Patents by Inventor Bobby Lo
Bobby Lo 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: 20240104146Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for retrieving first query result data associated with a first user account and rendering the first query result data into a first result item, generating a shareable search result stream comprising the first result item associated with the first user account, retrieving second query result data associated with a second user account and rendering the second query result data into a second result item, adding the second result item to the shareable search result stream associated with the first user account, and providing the sharable search result stream comprising the first result item and the second result item to a first computing device associated with the first user account and a second computing device associated with the second user account.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventor: Bobby Lo
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Patent number: 11921798Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for retrieving first query result data associated with a first user account and rendering the first query result data into a first result item, generating a shareable search result stream comprising the first result item associated with the first user account, retrieving second query result data associated with a second user account and rendering the second query result data into a second result item, adding the second result item to the shareable search result stream associated with the first user account, and providing the sharable search result stream comprising the first result item and the second result item to a first computing device associated with the first user account and a second computing device associated with the second user account.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventor: Bobby Lo
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Publication number: 20230209307Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for displaying widgets. In some aspects, criteria for ranking widgets may be dynamically evaluated based on conditions associated with each widget. In some aspects, the conditions may consider a time or location of an event a social network user is scheduled to attend, and a relation to that time and location to a current time and/or current user location. Evaluation of the conditions may contribute to the determination of weights for each of the respective widgets, with the ranking based on the weights. Widgets with the highest rank may be invoked, and selectively displayed on an electronic display. Multiple possible parameter values for the displayed widgets may also be dynamically ranked and selected values applied when invoking the widget.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: William Alexander Strand, Travis M. Grigsby, Benjamin Ralph Hollis, Bobby Lo, Christie Marie Heikkinen
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Patent number: 11617056Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for displaying widgets. In some aspects, criteria for ranking widgets may be dynamically evaluated based on conditions associated with each widget. In some aspects, the conditions may consider a time or location of an event a social network user is scheduled to attend, and a relation to that time and location to a current time and/or current user location. Evaluation of the conditions may contribute to the determination of weights for each of the respective widgets, with the ranking based on the weights. Widgets with the highest rank may be invoked, and selectively displayed on an electronic display. Multiple possible parameter values for the displayed widgets may also be dynamically ranked and selected values applied when invoking the widget.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: William Alexander Strand, Travis M. Grigsby, Benjamin Ralph Hollis, Bobby Lo, Christie Marie Heikkinen
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Publication number: 20220237241Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for retrieving first query result data associated with a first user account and rendering the first query result data into a first result item, generating a shareable search result stream comprising the first result item associated with the first user account, retrieving second query result data associated with a second user account and rendering the second query result data into a second result item, adding the second result item to the shareable search result stream associated with the first user account, and providing the sharable search result stream comprising the first result item and the second result item to a first computing device associated with the first user account and a second computing device associated with the second user account.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventor: Bobby Lo
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Patent number: 11334633Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for retrieving first query result data associated with a first user account and rendering the first query result data into a first result item, generating a shareable search result stream comprising the first result item associated with the first user account, retrieving second query result data associated with a second user account and rendering the second query result data into a second result item, adding the second result item to the shareable search result stream associated with the first user account, and providing the sharable search result stream comprising the first result item and the second result item to a first computing device associated with the first user account and a second computing device associated with the second user account.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventor: Bobby Lo
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Publication number: 20210235225Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for displaying widgets. In some aspects, criteria for ranking widgets may be dynamically evaluated based on conditions associated with each widget. In some aspects, the conditions may consider a time or location of an event a social network user is scheduled to attend, and a relation to that time and location to a current time and/or current user location. Evaluation of the conditions may contribute to the determination of weights for each of the respective widgets, with the ranking based on the weights. Widgets with the highest rank may be invoked, and selectively displayed on an electronic display. Multiple possible parameter values for the displayed widgets may also be dynamically ranked and selected values applied when invoking the widget.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: William Alexander Strand, Travis M. Grigsby, Benjamin Ralph Hollis, Bobby Lo, Christie Marie Heikkinen
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Patent number: 11006242Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for displaying widgets. In some aspects, criteria for ranking widgets may be dynamically evaluated based on conditions associated with each widget. In some aspects, the conditions may consider a time or location of an event a social network user is scheduled to attend, and a relation to that time and location to a current time and/or current user location. Evaluation of the conditions may contribute to the determination of weights for each of the respective widgets, with the ranking based on the weights. Widgets with the highest rank may be invoked, and selectively displayed on an electronic display. Multiple possible parameter values for the displayed widgets may also be dynamically ranked and selected values applied when invoking the widget.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: William Alexander Strand, Travis M. Grigsby, Benjamin Ralph Hollis, Bobby Lo, Christie Marie Heikkinen
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Patent number: 10499191Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for displaying widgets. In some aspects, criteria for ranking widgets may be dynamically evaluated based on conditions associated with each widget. In some aspects, the conditions may consider a time or location of an event a social network user is scheduled to attend, and a relation to that time and location to a current time and/or current user location. Evaluation of the conditions may contribute to the determination of weights for each of the respective widgets, with the ranking based on the weights. Widgets with the highest rank may be invoked, and selectively displayed on an electronic display. Multiple possible parameter values for the displayed widgets may also be dynamically ranked and selected values applied when invoking the widget.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: William Alexander Strand, Travis M. Grigsby, Benjamin Ralph Hollis, Bobby Lo, Christie Marie Heikkinen
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Patent number: 10331743Abstract: A system and method that includes providing a query platform with a normalized query tool and a collection interface presenting result items of a collection; adding result items produced by the query tool to a collection, wherein adding a result item to the collection comprising: receiving a query input in a query syntax normalized across multiple query services, retrieving result data of the first query input through a service provider application programming interface (API), processing the result data into result data with at least one context parameter, rendering the result data into a result item, and adding the result item to the collection; and adding at least a second result item to the collection, wherein the second result card is retrieved from a second external service provider API according to the context parameter.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2014Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventor: Bobby Lo
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Patent number: 9443016Abstract: A system and method for a collection of digital items that includes generating a collection of result items, wherein each result item corresponds to result data of at least one query input, and wherein at least one result item includes a context property; storing the collection of result items as a first instance; and augmenting the collection in a second instance through at least the context property.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Verbify Inc.Inventor: Bobby Lo
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Publication number: 20140229425Abstract: A system and method for a collection of digital items that includes generating a collection of result items, wherein each result item corresponds to result data of at least one query input, and wherein at least one result item includes a context property; storing the collection of result items as a first instance; and augmenting the collection in a second instance through at least the context property.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: Verbify, Inc.Inventor: Bobby Lo
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Publication number: 20140229462Abstract: A system and method that includes providing a query platform with a normalized query tool and a collection interface presenting result items of a collection; adding result items produced by the query tool to a collection, wherein adding a result item to the collection comprising: receiving a query input in a query syntax normalized across multiple query services, retrieving result data of the first query input through a service provider application programming interface (API), processing the result data into result data with at least one context parameter, rendering the result data into a result item, and adding the result item to the collection; and adding at least a second result item to the collection, wherein the second result card is retrieved from a second external service provider API according to the context parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: Verbify, Inc.Inventor: Bobby Lo