Patents by Inventor Brendan M. Sullivan

Brendan M. Sullivan 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).

  • Patent number: 10803494
    Abstract: An online system receives an advertisement request (“ad request”) including an advertisement from a user and allows the user to create an alternative advertisement for the ad request comprising images presented in an order specified by the user. The online system may identify images from video data included in the ad request or from additional content associated with an object associated with the ad request. Based on selections of identified images by the user and an order in which to present the selected images from the user, the online system generates the alternative advertisement and associates the alternative advertisement with the ad request. One or more criteria are associated with the alternative advertisement, and the online system communicates the alternative advertisement to client devices having characteristics satisfying the criteria rather than video data in the advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Hongji Yang, Rachel Barrie Tucker, Zhen Li, Nikila Srinivasan Sarang, Sylvain Marc Robert Friquet, Brendan M. Sullivan, Kelly Leanne MacLean
  • Patent number: 10607154
    Abstract: An online system uses classifiers to predict the socioeconomic group of users of the online system. The classifiers use models that are trained using features based on global information about a population of users such as demographic information, device ownership, internet usage, household data, and socioeconomic status. The global information can be aggregated from market research questionnaires and provided to the online system. The classifiers input information about a user and output a probability that the user belongs to a given socioeconomic group. The input information is based on a user profile on the online system associated with the user as well as actions performed by the user on the online system. Thus, the online system can predict the user's socioeconomic group without using the user's income information. The online system can generate content for presentation to the user based on the predicted socioeconomic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan M. Sullivan, Gopikrishna Karthikeyan, Zuli Liu, Wouter Lode Paul Massa, Mahima Gupta
  • Publication number: 20180032883
    Abstract: An online system uses classifiers to predict the socioeconomic group of users of the online system. The classifiers use models that are trained using features based on global information about a population of users such as demographic information, device ownership, internet usage, household data, and socioeconomic status. The global information can be aggregated from market research questionnaires and provided to the online system. The classifiers input information about a user and output a probability that the user belongs to a given socioeconomic group. The input information is based on a user profile on the online system associated with the user as well as actions performed by the user on the online system. Thus, the online system can predict the user's socioeconomic group without using the user's income information. The online system can generate content for presentation to the user based on the predicted socioeconomic group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Brendan M. Sullivan, Gopikrishna Karthikeyan, Zuli Liu, Wouter Lode Paul Massa, Mahima Gupta
  • Publication number: 20170243258
    Abstract: An online system receives an advertisement request (“ad request”) including an advertisement from a user and allows the user to create an alternative advertisement for the ad request comprising images presented in an order specified by the user. The online system may identify images from video data included in the ad request or from additional content associated with an object associated with the ad request. Based on selections of identified images by the user and an order in which to present the selected images from the user, the online system generates the alternative advertisement and associates the alternative advertisement with the ad request. One or more criteria are associated with the alternative advertisement, and the online system communicates the alternative advertisement to client devices having characteristics satisfying the criteria rather than video data in the advertisement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Hongji Yang, Rachel Barrie Tucker, Zhen Li, Nikila Srinivasan Sarang, Sylvain Marc Robert Friquet, Brendan M. Sullivan, Kelly Leanne MacLean