Patents by Inventor Colby Ranger

Colby Ranger 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: 11934492
    Abstract: Implementations disclose determining connections between sound recordings and compositions. A method includes maintaining, by a server device of a content sharing platform, a serving structure to represent resources comprising sound recording resources and composition resources and explicit connections between the resources, generating a hypothesis structure from the serving structure, the hypothesis structure comprising the resources and the explicit connections of the serving structure and inferred connections between the resources, the inferred connections identified based on data comprised in the resources of the serving structure, and upon receiving a user approval of at least one of the inferred connections, adding, by the server device, the at least one of the inferred connections to the serving structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Stanley Wolf, Colby Ranger, Harris Cohen
  • Publication number: 20230334261
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for identifying relevant content are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Brian Mulford, T.J. Gaffney, Michael de Ridder, Preethi Puducheri Sundar, Colby Ranger
  • Publication number: 20210366064
    Abstract: A method for representing online content item ownership information is provided. The method includes receiving information identifying a first content item and a first owner, and generating a first data object associating the first content item with the first owner. A plurality of data objects is maintained, including the first data object comprising first descriptive data, and a second data object comprising second descriptive data associating a second content item and a second owner. The method generates a first reconciled data object responsive to determining that the first content item corresponds to the second content item and that the first owner and the second owner are different. The method determines degree of overlap between third descriptive data associated with a third content item and the reconciled data objects maintained in the data store. The third data object is associated with the reconciled data object with the highest degree of overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Stanley Wolf, Kevin Montler, Colby Ranger
  • Patent number: 11080804
    Abstract: In a rights system, a plurality of asserted and reconciled assets are maintained. For example, asserted and reconciled assets can be maintained in a table structure of the rights system. Each asserted asset can associated an asset with an owner and additionally include descriptive data describing the asset. Asserted assets can be created by the rights system based on descriptive data provided to the rights system by owners of assets. In contrast, reconciled assets are generated by the right system by associating one or more asserted assets. The set of asserted assets can be modified, both through updates to the descriptive data of existing asserted assets, and through the generation of new asserted assets based on additional descriptive data. Based on the modifications to the asserted assets, the set of reconciled assets can be modified to reflect new or corrected information present in the set of asserted assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Stanley Wolf, Kevin Montler, Colby Ranger
  • Publication number: 20200302033
    Abstract: Implementations disclose determining connections between sound recordings and compositions. A method includes maintaining, by a server device of a content sharing platform, a serving structure to represent resources comprising sound recording resources and composition resources and explicit connections between the resources, generating a hypothesis structure from the serving structure, the hypothesis structure comprising the resources and the explicit connections of the serving structure and inferred connections between the resources, the inferred connections identified based on data comprised in the resources of the serving structure, and upon receiving a user approval of at least one of the inferred connections, adding, by the server device, the at least one of the inferred connections to the serving structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Stanley WOLF, Colby RANGER, Harris COHEN
  • Patent number: 9177290
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method for distributed discussion collaboration is provided. The computer-implemented method includes selecting a featured discussion item for each of one or more collaborators based on information associated with each respective collaborator. The method also includes providing selected featured discussion items for display to respective one or more collaborators. The method further includes receiving voting information for the featured discussion items displayed to the respective one or more collaborators. In another embodiment, a system for distributed discussion collaboration includes a selection module configured to select a featured discussion item for each of one or more collaborators based on information associated with each respective collaborator. The system also includes a view controller and a voting module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Taliver Heath, Dave Young, Colby Ranger
  • Patent number: 9052988
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method for distributed discussion collaboration is provided. The computer-implemented method includes selecting a featured discussion item for each of one or more collaborators based on information associated with each respective collaborator. The method also includes providing selected featured discussion items for display to respective one or more collaborators. The method further includes receiving voting information for the featured discussion items displayed to the respective one or more collaborators. In another embodiment, a system for distributed discussion collaboration includes a selection module configured to select a featured discussion item for each of one or more collaborators based on information associated with each respective collaborator. The system also includes a view controller and a voting module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Taliver Heath, Dave Young, Colby Ranger
  • Patent number: 8321361
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method for distributed discussion collaboration is provided. The computer-implemented method includes selecting a featured discussion item for each of one or more collaborators based on information associated with each respective collaborator. The method also includes providing selected featured discussion items for display to respective one or more collaborators. The method further includes receiving voting information for the featured discussion items displayed to the respective one or more collaborators. In another embodiment, a system for distributed discussion collaboration includes a selection module configured to select a featured discussion item for each of one or more collaborators based on information associated with each respective collaborator. The system also includes a view controller and a voting module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc
    Inventors: Taliver Heath, Dave Young, Colby Ranger