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Scott S. Benson — 16 Patents

Google: 8 patents #3,283 of 22,993Top 15%
NANativeminds: 7 patents #1 of 3Top 35%
VAVerity Ag: 1 patents #19 of 39Top 50%
Sunnyvale, CA: #1,693 of 14,302 inventorsTop 15%
California: #37,952 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Scott S. Benson has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in November 2018. Scott S. Benson ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Scott S. Benson in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2003.peak 42001: 2 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 4 patents20032004: 1 patents20042012: 2 patents20122013: 4 patents20132014: 1 patents20142018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10127581 Risk premiums for conversion-based online advertisement bidding Andrew E. Silverman, Kai Chen, Abhinay Sharma, James Gallagher, Markus Mock +4 more 2018-11-13 $19,575,000
8700452 Automatically switching between pricing models for services Wendy McKennon, Bhavesh Mehta, Dustin Jackson, Abhinay Sharma, Andrew E. Silverman +9 more 2014-04-15 $9,690,000
8473339 Automatically switching between pricing models for services Wendy McKennon, Bhavesh Mehta, Dustin Jackson, Abhinay Sharma, Andrew E. Silverman +9 more 2013-06-25 $24,454,000
8412569 Determining advertising statistics for advertisers and/or advertising networks Gokul Rajaram 2013-04-02 $25,374,000
8346709 Determining conversion probability using session metrics Andrew E. Silverman, Abhinay Sharma, Adrian Dumitru Corduneanu, Angshuman Guha, Tomas Lloret Llinares 2013-01-01
8346607 Automatic adjustment of advertiser bids to equalize cost-per-conversion among publishers for an advertisement Simon Tong 2013-01-01
8271325 Adjusting bids based on predicted performance Andrew E. Silverman, Abhinay Sharma, James Gallagher, Tomas Lloret Llinares, Karl Pfleger +1 more 2012-09-18 $42,459,000
8175914 Automatic adjustment of advertiser bids to equalize cost-per-conversion among publishers for an advertisement Simon Tong 2012-05-08 $29,949,000
6754647 Method and apparatus for hierarchically decomposed bot scripts Walter A. Tackett, John B. Hodges, D. Patrick Blair, Kate Boynton, Ray S. Dillinger +2 more 2004-06-22 $5,709,000
6629087 Methods for creating and editing topics for virtual robots conversing in natural language Walter A. Tackett, Ray S. Dillinger 2003-09-30
6615111 Methods for automatically focusing the attention of a virtual robot interacting with users Walter A. Tackett 2003-09-02
6604090 System and method for selecting responses to user input in an automated interface program Walter A. Tackett 2003-08-05
6532401 Methods for automatically verifying the performance of a virtual robot Walter A. Tackett 2003-03-11
6363301 System and method for automatically focusing the attention of a virtual robot interacting with users Walter A. Tackett 2002-03-26
6314410 System and method for identifying the context of a statement made to a virtual robot Walter A. Tackett, Ray S. Dillinger 2001-11-06
6259969 System and method for automatically verifying the performance of a virtual robot Walter A. Tackett 2001-07-10