Patents by Inventor Alden Kroll

Alden Kroll 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).

  • Publication number: 20240095770
    Abstract: There may be large numbers of content items available at current content provider systems. Incentive items may be inserted among content items, for example, associated with content categories, that may reward uses for viewing content items. When incentive items are selected by a user, the user may be associated with credit towards a bonus item or award a bonus item. Incentive items may have associated preference factors that may be manipulated to increase the probability of such incentive items being presented to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Adil Sardar, Sarah Kneller, Alden Kroll, John Shaw
  • Publication number: 20240095785
    Abstract: Described herein are, among other things, techniques, devices, and systems for generating content-item recommendations that are based, at least in part, on data that is unique to respective geographical regions associated with respective users. For instance, the content-item recommendations may be based at least in part on sales data for the respective geographical regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Adil Sardar, Dennis Geels, Alden Kroll, Christen Coomer, Lakulish Antani
  • Patent number: 11771999
    Abstract: Described herein are, among other things, techniques, devices, and systems for generating personalized game-notification feeds for users. In some instances, a remote computing system that offers one or more games for acquisition may determine which notifications generated by respective game publishers are likely to be of interest to different users and, after doing so, may generate personalized game-notification feeds comprising the selected notifications. Further, each of the users may provide feedback regarding one or more of the notifications in the notification feed, which the system may use to re-select notifications and re-generating personalized game-notification feeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: John O'Rorke, Dennis Geels, Adil Sardar, Alden Kroll
  • Publication number: 20220164407
    Abstract: Described herein are, among other things, techniques, devices, and systems for generating one or more trained machine-learning models. Also described herein are techniques, devices, and systems for applying a consumption history of a particular user to the trained model(s) to generate score data indicating a correlation between each content-item title and the consumption history. The techniques then determine a ranked list of content items having a highest correlation to the consumption history, which may be used to retrieve videos associated with the most-correlated content items for generating a compilation video composed of these retrieved videos.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Adil Sardar, Anthony John Cox, Mark Zbikowski, Christian Carollo, Martin Otten, Taylor Sherman, Alden Kroll, Donald Ichiro Lambe
  • Patent number: 11194879
    Abstract: Described herein are, among other things, techniques, devices, and systems for generating one or more trained machine-learning models. Also described herein are techniques, devices, and systems for applying a consumption history of a particular user to the trained model(s) to generate score data indicating a correlation between each content-item title and the consumption history. The techniques then determine a ranked list of content items having a highest correlation to the consumption history, which may be used to retrieve videos associated with the most-correlated content items for generating a compilation video composed of these retrieved videos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: Adil Sardar, Anthony John Cox, Mark Zbikowski, Christian Carollo, Martin Otten, Taylor Sherman, Alden Kroll, Donald Ichiro Lambe
  • Publication number: 20210291059
    Abstract: Described herein are, among other things, techniques, devices, and systems for generating personalized game-notification feeds for users. In some instances, a remote computing system that offers one or more games for acquisition may determine which notifications generated by respective game publishers are likely to be of interest to different users and, after doing so, may generate personalized game-notification feeds comprising the selected notifications. Further, each of the users may provide feedback regarding one or more of the notifications in the notification feed, which the system may use to re-select notifications and re-generating personalized game-notification feeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: John O'Rorke, Dennis Geels, Adil Sardar, Alden Kroll
  • Publication number: 20210011939
    Abstract: Described herein are, among other things, techniques, devices, and systems for generating one or more trained machine-learning models. Also described herein are techniques, devices, and systems for applying a consumption history of a particular user to the trained model(s) to generate score data indicating a correlation between each content-item title and the consumption history. The techniques then determine a ranked list of content items having a highest correlation to the consumption history, which may be used to retrieve videos associated with the most-correlated content items for generating a compilation video composed of these retrieved videos.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Adil Sardar, Anthony John Cox, Mark Zbikowski, Christian Carollo, Martin Otten, Taylor Sherman, Alden Kroll, Donald Ichiro Lambe