Patents by Inventor Franck Chastagnol
Franck Chastagnol 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: 11914585Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods of querying a hybrid event index of a user. The systems and methods can include receiving a search request pertaining to at least a first namespace of a plurality of namespaces and determining a first index server storing a first portion of the hybrid event index associated with the first namespace. The systems and methods can further include searching, the first portion of the hybrid event index stored at the first index server, determining one or more attributes from the search request, and determining a payload based on the search results of the first portion of the hybrid event index. Finally, the systems and methods can include applying one or more attributes to the payload and sending the filtered payload.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Abhishek Agrawal, Samir Goel, Franck Chastagnol, Adam Faulkner, Jitendra Vaidya
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Publication number: 20220327117Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods of querying a hybrid event index of a user. The systems and methods can include receiving a search request pertaining to at least a first namespace of a plurality of namespaces and determining a first index server storing a first portion of the hybrid event index associated with the first namespace. The systems and methods can further include searching, the first portion of the hybrid event index stored at the first index server, determining one or more attributes from the search request, and determining a payload based on the search results of the first portion of the hybrid event index. Finally, the systems and methods can include applying one or more attributes to the payload and sending the filtered payload.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Abhishek Agrawal, Samir Goel, Franck Chastagnol, Adam Faulkner, Jitendra Vaidya
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Patent number: 11468053Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods of querying a hybrid event index of a user. The systems and methods can include receiving a search request pertaining to at least a first namespace of a plurality of namespaces and determining a first index server storing a first portion of the hybrid event index associated with the first namespace. The systems and methods can further include searching, the first portion of the hybrid event index stored at the first index server, determining one or more attributes from the search request, and determining a payload based on the search results of the first portion of the hybrid event index. Finally, the systems and methods can include applying one or more attributes to the payload and sending the filtered payload.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2016Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Abhishek Agrawal, Samir Goel, Franck Chastagnol, Adam Faulkner, Jitendra Vaidya
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Patent number: 11120089Abstract: A system and method for enabling a user to use a user computer to search the user's personal content items hosted by an online content management service. In one aspect, the user computer is configured to obtain a search query, use the search query to identify in a local index at the user computer one or more of the user's hosted content items that satisfy the search query, and display, in a graphical user interface at the user computer, a search answer summary for each of the one or more of the user's hosted content items that satisfy the search query.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.Inventors: Samir Goel, Franck Chastagnol, Abhishek Agrawal
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Publication number: 20210150583Abstract: The examples provide a content item distributor computing system that is configured to determine characteristics of content providers and providing content items to certain categories of content providers. In one embodiment, the content item distributor receives a request from a content provider to receive content items and determines if a provided set of video content has a minimum number of viewers and meets a standard for upload content. In response to the determination, the content item distributor communicates a content item to the video content provider to present in conjunction with video content.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Thai Tran, Dean Yasuda, Shashi Seth, Aaron Kwong Yue Lee, Zheng Liu, Franck Chastagnol, George Strompolos
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Patent number: 11010727Abstract: A system and method to associate an electronic gift certificate with a payment services account to cause presentation of the electronic gift certificate based on meeting a predetermined condition. A gift certificate is purchased on-line and associated with a recipient's payment services account by the electronic gift certificate purchaser. A graphical user interface representing the payment services account of the recipient is presented with a record of the electronic gift certificate in a hidden state within the payment services account. Determining the predetermined condition is met, unmarking the record of the electronic gift certificate and causing presentation of a gift certificate button within the user interface representing the payment services account.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Peter Zhe Chu, Steven Chen, Franck Chastagnol, Aaron Kwong Yue Lee, Hugo Olliphant, Wendy Billman
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Patent number: 10977324Abstract: Enable using a user computer to search the user's personal content items hosted by an online content management service, the online content management service having an indexer computer configured to generate a base index of the user's content items hosted by the service, a base index server computer configured to transmit the generated base index over a network to the user computer, an index mutation generator computer configured to generate index mutations for subsequent changes to user's hosted content items, and an index mutation sever computer configured to transmit the generated index mutations over the network to the user computer. In one aspect, the system and method enable searches of the user's hosted content items and changes thereto to be conducted at the user computer using an index local to the user computer constructed based on the base index and the index mutations received by the user computer.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Samir Goel, Franck Chastagnol, Abhishek Agrawal
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Patent number: 10887373Abstract: Techniques for proactively sending hosted content items to user computing devices. In one embodiment, for example, a method includes collecting access event data representing a plurality of access events pertaining to a content item hosted with an online content management service; based on the access event data indicating that the content item is accessed at a plurality of user computing devices, determining a cross-device access signal for the content item; collecting additional access event data representing a third access event pertaining to the content item; and based on the additional access event data satisfying the cross-device access signal, sending at least a portion of the content item to a user computing device of the plurality of user computing devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.Inventors: Samir Goel, Franck Chastagnol, Abhishek Agrawal
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Patent number: 10853348Abstract: A multi-user search system with methodology for personalized search query autocomplete. In one embodiment, for example, a computer-implemented method includes: receiving a search query having an incomplete token; generating an index key that is composed of both (a) an identifier of a document namespace that a user account associated with the search query is authorized to access, and (b) the incomplete token; accessing an index dictionary with the index key to identify a plurality of index tokens, each index token of the plurality of index tokens having the identifier of the document namespace as part of the index token and having the incomplete token as a token portion of the index token or as a prefix of the token portion of the index token; iterating over the plurality of index tokens until a stop condition is reached; and returning an answer to the search query based on the iterating.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Samir Goel, Franck Chastagnol, Abhishek Agrawal
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Patent number: 10817499Abstract: A multi-user search system with methodology for personal searching. In one embodiment, for example, a computer-implemented method includes: receiving a search query; routing the search query to a particular index server based on an identifier of a document namespace; using the identifier of the document namespace at the particular index server to identify a set of matching and authorized indexed documents; and providing an answer to the search query identifying the set of matching and authorized indexed documents.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Samir Goel, Franck Chastagnol, Abhishek Agrawal
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Patent number: 10796313Abstract: A method and system for facilitating online payments are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a payment agreement is established at a payment service provider that defines terms of a payment relationship between a merchant and a user. The establishing of the payment agreement includes linking the payment agreement with a payment account of the merchant or user stored at the payment service provider. After establishing the payment agreement, a payment request associated with a transaction is received, whereby the payment request includes a unique identifier to identify the payment agreement stored at the payment service provider. Based on a verification that the payment request complies with terms of the payment agreement, the payment request is processed.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Hugo Olliphant, Franck Chastagnol, Yi-Ling Su, William Wu, Chris Brown, Thach Dang, Thomas Veino, Carol Gunby, Peter Zhe Chu, Steven Chen
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Publication number: 20200294096Abstract: The examples provide a content item distributor computing system that is configured to determine characteristics of content providers and providing content items to certain categories of content providers. In one embodiment, the content item distributor receives a request from a content provider to receive content items and determines if a provided set of video content has a minimum number of viewers and meets a standard for upload content. In response to the determination, the content item distributor communicates a content item to the video content provider to present in conjunction with video content.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Thai Tran, Dean Yasuda, Shashi Seth, Aaron Kwong Yue Lee, Zheng Liu, Franck Chastagnol, George Strompolos
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Patent number: 10740442Abstract: A system, method and various software tools enable a video hosting website to automatically identified unlicensed audio content in video files uploaded by users, and initiate a process by which the user can replace the unlicensed content with licensed audio content. An audio replacement tool is provided that enables the user to permanently mute the original, unlicensed audio content of a video file, or select a licensed audio file from a collection of licensed audio, and insert the selected in place of the original audio. Where a video file includes unlicensed audio, the video hosting website provides access to video files to a client device, along with an indication to the client device to mute the audio during playback of the video.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Franck Chastagnol, Vijay Karunamurthy, Matthew Liu, Christopher Maxcy
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Patent number: 10643249Abstract: The examples provide a content item distributor computing system that is configured to determine characteristics of content providers and providing content items to certain categories of content providers. In one embodiment, the content item distributor receives a request from a content provider to receive content items and determines if a provided set of video content has a minimum number of viewers and meets a standard for upload content. In response to the determination, the content item distributor communicates a content item to the video content provider to present in conjunction with video content.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Thai Tran, Dean Yasuda, Shashi Seth, Aaron Kwong Yue Lee, Zheng Liu, Franck Chastagnol, George Strompolos
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Patent number: 10579609Abstract: Multi-user computer search system with methodology for bypassing instant indexing of documents. In some embodiments, for example, a system for bypassing instant indexing includes a token store storing a set of token for a current version of a document and a tokenizer server configured to tokenize a new version of the document and to generate a set of tokens for the new version of the document.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Samir Goel, Franck Chastagnol, Abhishek Agrawal
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Publication number: 20190311016Abstract: A system and method for enabling a user to use a user computer to search the user's personal content items hosted by an online content management service. In one aspect, the user computer is configured to obtain a search query, use the search query to identify in a local index at the user computer one or more of the user's hosted content items that satisfy the search query, and display, in a graphical user interface at the user computer, a search answer summary for each of the one or more of the user's hosted content items that satisfy the search query.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Samir Goel, Franck Chastagnol, Abhishek Agrawal
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Publication number: 20190306548Abstract: The examples provide a content item distributor computing system that is configured to determine characteristics of content providers and providing content items to certain categories of content providers. In one embodiment, the content item distributor receives a request from a content provider to receive content items and determines if a provided set of video content has a minimum number of viewers and meets a standard for upload content. In response to the determination, the content item distributor communicates a content item to the video content provider to present in conjunction with video content.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2018Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: Thai Tran, Dean Yasuda, Shashi Seth, Aaron Kwong Yue Lee, Zheng Liu, Franck Chastagnol, George Strompolos
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Patent number: 10394910Abstract: A system and method for enabling a user to use a user computer to search the user's personal content items hosted by an online content management service. In one aspect, the user computer is configured to obtain a search query, use the search query to identify in a local index at the user computer one or more of the user's hosted content items that satisfy the search query, and display, in a graphical user interface at the user computer, a search answer summary for each of the one or more of the user's hosted content items that satisfy the search query.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Samir Goel, Franck Chastagnol, Abhishek Agrawal
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Publication number: 20190005497Abstract: A method and system for facilitating online payments are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a payment agreement is established at a payment service provider that defines terms of a payment relationship between a merchant and a user. The establishing of the payment agreement includes linking the payment agreement with a payment account of the merchant or user stored at the payment service provider. After establishing the payment agreement, a payment request associated with a transaction is received, whereby the payment request includes a unique identifier to identify the payment agreement stored at the payment service provider. Based on a verification that the payment request complies with terms of the payment agreement, the payment request is processed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: Hugo Olliphant, Franck Chastagnol, Yi-Ling Su, William Wu, Chris Brown, Thach Dang, Thomas Veino, Carol Gunby, Peter Zhe Chu, Steven Chen
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Patent number: 10102238Abstract: A multi-user search system with methodology for instant indexing. In one embodiment, for example, a system for instant indexing includes a token store storing sets of tokens for current versions of documents.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Samir Goel, Franck Chastagnol, Abhishek Agrawal