Patents by Inventor Brian Christopher Karrer

Brian Christopher Karrer 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: 11019503
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a point cloud comprising a plurality of point-cloud points, each point-cloud point corresponding to a location on a surface of an object located in a region in a three-dimensional space, identifying, from the point cloud, a plurality of point clusters, each point cluster comprising a plurality of point-cloud points located within a grid segment on a two-dimensional grid derived from the three-dimensional space, selecting, for each point cluster, a set of point-cloud points from the plurality of point-cloud points in the point cluster, the set of point-cloud points being selected based on a predetermined threshold number of point-cloud points associated with an acceptable reduction in an error detection rate, and determining, for each point cluster, a structure classification based on the selected set of point-cloud points from the point cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Guan Pang, Jing Huang, Balmanohar Paluri, Brian Christopher Karrer, Ismail Onur Filiz, Birce Tezel, Nicolas Emilio Stier Moses, Vishakan Ponnampalam, Timothy Eric Danford
  • Publication number: 20200029225
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a point cloud comprising a plurality of point-cloud points, each point-cloud point corresponding to a location on a surface of an object located in a region in a three-dimensional space, identifying, from the point cloud, a plurality of point clusters, each point cluster comprising a plurality of point-cloud points located within a grid segment on a two-dimensional grid derived from the three-dimensional space, selecting, for each point cluster, a set of point-cloud points from the plurality of point-cloud points in the point cluster, the set of point-cloud points being selected based on a predetermined threshold number of point-cloud points associated with an acceptable reduction in an error detection rate, and determining, for each point cluster, a structure classification based on the selected set of point-cloud points from the point cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Guan Pang, Jing Huang, Balmanohar Paluri, Brian Christopher Karrer, Ismail Onur Filiz, Birce Tezel, Nicolas Emilio Stier Moses, Vishakan Ponnampalam, Timothy Eric Danford
  • Patent number: 10025867
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for improving cache or memory efficiency of a social network system. A method according to some embodiments includes steps of: receiving an instruction to improve cache or memory efficiency of social graph data of a social graph; generating based on the social graph a partitioning tree including multiple bottom-level buckets, the partitioning tree dividing the vertices of the social graph into the bottom-level buckets and ordering the bottom-level buckets such that a social network metric regarding the vertices is optimized; assigning user IDs to the vertices of the social network in a numerical sequence based on the ordering of the bottom-level buckets; storing the social graph data of the users in storage locations in an order according to the numeral sequence of the assigned user IDs of the vertices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Igor Kabiljo, Laxman Dhulipala, Alon Michael Shalita, Arun Dattaram Sharma, Brian Christopher Karrer
  • Publication number: 20170091334
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for improving cache or memory efficiency of a social network system. A method according to some embodiments includes steps of: receiving an instruction to improve cache or memory efficiency of social graph data of a social graph; generating based on the social graph a partitioning tree including multiple bottom-level buckets, the partitioning tree dividing the vertices of the social graph into the bottom-level buckets and ordering the bottom-level buckets such that a social network metric regarding the vertices is optimized; assigning user IDs to the vertices of the social network in a numerical sequence based on the ordering of the bottom-level buckets; storing the social graph data of the users in storage locations in an order according to the numeral sequence of the assigned user IDs of the vertices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Igor Kabiljo, Laxman Dhulipala, Alon Michael Shalita, Arun Dattaram Sharma, Brian Christopher Karrer