G06F 17/21
G06F 17/28

704 10, 715236, 715244

A system and method for providing text summarization for use in Web-based content is presented. Text is determined responsive to an executed query. Phrases within the text are identified, and words within the phrases are marked using matches of the words within the phrases with words of the executed query and/or a format rule. Marked words are placed into the summarized text subject to space restrictions. A system and method for building Web-based advertising creatives is also presented. At least one item description responsive to an executed query is identified and a name is extracted. Marked words are placed into the advertising creative subject to space restrictions.

7725530, May 25, 2010

Dec 12, 2005

11/298988

Adam Sah - Santa Cruz CA, US
Dylan Parker - Victoria, CA
Christopher H. Rohrs - Mountain View CA, US

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

G06F 15/16
G06F 17/00
H04N 7/173
G06Q 30/00
G06F 12/00

709203, 709205, 715207, 725127, 705 14, 707200

A proxy server system comprising a request input unit that receives a request to collect data from a target server, a target server collection unit that collects data from the target server and an output unit that transmits the data for use by a module to generate data for a container document.

7730082, Jun 1, 2010

Dec 12, 2005

11/298930

Adam Sah - Santa Cruz CA, US
Dylan Parker - Victoria, CA
Christopher H. Rohrs - Mountain View CA, US
Jessica Lynn Gray - Mountain View CA, US
Steven L. Goldberg - San Carlos CA, US

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

707770, 709217

A system and method for serving content in a container document. The system comprises a container server that identifies one or more modules for use with a container document, receives a module specification from a remote server, and serves the container document including module data based on the module specification. The module specification comprises a content element and one or more optional preference elements that enable the container server to provide preferences to the module.

7730109, Jun 1, 2010

Jun 6, 2006

11/422429

Christopher H. Rohrs - Mountain View CA, US
Adam Sah - Santa Cruz CA, US
Dylan Parker - Victoria CA, US
Jessica Lynn Gray - Mountain View CA, US

Google, Inc. - Mountain View CA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

707803, 707812

A system and method for incorporating message catalogs in remote modules. The system and method comprise a container server that identifies one or more modules for use with a container document, receives a module specification from a remote server, and serves the container document with module data based on the module specification, wherein the module data comprises a message reference that identifies a message catalog.

7953741, May 31, 2011

Oct 18, 2007

11/874893

Lawrence Wen-Kai Shih - Mountain View CA, US
Adam Sah - Santa Cruz CA, US
Daniel S. Tarlow - Toronto, CA
Beverly Yang - Cupertino CA, US
Ryohei Takahashi - Mountain View CA, US
Christopher Rohrs - Mountain View CA, US

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

G06F 17/30

707751, 707732

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for ranking resources. One or more signals reporting one or more actions by the plurality of users related to a respective resource are received, where a reported action is a presentation of the respective resource, an addition of the respective resource, or a deletion of the respective resource. The reported actions include one or more short deletions of the respective resource. A respective long-addition click-through rate (LACTR) is determined for the respective resource based on a number of reported presentations of the respective resource and a difference between a number of reported additions of the respective resource and a number of short deletions of the respective resource. The plurality of resources are ranked based on the respective LACTRs for the plurality of resources. The ranking of the plurality of resources are provided.

7984049, Jul 19, 2011

Oct 18, 2007

11/874888

Lawrence Wen-Kai Shih - Mountain View CA, US
Adam Sah - Santa Cruz CA, US
Daniel S. Tarlow - Toronto, CA
Beverly Yang - Cupertino CA, US
Ryohei Takahashi - Mountain View CA, US
Christopher Rohrs - Mountain View CA, US

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

G06F 17/30
G06F 7/00

707734

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing ranking services. In one aspect, first signals are received from a first subscriber, and second signals are received from a second subscriber. The signals include information characterizing individual user actions relating to individual ones of first or second resources, respectively, values for one or more predefined parameters, and values for one or more first subscriber-specific parameters that are specific to the first or second subscriber, respectively. First ranking data is generated from the first signals, but not from values for any subscriber-specific parameter that is not a subscriber-specific parameter for the first subscriber. Second ranking data is generated from the second signals, but not from values for any subscriber-specific parameter that is not a subscriber-specific parameter for the second subscriber.

8185819, May 22, 2012

Dec 12, 2005

11/298922

Adam Sah - Santa Cruz CA, US
Dylan Parker - Victoria, CA
Christopher H. Rohrs - Mountain View CA, US
Jessica Ewing - Palo Alto CA, US

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

G06F 17/00

715243, 715234, 715246

A computer readable medium, an electronic document or a system that uses one of these that includes particular code that specifies a first module selectively designated for inclusion in a personalized container document and additional code that specifies a second module selectively designated for inclusion in the personalized container document. The container document designates a plurality of modules included in the container document. Each module in the plurality of modules is adapted for rendering module data for presenting in the container document. The first module is adapted to render module data based at least in part on the particular code, the particular code including a first content type element, a first content element, and one or more preference elements. The second module is adapted for rendering module data for presenting in the container document based at least in part on the additional code, the additional code including a second content type element, a second content element and one or more preference elements. The first content type element is different than the second content type element.