Patents by Inventor Masoud Akhoondi
Masoud Akhoondi 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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Publication number: 20240056766Abstract: A visitation tracking system tracks user visitation to locations of interest to generate and report visualizations of the user visitation data. The visitation tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to receive a user input specifying a location of interest, cause display of a presentation of a set of proximity borders within a region in response to the user input specifying the location of interest, wherein the region is based on the location of interest, receives a selection of a region to monitor (e.g., proximity borders, geo-fences), detects entries of client devices to a geo-fence represented by the region to monitor, and causes display of a notification in response to the detection of the entries.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Masoud Akhoondi, Yiwei Ma, Nima Khajehnouri, Rohan Monga, Shuo wu
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Patent number: 11864053Abstract: A visitation tracking system tracks user visitation to locations of interest to generate and report visualizations of the user visitation data. The visitation tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to receive a user input specifying a location of interest, cause display of a presentation of a set of proximity borders within a region in response to the user input specifying the location of interest, wherein the region is based on the location of interest, receives a selection of a region to monitor (e.g., proximity borders, geo-fences), detects entries of client devices to a geo-fence represented by the region to monitor, and causes display of a notification in response to the detection of the entries.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: Masoud Akhoondi, Yiwei Ma, Nima Khajehnouri, Rohan Monga, Shuo Wu
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Patent number: 11537746Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for determining whether data utilization is privacy compliant. The program and method includes receiving input, via a graphical user interface, that includes identification of an application feature that utilizes user data collected from a plurality of users of the application; generating, for display in the graphical user interface, a plurality of fields that characterize utilization of user data; receiving, via the graphical user interface, a selection of one or more fields, the selected one or more fields characterize the utilization of the user data by the application feature; determining, based on the selected one or more fields, whether the utilization of the user data is privacy compliant; and generating, for display, an approval status indicating whether the utilization of the user data is privacy compliant.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Subhash Sankuratripati, Dhanuja Shaji, Masoud Akhoondi, Amit Datta
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Publication number: 20220103967Abstract: A visitation tracking system tracks user visitation to locations of interest to generate and report visualizations of the user visitation data. The visitation tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to receive a user input specifying a location of interest, cause display of a presentation of a set of proximity borders within a region in response to the user input specifying the location of interest, wherein the region is based on the location of interest, receives a selection of a region to monitor (e.g., proximity borders, geo-fences), detects entries of client devices to a geo-fence represented by the region to monitor, and causes display of a notification in response to the detection of the entries.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Masoud Akhoondi, Yiwei Ma, Nima Khajehnouri, Rohan Monga, Shuo Wu
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Publication number: 20220027931Abstract: A location based measurement system monitors user interactions with media items, and visitation data to physical locations, to calculate an engagement score of the media item, wherein the engagement score serves as an indication of a “lift” incited by the media item on a population of users exposed to the media item. The location based measurement system may be or include any instrumentality or aggregate of instrumentalities operable to compute, process, store, display, generate, communicate, or apply various forms of data for geo-fencing, control, or other purposes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Yiwei Ma, Shuo Wu, Masoud Akhoondi, Houshmand Shirani-Mehr, Douglas Cohen
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Patent number: 11218834Abstract: A visitation tracking system tracks user visitation to locations of interest to generate and report visualizations of the user visitation data. The visitation tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to receive a user input specifying a location of interest, cause display of a presentation of a set of proximity borders within a region in response to the user input specifying the location of interest, wherein the region is based on the location of interest, receives a selection of a region to monitor (e.g., proximity borders, geo-fences), detects entries of client devices to a geo-fence represented by the region to monitor, and causes display of a notification in response to the detection of the entries.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Masoud Akhoondi, Yiwei Ma, Nima Khajehnouri, Rohan Monga, Shuo Wu
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Publication number: 20210397741Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for determining whether data utilization is privacy compliant. The program and method includes receiving input, via a graphical user interface, that includes identification of an application feature that utilizes user data collected from a plurality of users of the application; generating, for display in the graphical user interface, a plurality of fields that characterize utilization of user data; receiving, via the graphical user interface, a selection of one or more fields, the selected one or more fields characterize the utilization of the user data by the application feature; determining, based on the selected one or more fields, whether the utilization of the user data is privacy compliant; and generating, for display, an approval status indicating whether the utilization of the user data is privacy compliant.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Subhash Sankuratripati, Dhanuja Shaji, Masoud Akhoondi, Amit Datta
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Patent number: 11170393Abstract: A location based measurement system monitors user interactions with media items, and visitation data to physical locations, to calculate an engagement score of the media item, wherein the engagement score serves as an indication of a “lift” incited by the media item on a population of users exposed to the media item. The location based measurement system may be or include any instrumentality or aggregate of instrumentalities operable to compute, process, store, display, generate, communicate, or apply various forms of data for geo-fencing, control, or other purposes.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2017Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Yiwei Ma, Shuo Wu, Masoud Akhoondi, Houshmand Shirani-Mehr, Douglas Cohen
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Patent number: 11126745Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for determining whether data utilization is privacy compliant. The program and method includes receiving input, via a graphical user interface, that includes identification of an application feature that utilizes user data collected from a plurality of users of the application; generating, for display in the graphical user interface, a plurality of fields that characterize utilization of user data; receiving, via the graphical user interface, a selection of one or more fields, the selected one or more fields characterize the utilization of the user data by the application feature; determining, based on the selected one or more fields, whether the utilization of the user data is privacy compliant; and generating, for display, an approval status indicating whether the utilization of the user data is privacy compliant.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Subhash Sankuratripati, Dhanuja Shaji, Masoud Akhoondi, Amit Datta
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Publication number: 20200275235Abstract: A visitation tracking system tracks user visitation to locations of interest to generate and report visualizations of the user visitation data. The visitation tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to receive a user input specifying a location of interest, cause display of a presentation of a set of proximity borders within a region in response to the user input specifying the location of interest, wherein the region is based on the location of interest, receives a selection of a region to monitor (e.g., proximity borders, geo-fences), detects entries of client devices to a geo-fence represented by the region to monitor, and causes display of a notification in response to the detection of the entries.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Masoud Akhoondi, Yiwei Ma, Nima Khajehnouri, Rohan Monga, Shuo Wu
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Patent number: 10735890Abstract: A visitation tracking system tracks user visitation to locations of interest to generate and report visualizations of the user visitation data. The visitation tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to receive a user input specifying a location of interest, cause display of a presentation of a set of proximity borders within a region in response to the user input specifying the location of interest, wherein the region is based on the location of interest, receives a selection of a region to monitor (e.g., proximity borders, geo-fences), detects entries of client devices to a geo-fence represented by the region to monitor, and causes display of a notification in response to the detection of the entries.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Masoud Akhoondi, Yiwei Ma, Nima Khajehnouri, Rohan Monga, Shuo Wu
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Patent number: 9736173Abstract: Methods and systems for intrusion attack recovery include monitoring two or more hosts in a network to generate audit logs of system events. One or more dependency graphs (DGraphs) is generated based on the audit logs. A relevancy score for each edge of the DGraphs is determined. Irrelevant events from the DGraphs are pruned to generate a condensed backtracking graph. An origin is located by backtracking from an attack detection point in the condensed backtracking graph.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Zhichun Li, Zhenyu Wu, Zhiyun Qian, Guofei Jiang, Masoud Akhoondi, Markus Kusano
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Publication number: 20160105454Abstract: Methods and systems for intrusion attack recovery include monitoring two or more hosts in a network to generate audit logs of system events. One or more dependency graphs (DGraphs) is generated based on the audit logs. A relevancy score for each edge of the DGraphs is determined. Irrelevant events from the DGraphs are pruned to generate a condensed backtracking graph. An origin is located by backtracking from an attack detection point in the condensed backtracking graph.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Zhichun Li, Zhenyu Wu, Zhiyun Qian, Guofei Jiang, Masoud Akhoondi, Markus Kusano