Patents by Inventor Arthur Switalski

Arthur Switalski 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: 10284622
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to monitoring events generated by a social networking service and determining whether the generated events signify a company milestone for an organizational member. The events may be generated by members of the social networking service or by external websites being monitored by the social networking service. The social networking service further conducts various types of processing on content associated with one or more of the events to determine the quality, tone, and relevancy of the monitored events. This processing may depend on whether the event was generated by a member of the social networking service or by an external website. The social networking service then correlates the various monitored events with organizational members of the social networking service. After a predetermined time period or a predetermined number of events, the social networking service then attempts to identify a company milestone that best matches the events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: James Margatan, Aviad Pinkovezky, Arthur Switalski
  • Patent number: 10181163
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are methods, systems, and apparatuses for managing administrators of respective company profile pages. A method can include determining the company profile page is an auto-created company profile page, prompting one or more users with a profile that indicates the user currently works for a company associated with the company profile page to become the administrator of the company profile page, in response to a user of the one or more users responding affirmatively to the prompt, prompting the user for information regarding the company, and assigning administrator rights to the user in response to receiving sufficient information about the company from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Vergara Santos, Maya Kreidieh, Arthur Switalski, Aviad Pinkovezky
  • Publication number: 20170318074
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to monitoring events generated by a social networking service and determining whether the generated events signify a company milestone for an organizational member. The events may be generated by members of the social networking service or by external websites being monitored by the social networking service. The social networking service further conducts various types of processing on content associated with one or more of the events to determine the quality, tone, and relevancy of the monitored events. This processing may depend on whether the event was generated by a member of the social networking service or by an external website. The social networking service then correlates the various monitored events with organizational members of the social networking service. After a predetermined time period or a predetermined number of events, the social networking service then attempts to identify a company milestone that best matches the events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: James Margatan, Aviad Pinkovezky, Arthur Switalski
  • Publication number: 20160350874
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are methods, systems, and apparatuses for managing administrators of respective company profile pages. A method can include determining the company profile page is an auto-created company profile page, prompting one or more users with a profile that indicates the user currently works for a company associated with the company profile page to become the administrator of the company profile page, in response to a user of the one or more users responding affirmatively to the prompt, prompting the user for information regarding the company, and assigning administrator rights to the user in response to receiving sufficient information about the company from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Timothy Vergara Santos, Maya Kreidieh, Arthur Switalski, Aviad Pinkovezky
  • Patent number: 9066145
    Abstract: Commenting tied to user-selected times during play of audio/video content is enabled by a computer system. An apparatus detects a time that input of user comment data is received during playback of audio/video content on an electronic display device. The apparatus determines a temporal point relative to the playback of the audio/video content correlated to the user comment data, based on the time. The apparatus transmits the user comment data correlated to identifiers for the audio-video content and the temporal point to a computer server. The server may configure the video data for publishing on a website so that the comment data is displayed for a limited period based on the temporal point. Users may thereby conveniently record audio or textual comments that are output during subsequent play of the audio/video content, for sharing with friends and others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: HULU, LLC
    Inventors: Jason A. Kilar, Betina J. Chan-Martin, Bradley J. Suter, Gavin F. Hewitt, Damon A. Young, Arash Nikkar, Arthur Switalski, Richard W. Tom, Haisheng Wu, Yingan Wang, Eugene Wei
  • Publication number: 20130004138
    Abstract: Commenting tied to user-selected times during play of audio/video content is enabled by a computer system. An apparatus detects a time that input of user comment data is received during playback of audio/video content on an electronic display device. The apparatus determines a temporal point relative to the playback of the audio/video content correlated to the user comment data, based on the time. The apparatus transmits the user comment data correlated to identifiers for the audio-video content and the temporal point to a computer server. The server may configure the video data for publishing on a website so that the comment data is displayed for a limited period based on the temporal point. Users may thereby conveniently record audio or textual comments that are output during subsequent play of the audio/video content, for sharing with friends and others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: HULU LLC
    Inventors: Jason A. Kilar, Betina J. Chan-Martin, Bradley J. Suter, Gavin F. Hewitt, Damon A. Young, Arash Nikkar, Arthur Switalski, Richard W. Tom, Haisheng Wu, Yingan Wang, Eugene Wei