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).

  • Publication number: 20240104146
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Bobby Lo
  • Patent number: 11921798
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventor: Bobby Lo
  • Publication number: 20230209307
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: William Alexander Strand, Travis M. Grigsby, Benjamin Ralph Hollis, Bobby Lo, Christie Marie Heikkinen
  • Patent number: 11617056
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: William Alexander Strand, Travis M. Grigsby, Benjamin Ralph Hollis, Bobby Lo, Christie Marie Heikkinen
  • Publication number: 20220237241
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventor: Bobby Lo
  • Patent number: 11334633
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Bobby Lo
  • Publication number: 20210235225
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: William Alexander Strand, Travis M. Grigsby, Benjamin Ralph Hollis, Bobby Lo, Christie Marie Heikkinen
  • Patent number: 11006242
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: William Alexander Strand, Travis M. Grigsby, Benjamin Ralph Hollis, Bobby Lo, Christie Marie Heikkinen
  • Patent number: 10499191
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: William Alexander Strand, Travis M. Grigsby, Benjamin Ralph Hollis, Bobby Lo, Christie Marie Heikkinen
  • Patent number: 10331743
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Bobby Lo
  • Patent number: 9443016
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Verbify Inc.
    Inventor: Bobby Lo
  • Publication number: 20140229425
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Verbify, Inc.
    Inventor: Bobby Lo
  • Publication number: 20140229462
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Verbify, Inc.
    Inventor: Bobby Lo