Patents by Inventor Benjamin Liebald

Benjamin Liebald 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: 9355168
    Abstract: A system and method for developing a user's profile based on the user's interaction with content items. A module on the client rendering the content items or the service including the content items tracks the user's interactions with the content items and transmits the tracked data to a user analysis module. The user analysis module determines the topics associated with the interacted upon content items. The user analysis module then selects the topics for the user's profiles based on the received tracked data and the associated topics. The selected topics are stored in association with the user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Liebald, Palash Nandy, Jamie Davidson, Christina Ilvento
  • Patent number: 9317468
    Abstract: A personal content stream comprising a plurality of videos is generated for a user. The user selects topics used in the generation of a personal content stream. The plurality of user selected topics is expanded to include topics related to one or more of the user selected topics. Each of the topics in the expanded plurality of topics includes a topic weight. Videos are selected that are related to one or more of the expanded plurality of topics to generate a plurality of stream videos. Additional videos are selected and added to the plurality of stream videos as the user watches videos. The topic weights are adjusted during video playback based on feedback from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Liebald, Palash Nandy, Dasarathi Sampath, Ye Niu, Jamie Davidson, Christina Ilvento, Patrick Hung
  • Patent number: 9275001
    Abstract: A personal content stream comprising a plurality of videos is generated for a user. The user selects topics used in the generation of a personal content stream. The plurality of user selected topics is expanded to include topics related to one or more of the user selected topics. Each of the topics in the expanded plurality of topics includes a topic weight. Videos are selected that are related to one or more of the expanded plurality of topics to generate a plurality of stream videos. Additional videos are selected and added to the plurality of stream videos as the user watches videos. The topic weights are adjusted during video playback based on feedback from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Liebald, Palash Nandy, Dasarathi Sampath, Ye Niu, Jamie Davidson, Christina Ilvento, Patrick Hung
  • Publication number: 20160044131
    Abstract: A personal content stream comprising a plurality of videos is generated for a user. The user selects topics used in the generation of a personal content stream. The plurality of user selected topics is expanded to include topics related to one or more of the user selected topics. Each of the topics in the expanded plurality of topics includes a topic weight. Videos are selected that are related to one or more of the expanded plurality of topics to generate a plurality of stream videos. Additional videos are selected and added to the plurality of stream videos as the user watches videos. The topic weights are adjusted during video playback based on feedback from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Benjamin Liebald, Palash Nandy, Dasarathi Sampath, Ye Niu, Jamie Davidson, Christina Ilvento, Patrick Hung
  • Publication number: 20140372435
    Abstract: A personal content stream comprising a plurality of videos is generated for a user. The user selects topics used in the generation of a personal content stream. The plurality of user selected topics is expanded to include topics related to one or more of the user selected topics. Each of the topics in the expanded plurality of topics includes a topic weight. Videos are selected that are related to one or more of the expanded plurality of topics to generate a plurality of stream videos. Additional videos are selected and added to the plurality of stream videos as the user watches videos. The topic weights are adjusted during video playback based on feedback from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Benjamin Liebald, Palash Nandy, Dasarathi Sampath, Ye Niu, Jamie Davidson, Christina Ilvento, Patrick Hung
  • Patent number: 8849958
    Abstract: A personal content stream comprising a plurality of videos is generated for a user. The user selects topics used in the generation of a personal content stream. The plurality of user selected topics is expanded to include topics related to one or more of the user selected topics. Each of the topics in the expanded plurality of topics includes a topic weight. Videos are selected that are related to one or more of the expanded plurality of topics to generate a plurality of stream videos. Additional videos are selected and added to the plurality of stream videos as the user watches videos. The topic weights are adjusted during video playback based on feedback from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Liebald, Palash Nandy, Dasarathi Sampath, Ye Niu, Jamie Davidson, Christina Ilvento, Patrick Hung
  • Publication number: 20140172839
    Abstract: A method of suggesting replacements for unavailable web pages is performed at a server system separate from a client system. A web page is identified. For documents in a collection of web pages, respective overlaps of content in the web page and the documents are determined based on stored information about content in the web page and the documents. One or more of the documents that have overlaps that satisfy a first criterion are selected. A request for a replacement for the web page is received from the client system and replacement web page information is provided to the client system. The replacement web page information is selected from the set consisting of A) one or more links to the one or more selected documents, B) a redirect to one of the one or more selected documents, and C) one of the one or more selected documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventors: Stefan Christoph, Benjamin Liebald, Mihai Stroe, Thomas Hofmann
  • Patent number: 8688706
    Abstract: A system and method for developing a user's profile based on the user's interaction with content items. A module on the client rendering the content items or the service including the content items tracks the user's interactions with the content items and transmits the tracked data to a user analysis module. The user analysis module determines the topics associated with the interacted upon content items. The user analysis module then selects the topics for the user's profiles based on the received tracked data and the associated topics. The selected topics are stored in association with the user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Liebald, Palash Nandy, Jamie Davidson, Christina Ilvento
  • Patent number: 8589434
    Abstract: A system and method for developing a user's profile based on the user's interaction with content items. A module on the client rendering the content items or the service including the content items tracks the user's interactions with the content items and transmits the tracked data to a user analysis module. The user analysis module determines the topics associated with the interacted upon content items. The user analysis module then selects the topics for the user's profiles based on the received tracked data and the associated topics. The selected topics are mapped to topic clusters and the topic clusters are stored in association with the user profile. Recommendations for a user are made based on the topic clusters associated with the user'profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Liebald, Palash Nandy, Dasarathi Sampath, Junning Liu, Ye Niu, Christina Ilvento, Yu-To Chen
  • Publication number: 20120143871
    Abstract: A system and method for developing a user's profile based on the user's interaction with content items. A module on the client rendering the content items or the service including the content items tracks the user's interactions with the content items and transmits the tracked data to a user analysis module. The user analysis module determines the topics associated with the interacted upon content items. The user analysis module then selects the topics for the user's profiles based on the received tracked data and the associated topics. The selected topics are stored in association with the user profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Liebald, Palash Nandy, Jamie Davidson, Christina Ilvento
  • Publication number: 20120143911
    Abstract: A system and method for developing a user's profile based on the user's interaction with content items. A module on the client rendering the content items or the service including the content items tracks the user's interactions with the content items and transmits the tracked data to a user analysis module. The user analysis module determines the topics associated with the interacted upon content items. The user analysis module then selects the topics for the user's profiles based on the received tracked data and the associated topics. The selected topics are mapped to topic clusters and the topic clusters are stored in association with the user profile. Recommendations for a user are made based on the topic clusters associated with the user's profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Liebald, Palash Nandy, Dasarathi Sampath, Junning Liu, Ye Niu, Christina Ilvento, Yu-To Chen
  • Publication number: 20120143996
    Abstract: A personal content stream comprising a plurality of videos is generated for a user. The user selects topics used in the generation of a personal content stream. The plurality of user selected topics is expanded to include topics related to one or more of the user selected topics. Each of the topics in the expanded plurality of topics includes a topic weight. Videos are selected that are related to one or more of the expanded plurality of topics to generate a plurality of stream videos. Additional videos are selected and added to the plurality of stream videos as the user watches videos. The topic weights are adjusted during video playback based on feedback from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Benjamin Liebald, Palash Nandy, Dasarathi Sampath, Ye Niu, Jamie Davidson, Christina Ilvento, Patrick Hung
  • Patent number: 8131751
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes, among other things, systems, methods and program products for selecting subsequences (shingles or tuples) generated from sequences of tokens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Behshad Behzadi, Yaniv Bernstein, Stefan Burkhardt, Monika H. Henzinger, Benjamin Liebald, Richard Tucker