Patents by Inventor Christopher Loy

Christopher Loy 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).

  • Chat-powered search using artificial intelligence
    Patent number: 12524449
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for refining search queries through interactive conversational exchange are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may receive a first search input from a user describing a desired asset such as an image. Aspects implementations may also interact with the user via a chat interface to solicit additional details about the desired asset in response to the first search input, construct a search query based on the first search input and the additional details solicited from the user, and submit the search query to a search service to retrieve relevant asset data for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond Lúí Smyth, Christopher Loy, Keenan Kadam, Timothy Williams
  • IMAGE CONTEXT BASED TEXT GENERATION
    Publication number: 20260004052
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for generating contextually relevant text from image descriptions and user intent are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive an image and a user-defined intent for text output; analyze the received image to generate a contextual description of the image; generate a query based on the contextual description of the image and the user-defined intent; and generate the text output based on the query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Inventors: Raymond Lúí Smyth, Christopher Loy
  • CHAT-POWERED SEARCH USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    Publication number: 20250363140
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for refining search queries through interactive conversational exchange are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may receive a first search input from a user describing a desired asset such as an image. Aspects implementations may also interact with the user via a chat interface to solicit additional details about the desired asset in response to the first search input, construct a search query based on the first search input and the additional details solicited from the user, and submit the search query to a search service to retrieve relevant asset data for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2024
    Publication date: November 27, 2025
    Inventors: Raymond Lúí Smyth, Christopher Loy, Keenan Kadam, Timothy Williams