Patents by Inventor Andrew Maxwell

Andrew Maxwell 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: 20260087068
    Abstract: In various embodiments described herein, a visualization system receives message requests from client devices, wherein the message requests comprise at least location data that identifies a location of a client device, and media content, wherein the media content includes at least one of image data, audio data, and video data. In response to receiving the message requests that comprise the media content, the visualization system analyzes and parses the media content to detect one or more tags embedded within the media content. In response to detecting the tag, the visualization system identifies a campaign or account referenced by or associated with the tag. Based on the identification of the campaign based on the tag within the media content, the visualization system determines a distribution of the campaign based on the location data from the message request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2025
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Inventors: Xuan Huang, Andrew Maxwell, Shuai Tong, Xiaoyu Wang
  • Patent number: 12524457
    Abstract: In various embodiments described herein, a visualization system receives message requests from client devices, wherein the message requests comprise at least location data that identifies a location of a client device, and media content, wherein the media content includes at least one of image data, audio data, and video data. In response to receiving the message requests that comprise the media content, the visualization system analyzes and parses the media content to detect one or more tags embedded within the media content. In response to detecting the tag, the visualization system identifies a campaign or account referenced by or associated with the tag. Based on the identification of the campaign based on the tag within the media content, the visualization system determines a distribution of the campaign based on the location data from the message request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Xuan Huang, Andrew Maxwell, Shuai Tong, Xiaoyu Wang
  • Publication number: 20240256595
    Abstract: In various embodiments described herein, a visualization system receives message requests from client devices, wherein the message requests comprise at least location data that identifies a location of a client device, and media content, wherein the media content includes at least one of image data, audio data, and video data. In response to receiving the message requests that comprise the media content, the visualization system analyzes and parses the media content to detect one or more tags embedded within the media content. In response to detecting the tag, the visualization system identifies a campaign or account referenced by or associated with the tag. Based on the identification of the campaign based on the tag within the media content, the visualization system determines a distribution of the campaign based on the location data from the message request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Xuan Huang, Andrew Maxwell, Shuai Tong, Xiaoyu Wang
  • Patent number: 11983215
    Abstract: In various embodiments described herein, a visualization system receives message requests from client devices, wherein the message requests comprise at least location data that identifies a location of a client device, and media content, wherein the media content includes at least one of image data, audio data, and video data. In response to receiving the message requests that comprise the media content, the visualization system analyzes and parses the media content to detect one or more tags embedded within the media content. In response to detecting the tag, the visualization system identifies a campaign or account referenced by or associated with the tag. Based on the identification of the campaign based on the tag within the media content, the visualization system determines a distribution of the campaign based on the location data from the message request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Xuan Huang, Andrew Maxwell, Shuai Tong, Xiaoyu Wang
  • Patent number: 11610357
    Abstract: A system of generating targeted user lists using customizable avatar characteristics includes a messaging server system. The messaging server system includes an application server that generates a database of mutable avatar characteristics, a database of style categories, and a targeted user list. The application server then causes a media content item to be displayed on display screens of electronic devices associated with the set of user identifiers included in the targeted user list. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Mehrdad Jahangiri, Andrew Maxwell, Athena Rich
  • Publication number: 20230029356
    Abstract: In various embodiments described herein, a visualization system receives message requests from client devices, wherein the message requests comprise at least location data that identifies a location of a client device, and media content, wherein the media content includes at least one of image data, audio data, and video data. In response to receiving the message requests that comprise the media content, the visualization system analyzes and parses the media content to detect one or more tags embedded within the media content. In response to detecting the tag, the visualization system identifies a campaign or account referenced by or associated with the tag. Based on the identification of the campaign based on the tag within the media content, the visualization system determines a distribution of the campaign based on the location data from the message request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Xuan Huang, Andrew Maxwell, Shuai Tong, Xiaoyu Wang
  • Patent number: 11487794
    Abstract: In various embodiments described herein, a visualization system receives message requests from client devices, wherein the message requests comprise at least location data that identifies a location of a client device, and media content, wherein the media content includes at least one of image data, audio data, and video data. In response to receiving the message requests that comprise the media content, the visualization system analyzes and parses the media content to detect one or more tags embedded within the media content. In response to detecting the tag, the visualization system identifies a campaign or account referenced by or associated with the tag. Based on the identification of the campaign based on the tag within the media content, the visualization system determines a distribution of the campaign based on the location data from the message request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Xuan Huang, Andrew Maxwell, Shuai Tong, Xiaoyu Wang
  • Publication number: 20220130093
    Abstract: A system of generating targeted user lists using customizable avatar characteristics includes a messaging server system. The messaging server system includes an application server that generates a database of mutable avatar characteristics, a database of style categories, and a targeted user list. The application server then causes a media content item to be displayed on display screens of electronic devices associated with the set of user identifiers included in the targeted user list. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Mehrdad Jahangiri, Andrew Maxwell, Athena Rich
  • Patent number: 11269002
    Abstract: A high-voltage lead-through device includes an insulator body having a solid exterior and including insulation, a main conductor passing therethrough, a sensor adjacent the main conductor inside the insulator body measuring a physical property of the device and a communication unit adjacent the main conductor outside the insulator body, wherein the main conductor has a first electric potential, a section of the solid exterior of the insulator body faces a second electric potential, the communication unit is connected to the sensor using a signal conductor as a first electrical communication medium and the communication unit employs a different communication medium for communicating with a data distribution device at a third electric potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG
    Inventors: Cecilia Forssén, Joachim Schiessling, Peter Sjöberg, Andrew Maxwell
  • Patent number: 11189070
    Abstract: A system of generating targeted user lists using customizable avatar characteristics includes a messaging server system. The messaging server system includes an application server that generates a database of mutable avatar characteristics, a database of style categories, and a targeted user list. The application server then causes a media content item to be displayed on display screens of electronic devices associated with the set of user identifiers included in the targeted user list. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Mehrdad Jahangiri, Andrew Maxwell, Athena Rich
  • Publication number: 20210356509
    Abstract: A high-voltage lead-through device includes an insulator body having a solid exterior and including insulation, a main conductor passing therethrough, a sensor adjacent the main conductor inside the insulator body measuring a physical property of the device and a communication unit adjacent the main conductor outside the insulator body, wherein the main conductor has a first electric potential, a section of the solid exterior of the insulator body faces a second electric potential, the communication unit is connected to the sensor using a signal conductor as a first electrical communication medium and the communication unit employs a different communication medium for communicating with a data distribution device at a third electric potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Cecilia Forssén, Joachim Schiessling, Peter Sjöberg, Andrew Maxwell
  • Patent number: 11137293
    Abstract: A wound electrical component includes a wound body comprising a plurality of wound layers of an electrically insulating material around a longitudinal axis of the body. The component also includes at least one printed electronics sensor consisting of printed circuits on a flexible substrate. Each sensor is interleaved between two of the wound layers of the wound body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: ABB Power Grids Switzerland AG
    Inventors: Andrew Maxwell, Cecilia Forssen, Joachim Schiessling
  • Publication number: 20200378836
    Abstract: A wound electrical component includes a wound body comprising a plurality of wound layers of an electrically insulating material around a longitudinal axis of the body. The component also includes at least one printed electronics sensor consisting of printed circuits on a flexible substrate. Each sensor is interleaved between two of the wound layers of the wound body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew MAXWELL, Cecilia FORSSEN, Joachim SCHIESSLING
  • Publication number: 20200334885
    Abstract: A system of generating targeted user lists using customizable avatar characteristics includes a messaging server system. The messaging server system includes an application server that generates a database of mutable avatar characteristics, a database of style categories, and a targeted user list. The application server then causes a media content item to be displayed on display screens of electronic devices associated with the set of user identifiers included in the targeted user list. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Mehrdad Jahangiri, Andrew Maxwell, Athena Rich
  • Publication number: 20200201893
    Abstract: In various embodiments described herein, a visualization system receives message requests from client devices, wherein the message requests comprise at least location data that identifies a location of a client device, and media content, wherein the media content includes at least one of image data, audio data, and video data. In response to receiving the message requests that comprise the media content, the visualization system analyzes and parses the media content to detect one or more tags embedded within the media content. In response to detecting the tag, the visualization system identifies a campaign or account referenced by or associated with the tag. Based on the identification of the campaign based on the tag within the media content, the visualization system determines a distribution of the campaign based on the location data from the message request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Xuan Huang, Andrew Maxwell, Shuai Tong, Xiaoyu Wang
  • Patent number: 10678818
    Abstract: In various embodiments described herein, a visualization system receives message requests from client devices, wherein the message requests comprise at least location data that identifies a location of a client device, and media content, wherein the media content includes at least one of image data, audio data, and video data. In response to receiving the message requests that comprise the media content, the visualization system analyzes and parses the media content to detect one or more tags embedded within the media content. In response to detecting the tag, the visualization system identifies a campaign or account referenced by or associated with the tag. Based on the identification of the campaign based on the tag within the media content, the visualization system determines a distribution of the campaign based on the location data from the message request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Xuan Huang, Andrew Maxwell, Shuai Tong, Xiaoyu Wang
  • Patent number: 10387917
    Abstract: One or more keywords and/or information about one or more properties may be accepted, and a set of one or more taxonomy categories may be determined using at least some of the keyword(s) and/or property information and perhaps term co-occurrence clusters. The determined taxonomy categories may be presented to an advertising user as an ad targeting suggestion. Each taxonomy category may have at least one associated property (e.g., Web document), that participates in an advertising network. An advertiser selection of a suggested taxonomy category may be accepted, and the serving of an ad of the advertiser may be targeted to each property associated with the selected suggested taxonomy category. Alternatively, such properties may be presented to an advertising user as an ad targeting suggestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sumit Agarwal, Brian Axe, David Gehrking, Ching Law, Andrew Maxwell, Gokul Rajaram, Leora Wiseman
  • Publication number: 20190205430
    Abstract: In various embodiments described herein, a visualization system receives message requests from client devices, wherein the message requests comprise at least location data that identifies a location of a client device, and media content, wherein the media content includes at least one of image data, audio data, and video data. In response to receiving the message requests that comprise the media content, the visualization system analyzes and parses the media content to detect one or more tags embedded within the media content. In response to detecting the tag, the visualization system identifies a campaign or account referenced by or associated with the tag. Based on the identification of the campaign based on the tag within the media content, the visualization system determines a distribution of the campaign based on the location data from the message request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Xuan Huang, Andrew Maxwell, Shuai Tong, Xiaoyu Wang
  • Patent number: 9971813
    Abstract: A Website may be automatically categorized by accepting Website information, determining a set of scored clusters for the Website using the Website information, and determining at least one category of a predefined taxonomy using at least some of the set of clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: David Gehrking, Ching Law, Andrew Maxwell
  • Publication number: 20170262890
    Abstract: One or more keywords and/or information about one or more properties may be accepted, and a set of one or more taxonomy categories may be determined using at least some of the keyword(s) and/or property information and perhaps term co-occurrence clusters. The determined taxonomy categories may be presented to an advertising user as an ad targeting suggestion. Each taxonomy category may have at least one associated property (e.g., Web document), that participates in an advertising network. An advertiser selection of a suggested taxonomy category may be accepted, and the serving of an ad of the advertiser may be targeted to each property associated with the selected suggested taxonomy category. Alternatively, such properties may be presented to an advertising user as an ad targeting suggestion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Sumit Agarwal, Brian Axe, David Gehrking, Ching Law, Andrew Maxwell, Gokul Rajaram, Leora Wiseman