Patents by Inventor Alison Boncha
Alison Boncha 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: 10911392Abstract: In one implementation a method is provided that includes receiving a coalesced notification from a client device associated with a social group. The coalesced notification indicating that a number of messages transmitted between a first and a second user of the social group meets a pre-determined number. In this regard, the messages comprise messages associated with the first user and messages associated with the second user. The coalesced notification is provided to a display without providing contents of the messages associated with the first user and the messages associated with the second user. An interaction with the coalesced notification is detected at the display. Based on the interaction, it is determined whether to present at the display new messages in a unified list. The unified list comprising a first portion of the messages associated with the first user and a second portion of the messages associated with the second user.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Gregory Matthew Marra, Eduardo Knust Thuler, Alison Boncha, Austin Chang, Barbara Veloso Bacharach
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Patent number: 10528893Abstract: Systems and methods for generating notifications are described. A method includes receiving user input of a user of a first plurality of users of a first service to transmit an invitation to a second plurality of users to become members of the first service, wherein the first plurality of users are associated with respective online accounts of the first plurality of online accounts, the second plurality of users are specified in the user input and are associated with respective online accounts of a second plurality of online accounts of a second service.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Sandeep Mopuru, Zach Yeskel, Balaji Srinivasan, Kavi Harshawat, Alison Boncha, Yonatan Zunger
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Patent number: 10135781Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for informing a user of recent activities in an online social network. A message group in an online activity stream of an online network is identified. The message group includes a first message describing a first activity of an online user of the online network, and multiple second messages responsive to the first message, the second messages being representative of multiple ancillary activities performed in the online network with respect to the first activity. A single notification is generated that includes a first description of the first activity, different than the first message, and a second description of the multiple ancillary activities different than each of the multiple second messages. The single notification is then presented in a notification list with other notifications.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Zachary Yeskel, Brett Rolston Lider, Alison Boncha
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Patent number: 9881258Abstract: Systems and methods for generating notifications are described. One of the methods includes identifying a selection to invite users to become members of a social network and generating prompt data to allow invitations to be sent to the users based on the selection. The method further includes determining whether indications of becoming members of the social network are received from one or more of the users. The method includes transmitting notification data to inform a member that the one or more users have become members of the social network in response to determining that the indications of becoming members are received.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Sandeep Mopuru, Zach Yeskel, Balaji Srinivasan, Kavi Harshawat, Alison Boncha, Yonatan Zunger
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Patent number: 9787485Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for ordering notifications for display in a social networking environment. One example system is configured to obtain a set of notifications for a user, wherein each notification in the set of notifications is generated in response to an event in a social network and, for each notification in the set of notifications, determine an event type associated with the notification and calculate a priority score for the notification based on the event type associated with the notification. The system is further configured to display the set of notifications based on the priority score for each notification in the set of notifications.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Zachary Yeskel, Balaji Srinivasan, Brett Rolston Lider, Alison Boncha, Boris Mazniker, Andrew Ames Bunner, Gregory Matthew Marra
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Patent number: 9621505Abstract: Implementations generally relate to providing images with notifications. In some implementations, a method includes generating a notification to a target user in a social network system. The method also includes selecting one or more of the images associated with the notification based on one or more predefined selection criteria. The method also includes cropping one or more of the selected images based on one or more predefined cropping criteria. The method also includes causing the cropped images to be displayed with the notification.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2013Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Kathleen Ko, Priscilla Dao Pham, Alison Boncha, Marcus Lowe, Lauren Stephens
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Patent number: 9590942Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for informing a user of recent activities in an online social network. A notification list, displayed in the online social network, includes one or more visual references, with each visual reference displaying at least one line of context information and at least one line of content information. The context information may include a part of a message describing an original activity performed by a user in the online social network, and the content information may include a concise representation of one or more ancillary activities made by other users in response to the original activity.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Zachary Yeskel, Brett Rolston Lider, Alison Boncha
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Patent number: 9508175Abstract: Methods and systems for intelligently cropping images, including receiving, over a computer network, a source image, and then associating a first identifier tag with a first object in the source image. A cropped image is generated from the source image wherein the cropping is based on the first object. The system and method then notifying a first user that the first identifier tag is associated with the first object in the cropped image, wherein the notification includes the cropped image.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Balaji Srinivasan, Brett Rolston Lider, Zach Yeskel, Alison Boncha
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Patent number: 9461833Abstract: A method for generating coalesced notification data includes receiving first message data that is configured to be processed to display a first message. The method includes receiving second message data, which is configured to be processed to display a second message. The method further includes determining whether the first message data and the second message data are associated with a social group and merging the first message data and the second message data to generate coalesced notification data, which is processed to display a coalesced notification at the client device. The coalesced notification provides controls to display an interface that includes a first portion of the first message and a second portion of the second message in a unified list.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2012Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Gregory Matthew Marra, Eduardo Knust Thuler, Alison Boncha, Austin Chang, Barbara Veloso Bacharach
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Publication number: 20160189415Abstract: Methods and systems for intelligently cropping images, including receiving, over a computer network, a source image, and then associating a first identifier tag with a first object in the source image. A cropped image is generated from the source image wherein the cropping is based on the first object. The system and method then notifying a first user that the first identifier tag is associated with the first object in the cropped image, wherein the notification includes the cropped image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Balaji Srinivasan, Brett Rolston Lider, Zach Yeskel, Alison Boncha
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Patent number: 9317738Abstract: Methods and systems for intelligently cropping images, including receiving, over a computer network, a source image, and then associating a first identifier tag with a first object in the source image. A cropped image is generated from the source image wherein the cropping is based on the first object. The system and method then notifying a first user that the first identifier tag is associated with the first object in the cropped image, wherein the notification includes the cropped image.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Balaji Srinivasan, Brett Rolston Lider, Zach Yeskel, Alison Boncha
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Patent number: 9083670Abstract: Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for providing a user with notifications about events in a social network. A system may be configured to determine that a number of events for a user have occurred on a social network, wherein each event for the user is associated with an entity, calculate a score for each event based on a profile for the user and a profile for the entity associated with the event, and generate a notification for the user, wherein the notification comprises a plurality of information elements, wherein each information element is associated with one of the events in the number of events, and wherein the plurality of information elements in the notification are prioritized based on the score for each of the events.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2012Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Alison Boncha, Brett Rolston Lider, Zachary Yeskel, Bin Chang, Joseph Robert Smarr, Balaji Srinivasan
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Patent number: 8996616Abstract: Methods and systems that provide for cross-linking from composite images that include receiving, over a computer network, a source image and then associating a first identifier tag with a first object in the source image. A composite image is generated from the source image, wherein the composite image includes a cropped image of the first object. Then a first user is notified that the first identifier tag is associated with the first object in the cropped image and also includes a copy of the composite image. Additionally, the user can select the first object in the composite image and be linked to the source image that contains the selected first object where the first object is highlighted.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Balaji Srinivasan, Brett Rolston Lider, Zach Yeskel, Alison Boncha
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Publication number: 20150055870Abstract: Methods and systems for intelligently cropping images, including receiving, over a computer network, a source image, and then associating a first identifier tag with a first object in the source image. A cropped image is generated from the source image wherein the cropping is based on the first object. The system and method then notifying a first user that the first identifier tag is associated with the first object in the cropped image, wherein the notification includes the cropped image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Balaji Srinivasan, Brett Rolston Lider, Zach Yeskel, Alison Boncha
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Patent number: 8924493Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for ordering notifications for display in a social networking environment. One example system is configured to obtain a set of notifications for a user, wherein each notification in the set of notifications is generated in response to an event in a social network and, for each notification in the set of notifications, determine an event type associated with the notification and calculate a priority score for the notification based on the event type associated with the notification. The system is further configured to display the set of notifications based on the priority score for each notification in the set of notifications.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Zachary Yeskel, Balaji Srinivasan, Brett Rolston Lider, Alison Boncha, Boris Mazniker, Andrew A. Bunner, Gregory Matthew Marra
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Patent number: 8867841Abstract: Methods and systems for intelligently cropping images, including receiving, over a computer network, a source image, and then associating a first identifier tag with a first object in the source image. A cropped image is generated from the source image wherein the cropping is based on the first object. The system and method then notifying a first user that the first identifier tag is associated with the first object in the cropped image, wherein the notification includes the cropped image.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2012Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Balaji Srinivasan, Brett Rolston Lider, Zach Yeskel, Alison Boncha
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Publication number: 20140067932Abstract: Methods and systems that provide for cross-linking from composite images that include receiving, over a computer network, a source image and then associating a first identifier tag with a first object in the source image. A composite image is generated from the source image, wherein the composite image includes a cropped image of the first object. Then a first user is notified that the first identifier tag is associated with the first object in the cropped image and also includes a copy of the composite image. Additionally, the user can select the first object in the composite image and be linked to the source image that contains the selected first object where the first object is highlighted.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Balaji SRINIVASAN, Brett Rolston LIDER, Zach YESKEL, Alison BONCHA
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Publication number: 20140044358Abstract: Methods and systems for intelligently cropping images, including receiving, over a computer network, a source image, and then associating a first identifier tag with a first object in the source image. A cropped image is generated from the source image wherein the cropping is based on the first object. The system and method then notifying a first user that the first identifier tag is associated with the first object in the cropped image, wherein the notification includes the cropped image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2012Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Balaji SRINIVASAN, Brett Rolston Lider, Zach Yeskel, Alison Boncha
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Patent number: 8432472Abstract: A camera includes memory for storing one or more stored images each with at least a day and month of capture; a processor which, based on the stored images, determines which day and month at least an image was captured; and a display that displays only the day and month on which at least an image was captured along with a visual indicator of whether a plurality of images was captured on the displayed day and month.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Timothy J. White, Alison Boncha, John Christopher Hahn, Christopher Watkins
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Publication number: 20110205397Abstract: A digital image capture device having a soft-copy display with improved image visibility under adverse viewing conditions, comprising: an image sensor; an optical system; a soft-copy display; a data storage system storing a plurality of color transforms; an environmental sensing means; and a processor for performing the steps of capturing an input digital image; selecting a preview color transform responsive to a signal from the environmental sensing means, wherein a preview color transform that provides improved image visibility is selected for signals from the environmental sensing means corresponding to adverse viewing conditions; transforming the input digital image using the preview color transform to form a preview image; displaying the preview image on the soft-copy display; and recording the input digital image in a processor-accessible memory without using the preview color transformType: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2010Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventors: John Christopher Hahn, Kelley S. Parsons, Alison Boncha, Wayne E. Prentice, Peter C. Ozug, Thomas E. Madden