Patents by Inventor Bo Williams

Bo Williams 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: 20240135466
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating user notifications to a set of users of a social networking service is presented. For each user of a set of users of the social networking service, one or more machine learning models selects an optimal notification channel, an optimal notification template, and optimal personalization content for configurable elements of a selected notification template. Each of these determinations/selections is made according to and based on a likelihood of increased user engagement with the social networking service. Upon determining the notification channel, notification template, and personalizations to the template, the notification is generated and sent to the corresponding user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Pinterest, Inc.
    Inventors: Bo Zhao, Samuel Seth Weisfeld-Filson, John William Gupta Egan, Burkay Birant Orten, Koichiro Narita
  • Publication number: 20240089405
    Abstract: A best available video stream is determined for each of multiple conference participants within a conference room including multiple cameras based on scores determined for video streams obtained from the cameras. The scores are determined based on representations of the conference participants within the video streams, for example, based on percentages of conference participant faces visible within the video streams, directions of conference participant faces relative to the cameras, directions of eye gaze of the conference participants relative to the cameras, and/or degrees to which conference participant faces are obscured within the video streams. The best available video streams are output for rendering within separate user interface tiles of conferencing software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Anna Deng, Yanjia Duan, Juntao Feng, Tianming Gu, Cynthia Eshiuan Lee, Bo Ling, Chong Lv, Jeffrey William Smith, Menglin Wang, Huixi Zhao, Xingguo Zhu
  • Publication number: 20220277743
    Abstract: A system and method for voice control of a media playback device is disclosed. The method includes receiving an instruction of a voice command, converting the voice command to text, transmitting the text command to the playback device, and having the playback device execute the command. An instruction may include a command to play a set of audio tracks, and the media playback device plays the set of audio tracks upon receiving the instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Horia Jurcut, Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Henriette Cramer, Karl Humphreys, Bo Williams, Kurt Jacobson, Henrik Lindström
  • Patent number: 11308947
    Abstract: A system and method for voice control of a media playback device is disclosed. The method includes receiving an instruction of a voice command, converting the voice command to text, transmitting the text command to the playback device, and having the playback device execute the command. An instruction may include a command to play a set of audio tracks, and the media playback device plays the set of audio tracks upon receiving the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Horia Jurcut, Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Henriette Cramer, Karl Humphreys, Bo Williams, Kurt Jacobson, Henrik Lindström
  • Publication number: 20190341037
    Abstract: A system and method for voice control of a media playback device is disclosed. The method includes receiving an instruction of a voice command, converting the voice command to text, transmitting the text command to the playback device, and having the playback device execute the command. An instruction may include a command to play a set of audio tracks, and the media playback device plays the set of audio tracks upon receiving the instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Horia Jurcut, Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Henriette Cramer, Karl Humphreys, Bo Williams, Kurt Jacobson, Henrik Lindström
  • Publication number: 20190341038
    Abstract: A system and method for voice control of a media playback device is disclosed. The method includes receiving an instruction of a voice command, converting the voice command to text, transmitting the text command to the playback device, and having the playback device execute the command. An instruction may include a command to play a set of audio tracks, and the media playback device plays the set of audio tracks upon receiving the instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Horia Jurcut, Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Henriette Cramer, Karl Humphreys, Bo Williams, Kurt Jacobson, Henrik Lindström
  • Patent number: 9138950
    Abstract: A tire mold apparatus is provided along with methods of retrofitting a tire mold, such that a tire mold of the type traditionally utilized in a dome type curing press can be modified to have external steam tracings allowing the mold to be utilized in a platen press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Bo William Byers, Robert P. Karpinski, Craig Romans, John Dempsey, Edward Steven Seroka, Larry E. Speck, Joseph A. Labbe, Jr., Phillip Coderre
  • Publication number: 20130049254
    Abstract: A tire mold apparatus is provided along with methods of retrofitting a tire mold, such that a tire mold of the type traditionally utilized in a dome type curing press can be modified to have external steam tracings allowing the mold to be utilized in a platen press.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Bo William Byers, Robert P. Karpinski, Craig Romans, John Dempsey, Edward Steven Seroka, Larry E. Speck, Joseph A. Labbe, JR., Phillip Coderre