Patents by Inventor Alexander Paul Stein

Alexander Paul Stein has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11036466
    Abstract: Systems and methods for making and using social media custom audio programs are disclosed. In general, one aspect disclosed features a system, comprising: a hardware processor; and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by the hardware processor to perform a method for creating a custom audio program for a user for a journey, the method comprising: extracting journey-related information representing one or more aspects of the journey; generating one or more journey-related audio segments based on the journey-related information; extracting interest-related information from social media of the user, wherein the interest-related information excludes information regarding a history of audio segments played by the user; obtaining one or more interest-related audio segments based on the interest-related information; and assembling the custom audio program using the one or more journey-related audio segments and the one or more interest-related audio segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ujjwal Singh, Frank Petterson, Alexander Paul Stein