Patents by Inventor Benjamin N. Lee
Benjamin N. Lee 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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Publication number: 20230385543Abstract: A computing system is described that includes user interface components configured to receive typed user input; and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: receive, by a computing system and at a first time, a first portion of text typed by a user in an electronic message being edited; predict, based on the first portion of text, a first candidate portion of text to follow the first portion of text; output, for display, the predicted first candidate portion of text for optional selection to append to the first portion of text; determine, at a second time that is after the first time, that the electronic message is directed to a sensitive topic; and responsive to determining that the electronic message is directed to a sensitive topic, refrain from outputting subsequent candidate portions of text for optional selection to append to text in the electronic message.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Paul Roland Lambert, Timothy Youngjin Sohn, Jacqueline Amy Tsay, Gagan Bansal, Cole Austin Bevis, Kaushik Roy, Justin Tzi-jay LU, Katherine Anna Evans, Tobias Bosch, Yinan Wang, Matthew Vincent Dierker, Greg Russell Bullock, Ettore Randazzo, Tobias Kaufmann, Yonghui Wu, Benjamin N. Lee, Xu Chen, Brian Strope, Yun-hsuan Sung, Do Kook Choe, Rami Eid Sammour Al-Rfou'
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Patent number: 11755834Abstract: A computing system is described that includes user interface components configured to receive typed user input; and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: receive, by a computing system and at a first time, a first portion of text typed by a user in an electronic message being edited; predict, based on the first portion of text, a first candidate portion of text to follow the first portion of text; output, for display, the predicted first candidate portion of text for optional selection to append to the first portion of text; determine, at a second time that is after the first time, that the electronic message is directed to a sensitive topic; and responsive to determining that the electronic message is directed to a sensitive topic, refrain from outputting subsequent candidate portions of text for optional selection to append to text in the electronic message.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Paul Roland Lambert, Timothy Youngjin Sohn, Jacqueline Amy Tsay, Gagan Bansal, Cole Austin Bevis, Kaushik Roy, Justin Tzi-jay Lu, Katherine Anna Evans, Tobias Bosch, Yinan Wang, Matthew Vincent Dierker, Gregory Russell Bullock, Ettore Randazzo, Tobias Kaufmann, Yonghui Wu, Benjamin N. Lee, Xu Chen, Brian Strope, Yun-hsuan Sung, Do Kook Choe, Rami Eid Sammouf Al-Rfou'
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Publication number: 20210357978Abstract: A mobile application is provided that provides intelligent recommendations based on the knowledge of where the user has been, and what venues the user would like to visit. Further, such an application may be capable of determining where people in a user's social network have been and what venue locations these related users would like to visit. Also, in another implementation, the application may be capable of determining where people with similar taste have been, and where they would like to go. Some or all of this information may be used by a mobile application that provides recommendations to a user. For instance, in one implementation, a user having a mobile device such as a cell phone wishes to locate a venue based on one or more parameters, and some or all of this information may be used to order to rank recommendations with the interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: Foursquare Labs, Inc.Inventors: Noah Weiss, Tristan Walker, Jason Liszka, Tim Julien, Justin Moore, Benjamin N. Lee, Max Elliot Sklar, Blake Shaw
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Patent number: 10872352Abstract: A mobile application is provided that provides intelligent recommendations based on the knowledge of where the user has been, and what venues the user would like to visit. Further, such an application may be capable of determining where people in a user's social network have been and what venue locations these related users would like to visit. Also, in another implementation, the application may be capable of determining where people with similar taste have been, and where they would like to go. Some or all of this information may be used by a mobile application that provides recommendations to a user. For instance, in one implementation, a user having a mobile device such as a cell phone wishes to locate a venue based on one or more parameters, and some or all of this information may be used to order to rank recommendations with the interface.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Foursquare Labs, Inc.Inventors: Noah Weiss, Tristan Walker, Jason Liszka, Tim Julien, Justin Moore, Benjamin N. Lee, Max Elliot Sklar, Blake Shaw
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Publication number: 20190197101Abstract: A computing system is described that includes user interface components configured to receive typed user input; and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: receive, by a computing system and at a first time, a first portion of text typed by a user in an electronic message being edited; predict, based on the first portion of text, a first candidate portion of text to follow the first portion of text; output, for display, the predicted first candidate portion of text for optional selection to append to the first portion of text; determine, at a second time that is after the first time, that the electronic message is directed to a sensitive topic; and responsive to determining that the electronic message is directed to a sensitive topic, refrain from outputting subsequent candidate portions of text for optional selection to append to text in the electronic message.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Paul Roland Lambert, Timothy Youngjin Sohn, Jacqueline Amy Tsay, Gagan Bansal, Cole Austin Bevis, Kaushik Roy, Justin Tzi-jay LU, Katherine Anna Evans, Tobias Bosch, Yinan Wang, Matthew Vincent Dierker, Gregory Russell Bullock, Ettore Randazzo, Tobias Kaufmann, Yonghui Wu, Benjamin N. Lee, Xu Chen, Brian Strope, Yun-hsuan Sung, Do Kook Choe, Rami Eid Sammour Al-Rfou'
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Publication number: 20170004535Abstract: A mobile application is provided that provides intelligent recommendations based on the knowledge of where the user has been, and what venues the user would like to visit. Further, such an application may be capable of determining where people in a user's social network have been and what venue locations these related users would like to visit. Also, in another implementation, the application may be capable of determining where people with similar taste have been, and where they would like to go. Some or all of this information may be used by a mobile application that provides recommendations to a user. For instance, in one implementation, a user having a mobile device such as a cell phone wishes to locate a venue based on one or more parameters, and some or all of this information may be used to order to rank recommendations with the interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: Foursquare Labs, Inc.Inventors: Noah Weiss, Tristan Walker, Jason Liszka, Tim Julien, Justin Moore, Benjamin N. Lee, Max Elliot Sklar, Blake Shaw
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Patent number: 9390145Abstract: A mobile application is provided that provides intelligent recommendations based on the knowledge of where the user has been, and what venues the user would like to visit. Further, such an application may be capable of determining where people in a user's social network have been and what venue locations these related users would like to visit. Also, in another implementation, the application may be capable of determining where people with similar taste have been, and where they would like to go. Some or all of this information may be used by a mobile application that provides recommendations to a user. For instance, in one implementation, a user having a mobile device such as a cell phone wishes to locate a venue based on one or more parameters, and some or all of this information may be used to order to rank recommendations with the interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: FOURSQUARE LABS, INC.Inventors: Noah Weiss, Tristan Walker, Jason Liszka, Tim Julien, Justin Moore, Benjamin N. Lee, Max Elliot Sklar, Blake Shaw
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Patent number: 9183504Abstract: A mobile application is provided that provides intelligent recommendations based on the knowledge of where the user has been, and what venues the user would like to visit. Further, such an application may be capable of determining where people in a user's social network have been and what venue locations these related users would like to visit. Also, in another implementation, the application may be capable of determining where people with similar tastes have been, and where they would like to go. Some or all of this information may be used by a mobile application that provides recommendations to a user. For instance, in one implementation, a user having a mobile device such as a cell phone wishes to locate a venue based on one or more parameters, and some or all of this information may be used to order or rank recommendations within the interface.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: FOURSQUARE LABS, INC.Inventors: Justin Moore, Noah Weiss, Benjamin N. Lee, Max Elliot Sklar, Blake Shaw
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Publication number: 20150278225Abstract: A mobile application is provided that provides intelligent recommendations based on the knowledge of where the user has been, and what venues the user would like to visit. Further, such an application may be capable of determining where people in a user's social network have been and what venue locations these related users would like to visit. Also, in another implementation, the application may be capable of determining where people with similar taste have been, and where they would like to go. Some or all of this information may be used by a mobile application that provides recommendations to a user. For instance, in one implementation, a user having a mobile device such as a cell phone wishes to locate a venue based on one or more parameters, and some or all of this information may be used to order to rank recommendations with the interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: FOURSQUARE LABS, INC.Inventors: Noah Weiss, Tristan Walker, Jason Liszka, Tim Julien, Justin Moore, Benjamin N. Lee, Max Elliot Sklar, Blake Shaw
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Patent number: 8977612Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying one or more second documents related to one or more first documents. Strength of relationship scores between candidate documents in a group of candidate documents and each first document are determined by aggregating user selection data for users, the user selection data indicating, for each user, whether the user viewed the candidate document during a window of time after the first document is presented to the user on a search results web page in response to a query. An aggregate strength of relationship score is calculated for each candidate document from the strength of relationship scores for the candidate document. Second documents are selected from the candidate documents according to the aggregate strength of relationship scores for the candidate documents.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Simon Tong, Benjamin N. Lee, Eric E. Altendorf
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Patent number: 8972394Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying one or more second documents related to one or more first documents. Strength of relationship scores between candidate documents in a group of candidate documents and each first document are determined by aggregating user selection data for users, the user selection data indicating, for each user, whether the user viewed the candidate document during a window of time after the first document is presented to the user on a search results web page in response to a query. An aggregate strength of relationship score is calculated for each candidate document from the strength of relationship scores for the candidate document. Second documents are selected from the candidate documents according to the aggregate strength of relationship scores for the candidate documents.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Simon Tong, Benjamin N. Lee, Eric E. Altendorf
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Publication number: 20140358836Abstract: A mobile application is provided that provides intelligent recommendations based on the knowledge of where the user has been, and what venues the user would like to visit. Further, such an application may be capable of determining where people in a user's social network have been and what venue locations these related users would like to visit. Also, in another implementation, the application may be capable of determining where people with similar tastes have been, and where they would like to go. Some or all of this information may be used by a mobile application that provides recommendations to a user. For instance, in one implementation, a user having a mobile device such as a cell phone wishes to locate a venue based on one or more parameters, and some or all of this information may be used to order or rank recommendations within the interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: FOURSQUARE LABS, INC.Inventors: Justin Moore, Noah Weiss, Benjamin N. Lee, Max Elliot Sklar, Blake Shaw
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Patent number: 8812500Abstract: A system facilitates the display of thumbnail images containing images of websites related to a website currently being viewed by a user. The system may include several different components to provide the thumbnail images to the user, such as a graphical user interface, an input interface, and a processor. The graphical user interface may display a website for viewing by a user and the input interface may receive an input representative of a request for a related website. The processor may transmit the request for the related website to a search engine, and, in response, the processor may obtain a search result representative of the related website. Moreover, the search result may include several components, such as a related website image representative of the related website and a uniform resource locator (“URL”) representative of a location of the related website.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2010Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Paul Fontes, Othar Hansson, Peter Jin Hong, Benjamin N. Lee, April Lehman
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Patent number: 8775351Abstract: A mobile application is provided that provides intelligent recommendations based on the knowledge of where the user has been, and what venues the user would like to visit. Further, such an application may be capable of determining where people in a user's social network have been and what venue locations these related users would like to visit. Also, in another implementation, the application may be capable of determining where people with similar tastes have been, and where they would like to go. Some or all of this information may be used by a mobile application that provides recommendations to a user. For instance, in one implementation, a user having a mobile device such as a cell phone wishes to locate a venue based on one or more parameters, and some or all of this information may be used to order or rank recommendations within the interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Foursquare Labs, Inc.Inventors: Justin Moore, Noah Weiss, Benjamin N. Lee, Max E. Sklar, Blake Shaw
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Patent number: 8447760Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying one or more second documents related to one or more first documents. Strength of relationship scores between candidate documents in a group of candidate documents and each first document are determined by aggregating user selection data for users, the user selection data indicating, for each user, whether the user viewed the candidate document during a window of time after the first document is presented to the user on a search results web page in response to a query. An aggregate strength of relationship score is calculated for each candidate document from the strength of relationship scores for the candidate document. Second documents are selected from the candidate documents according to the aggregate strength of relationship scores for the candidate documents.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2009Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Simon Tong, Benjamin N. Lee, Eric E. Altendorf
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Publication number: 20130073422Abstract: A mobile application is provided that provides intelligent recommendations based on the knowledge of where the user has been, and what venues the user would like to visit. Further, such an application may be capable of determining where people in a user's social network have been and what venue locations these related users would like to visit. Also, in another implementation, the application may be capable of determining where people with similar tastes have been, and where they would like to go. Some or all of this information may be used by a mobile application that provides recommendations to a user. For instance, in one implementation, a user having a mobile device such as a cell phone wishes to locate a venue to based on one or more parameters, and some or all of this information may be used to order or rank recommendations within the interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Inventors: Justin Moore, Noah Weiss, Benjamin N. Lee, Max Elliot Sklar, Blake Shaw
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Publication number: 20100274775Abstract: A system facilitates the display of thumbnail images containing images of websites related to a website currently being viewed by a user. The system may include several different components to provide the thumbnail images to the user, such as a graphical user interface, an input interface, and a processor. The graphical user interface may display a website for viewing by a user and the input interface may receive an input representative of a request for a related website. The processor may transmit the request for the related website to a search engine, and, in response, the processor may obtain a search result representative of the related website. Moreover, the search result may include several components, such as a related website image representative of the related website and a uniform resource locator (“URL”) representative of a location of the related website.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Inventors: Paul Fontes, Othar Hansson, Peter Jin Hong, Benjamin N. Lee, April Lehman
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Patent number: 7647573Abstract: A method of testing critical delay paths of an integrated circuit design is disclosed. The method includes predicting and ranking a set of critical delay paths based on a set of predicted delay characteristics. Integrated circuits based on the integrated circuit design are tested to determine a set of actual delay measurements for the critical delay paths. The critical delay paths are ranked based on the actual delay measurements, and the results are correlated to the predicted ranking of critical delay paths to produce a confidence measurement that measures the likelihood that the actual critical delay paths of the design have been tested for a given production batch of devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2006Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Magdy S. Abadir, Jing Zeng, Benjamin N. Lee
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Publication number: 20070277135Abstract: A method of testing critical delay paths of an integrated circuit design is disclosed. The method includes predicting and ranking a set of critical delay paths based on a set of predicted-delay characteristics. Integrated circuits based on the integrated circuit design are tested to determine a set of actual delay measurements for the critical delay paths. The critical delay paths are ranked based on the actual delay measurements, and the results are correlated to the predicted ranking of critical delay paths to produce a confidence measurement that measures the likelihood that the actual critical delay paths of the design have been tested for a given production batch of devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2006Publication date: November 29, 2007Applicant: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Jing Zeng, Magdy S. Abadir, Benjamin N. Lee