Patents by Inventor Benjamin Tauber

Benjamin Tauber 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).

  • Scoring content based on social interaction
    Patent number: 10630763
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for identifying a set of items of digital content displayed to a user; processing the set of items to identify a set of boost items, items within the set of boost items to be prominently displayed, processing comprising: receiving a close-ties score associated with a respective item, the close-ties score representing a relationship between the user and other users associated with the respective item and an importance of a social circle associated with the item to the user, determining that the close-ties score associated with the respective item exceeds a threshold close-ties score, and in response to determining that the close-ties score exceeds the threshold close-ties score, adding the respective item to the set of boost items; providing instructions for boosting a display of items in the set of boost items in a page displayed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Tauber, Sachin Jain, Boris Mazniker, Shimrit Ben-Yair, Simon Tong
  • Scoring content based on social interaction
    Patent number: 9948699
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for identifying a set of items of digital content displayed to a user; processing the set of items to identify a set of boost items, items within the set of boost items to be prominently displayed, processing comprising: receiving a close-ties score associated with a respective item, the close-ties score representing a relationship between the user and other users associated with the respective item and an importance of a social circle associated with the item to the user, determining that the close-ties score associated with the respective item exceeds a threshold close-ties score, and in response to determining that the close-ties score exceeds the threshold close-ties score, adding the respective item to the set of boost items; providing instructions for boosting a display of items in the set of boost items in a page displayed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Tauber, Sachin Jain, Boris Mazniker, Shimrit Ben-Yair, Simon Tong
  • Scoring content based on social interaction
    Patent number: 9098176
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for identifying a set of items of digital content displayed to a user; processing the set of items to identify a set of boost items, items within the set of boost items to be prominently displayed, processing comprising: receiving a close-ties score associated with a respective item, the close-ties score representing a relationship between the user and other users associated with the respective item and an importance of a social circle associated with the item to the user, determining that the close-ties score associated with the respective item exceeds a threshold close-ties score, and in response to determining that the close-ties score exceeds the threshold close-ties score, adding the respective item to the set of boost items; providing instructions for boosting a display of items in the set of boost items in a page displayed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Tauber, Sachin Jain, Boris Mazniker, Shimrit Ben-Yair, Simon Tong