Patents by Inventor Mark H. Levy
Mark H. Levy 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: 11978661Abstract: Disclosed is a structure with ultralow-K (ULK) dielectric-gap wrapped contact(s). The structure includes an opening, which extends through a dielectric layer and is aligned above a device. A contact is within the opening and electrically connected to the device. Instead of the contact completely filling the opening, a ULK dielectric-gap (e.g., an air or gas-filled gap or a void) at least partially separates the contact from the sidewall(s) of the contact opening and further wraps laterally around the contact. Also disclosed is a method for forming the structure and, particularly, for forming a ULK dielectric-gap by etching back an exposed top end of an adhesive layer initially lining a contact opening to form a gap between the sidewall(s) of the opening and the contact and then capping the gap with an additional dielectric layer such that the gap is filled with air or gas or is under vacuum.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.Inventors: Fuad H. Al-Amoody, Felix P. Anderson, Spencer H. Porter, Mark D. Levy, Siva P. Adusumilli
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Publication number: 20230376760Abstract: The present technology pertains to steering a playlisting service toward media items that are likely to receive positive feedback from a user operating a client device. The present technology permits a request to play media items without requiring an input context. A playlist service can begin to receive feedback on the playback of the media items and the received playback can be utilized by a steering service in response to a steering request to identify media items for playback that are likely to receive positive feedback based on the feedback received on a sequence of previously played media items.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Mark H. Levy, Jan Markus Harrie Van Balen, Arvind S. Shenoy, Matthias Mauch, Daniel Cartoon
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Publication number: 20230333808Abstract: Generating a customized playlist may include identifying a user account for which a playlist is to be generated, where the user account is associated with a user listening history, a taste profile, and a social profile, identifying one or more friend accounts linked to the user account based on the social profile, obtaining an indication of a plurality of songs associated with one or more of the friend accounts, determining a listening history for the one or more plurality of songs based on the friend accounts, obtaining a subset of the plurality of songs based on the listening history of the plurality of songs, and generating a playlist from the subset of the plurality of songs.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Bekir B. Dundar, Arvind S. Shenoy, Daniel Cartoon, Denise L. Chen, Drew R. Domm, Fredric R. Vinna, Mark H. Levy, Paul C. Irvine, Priyo Mustafi, Thomas Alsina, Erik Lindholm, Uli M. Schoberl
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Patent number: 11651204Abstract: The present technology pertains to steering a playlisting service toward media items that are likely to receive positive feedback from a user operating a client device. The present technology permits a request to play media items without requiring an input context. A playlist service can begin to receive feedback on the playback of the media items and the received playback can be utilized by a steering service in response to a steering request to identify media items for playback that are likely to receive positive feedback based on the feedback received on a sequence of previously played media items.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mark H. Levy, Jan Markus Harrie Van Balen, Arvind S. Shenoy, Matthias Mauch, Daniel Cartoon
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Publication number: 20210256056Abstract: The present technology pertains to automatically context labeling media items with relevant contexts, and further for algorithmically generating high quality playlists built around a context that are personalized to a profile of an account. This is accomplished by combining data from observed playlists, and data representing intrinsic properties of media items to predict contexts for media items.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Mark H. Levy, Arvind S. Shenoy, Matthias Mauch, Daniel Cartoon
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Patent number: 10936653Abstract: The present technology pertains to automatically contextlabeling media items with relevant contexts, and further for algorithmically generating high quality playlists built around a context that are personalized to a profile of an account. This is accomplished by combining data from observed playlists, and data representing intrinsic properties of media items to predict contexts for media items.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mark H. Levy, Arvind S. Shenoy, Matthias Mauch, Daniel Cartoon
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Publication number: 20200004495Abstract: Generating a customized playlist may include identifying a user account for which a playlist is to be generated, where the user account is associated with a user listening history, a taste profile, and a social profile, identifying one or more friend accounts linked to the user account based on the social profile, obtaining an indication of a plurality of songs associated with one or more of the friend accounts, determining a listening history for the one or more plurality of songs based on the friend accounts, obtaining a subset of the plurality of songs based on the listening history of the plurality of songs, and generating a playlist from the subset of the plurality of songs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Bekir B. Dundar, Arvind S. Shenoy, Daniel Cartoon, Denise L. Chen, Drew R. Domm, Fredric R. Vinna, Mark H. Levy, Paul C. Irvine, Priyo Mustafi, Thomas Alsina, Erik Lindholm, Uli M. Schoberl
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Publication number: 20190079935Abstract: The present technology pertains to steering a playlisting service toward media items that are likely to receive positive feedback from a user operating a client device. The present technology permits a request to play media items without requiring an input context. A playlist service can begin to receive feedback on the playback of the media items and the received playback can be utilized by a steering service in response to a steering request to identify media items for playback that are likely to receive positive feedback based on the feedback received on a sequence of previously played media items.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Mark H. Levy, Jan Markus Harrie Van Balen, Arvind S. Shenoy, Matthias Mauch, Daniel Cartoon
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Publication number: 20180349492Abstract: The present technology pertains to automatically contextlabeling media items with relevant contexts, and further for algorithmically generating high quality playlists built around a context that are personalized to a profile of an account. This is accomplished by combining data from observed playlists, and data representing intrinsic properties of media items to predict contexts for media items.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Mark H. Levy, Arvind S. Shenoy, Matthias Mauch, Daniel Cartoon
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Patent number: 9875245Abstract: User created playlists can be analyzed to create a statistical language model indicating the likelihood that a particular sequence of content attributes will be found in a playlist created by a user, as well as the likelihood of any sequence of one or more content attributes following a playlist or partial playlist created by a user. The language model can be used to generate a recommended content attribute sequence based on a partial playlist of one or more content items. A recommended content item sequence that will be pleasant to a user when added to the partial playlist can be selected based on the recommended content attribute sequence.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Daniel Cartoon, Mark H. Levy
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Publication number: 20170357479Abstract: The present technology pertains to automatically providing refreshed versions of personalized playlists of media items based on a refresh schedule. The automatically refreshed personalized playlists can be automatically downloaded to a client device associated with the user account. In some embodiments an animation can be presented to show that a playlist was automatically refreshed. The automatically refreshed personalized playlist can be created based on an assumption that playlists are a collection of media items that go well together in a collection.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: Arvind S. Shenoy, Alfredo Ramos-Alvarez, Cody D. Jorgensen, Daniel Cartoon, Mark H. Levy, Matthias Mauch, Paul C. Irvine, Priyo Mustafi, Thomas Alsina
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Publication number: 20160299906Abstract: User created playlists can be analyzed to create a statistical language model indicating the likelihood that a particular sequence of content attributes will be found in a playlist created by a user, as well as the likelihood of any sequence of one or more content attributes following a playlist or partial playlist created by a user. The language model can be used to generate a recommended content attribute sequence based on a partial playlist of one or more content items. A recommended content item sequence that will be pleasant to a user when added to the partial playlist can be selected based on the recommended content attribute sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2015Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Daniel Cartoon, Mark H. Levy
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Patent number: 5737858Abstract: Soccer training shoes are provided having ball contact elements that cause a soccer ball to more readily bounce away from the foot of the user. In one aspect of the invention, a training device is provided for temporary attachment to the shoe of a soccer player for providing hard inside and outside ball contact elements that cause a soccer ball to more readily bounce away from the foot of the user and thus promote the development of the "soft feel" that is desirable for catching, trapping and dribbling activities. The training device is essentially in the form of a web of straps that encompass the toe and instep portion of a soccer shoe and with forward, intermediate and rear transverse straps each being provided with a relatively hard ball contact element for location along the vamp of a soccer shoe in the immediate region of the inside and outside edges of the sole of the shoe.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1996Date of Patent: April 14, 1998Inventor: Mark H. Levy