Application describes a way of generating a website and suggesting a domain using AI.
Domain name registrar Sav.com has applied for a patent titled “Systems and methods for automatically generating a website and selecting a related domain name using generative artificial intelligence.”
Application number 18/654246 (pdf) describes a way to use a business description to automatically create a website and suggest a related domain name. [Update: Sav applied for three similar patents. Each involves using AI to build a website but with three variations: also suggesting a domain, also providing customer service, and also related sales campaigns.]
It describes three (slightly) different processes that can be summarized as:
- User submits a description of a business or organization
- System scans the internet to find sites similar to the description and ranks them based on traffic
- Generates website based on the content of the identified similar sites
- Suggesting a domain name to go along with the site
Many website builder platforms now implement generative artificial intelligence features to make building sites easier.
Sav founder Anthos Chrysanthou is listed as the inventor.
The company applied for the patent in May, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published the application last week.
Perfect example of why software patents are bullshit. There’s nothing being invented here. At best it’s defensive to prevent people from going after them, at worst it will be used for patent trolling.
But there’s nothing innovative or of value being protected by this patent. The idea of taking user input, parsing it through various methods and suggesting a domain name and/or building automated content isn’t novel.
That sounds fantastic if they can get it to work as well as it sounds. Somehow, I don’t think AI is ready to deliver those features at a high level of quality just yet.