Patents by Inventor Karen Kavett

Karen Kavett 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).

  • Image recommendations for thumbnails for online media items based on user activity
    Patent number: 11973819
    Abstract: A method includes collecting user activity data for a first online media item. The user activity data can be data for a user consuming the first online media item. The method further includes segmenting a second online media item into a plurality of segments, and identifying one or more of the plurality of segments with user activity data satisfying one or more criteria. The identified segments comprise a set of frames of the plurality of frames of the second online media item. The method further includes selecting a frame from the set of frames from the second online media item. The method further includes sending a recommendation of the selected frame as a thumbnail recommendation for the second online media item to a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Doug Sherrets, Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Toff, Jason Prado, Sean Liu, Karen Kavett
  • Image recommendations for thumbnails for online media items based on user activity
    Patent number: 10747802
    Abstract: A method includes identifying user activity data of a plurality of users for a first online media item. The user activity data includes a drop-off rate and a consumption rate for the first online media item. The first online media item has a first thumbnail representing the first online media item. The method further includes determining, based on at least one of the drop-off rate or the consumption rate of the first online media item, that a new thumbnail is to be recommended to replace the first thumbnail for the first online media item, selecting the new thumbnail from a plurality of candidate thumbnails, and sending a recommendation of the new thumbnail for the first online media item to a client device of a user associated with the first online media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Doug Sherrets, Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Toff, Jason Prado, Sean Liu, Karen Kavett
  • Image recommendations for thumbnails for online media items based on user activity
    Patent number: 9591050
    Abstract: A computer system collects user activity data for an online media item. The user activity data includes data for users that are consuming the online media item. The computer system identifies one or more criteria that are associated with the user activity data to use to identify one or more images in the online media item for a thumbnail for the online media item and selects one or more images in the online media item, based on the user activity data, that satisfy the one or more criteria. The computer system recommends the one or more images as the thumbnail for the online media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Doug Sherrets, Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Toff, Jason Prado, Sean Liu, Karen Kavett
  • Portion of a display panel with upload icon
    Patent number: D706792
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Karen Kavett
  • Portion of a display panel with a multiple-upload icon
    Patent number: D708194
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Karen Kavett
  • Portion of a display panel with a record icon
    Patent number: D708195
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Karen Kavett