Patents by Inventor Daren GILL
Daren GILL 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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Patent number: 11983229Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for controlling mobile devices with user equipment devices. A user equipment device may detect a mobile device is within a predetermined proximity to the user equipment device by establishing a bi-directional communication. The user equipment device may determine an input/output option of the mobile device. The input/output option may be a microphone, a cellular Internet connection, a camera, or any other sensor and/or actuator of the mobile device. The user equipment device may generate for display an icon corresponding to the input/output option of the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.Inventors: Olivier Chalouhi, Daren Gill, Sankar Ardhanari, Jordan Leonard Davis, Christopher Thun
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Publication number: 20230206940Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for selecting and presenting content items based on user input. The method includes receiving first input intended to identify a desired content item among content items associated with metadata, determining that an input portion has an importance measure exceeding a threshold, and providing feedback identifying the input portion. The method further includes receiving second input, and inferring user intent to alter or supplement the first input with the second input. The method further includes, upon inferring intent to alter the first input, determining an alternative query by modifying the first input based on the second input, and, upon inferring intent to supplement the first input, determining an alternative query by combining the first input and the second input. The method further includes selecting and presenting a subset of content items based on comparing the alternative query and metadata associated with the subset.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Murali Aravamudan, Girish Welling, Daren Gill, Sankar Ardhanari, Rakesh Barve, Sashikumar Venkataraman
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Publication number: 20230035097Abstract: Methods and systems are described for a media guidance application that tailors media content recommendations for downloadable content to the current interests of the users. For example, the media guidance application may determine the current interests of a user based on the media content recently consumed by the friends of the user, and automatically download that media content. In such cases, the media guidance application may monitor social networks of the user for indications of media content that may have been recently consumed by the friends of a user as such media content is likely to be of current interest to the user. In response to detecting media content that was recently consumed by the friend of the user, the media guidance application may automatically download the media content to a device of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Daren Gill, Abubakkar Siddiq, Nizam Ahmed, Sankar Ardhanari, China Karnati, Sashikumar Venkataraman
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Publication number: 20220365994Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for updating links between keywords associated with a trending topic. Control circuitry may identify a plurality of communications associated with a plurality of users, the plurality of communications being related to a topic. The communications may comprise, for example, emails, text messages, online social media posts, websites or portions of a website, or any other online communication. The control circuitry may determine whether the topic is trending and increase a strength of association between a first symbol associated with the topic and a second symbol associated with the topic such that when a search query is received that includes the first symbol, search results related to the second symbol have a higher probability of being returned.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Sankar Ardhanari, Daren Gill, Abhijit Savarkar, Ganesh Ramamoorthy, Ajay Gupta, Vineet Agarwal, Sashikumar Venkataraman
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Patent number: 11416566Abstract: Methods and systems are described for a media guidance application that tailors media content recommendations for downloadable content to the current interests of the users. For example, the media guidance application may determine the current interests of a user based on the media content recently consumed by the friends of the user, and automatically download that media content. In such cases, the media guidance application may monitor social networks of the user for indications of media content that may have been recently consumed by the friends of a user as such media content is likely to be of current interest to the user. In response to detecting media content that was recently consumed by the friend of the user, the media guidance application may automatically download the media content to a device of the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.Inventors: Daren Gill, Abubakkar Siddiq, Ahmed Nizam Mohaideen P, Sankar Ardhanari, China Karnati, Sashikumar Venkataraman
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Patent number: 11380330Abstract: A processing device executing a component of a conversational recovery system receives an intent data and a first entity data identified from user input data. The processing device determines that the first entity data is associated with first content associated with a first component. The processing device additionally receives a text data of the user input data. The processing device determines a word in the text data that matches a keyword associated with second content associated with a second component. The processing device ranks the first component and the second component. The processing device generates message data that comprises an inquiry with respect to choosing the first content or the second content.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Eliav Samuel Zimmern Kahan, Gregory Newell, Mahesh Guruswamy, Daren Gill, Prashant Rao
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Patent number: 11379544Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for updating links between keywords associated with a trending topic. Control circuitry may identify a plurality of communications associated with a plurality of users, the plurality of communications being related to a topic. The communications may comprise, for example, emails, text messages, online social media posts, websites or portions of a website, or any other online communication. The control circuitry may determine whether the topic is trending and increase a strength of association between a first symbol associated with the topic and a second symbol associated with the topic such that when a search query is received that includes the first symbol, search results related to the second symbol have a higher probability of being returned.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.Inventors: Sankar Ardhanari, Daren Gill, Abhijit Savarkar, Ganesh Ramamoorthy, Ajay Gupta, Vineet Agarwal, Sashikumar Venkataraman
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Publication number: 20210263984Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein to recommend media assets to a user based on user location. A media guidance application may identify, using control circuitry, a user location. The media guidance application may generate a list of a plurality of media assets that match a user profile. The media guidance application may determine whether subject matter of a first media asset of the plurality of media assets is inconsistent with the user location. The media guidance application may remove the first media asset from the list in response to determining that the subject matter of the first media asset is inconsistent with the user location.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Daren Gill, Abubakkar Siddiq, Ahmed Nizam Mohaideen P., China Karnati, Sashikumar Venkataraman, Sankar Ardhanari
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Publication number: 20210248200Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for controlling mobile devices with user equipment devices. A user equipment device may detect a mobile device is within a predetermined proximity to the user equipment device by establishing a bi-directional communication. The user equipment device may determine an input/output option of the mobile device. The input/output option may be a microphone, a cellular Internet connection, a camera, or any other sensor and/or actuator of the mobile device. The user equipment device may generate for display an icon corresponding to the input/output option of the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Olivier Chalouhi, Daren Gill, Sankar Ardhanari, Jordan Leonard Davis, Christopher Thun
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Publication number: 20210201932Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for selecting and presenting content items based on user input. The method includes receiving first input intended to identify a desired content item among content items associated with metadata, determining that an input portion has an importance measure exceeding a threshold, and providing feedback identifying the input portion. The method further includes receiving second input, and inferring user intent to alter or supplement the first input with the second input. The method further includes, upon inferring intent to alter the first input, determining an alternative query by modifying the first input based on the second input, and, upon inferring intent to supplement the first input, determining an alternative query by combining the first input and the second input. The method further includes selecting and presenting a subset of content items based on comparing the alternative query and metadata associated with the subset.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Murali Aravamudan, Girish Welling, Daren Gill, Sankar Ardhanari, Rakesh Barve, Sashikumar Venkataraman
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Patent number: 11023541Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein to recommend media assets to a user based on user location. A media guidance application may identify, using control circuitry, a user location. The media guidance application may generate a list of a plurality of media assets that match a user profile. The media guidance application may determine whether subject matter of a first media asset of the plurality of media assets is inconsistent with the user location. The media guidance application may remove the first media asset from the list in response to determining that the subject matter of the first media asset is inconsistent with the user location.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.Inventors: Daren Gill, Abubakkar Siddiq, Ahmed Nizam Mohaideen P, China Karnati, Sashikumar Venkataraman, Sankar Ardhanari
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Patent number: 11023547Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for controlling mobile devices with user equipment devices. A user equipment device may detect a mobile device is within a predetermined proximity to the user equipment device by establishing a bi-directional communication. The user equipment device may determine an input/output option of the mobile device. The input/output option may be a microphone, a cellular Internet connection, a camera, or any other sensor and/or actuator of the mobile device. The user equipment device may generate for display an icon corresponding to the input/output option of the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.Inventors: Olivier Chalouhi, Daren Gill, Sankar Ardhanari, Jordan Leonard Davis, Christopher Thun
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Patent number: 11024297Abstract: A method for using speech disfluencies detected in speech input to assist in interpreting the input is provided. The method includes providing access to a set of content items with metadata describing the content items, and receiving a speech input intended to identify a desired content item. The method further includes detecting a speech disfluency in the speech input and determining a measure of confidence of a user in a portion of the speech input following the speech disfluency. If the confidence measure is lower than a threshold value, the method includes determining an alternative query input based on replacing the portion of the speech input following the speech disfluency with another word or phrase. The method further includes selecting content items based on comparing the speech input, the alternative query input (when the confidence measure is low), and the metadata associated with the content items.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Veveo, Inc.Inventors: Murali Aravamudan, Daren Gill, Sashikumar Venkataraman, Vineet Agarwal, Ganesh Ramamoorthy
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Patent number: 10978094Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for selecting and presenting content items based on user input. The method includes receiving first input intended to identify a desired content item among content items associated with metadata, determining that an input portion has an importance measure exceeding a threshold, and providing feedback identifying the input portion. The method further includes receiving second input, and inferring user intent to alter or supplement the first input with the second input. The method further includes, upon inferring intent to alter the first input, determining an alternative query by modifying the first input based on the second input, and, upon inferring intent to supplement the first input, determining an alternative query by combining the first input and the second input. The method further includes selecting and presenting a subset of content items based on comparing the alternative query and metadata associated with the subset.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Veveo, Inc.Inventors: Murali Aravamudan, Girish Welling, Daren Gill, Sankar Ardhanari, Rakesh Barve, Sashikumar Venkataraman
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Publication number: 20210027785Abstract: A processing device executing a component of a conversational recovery system receives an intent data and a first entity data identified from user input data. The processing device determines that the first entity data is associated with first content associated with a first component. The processing device additionally receives a text data of the user input data. The processing device determines a word in the text data that matches a keyword associated with second content associated with a second component. The processing device ranks the first component and the second component. The processing device generates message data that comprises an inquiry with respect to choosing the first content or the second content.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Eliav Samuel Zimmern Kahan, Gregory Newell, Mahesh Guruswamy, Daren Gill, Prashant Rao
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Patent number: 10885091Abstract: Approaches provide for a voice communications device to control, refine, or otherwise manage the playback of media content in response to instructions, such as spoken instructions. For example, the voice communications device receives input data associated with a command, such as a request to begin media playback. Accounts corresponding to users associated with the command are identified and one or more refinements extracted from the input data are used to filter content, such as from respective content catalogs or via trained models associated with the users. Determined content is generated that includes content from each of the content catalogs or trained models associated with the users. Thereafter, the voice communications device can initiate media playback.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jane Meng, Toby Ray Latin-Stoermer, Jason Christopher Hall, Kintan Dilipkumar Brahmbhatt, Daniel Paul Ryan, Benjamin Lee Shepherd, Daren Gill, Brandon Scott Durham
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Patent number: 10762903Abstract: A processing device executing a component of a conversational recovery system receives an intent data and a first entity data identified from user input data. The processing device determines that the first entity data is associated with first content associated with a first component. The processing device additionally receives a text data of the user input data. The processing device determines a word in the text data that matches a keyword associated with second content associated with a second component. The processing device ranks the first component and the second component. The processing device generates message data that comprises an inquiry with respect to choosing the first content or the second content.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Eliav Samuel Zimmern Kahan, Gregory Newell, Mahesh Guruswamy, Daren Gill, Prashant Sik Rao
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Patent number: 10733987Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices related to providing content items from a collection of content items. The embodiments disclosed enhance user experience by keeping track of which content items were already played to a user, and skipping those content items automatically. The embodiments disclosed herein also can enable a user to limit playing of content items to those that have been added since the last time contents items from the collection of content items were played. If the user selects to receive additional content items after receiving the newly added items, the system can provide the older unplayed content items after the newly added content news items have been played.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Saigin Govender, Jeff Gour, Daren Gill, Rajat Chaturvedi, Vishwanathan Krishnamoorthy, Ryan Elliott, Maoxiong Xu
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Publication number: 20190130899Abstract: A method for using speech disfluencies detected in speech input to assist in interpreting the input is provided. The method includes providing access to a set of content items with metadata describing the content items, and receiving a speech input intended to identify a desired content item. The method further includes detecting a speech disfluency in the speech input and determining a measure of confidence of a user in a portion of the speech input following the speech disfluency. If the confidence measure is lower than a threshold value, the method includes determining an alternative query input based on replacing the portion of the speech input following the speech disfluency with another word or phrase. The method further includes selecting content items based on comparing the speech input, the alternative query input (when the confidence measure is low), and the metadata associated with the content items.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: Murali Aravamudan, Daren Gill, Sashikumar Venkataraman, Vineet Agarwal, Ganesh Ramamoorthy
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Publication number: 20190087502Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for updating links between keywords associated with a trending topic. Control circuitry may identify a plurality of communications associated with a plurality of users, the plurality of communications being related to a topic. The communications may comprise, for example, emails, text messages, online social media posts, websites or portions of a website, or any other online communication. The control circuitry may determine whether the topic is trending and increase a strength of association between a first symbol associated with the topic and a second symbol associated with the topic such that when a search query is received that includes the first symbol, search results related to the second symbol have a higher probability of being returned.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Sankar Ardhanari, Daren Gill, Abhijit Savarkar, Ganesh Ramamoorthy, Ajay Gupta, Vineet Agarwal, Sashikumar Venkataraman