Patents by Inventor Adam James Finkelstein

Adam James Finkelstein 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: 11941680
    Abstract: Social network postings, including text, images or other media, may provide valuable information regarding a user of the social network with which the postings may be associated. With the authorization of the user, and upon authentication by the social network, an online marketplace may access the social network postings and extract data therefrom, and market one or more recommended items to the user based on the extracted data, which may include color pallets or texture pallets derived from photographs included in the postings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Brent Ivie, Ashutosh Vishwas Kulkarni, Saurabh Nangia, Adam Landry Bordelon, Aaron James Dykstra, David Michael Hurley, Adam James Finkelstein, Scott James McKee
  • Patent number: 11100544
    Abstract: A service may create image-based reviews, which include minimal or no text, to assist customers in researching products. The reviews may include images sorted or grouped (e.g., by sentiment, by product review rating, by age of item, by number of uses, etc.). Images of items may be obtained by the service from user reviews and/or other sources. The images may be associated with text, such as at least some text from associated reviews, commentary, and/or other metadata. The images may be analyzed by a classifier to identify features in the visual image, such as a location of a particular item. The images may be categorized for use in one or more user interfaces that provide image-based item reviews. In some embodiments, the images may be arranged based on a number of uses of the item in the image or by an item age of the item in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam James Finkelstein, Ho Nam Ho, Markus Wai-Keen Kwok, Siqi Zhao
  • Patent number: 10742716
    Abstract: A digital media service distributes digital media content to a plurality of devices in a graphical processing unit based distributed cluster and transmits executable instructions to these devices to initiate a collaborative filtering algorithm. Accordingly, the graphical processing unit in each of the devices, configured to utilize the collaborative filtering algorithm, may generate one or more co-occurrence vectors comprising similarities among a user's interactions with the digital media content and other users' interactions with the digital media content. These co-occurrence vectors are transmitted to the digital media service, which may create a matrix based at least in part on these vectors to determine personalized digital media content that is to be distributed to each of the devices in the distributed cluster. Accordingly, the personalized digital media content is distributed to each device in the distributed cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam James Finkelstein, David Akira Gingrich
  • Patent number: 10410273
    Abstract: A recommendation system uses artificial intelligence to identify, based on negative sentiment cues from users, item attributes, such as keywords, that users may find offensive or undesirable. The negative sentiment cues may be explicit (e.g., a user selects an option not to view a particular recommendation again), implicit (e.g., a user does not interact with recommendations relating to an attribute), or both. The system may use a computer model generated based on these identified attributes to filter or modify recommendations to a user or group of users. For instance, if a particular keyword is identified as highly offensive to a group of users, items associated with the keyword may be filtered from item recommendations presented to the group of users. If an attribute is identified as moderately offensive to a user, items associated with the attribute may be down-weighted in item recommendations presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam James Finkelstein, David Akira Gingrich, David Michael Hurley, Stephen Brent Ivie, Siu Nam Wong, Siqi Zhao
  • Patent number: 10410125
    Abstract: A recommendation system uses artificial intelligence to identify, based on negative sentiment cues from users, item attributes, such as keywords, that users may find offensive or undesirable. The negative sentiment cues may be explicit (e.g., a user selects an option not to view a particular recommendation again), implicit (e.g., a user does not interact with recommendations relating to an attribute), or both. The system may use a computer model generated based on these identified attributes to filter or modify recommendations to a user or group of users. For instance, if a particular keyword is identified as highly offensive to a group of users, items associated with the keyword may be filtered from item recommendations presented to the group of users. If an attribute is identified as moderately offensive to a user, items associated with the attribute may be down-weighted in item recommendations presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam James Finkelstein, David Akira Gingrich, David Michael Hurley, Stephen Brent Ivie, Siu Nam Wong, Siqi Zhao
  • Patent number: 10395297
    Abstract: Social network postings, including text, images or other media, may provide valuable information regarding a user of the social network with which the postings may be associated. With the authorization of the user, and upon authentication by the social network, an online marketplace may access the social network postings and extract data therefrom, and market one or more recommended items to the user based on the extracted data, which may include color pallets or texture pallets derived from photographs included in the postings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Brent Ivie, Ashutosh Vishwas Kulkarni, Saurabh Nangia, Adam Landry Bordelon, Aaron James Dykstra, David Michael Hurley, Adam James Finkelstein, Scott James McKee
  • Patent number: 9818145
    Abstract: Recommendations of items may be provided to a customer who purchases items from an online marketplace on behalf of a user account based on the interactions of the customer with the marketplace or with one or more external resources, such as a social network account affiliated with the customer. For example, systems and methods may utilize such interactions to determine which of the purchases of items on behalf of the user account are affiliated with the customer, and which may be affiliated with one or more other individuals. Similarly, the systems and methods may also identify recommendations for customers who have purchased items for delivery to a destination based on other items that have been delivered to the destination, and may further determine when a customer has purchased an item for a recipient who has already received the item from another customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam James Finkelstein, Adam Edward Shirey, Phivos Costas Avistides
  • Patent number: 9798960
    Abstract: A system that identifies attributes of an item depicted in an image using artificial intelligence is provided. For example, the system may use one or more deep belief networks (DBNs) or convolution neural networks (CNNs) trained to analyze images and identify attributes in items depicted in the images. A first artificial intelligence module may analyze an image to determine a type of item depicted in the image. The system may then select a second artificial intelligence module that is associated with the type of item and use the second artificial intelligence module to identify attributes in the item depicted in the image. Identified attributes, if associated with a confidence level over a threshold value, may be provided to a user. The user may provide feedback on the accuracy of the identified attributes, which can be used to further train the first and/or second artificial intelligence modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Alexander Santos, Adam James Finkelstein, David Akira Gingrich, David Michael Hurley, Siqi Zhao
  • Publication number: 20170132497
    Abstract: A system that identifies attributes of an item depicted in an image using artificial intelligence is provided. For example, the system may use one or more deep belief networks (DBNs) or convolution neural networks (CNNs) trained to analyze images and identify attributes in items depicted in the images. A first artificial intelligence module may analyze an image to determine a type of item depicted in the image. The system may then select a second artificial intelligence module that is associated with the type of item and use the second artificial intelligence module to identify attributes in the item depicted in the image. Identified attributes, if associated with a confidence level over a threshold value, may be provided to a user. The user may provide feedback on the accuracy of the identified attributes, which can be used to further train the first and/or second artificial intelligence modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Anthony Alexander Santos, Adam James Finkelstein, David Akira Gingrich, David Michael Hurley, Siqi Zhao
  • Patent number: 9569700
    Abstract: A system that identifies attributes of an item depicted in an image using artificial intelligence is provided. For example, the system may use one or more deep belief networks (DBNs) or convolution neural networks (CNNs) trained to analyze images and identify attributes in items depicted in the images. A first artificial intelligence module may analyze an image to determine a type of item depicted in the image. The system may then select a second artificial intelligence module that is associated with the type of item and use the second artificial intelligence module to identify attributes in the item depicted in the image. Identified attributes, if associated with a confidence level over a threshold value, may be provided to a user. The user may provide feedback on the accuracy of the identified attributes, which can be used to further train the first and/or second artificial intelligence modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Alexander Santos, Adam James Finkelstein, David Akira Gingrich, David Michael Hurley, Siqi Zhao