Patents by Inventor Sean Liu
Sean Liu 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: 11503194Abstract: A coupling system for peripheral devices may include a housing and a shaft assembly. An end of the shaft assembly is threaded and couples to and uncouples from a peripheral device by relative rotational movement between the peripheral device and the shaft assembly. An inner cavity of the housing and another end of the shaft assembly defines a limited range of rotational motion between first and second rotational positions. Rotating the shaft assembly to the first rotational position allows for the peripheral device to be rotated relative to both the shaft assembly and the housing to couple the peripheral device to the housing via the shaft assembly. With the peripheral device coupled to the shaft assembly, relative rotational motion between the peripheral device and the housing is allowed between the first rotational position and the second rotational position without rotating the peripheral device relative to the shaft assembly.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Yoy Dai, Sean Liu, Giuseppe Russo, Steven Takayama
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Publication number: 20220240740Abstract: A vacuum cleaner comprises a housing having a longitudinal axis. A motor-fan assembly is mounted in the housing and arranged to generate an airflow along an airflow path from a dirty air inlet to an air exhaust. A retractable nozzle defines the dirty air inlet and is moveably mounted on the housing. At least a portion of the retractable nozzle is arranged to move between a retracted configuration within the housing and a deployed configuration outside the housing. The portion of the retractable nozzle in the retracted configuration is aligned in a direction along the longitudinal axis and the portion of the retractable nozzle in the deployed configuration is aligned in a direction across the longitudinal axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2021Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Oleksiy Sergyeyenko, Ashok Samuel Baskar, Sean Liu
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Patent number: 10977305Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for generating location-based playlists. The disclosed method includes providing a music service for generating playlists for a location, identifying users having respective user devices within the defined boundaries of the location, and aggregating music preferences of the identified users. Each of the user devices have access to the music service and the aggregated music preferences of the identified users identify a plurality of music tracks. The disclosed method further includes generating a playlist having the plurality of music tracks based on the aggregated music preferences and providing an access to the generated playlist to the identified users at the location. The plurality of music tracks of the playlist is provided for listening by the music service to one or more of the user devices.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Andrew Theodore Wansley, Sean Liu, Rita Chen
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Patent number: 10747802Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Doug Sherrets, Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Toff, Jason Prado, Sean Liu, Karen Kavett
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Publication number: 20200050629Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for generating location-based playlists. The disclosed method includes providing a music service for generating playlists for a location, identifying users having respective user devices within the defined boundaries of the location, and aggregating music preferences of the identified users. Each of the user devices have access to the music service and the aggregated music preferences of the identified users identify a plurality of music tracks. The disclosed method further includes generating a playlist having the plurality of music tracks based on the aggregated music preferences and providing an access to the generated playlist to the identified users at the location. The plurality of music tracks of the playlist is provided for listening by the music service to one or more of the user devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Andrew Theodore Wansley, Sean Liu, Rita Chen
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Publication number: 20200042554Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for discovering and selecting location-based music. The disclosed method includes identifying a user having a user device, determining a distance zone proximate to the user device, and identifying a group of users having respective nearby devices within the distance zone. Each of the nearby devices is in progress of playing a selected music track. Each of the identified user device and the nearby devices has access to an application for accessing online music. The disclosed method further includes generating a playlist for the user device based on examination of the selected music tracks being played by the users and forwarding the generated playlist to the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Sean Liu, Rajeev Nayak, Rita Chen, Andrew Theodore Wansley
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Patent number: 10452708Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for generating location-based playlists. The disclosed method includes providing a music service for generating playlists for a location, identifying users having respective user devices within the defined boundaries of the location, and aggregating music preferences of the identified users. Each of the user devices have access to the music service and the aggregated music preferences of the identified users identify a plurality of music tracks. The disclosed method further includes generating a playlist having the plurality of music tracks based on the aggregated music preferences and providing an access to the generated playlist to the identified users at the location. The plurality of music tracks of the playlist is provided for listening by the music service to one or more of the user devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Andrew Theodore Wansley, Sean Liu, Rita Chen
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Patent number: 10326687Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for computer networking is provided. The present invention may include a method of using media access control (MAC) multicast procedures to discover remote node addressability, and InfiniBand® (InfiniBand® and all InfiniBand® based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of System I/O, Incorporated and/or its affiliates) protocols to connect sets of queue pairs in implementing one or more communication channels, comprising preparing hardware to connect point-to-point links between a systems; discovering remote systems on the other side of the links through a discovery process; creating administrative traffic lanes; verifying the connection between nodes; initiating the auxiliary traffic flow interface; negotiating and connecting buffers; and exchanging node descriptors.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Richard K. Errickson, Sean Liu, Michael Lyons, Peter K. Szwed
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Patent number: 10320654Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for computer networking is provided. The present invention may include a method of using media access control (MAC) multicast procedures to discover remote node addressability, and InfiniBand® (InfiniBand® and all InfiniBand® based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of System I/O, Incorporated and/or its affiliates) protocols to connect sets of queue pairs in implementing one or more communication channels, comprising preparing hardware to connect point-to-point links between a systems; discovering remote systems on the other side of the links through a discovery process; creating administrative traffic lanes; verifying the connection between nodes; initiating the auxiliary traffic flow interface; negotiating and connecting buffers; and exchanging node descriptors.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Richard K. Errickson, Sean Liu, Michael Lyons, Peter K. Szwed
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Publication number: 20190020569Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for computer networking is provided. The present invention may include a method of using media access control (MAC) multicast procedures to discover remote node addressability, and InfiniBand® (InfiniBand® and all InfiniBand® based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of System I/O, Incorporated and/or its affiliates) protocols to connect sets of queue pairs in implementing one or more communication channels, comprising preparing hardware to connect point-to-point links between a systems; discovering remote systems on the other side of the links through a discovery process; creating administrative traffic lanes; verifying the connection between nodes; initiating the auxiliary traffic flow interface; negotiating and connecting buffers; and exchanging node descriptors.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2017Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventors: Richard K. Errickson, Sean Liu, Michael Lyons, Peter K. Szwed
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Publication number: 20190020567Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for computer networking is provided. The present invention may include a method of using media access control (MAC) multicast procedures to discover remote node addressability, and InfiniBand® (InfiniBand® and all InfiniBand® based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of System I/O, Incorporated and/or its affiliates) protocols to connect sets of queue pairs in implementing one or more communication channels, comprising preparing hardware to connect point-to-point links between a systems; discovering remote systems on the other side of the links through a discovery process; creating administrative traffic lanes; verifying the connection between nodes; initiating the auxiliary traffic flow interface; negotiating and connecting buffers; and exchanging node descriptors.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2017Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventors: Richard K. Errickson, Sean Liu, Michael Lyons, Peter K. Szwed
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Patent number: 10171522Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system for video commentary is described. A method may comprise providing particular media content to two or more user computing devices. The method may further comprise receiving, from a first user computing device of the two or more user computing devices, a selection to view comments from a second user computing device of the two or more user computing devices. The method may also comprise receiving one or more comments from the second user computing device of the two or more user computing devices. The one or more comments from the second user computing device may be associated with video media content. The method may additionally comprise transmitting the one or more comments from the second user computing device to the first user computing device based upon, at least in part, the selection from the first user computing device to view the comments.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2012Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Sean Liu, Nikhyl Singhal
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Patent number: 10061851Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a search query from a searching user, receiving contact data associated with a user that is determined to be responsive to the search query, the contact data being provided from one or more data sources, and providing an electronic document including instructions to display a search results page including search results responsive to the search query and a profile card associated with the user, the profile card including one or more graphical representations associated with an interaction channel, each interaction channel being associated with respective contact data of the contact data, and each graphical representation being operable to receive user input and initiate execution of an associated interaction from the search results page, an interaction interface used to execute the associated interaction being displayed concurrently with the search results page.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Sara Su, Subramaniam Ganapathy, Jin Zhou, Sean Liu, Saksiri Tanphaichitr, Abigail Jones
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Patent number: 10055462Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for updating a set of results. In some implementations, a search query associated with an entity reference is received. The entity reference corresponds to one or more distinct entities. A set of results for the search query is provided, and the set of results distinguishes between distinct entities. One or more attributes for at least one entity of the one or more distinct entities are identified based at least in part on the set of results. One or more additional search queries are identified based on the search query, the at least one entity, and the one or more attributes. An input selecting at least one of the additional search queries is received. An updated set of results is provided based on the selected additional search queries. The updated set of results comprises at least one result not in the set of results.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Emily Moxley, Sean Liu
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Patent number: 9984155Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a search query, identifying a plurality of search results that are responsive to the search query, the plurality of search results including a plurality of items of digital content distributed using one or more social networking services, and determining that one or more terms provided in the search query is an active keyword and, in response: defining a first sub-set of items, the first sub-set of items including items of the plurality of items of digital content and being responsive to the active keyword, and providing items in the first sub-set of items for display as a discussion stream within search results.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2012Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Sean Liu, David Yen, Sagar Kamdar, Kumar Mayur Thakur, Yihua Wu, Anthony S. Hyatt
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Patent number: 9836766Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for personalizing landing pages. In one aspect, a method includes generating, by one or more servers belonging to a first domain and for a request, a personalized landing page that includes the personalized landing page data, wherein the landing page belongs to the first domain, and the landing page includes at least one link to a resource of the first party that belongs to the second domain; and providing, by the one or more servers, the personalized landing page to the user device, wherein the personalized landing page, when processed by the user device, generates a personalized landing page environment that belongs to the first domain.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Prado, Sean Liu, Doug Sherrets, Raj Krishnan
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Publication number: 20170345061Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for personalizing landing pages. In one aspect, a method includes generating, by one or more servers belonging to a first domain and for a request, a personalized landing page that includes the personalized landing page data, wherein the landing page belongs to the first domain, and the landing page includes at least one link to a resource of the first party that belongs to the second domain; and providing, by the one or more servers, the personalized landing page to the user device, wherein the personalized landing page, when processed by the user device, generates a personalized landing page environment that belongs to the first domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Prado, Sean Liu, Doug Sherrets, Raj Krishnan
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Patent number: 9785979Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for personalizing landing pages. In one aspect, a method includes generating, by one or more servers belonging to a first domain and for a request, a personalized landing page that includes the personalized landing page data, wherein the landing page belongs to the first domain, and the landing page includes at least one link to a resource of the first party that belongs to the second domain; and providing, by the one or more servers, the personalized landing page to the user device, wherein the personalized landing page, when processed by the user device, generates a personalized landing page environment that belongs to the first domain.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Prado, Sean Liu, Doug Sherrets, Raj Krishnan
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Patent number: 9720913Abstract: A system obtains a document that is responsive to a user query. The system determines an interest of the user based on stored data associated with the user, and determines that a portion of the document relates to the interest of the user. The system generates a first snippet for the document based on the portion of the document that relates to the interest of the user, and provides the first snippet for the document as part of a result list.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Sean Liu, Gunes Erkan, Doug Sherrets, Max Ventilla, Frances Bordwell Haugen
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Patent number: D921368Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.Inventors: Derek Muir, Stephen Houghton, Sean Liu