Patents by Inventor Babak Shakibi

Babak Shakibi 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).

  • Recommendation system to enhance video content recommendation
    Patent number: 10368132
    Abstract: An online system provides video recommendations to a target user of the online system as a supplement to videos provided to the target user that were posted by the user's connections in the online system. The recommended videos are selected from publicly available video content and are likely to be of interest to the target user. The online system has video candidate generators that select video candidates based on a variety of selection criteria. The selected video candidates are filtered to identify inappropriate content or videos that the target user has already viewed for elimination from candidacy. The filtered video candidates are ranked based on weights of features of the video candidates. Based on the ranking, the online system selects videos above a threshold as recommendations to the target user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Uzma Hussain Barlaskar, Sahil P. Thaker, Babak Shakibi, Tirunelveli R. Vishwanath
  • RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM TO ENHANCE VIDEO CONTENT RECOMMENDATION
    Publication number: 20180152763
    Abstract: An online system provides video recommendations to a target user of the online system as a supplement to videos provided to the target user that were posted by the user's connections in the online system. The recommended videos are selected from publicly available video content and are likely to be of interest to the target user. The online system has video candidate generators that select video candidates based on a variety of selection criteria. The selected video candidates are filtered to identify inappropriate content or videos that the target user has already viewed for elimination from candidacy. The filtered video candidates are ranked based on weights of features of the video candidates. Based on the ranking, the online system selects videos above a threshold as recommendations to the target user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Uzma Hussain Barlaskar, Sahil P. Thaker, Babak Shakibi, Tirunelveli R. Vishwanath