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).

  • Patent number: 9710472
    Abstract: A content processing device may be operable to analyze activity information associated with particular content identified in a content library associated with a user account. One or more entities associated with the particular content may be identified by the content processing device. The content processing device may collect, from various sources, information related to each of the identified one or more entities. The content processing device may determine, based on one or both of a result of the analysis and the collected information, update information for the particular content. The content processing device may then add, based on one or more ranking factors, item information comprising the particular content along with the determined update information to a list of items associated with the user account. Upon receiving an indication from a data processing device, the content processing device may communicate the list of items to the data processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Sean Liu, Doug Sherrets, Marco Paglia
  • Patent number: 9635400
    Abstract: A video hosting service receives videos uploaded from users and associates the uploaded videos with a set of source content videos. The source content is used to identify the source of portions of video used in the uploaded videos. The source allows a user to view the source from which a portion of a video came from. By identifying the source, the video hosting service can provide additional videos that include different portions of the same source, different sources related to the source, and different videos that use or describe the same portion of the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Doug Sherrets, Sean Liu, Brett Rolston Lider
  • Publication number: 20170098249
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Prado, Sean Liu, Doug Sherrets, Raj Krishnan
  • Patent number: 9591050
    Abstract: A computer system collects user activity data for an online media item. The user activity data includes data for users that are consuming the online media item. The computer system identifies one or more criteria that are associated with the user activity data to use to identify one or more images in the online media item for a thumbnail for the online media item and selects one or more images in the online media item, based on the user activity data, that satisfy the one or more criteria. The computer system recommends the one or more images as the thumbnail for the online media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Doug Sherrets, Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Toff, Jason Prado, Sean Liu, Karen Kavett
  • Patent number: 9542697
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Prado, Sean Liu, Doug Sherrets, Raj Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20160275186
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew Theodore Wansley, Sean Liu, Rita Chen
  • Patent number: 9418121
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying resources responsive to a search query. One of the methods includes maintaining an index for a collection of resources, where each resource is associated with zero or more respective entity tags, and each entity tag includes a respective entity name, receiving a search query from a user device, identifying resources that satisfy the search query, determining that the search query satisfies one or more descriptive query criteria, processing each entity tag that is associated with a respective identified resource, generating a results page that includes user interface elements, each selectable by a user operating the user device to initiate an entity-specific search, and sending the results page to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Emily K. Moxley, Sean Liu
  • Patent number: 9286365
    Abstract: A data synchronizing system and a method thereof are provided. One of clients capable of being connected to a synchronizing server may be selected as a synchronization processing client, and after the synchronization processing client is synchronized with all the clients, the synchronization processing client is synchronized with the synchronizing server, so as to achieve the technical efficacy of improving synchronizing convenience of a plurality of clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignees: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sean Liu
  • Patent number: 9235626
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Liu, Gunes Erkan, Doug Sherrets, Max Ventilla, Frances Bordwell Haugen
  • Patent number: 9215502
    Abstract: A method for determining user behavior related to media includes receiving a media file containing media, partitioning the media into segments, monitoring user behavior with respect to the media and the segments, logging user behavior with respect to the segments, and identifying a baseline level of user interest with respect to the media. The method may further include comparing logged user behavior with respect to a segment of the media with the baseline level of user interest with respect to the media, responsive to determining that the deviation exceeds a threshold, tagging the media segment to indicate that deviation of the logged user behavior with respect to the segment of the media from the baseline level of user interest with respect to the media, and communicating with a user device regarding tagged segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Doug Sherrets, Sean Liu, Brett Rolston Lider
  • Publication number: 20150334137
    Abstract: Provided are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for identifying reviews from comments associated with a location. User-submitted comments to various services are evaluated to identify the comment as a review. If the comment is not identified as a review, no further action is taken. If the comment is identified as a review, the user is prompted for permission to publish the comment as a review of the location. If the user provides permission, the comment is stored as a review of the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Sean Liu, Andrew Theodore Wansley, Rita Chen
  • Patent number: 9158860
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus are described herein that includes identifying a partial query entered into a search field. A query completion template is then provided for display for a category of information associated with one or more terms within the partial query, the query completion template including an interactive field that is user editable. User interaction with the interactive field is the identified. Display of the query completion template is then updated to include the results of the user interaction within the interactive of the query completion template. User selection of the updated query completion template is then identified, and in response the updated display of the query completion template is transmitted as a search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Yosi Markovich, Sean Liu, Jack Wright Menzel
  • Publication number: 20150286642
    Abstract: A content processing device may be operable to analyze activity information associated with particular content identified in a content library associated with a user account. One or more entities associated with the particular content may be identified by the content processing device. The content processing device may collect, from various sources, information related to each of the identified one or more entities. The content processing device may determine, based on one or both of a result of the analysis and the collected information, update information for the particular content. The content processing device may then add, based on one or more ranking factors, item information comprising the particular content along with the determined update information to a list of items associated with the user account. Upon receiving an indication from a data processing device, the content processing device may communicate the list of items to the data processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Sean Liu, Doug Sherrets, Marco Paglia
  • Patent number: 9149445
    Abstract: A method of treating or preventing a viral infection in a mammal by administering a compound or pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof that inhibits a phosphatidic acid synthesis enzyme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Sean Liu, Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Thomas Shenk
  • Patent number: 9141778
    Abstract: Software on a router receives configuration data that specifies a social networking service as a source for authentication according to an authentication protocol. Subsequently, the router software receives packet data from a client device for a destination other than the social networking service. The router software causes software on the client device to display a login view for the social networking service. The router software transmits the login data entered in the login view to the social networking service. And the router software receives an authorization code following a successful login by a user identified on an access control list (ACL). Then the router software transmits the packet data to the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Matthew Marra, Sean Liu
  • Patent number: 9122727
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus are described herein that include obtaining a respective ordered list of search result documents for each query in a plurality of queries. Non-overlap scores between search result documents within a first grouping in the ordered lists for a given query and remaining queries in the plurality of queries are then calculated. One or more remaining queries are then selected as candidate queries using the non-overlap scores. Overlap scores between search result documents within a second grouping in the ordered lists for the given query and the candidate queries are then calculated. One or more of the candidate queries are selected as related queries for the given query using the overlap scores. The related queries are then associated with the given query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Liu, Emily Moxley
  • Patent number: 9092531
    Abstract: A content processing device may be operable to analyze activity information associated with particular content identified in a content library associated with a user account. One or more entities associated with the particular content may be identified by the content processing device. The content processing device may collect, from various sources, information related to each of the identified one or more entities. The content processing device may determine, based on one or both of a result of the analysis and the collected information, update information for the particular content. The content processing device may then add, based on one or more ranking factors, item information comprising the particular content along with the determined update information to a list of items associated with the user account. Upon receiving an indication from a data processing device, the content processing device may communicate the list of items to the data processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Liu, Doug Sherrets, Marco Paglia
  • Publication number: 20150161130
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Sean Liu, Gunes Erkan, Doug Sherrets, Max Ventilla, Frances Bordwell Haugen
  • Publication number: 20150156425
    Abstract: A shooting system and method are disclosed, in which a first picture and a second picture are directly composed into a composite photograph when a smart wearable device selects the first picture and then takes the second picture, and the composite photograph is displayed by the smart wearable device, whereby achieving in the technical efficacy of convenient photograph compositing on the smart wearable device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicants: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sean LIU
  • Patent number: 9042871
    Abstract: A mode switching and electronic sign-in system for a mobile device and a method thereof are provided. A mobile device performs detection of a sign-in device by a wireless network, and when detecting the sign-in device, the mobile device provides an electronic sign-in message. After the electronic sign-in message passes verification, the electronic sign-in message is recorded in the sign-in device. Meanwhile, because a result of detecting the sign-in device changes, the mobile device actively switches a corresponding mode of the mobile device, so as to achieve the technical efficacy of electronic sign-in performed through the mobile device of a user and automatic switching of the corresponding mode of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignees: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sean Liu