Patents by Inventor Alexander Nicholas Johnson

Alexander Nicholas Johnson 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: 11818091
    Abstract: Discovery of communication platform features or exposure of such features to the user may include generating embeddings for a variety of types of communication platform content and communications. These embeddings may be used to characterize and compare various communication platform features and ultimately expose these features to a user when the user may not have otherwise encountered them. The embeddings may additionally or alternatively be used to determine a degree of alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Oliner, Renaud Bourassa-Denis, Zhifeng Deng, Leigh Ann Johnson, Alexander Nicholas Johnson, Aaron Maurer
  • Patent number: 11711404
    Abstract: A communication platform may comprise different systems for helping a user discover features of the platform. However, the systems may generate different results. An application programming interface (API) may receive such outputs and may be configured to select between the outputs based on detecting a state at a user's computing device and/or using a machine-learned model to weight the outputs and/or probabilities associated therewith using a target metric. The API may then rank the outputs and select from among them based at least in part on the target metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Mauer, Alexander Nicholas Johnson, Adam Oliner, Zhifeng Deng
  • Publication number: 20220141263
    Abstract: A communication platform may comprise different systems for helping a user discover features of the platform. However, the systems may generate different results. An application programming interface (API) may receive such outputs and may be configured to select between the outputs based on detecting a state at a user's computing device and/or using a machine-learned model to weight the outputs and/or probabilities associated therewith using a target metric. The API may then rank the outputs and select from among them based at least in part on the target metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Aaron Mauer, Alexander Nicholas Johnson, Adam Oliner, Zhifeng Deng
  • Patent number: 11297030
    Abstract: Discovery of communication platform features or exposure of such features to the user may include generating embeddings for a variety of types of communication platform content and communications. These embeddings may be used to characterize and compare various communication platform features and ultimately expose these features to a user when the user may not have otherwise encountered them. Embeddings may be generated to characterize a user's interactions with a communication platform and/or characterize a channel and the embeddings may be used to expose methods of communicating with the user and/or over the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Oliner, Renaud Bourassa-Denis, Zhifeng Deng, Leigh Ann Johnson, Alexander Nicholas Johnson, Aaron Maurer
  • Patent number: 11258751
    Abstract: Discovery of communication platform features or exposure of such features to the user may include generating embeddings for a variety of types of communication platform content and communications. These embeddings may be used to characterize and compare various communication platform features and ultimately expose these features to a user when the user may not have otherwise encountered them. Embeddings may be generated to characterize a user's interactions with a communication platform and/or characterize a channel and the embeddings may be used to expose methods of communicating with the user and/or over the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Oliner, Renaud Bourassa-Denis, Zhifeng Deng, Leigh Ann Johnson, Alexander Nicholas Johnson, Aaron Maurer
  • Publication number: 20210352039
    Abstract: Discovery of communication platform features or exposure of such features to the user may include generating embeddings for a variety of types of communication platform content and communications. These embeddings may be used to characterize and compare various communication platform features and ultimately expose these features to a user when the user may not have otherwise encountered them. Embeddings may be generated to characterize a user's interactions with a communication platform and/or characterize a channel and the embeddings may be used to expose methods of communicating with the user and/or over the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Adam Oliner, Renaud Bourassa-Denis, Zhifeng Deng, Leigh Ann Johnson, Alexander Nicholas Johnson, Aaron Maurer
  • Publication number: 20210352038
    Abstract: Discovery of communication platform features or exposure of such features to the user may include generating embeddings for a variety of types of communication platform content and communications. These embeddings may be used to characterize and compare various communication platform features and ultimately expose these features to a user when the user may not have otherwise encountered them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Adam Oliner, Renaud Bourassa-Denis, Zhifeng Deng, Leigh Ann Johnson, Alexander Nicholas Johnson, Aaron Maurer