Patents by Inventor Atif Zahoor Khan

Atif Zahoor Khan 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).

  • Grouping users into tiers based on similarity to a group of seed users
    Patent number: 10970750
    Abstract: An online system identifies seed users of high value to a sponsored content provider. Characteristics of the seed users are identified, and additional users having a threshold measure of similarity to the seed users are identified based on the characteristics. A score is determined for each of the additional users based on the measure of similarity. The seed users are placed in an initial tier of a tiered set of users for the sponsored content, and the additional users are placed in additional tiers of the tiered set of users based upon the determined scores such that each additional tier includes those users of the additional users having a specified range of determined scores, the tiers of the tiered set of users ranked according to the determined scores of users within each tier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Sue Ann Hong, Gunjit Singh, Kyle Edward Johnson, Atif Zahoor Khan
  • Grouping users into tiers based on similarity to a group of seed users
    Patent number: 10242386
    Abstract: An online system identifies seed users of high value to a sponsored content provider. Characteristics of the seed users are identified, and additional users having a threshold measure of similarity to the seed users are identified based on the characteristics. A score is determined for each of the additional users based on the measure of similarity. The seed users are placed in an initial tier of a tiered set of users for the sponsored content, and the additional users are placed in additional tiers of the tiered set of users based upon the determined scores such that each additional tier includes those users of the additional users having a specified range of determined scores, the tiers of the tiered set of users ranked according to the determined scores of users within each tier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Sue Ann Hong, Gunjit Singh, Kyle Edward Johnson, Atif Zahoor Khan
  • GROUPING USERS INTO TIERS BASED ON SIMILARITY TO A GROUP OF SEED USERS
    Publication number: 20170178197
    Abstract: An online system identifies seed users of high value to a sponsored content provider. Characteristics of the seed users are identified, and additional users having a threshold measure of similarity to the seed users are identified based on the characteristics. A score is determined for each of the additional users based on the measure of similarity. The seed users are placed in an initial tier of a tiered set of users for the sponsored content, and the additional users are placed in additional tiers of the tiered set of users based upon the determined scores such that each additional tier includes those users of the additional users having a specified range of determined scores, the tiers of the tiered set of users ranked according to the determined scores of users within each tier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Sue Ann Hong, Gunjit Singh, Kyle Edward Johnson, Atif Zahoor Khan