Patents by Inventor Kevin Courtney Smilak

Kevin Courtney Smilak 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).

  • Providing streams of filtered photographs for user consumption
    Patent number: 8959092
    Abstract: The present disclosure comprises systems and methods for providing a stream of only those photographs (including those inter-mixed with videos and hybrid types (animated gifs, animated photo bursts, etc.)) that may be of interest to particular users in a social network based on consideration of user social graphs and other external signals generated for the photographs based on predefined criteria to determine user interest levels. The systems and methods obtain photographs, retrieve social graphs for particular users, evaluate and filter photographs, rank them, and limit the number of photographs provided for viewing from a single source. Accordingly, only photographs that are determined to be most interesting to particular users are provided for display to them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Isaac Sparrow, Anthony Howard Payne, Kevin Courtney Smilak, Simon Han, Amir Fish, David M. Cohen, Matthew Stephen Steiner
  • PROVIDING STREAMS OF FILTERED PHOTOGRAPHS FOR USER CONSUMPTION
    Publication number: 20140006420
    Abstract: The present disclosure comprises systems and methods for providing a stream of only those photographs (including those inter-mixed with videos and hybrid types (animated gifs, animated photo bursts, etc.)) that may be of interest to particular users in a social network based on consideration of user social graphs and other external signals generated for the photographs based on predefined criteria to determine user interest levels. The systems and methods obtain photographs, retrieve social graphs for particular users, evaluate and filter photographs, rank them, and limit the number of photographs provided for viewing from a single source. Accordingly, only photographs that are determined to be most interesting to particular users are provided for display to them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Isaac Sparrow, Anthony Howard Payne, Kevin Courtney Smilak, Simon Han, Amir Fish, David M. Cohen, Matthew Stephen Steiner