Patents by Inventor JANIS STIPINS, III

JANIS STIPINS, III 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: 10698944
    Abstract: Techniques are described for generating search results and content recommendations using a distance metric on a space of media titles. In one embodiment, each media title may be associated with metadata tags and represented by a vector which indicates those associated tags. The distance metric may measure distance as an angle between vectors representing media titles in a bent vector space that accounts for correlations between tags. Further, a non-linear scaling may be applied to the vectors representing media titles to correct for under-tagging and redundant tagging. Based on the distance metric, a search or recommendation application may generate search results and/or content recommendations and cause the same to be presented to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.
    Inventor: Janis Stipins, III
  • Patent number: 10698909
    Abstract: Techniques for selecting and ordering groups of titles to present as recommendations. In one embodiment, for example, a method performed by one or more computing devices of an online services comprises selecting, for each of a plurality of row positions, a group of titles to fill the row position based at least in part on a relevance score computed for the group of titles. The relevance score is based at least in part on a personalized ranking for a particular user of titles in the groups in titles selected to fill the row positions. The groups of titles selected to fill to the row positions are presented as recommendations to the particular user as a sequence of rows in which each row in the sequence corresponds to one of the selected groups of titles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Alvino, Carlos Gomez-Uribe, Che Hammond, Janis Stipins, III
  • Publication number: 20170039199
    Abstract: Techniques for selecting and ordering groups of titles to present as recommendations. In one embodiment, for example, a method performed by one or more computing devices of an online services comprises selecting, for each of a plurality of row positions, a group of titles to fill the row position based at least in part on a relevance score computed for the group of titles. The relevance score is based at least in part on a personalized ranking for a particular user of titles in the groups in titles selected to fill the row positions. The groups of titles selected to fill to the row positions are presented as recommendations to the particular user as a sequence of rows in which each row in the sequence corresponds to one of the selected groups of titles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: CHRISTOPHER ALVINO, CARLOS GOMEZ-URIBE, CHE HAMMOND, JANIS STIPINS, III
  • Patent number: 9477713
    Abstract: Techniques for selecting and ordering groups of titles to present as recommendations. In one embodiment, for example, a method performed by one or more computing devices of an online services comprises selecting, for each of a plurality of row positions, a group of titles to fill the row position based at least in part on a relevance score computed for the group of titles. The relevance score is based at least in part on a personalized ranking for a particular user of titles in the groups in titles selected to fill the row positions. The groups of titles selected to fill to the row positions are presented as recommendations to the particular user as a sequence of rows in which each row in the sequence corresponds to one of the selected groups of titles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Netflix, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Alvino, Carlos Gomez-Uribe, Che Hammond, Janis Stipins, III
  • Publication number: 20150356087
    Abstract: Techniques for selecting and ordering groups of titles to present as recommendations. In one embodiment, for example, a method performed by one or more computing devices of an online services comprises selecting, for each of a plurality of row positions, a group of titles to fill the row position based at least in part on a relevance score computed for the group of titles. The relevance score is based at least in part on a personalized ranking for a particular user of titles in the groups in titles selected to fill the row positions. The groups of titles selected to fill to the row positions are presented as recommendations to the particular user as a sequence of rows in which each row in the sequence corresponds to one of the selected groups of titles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Christopher Alvino, Carlos Gomez-Uribe, Che Hammond, Janis Stipins, III
  • Publication number: 20140280101
    Abstract: Techniques are described for generating search results and content recommendations using a distance metric on a space of media titles. In one embodiment, each media title may be associated with metadata tags and represented by a vector which indicates those associated tags. The distance metric may measure distance as an angle between vectors representing media titles in a bent vector space that accounts for correlations between tags. Further, a non-linear scaling may be applied to the vectors representing media titles to correct for under-tagging and redundant tagging. Based on the distance metric, a search or recommendation application may generate search results and/or content recommendations and cause the same to be presented to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: NETFLIX, INC.
    Inventor: JANIS STIPINS, III