Patents by Inventor Zoltan I. Gyongyi
Zoltan I. Gyongyi 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: 9477720Abstract: This specification describes technologies relating to searching. In general, aspects of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving, at a computing device, a search query from a user, receiving, at the computing device, search results responsive to the search query, the search results each associated with digital content stored in one or more computer-readable storage media, determining that a first search result of the search results is associated with a first endorsement generated by a first user, determining that the first user is a member of a social graph of the user, and transmitting instructions to display the search results to the user, the instructions including instructions to display a first endorsement annotation associated with the first search result.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2012Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Zoltan I. Gyongyi, Matthew E. Kulick, Mikhail Lopyrev, Viswanath Subramanian
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Patent number: 9208228Abstract: In one aspect, a system includes: an indexing engine for indexing a plurality of sources of content, receiving a search query and returning search results; a ranking engine for ranking search results to produce ranked results, the ranking engine coupled to receive search results from the indexing engine; a modification engine for generating modified results using information from additional sources and the ranked results, the modification engine coupled to receive the ranked results from the ranking engine, the modification engine coupled to receive the information from the additional sources; and a presentation engine for sending modified results and an annotation, the presentation engine coupled to receive modified results and the annotation from the modification engine, the presentation engine coupled to provide the modified results and the annotation to a client device. The present disclosure also includes a method for retrieving social videos.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Zoltan I. Gyongyi, Subramaniam Ganapathy, Viswanath Subramanian
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Patent number: 9092529Abstract: This specification describes technologies relating to searching. In general, aspects of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving, at a computing device, a search query from a user, receiving, at the computing device, search results responsive to the search query, the search results each associated with digital content stored in one or more computer-readable storage media, determining that a first search result of the search results is associated with a first endorsement generated by a first user, determining that the first user is a member of a social graph of the user, and transmitting instructions to display the search results to the user, the instructions including instructions to display a first endorsement annotation associated with the first search result.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Zoltan I. Gyongyi, Matthew E. Kulick, Mikhail Lopyrev, Viswanath Subramanian
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Patent number: 9064002Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for social identity clustering. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a connection graph representing public social data, where the nodes represent social identities and each edge is either a “me” edge between identities claimed to belong to the same person or a “friend” edge between identities claimed to belong to different identities. The method further includes converting the graph to a cluster graph in which each node initially corresponds to a single node of the connection graph. The method further includes updating the cluster graph by iteratively merging cluster nodes based on an analysis of the weight of the “me” edges connecting them, and then replacing the merged cluster nodes within the graph with a new cluster node containing the merged cluster nodes, where the edges of the new cluster node are the aggregated edges of the merged cluster nodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Zoltan I. Gyongyi, Maureen Heymans, Mikhail Lopyrev, Hein Roehrig
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Patent number: 8965883Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for analyzing quality of user-generated content involve identifying interactions between users through an electronic network and assigning a weighting factor to each interaction representing a quality of the interaction. A user credential score is generated for each user based on the weighting factors for each interaction. The user credential scores are stored in association with a user identifier on a computer-readable storage device.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2009Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Xiance Si, Jian Gong Deng, Huacheng Ke, Dong Zhang, Zoltan I. Gyongyi, Edward Y. Chang
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Patent number: 8880608Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage devices, for determining social affinities from public data. In one aspect, a method computes numeric affinity scores or weights between pairs of network identities, e.g., identities made public by users of social web sites on the Internet, where the pairs of identities appear to represent pairs of individual people, using explicit and inferred social connections obtained from public user data on the Internet. Some of the system and methods explore all social connections (paths) between any given pair of vertices X and Y in the weighted graph data structure of such social connections and aggregates information about their number and relative strength to produce the affinity score from X to Y.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2013Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Zoltan I. Gyongyi
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Patent number: 8626835Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for social identity clustering. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a connection graph representing public social data, where the nodes represent social identities and each edge is either a “me” edge between identities claimed to belong to the same person or a “friend” edge between identities claimed to belong to different identities. The method further includes converting the graph to a cluster graph in which each node initially corresponds to a single node of the connection graph. The method further includes updating the cluster graph by iteratively merging cluster nodes based on an analysis of the weight of the “me” edges connecting them, and then replacing the merged cluster nodes within the graph with a new cluster node containing the merged cluster nodes, where the edges of the new cluster node are the aggregated edges of the merged cluster nodes.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Zoltan I. Gyongyi, Maureen Heymans, Mikhail Lopyrev, Hein Roehrig
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Patent number: 8560605Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage devices, for determining social affinities from public data. In one aspect, a method computes numeric affinity scores or weights between pairs of network identities, e.g., identities made public by users of social web sites on the Internet, where the pairs of identities appear to represent pairs of individual people, using explicit and inferred social connections obtained from public user data on the Internet. Some of the system and methods explore all social connections (paths) between any given pair of vertices X and Y in the weighted graph data structure of such social connections and aggregates information about their number and relative strength to produce the affinity score from X to Y.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2010Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Zoltan I. Gyongyi
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Publication number: 20120215773Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for analyzing quality of user-generated content involve identifying interactions between users through an electronic network and assigning a weighting factor to each interaction representing a quality of the interaction. A user credential score is generated for each user based on the weighting factors for each interaction. The user credential scores are stored in association with a user identifier on a computer-readable storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2009Publication date: August 23, 2012Inventors: Xiance Si, Jian Gong Deng, Huacheng Ke, Dong Zhang, Zoltan I. Gyongyi, Edward Y. Chang