Patents by Inventor Mehran Sahami
Mehran Sahami 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: 20210286492Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes generating code for displaying a two-dimensional media programming schedule grid, receiving a command to compress the grid at a first location along a first dimension, and generating code for displaying the grid with visible graphical fold marks defining a fold area near the first location along the first dimension.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Richard C. Gossweiler, III, Mehran Sahami, Thomas H. Taylor, John Blackburn, David A. Brown, Neha Crosby, Manish G. Patel
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Patent number: 11093973Abstract: Ad rendering parameters for a set of two or more ads may be determined by (a) accepting, for a set of two or more ads, ad information which includes at least one ad feature having a value that depends on ad rendering parameters, and (b) determining ad rendering parameters for at least one ad from the set of two or more ads using the accepted ad information. The act of determining ad rendering parameters may use accepted ad rendering constraints. The ad rendering constraints may include space available for rendering the ads, a footprint available for rendering the ads, and/or a maximum number of ads permitted to be rendered. The act of determining ad rendering parameters may include maximizing a value associated with serving at least one ad from the set of two or more ads with ad rendering parameters subject to the ad rendering constraints. The ad rendering parameters may include sizes of the served ads, and/or a layout of the served ads.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Shumeet Baluja, Vibhu Mittal, Mehran Sahami
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Patent number: 11036385Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes generating code for displaying a two-dimensional media programming schedule grid, receiving a command to compress the grid at a first location along a first dimension, and generating code for displaying the grid with visible graphical fold marks defining a fold area near the first location along the first dimension.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Richard C. Gossweiler, III, Mehran Sahami, Thomas H. Taylor, John Blackburn, David A. Brown, Neha Crosby, Manish G. Patel
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Publication number: 20190362386Abstract: Ad rendering parameters for a set of two or more ads may be determined by (a) accepting, for a set of two or more ads, ad information which includes at least one ad feature having a value that depends on ad rendering parameters, and (b) determining ad rendering parameters for at least one ad from the set of two or more ads using the accepted ad information. The act of determining ad rendering parameters may use accepted ad rendering constraints. The ad rendering constraints may include space available for rendering the ads, a footprint available for rendering the ads, and/or a maximum number of ads permitted to be rendered. The act of determining ad rendering parameters may include maximizing a value associated with serving at least one ad from the set of two or more ads with ad rendering parameters subject to the ad rendering constraints. The ad rendering parameters may include sizes of the served ads, and/or a layout of the served ads.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Shumeet Baluja, Vibhu MITTAL, Mehran SAHAMI
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Patent number: 10380640Abstract: Ad rendering parameters for a set of two or more ads may be determined by (a) accepting, for a set of two or more ads, ad information including at least one ad feature having a value that depends on ad rendering parameters, and (b) determining ad rendering parameters for at least one ad from the set of two or more ads using the accepted ad information. Ad rendering parameters may be determined using accepted ad rendering constraints. The ad rendering constraints may include space available and/or a maximum number of ads permitted to be rendered. The act of determining ad rendering parameters may include maximizing a value associated with serving at least one ad from the set of two or more ads with ad rendering parameters subject to the ad rendering constraints. The ad rendering parameters may include sizes of the served ads, and/or a layout of the served ads.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Shumeet Baluja, Vibhu Mittal, Mehran Sahami
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Publication number: 20190171345Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes generating code for displaying a two-dimensional media programming schedule grid, receiving a command to compress the grid at a first location along a first dimension, and generating code for displaying the grid with visible graphical fold marks defining a fold area near the first location along the first dimension.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2019Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: Richard C. Gossweiler, III, Mehran Sahami, Thomas H. Taylor, John Blackburn, David A. Brown, Neha Gupta, Manish G. Patel
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Patent number: 10289737Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a search request at a central information provider, generating a query containing media-related terms relating to the search request, and submitting the query to a search engine having access to media-related search results, wherein the query is broader than the received search request, and transmitting media-related search results generated in response to the query by the search engine, to a remote device.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2013Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Mehran Sahami, Richard C. Gossweiler, III, Manish G. Patel, John Blackburn, David A. Brown, Neha Gupta, Thomas H. Taylor
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Patent number: 10254946Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes generating code for displaying a two-dimensional media programming schedule grid, receiving a command to compress the grid at a first location along a first dimension, and generating code for displaying the grid with visible graphical fold marks defining a fold area near the first location along the first dimension.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Richard C. Gossweiler, III, Mehran Sahami, Thomas H. Taylor, John Blackburn, David A. Brown, Neha Gupta, Manish G. Patel
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Patent number: 10225596Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving information associated with a user of media services, wherein the received information does not uniquely identify one media head end for the user, identifying a plurality of head ends responsive to the received information, and generating, for display on a client device associated with the user, information for displaying a program guide aggregating channels for the plurality of head ends.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Mehran Sahami, Richard C. Gossweiler, III, Manish G. Patel, John Blackburn, David A. Brown, Neha Gupta, Thomas H. Taylor
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Patent number: 9872077Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying program guide information are disclosed. In some implementations a method includes, at a computing device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, formatting, for display, program guide data on a grid. The grid includes (i) a first axis representing units of time and (ii) a second axis representing multimedia channels. The program guide data comprises information representing a set of multimedia events. Responsive to a user-supplied selection of a multimedia event in the set of multimedia events a panel is overlaid on a portion of the grid. The panel provides additional data regarding the multimedia event.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Richard Carl Gossweiler, III, Marisa Bauer, John Wayne Blackburn, David A. Brown, Neha Gupta, Timothy Dharma Heilman, Manish Gordhan Patel, David Scott Reiss, Mehran Sahami, Maricia Scott, Thomas H. Taylor, Alice Tull, Mark Wagner, Lucy Congyun Zhang, Daniel John Zigmond
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Publication number: 20170351673Abstract: Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention allow a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive relevant search results. Queries can be expressed using character sets and/or languages that are different from the character set and/or language of at least some of the data that is to be searched. A translation between these character sets and/or languages can be performed by examining the use of terms in aligned text. Probabilities can be associated with each possible translation. Refinements can be made to these probabilities by examining user interactions with the search results.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2017Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: Vibhu Mittal, Jay M. Ponte, Mehran Sahami, Sanjay Ghemawat, John A. Bauer
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Patent number: 9747290Abstract: A client computer receives a set of search results ordered based on scheduled time of broadcast associated with respective listings of content. The listings of content include data representing time-bounded events. The client computer displays or otherwise presents a set of objects along an axis of a display bar, the objects corresponding to subsets of the search results. For example, the axis is associated with a unit of time or a unit of relevance.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Richard Carl Gossweiler, III, John Blackburn, David A Brown, Neha Gupta, Manish Gordhan Patel, Mehran Sahami, Thomas H Taylor, Daniel John Zigmond
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Patent number: 9734197Abstract: Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention allow a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive relevant search results. Queries can be expressed using character sets and/or languages that are different from the character set and/or language of at least some of the data that is to be searched. A translation between these character sets and/or languages can be performed by examining the use of terms in aligned text. Probabilities can be associated with each possible translation. Refinements can be made to these probabilities by examining user interactions with the search results.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Vibhu Mittal, Jay M. Ponte, Mehran Sahami, Sanjay Ghemawat, John A. Bauer
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Patent number: 9697205Abstract: Additional documents are automatically located that are relevant to an original document, such as a document being read by a user, and also potentially relevant to personal information of the user. The additional documents may be located based on descriptive information that includes personal information of the user and content information of the document being read. The additional documents, or links to the additional documents, may be incorporated into the document being read. In some implementations, the additional documents may be presented in-line with the document being read, such as through an in-link link or text snippet. The user can thus be efficiently presented with additional information that is relevant to the original document being read.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Shumeet Baluja, Vibhu Mittal, Mehran Sahami
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Patent number: 9510058Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a search request related to media programming and generating a search. The result has a list of one or more collections of episodes responsive to the search request, and a schedule grid displaying a plurality of episodes on a plurality of different channels for a time period, including at least one program responsive to the search request.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Richard C. Gossweiler, III, Mehran Sahami, Manish G. Patel, John Blackburn, David A. Brown, Neha Gupta, Thomas H. Taylor
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Patent number: 9380346Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving information associated with a user of media services, wherein the received information does not uniquely identify one media head end for the user, identifying a plurality of head ends responsive to the received information, and generating, for display on a client device associated with the user, information for displaying a program guide aggregating channels for the plurality of head ends.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Mehran Sahami, Richard C. Gossweiler, III, Manish G. Patel, John Blackburn, David A. Brown, Neha Gupta, Thomas H. Taylor
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Patent number: 9369765Abstract: System and methods for formatting a virtual channel are provides in which, responsive to a user selection of a plurality of time-bounded multimedia events, there is formatted for display the plurality of time-bounded multimedia events in a first virtual channel. The user is enabled to fill a first time slot in the first virtual channel with overlapping time-bounded multimedia events from the plurality of time-bounded multimedia events. A representation of a numeric count of the overlapping time-bounded multimedia events is formatted for display in the first time slot.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Richard Carl Gossweiler, III, John Blackburn, David A. Brown, Manish Gordhan Patel, Mehran Sahami, Thomas H. Taylor, Daniel John Zigmond
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Publication number: 20160088357Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying program guide information are disclosed. In some implementations a method includes, at a computing device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, formatting, for display, program guide data on a grid. The grid includes (i) a first axis representing units of time and (ii) a second axis representing multimedia channels. The program guide data comprises information representing a set of multimedia events. Responsive to a user-supplied selection of a multimedia event in the set of multimedia events a panel is overlaid on a portion of the grid. The panel provides additional data regarding the multimedia event.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventors: Richard Carl GOSSWEILER, III, Marisa Bauer, John Wayne Blackburn, David A. Brown, Neha Gupta, Timothy Dharma Heilman, Manish Gordhan Patel, David Scott Reiss, Mehran Sahami, Maricia Scott, Thomas H. Taylor, Alice Tull, Mark Wagner, Lucy Congyun Zhang, Daniel John Zigmond
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Patent number: 9282376Abstract: Disclosed are computer implemented methods, systems, and non-transitory media for representing a plurality of time-bounded events in first and second grids. The first grid has a larger size than the second grid. The second grid represents a second set of time-bounded events in the plurality of time-bounded events. A user-movable window is presented at a first position within the second grid where it encompasses a first portion of the second grid. The time-bounded events in the first portion of the second grid are displayed as a first set of time-bounded events in the first grid. Responsive to user instructions to move a position of the window from the first position to a second position within the second grid, the window is moved to the second position where it encompasses a third set of time-bounded events. Further, the first grid is updated to display the third set of time-bounded events.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Richard Carl Gossweiler, III, David Scott Reiss, Mark Wagner, John Blackburn, Thomas Henry Taylor, Marisa B. L. Bauer, David A Brown, Mehran Sahami, Neha Crosby, Timothy Dharma Heilman, Manish Gordhan Patel, Maricia Scott, Alice Tull, Lucy Congyun Zhang, Daniel John Zigmond
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Patent number: 9235849Abstract: User profile information for a user may be determined by (a) determining initial user profile information for the user, (b) inferring user profile information for the user, and (c) determining the user profile information for the user using both the initial user profile information and the inferred user profile information. Initial user profile information for the user may be determined using past search queries submitted by the user, and/or past document selections by the user. User profile information for the user may be inferred by (a) defining a node for each of a number of documents and the user, (b) adding edges between nodes if there is an association between the nodes to define a graph, and (c) inferring user profile information for the user using a topology of the graph and user profile information of other documents.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2003Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Krishna Bharat, Stephen Lawrence, Mehran Sahami