Patents by Inventor Boris Mazniker
Boris Mazniker 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).
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Publication number: 20230252056Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining aspects of locations based on computing interactions of users that pertain to the locations. In some implementations, an aspect of a location may be determined based on comparing a first computing interaction measure for the location to a second measure. The first computing interaction measure may be determined based on a first group of computing interactions that pertain to the location. In some implementations, the second measure may be determined based on a second group of addition computing interactions. In some implementations, a textual summary may be generated automatically based on the first and/or second computing interaction measure, and/or based on the determined aspect.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Boris Mazniker, Mayur Datar
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Patent number: 11657075Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining aspects of locations based on computing interactions of users that pertain to the locations. In some implementations, an aspect of a location may be determined based on comparing a first computing interaction measure for the location to a second measure. The first computing interaction measure may be determined based on a first group of computing interactions that pertain to the location. In some implementations, the second measure may be determined based on a second group of addition computing interactions. In some implementations, a textual summary may be generated automatically based on the first and/or second computing interaction measure, and/or based on the determined aspect.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Boris Mazniker, Mayur Datar
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Publication number: 20210073250Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining aspects of locations based on computing interactions of users that pertain to the locations. In some implementations, an aspect of a location may be determined based on comparing a first computing interaction measure for the location to a second measure. The first computing interaction measure may be determined based on a first group of computing interactions that pertain to the location. In some implementations, the second measure may be determined based on a second group of addition computing interactions. In some implementations, a textual summary may be generated automatically based on the first and/or second computing interaction measure, and/or based on the determined aspect.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Boris Mazniker, Mayur Datar
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Patent number: 10838989Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining aspects of locations based on computing interactions of users that pertain to the locations. In some implementations, an aspect of a location may be determined based on comparing a first computing interaction measure for the location to a second measure. The first computing interaction measure may be determined based on a first group of computing interactions that pertain to the location. In some implementations, the second measure may be determined based on a second group of addition computing interactions. In some implementations, a textual summary may be generated automatically based on the first and/or second computing interaction measure, and/or based on the determined aspect.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Boris Mazniker, Mayur Datar
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Patent number: 10671660Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining relevant content in response to a request for information. One or more computing devices may receive a query requesting information regarding a place of interest and identify a first place which satisfies the query associated with a first database and a set of displayable content associated with the first place within a second database. The one or more computing devices may identify a subset of the displayable content for display in response to the query, the identification of the subset of displayable content comprising determining a ranking for each item of displayable content in the set of displayable content according to the query. The subset of displayable content and the first place may be provided for presentation on a client device.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Timothy Chou, Qichi Yang, Boris Mazniker, Chris Schilling, David Chen
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Patent number: 10630763Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for identifying a set of items of digital content displayed to a user; processing the set of items to identify a set of boost items, items within the set of boost items to be prominently displayed, processing comprising: receiving a close-ties score associated with a respective item, the close-ties score representing a relationship between the user and other users associated with the respective item and an importance of a social circle associated with the item to the user, determining that the close-ties score associated with the respective item exceeds a threshold close-ties score, and in response to determining that the close-ties score exceeds the threshold close-ties score, adding the respective item to the set of boost items; providing instructions for boosting a display of items in the set of boost items in a page displayed to the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Benjamin Tauber, Sachin Jain, Boris Mazniker, Shimrit Ben-Yair, Simon Tong
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Patent number: 10565267Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a user engagement level for a content item are provided. In some aspects, indicia of one or more user interactions with a content item are received. Each user interaction in the one or more user interactions has an associated time and an interaction type. A user engagement level for the content item is determined based on the one or more user interactions, the associated times, and the interaction types. The user engagement level for the content item is stored in association with the content item.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Junbin Teng, Anja Hauth, Alexander Sobol, Boris Mazniker
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Patent number: 10545970Abstract: A system includes: an engaging post identifier for identifying and retrieving engaging posts; an extended network post identifier for identifying extended posts from an extended network; a combining module for creating a combined list of added posts from the engaging post and the extended posts, the combining module generating one or more ranked posts by ranking the list of added posts by relevance to a user; and a user interface module for providing the one or more ranked posts. The disclosure also includes a method for finding and providing engaging posts that includes determining engaging posts; determining extended posts from an extended social network using a social graph of the user; adding the engaging posts and the extended posts to create a combined list of added posts; ranking the added posts by relevance to a user; and providing one or more of the ranked posts.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Sachin Jain, Boris Mazniker
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Publication number: 20190171753Abstract: A method includes identifying a plurality of items, each having a score and being sorted within a list, identifying one or more variation features, diversifying the list of the plurality of items by processing each of the plurality of items in order of the sorting, the processing for each of the plurality of items including selecting the item as a candidate item, determining one or more demotion criteria with respect to the candidate item, determining if one or more items of the plurality of items meet the demotion criteria with respect to the selected item, modifying the score for at least one of the plurality of items based on a demotion factor, rearranging the list according to the score of each of the plurality of items in response to the modifying and providing the list of the plurality of items for display to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Junbin TENG, Boris Mazniker
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Patent number: 10305944Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for providing a customized stream of content to a user. The system includes: an item sourcer for gathering one or more content items from one or more content sources; a behavior indicator module and scorer for determining one or more behavior scores for the one or more content items; a content indicator module and scorer for determining one or more content scores for the one or more content items; a score combiner for aggregating the one or more behavior scores and the one or more content scores to generate one or more item scores for the one or more content items; a content diversifier for determining one or more diverse items from the one or more content items; and a stream generator for generating a customized stream of content for the user from the one or more diverse items.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Aman Bhargava, Abhijit Bose, Andrew Ames Bunner, Lan Liu, Boris Mazniker, Rachel Ida Rosenthal Schutt, Andrew Tomkins, Yonatan Zunger
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Patent number: 10291665Abstract: Systems and methods for increasing a visibility of a content item with a comment by a close contact are provided. In some aspects, a first content item is received. A ranking for the first content item in a stream for a viewing user is determined based on an upload time of the first content item. A comment for the first content item is received from a first user, where a predicted affinity level of the viewing user for the first user is within an affinity level range. In response to receiving the comment, the ranking for the first content item in the stream for the viewing user is updated based on an upload time of the comment. The stream is provided for the viewing user.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2013Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Junbin Teng, Boris Mazniker, Daniel Wyatt
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Publication number: 20180373735Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining aspects of locations based on computing interactions of users that pertain to the locations. In some implementations, an aspect of a location may be determined based on comparing a first computing interaction measure for the location to a second measure. The first computing interaction measure may be determined based on a first group of computing interactions that pertain to the location. In some implementations, the second measure may be determined based on a second group of addition computing interactions. In some implementations, a textual summary may be generated automatically based on the first and/or second computing interaction measure, and/or based on the determined aspect.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Boris Mazniker, Mayur Datar
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Patent number: 10133765Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for storing a plurality of items, each item including digital content, for each item of the plurality of items, generating a quality score to provide a plurality of quality scores, each quality score indicating a quality of an associated item and being based on at least one of a status score and a content score, the status score being associated with an author user of a respective item and the content score being associated with digital content provided in the respective item, determining an order of items based on respective quality scores, and transmitting instructions to display items to a user based on the order.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Shimrit Ben-Yair, Boris Mazniker
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Patent number: 10089326Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining aspects of locations based on computing interactions of users that pertain to the locations. In some implementations, an aspect of a location may be determined based on comparing a first computing interaction measure for the location to a second measure. The first computing interaction measure may be determined based on a first group of computing interactions that pertain to the location. In some implementations, the second measure may be determined based on a second group of addition computing interactions. In some implementations, a textual summary may be generated automatically based on the first and/or second computing interaction measure, and/or based on the determined aspect.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Boris Mazniker, Mayur Datar
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Publication number: 20180181570Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining relevant content in response to a request for information. One or more computing devices may receive a query requesting information regarding a place of interest and identify a first place which satisfies the query associated with a first database and a set of displayable content associated with the first place within a second database. The one or more computing devices may identify a subset of the displayable content for display in response to the query, the identification of the subset of displayable content comprising determining a ranking for each item of displayable content in the set of displayable content according to the query. The subset of displayable content and the first place may be provided for presentation on a client device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Timothy Chou, Qichi Yang, Boris Mazniker, Chris Schilling, David Chen
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Patent number: 9948699Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for identifying a set of items of digital content displayed to a user; processing the set of items to identify a set of boost items, items within the set of boost items to be prominently displayed, processing comprising: receiving a close-ties score associated with a respective item, the close-ties score representing a relationship between the user and other users associated with the respective item and an importance of a social circle associated with the item to the user, determining that the close-ties score associated with the respective item exceeds a threshold close-ties score, and in response to determining that the close-ties score exceeds the threshold close-ties score, adding the respective item to the set of boost items; providing instructions for boosting a display of items in the set of boost items in a page displayed to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Benjamin Tauber, Sachin Jain, Boris Mazniker, Shimrit Ben-Yair, Simon Tong
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Patent number: 9787485Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for ordering notifications for display in a social networking environment. One example system is configured to obtain a set of notifications for a user, wherein each notification in the set of notifications is generated in response to an event in a social network and, for each notification in the set of notifications, determine an event type associated with the notification and calculate a priority score for the notification based on the event type associated with the notification. The system is further configured to display the set of notifications based on the priority score for each notification in the set of notifications.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Zachary Yeskel, Balaji Srinivasan, Brett Rolston Lider, Alison Boncha, Boris Mazniker, Andrew Ames Bunner, Gregory Matthew Marra
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Patent number: 9762629Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for providing a customized stream of content to a user. The system includes: an item sourcer for gathering one or more content items from one or more content sources; a behavior indicator module and scorer for determining one or more behavior scores for the one or more content items; a content indicator module and scorer for determining one or more content scores for the one or more content items; a score combiner for aggregating the one or more behavior scores and the one or more content scores to generate one or more item scores for the one or more content items; a content diversifier for determining one or more diverse items from the one or more content items; and a stream generator for generating a customized stream of content for the user from the one or more diverse items.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2012Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Aman Bhargava, Abhijit Bose, Andrew Ames Bunner, Lan Liu, Boris Mazniker, Rachel Ida Rosenthal Schutt, Andrew Tomkins, Yonatan Zunger
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Patent number: 9747347Abstract: A system includes: an engaging post identifier for identifying and retrieving engaging posts; an extended network post identifier for identifying extended posts from an extended network; a combining module for creating a combined list of added posts from the engaging post and the extended posts, the combining module generating one or more ranked posts by ranking the list of added posts by relevance to a user; and a user interface module for providing the one or more ranked posts. The disclosure also includes a method for finding and providing engaging posts that includes determining engaging posts; determining extended posts from an extended social network using a social graph of the user; adding the engaging posts and the extended posts to create a combined list of added posts; ranking the added posts by relevance to a user; and providing one or more of the ranked posts.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Sachin Jain, Boris Mazniker
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Patent number: 9734209Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes identifying a plurality of posts, each of the plurality of post being associated with a score and a time, the plurality of posts being ranked according to the score associated with each post, selecting a first post of the plurality of posts as a candidate post, determining a score threshold and time threshold associated with the candidate post, determining if one or more posts of the plurality of posts meet the score threshold and the time threshold associated with the candidate post and reordering the candidate post and the one or more posts according to the time associated with each of the candidate post and the one or more posts when it is determined that one or more posts meet the score threshold and the time threshold.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Junbin Teng, Andre Rohe, Chih-Wei Chen, Boris Mazniker