Patents by Inventor Shane Haladuick

Shane Haladuick 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).

  • Suggestions for fallback social contacts for assistant systems
    Patent number: 11908179
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, by a client system, receiving a user input from the first user of an online social network, where the user input is associated with a subject and an intent, determining whether one or more agents associated with the intent are able to resolve the user input, identifying, responsive to determining that the one or more agents are not able to resolve the user input, one or more entities related to the subject, where each identified entity is connected to the first user via the online social network, and presenting, at the client system, one or more recommendations to the first user corresponding to the one or more entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Schissel, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Shane Haladuick, Nicholas Robin, Fuchun Peng, Aleksey Sergeyevich Fadeev
  • Suggestions for Fallback Social Contacts for Assistant Systems
    Publication number: 20220284051
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, by a client system, receiving a user input from the first user of an online social network, where the user input is associated with a subject and an intent, determining whether one or more agents associated with the intent are able to resolve the user input, identifying, responsive to determining that the one or more agents are not able to resolve the user input, one or more entities related to the subject, where each identified entity is connected to the first user via the online social network, and presenting, at the client system, one or more recommendations to the first user corresponding to the one or more entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Jason Schissel, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Shane Haladuick, Nicholas Robin, Fuchun Peng, Aleksey Sergeyevich Fadeev
  • Suggestions for fallback social contacts for assistant systems
    Patent number: 11301521
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input by a user from a client system associated with the user, parsing the user input to identify a subject and intent of the user input, determining whether one or more agents associated with the identified intent are able to resolve the user input, identifying one or more entities related to the identified subject of the user input responsive to determining that the one or more agents are not able to resolve the user input, calculating a subject-association score for each of the one or more entities, ranking the one or more entities based on their respective subject-association scores, and sending, to the client system, instructions for presenting one or more recommendations to the user corresponding to one or more of the entities having a ranking greater than a threshold ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Schissel, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Shane Haladuick, Nicholas Robin, Fuchen Peng, Aleksey Sergeyevich Fadeev