Patents by Inventor Douglas Cohen

Douglas Cohen 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: 12222966
    Abstract: A system analyzes user activity data generated by computing devices associated with a plurality of users in a messaging system to extract a random user from the plurality of users. Based on determining that user activity data associated with the random user comprises a consistent pattern, a cluster associated with the consistent pattern is generated and the random user is added to the cluster. Then user activity data for the other users in the plurality of users is analyzed to determine whether user activity data for each of the other users comprises a similar pattern as the generated cluster. Each user that is determined to be associated with user activity data comprising a similar pattern as the consistent pattern of the generated cluster is added to the generated cluster and user activity data associated with each user added to the generated cluster is removed from the user activity data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Anatoli Chklovski, Douglas Cohen, Scott Lippert
  • Patent number: 12048802
    Abstract: A compact wearable modular multifunctional inhalation and detection device. The device includes a housing with at least one port; a removable cartridge module adapted to seat within the housing, the cartridge module including a removable cylindrical cartridge adapted to seat within a cartridge housing. The cartridge includes a source of inhalant, a port and a heating element for heating the inhalant. A permanent magnet and/or an electromagnet is mounted within the cartridge housing to secure the cartridge to the cartridge housing via the adapter ring whereby the cartridge is pneumatically coupled to an inlet chamber in the mouthpiece housing. Multiple sensors are coupled to the air switch and provide data to an onboard processor. The processor executes software to provide a useful output data regarding inhalation activity. In an alternative embodiment, the device housing is adapted to retain a cartridge with a sensor adapted to detect and address airborne pathogens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Daniel Klurfeld, Douglas Cohen, Elliott Galynsky
  • Patent number: 11628263
    Abstract: A compact modular multifunctional inhalation device including a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port; a removable cartridge module adapted to seat within the housing, the cartridge including: a tray within the cartridge for holding a solid inhalant, a heating element mounted within the cartridge above and through the tray for heating the inhalant; and a removable modular electronic circuit adapted to seat within the housing to provide electrical current to the heating element. The heating element is a coil mounted within a chamber in thermal proximity to the solid inhalant. A quartz rod is mounted within the coil. A plunger is mounted within the cartridge to translate therein and compact the solid inhalant. In an alternative embodiment, dual channels and outlet ports are mounted in communication with an inlet port. In another embodiment, the cartridge is a split chamber cartridge with a split plunger mounted therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Daniel Klurfeld, Douglas Cohen, Elliott Galynsky
  • Publication number: 20230069406
    Abstract: An A/B testing system is adapted to include a user correlation engine and an A/B test exposure module. The A/B testing system includes an A/B test server that provides at least one A/B test to users of a product and collects and analyzes results of the A/B test(s) to determine an outcome. The user correlation engine clusters the users into behavioral clusters based on an activity level of the users with the product. The behavioral clusters include at least high engagement users and lower engagement users. The results of the A/B test(s) for the high and lower engagement users are correlated to identify correlations between at least one high engagement user and at least one lower engagement user. The A/B test exposure module allocates the A/B test exposures to at least the high engagement users based on the identified correlations to optimize the A/B test exposures across the A/B test(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Anatoli Chklovski, Douglas Cohen, Jie Liu
  • Publication number: 20220394421
    Abstract: An engagement tracking system monitors user interactions with media items to calculate an engagement score of the media item. The engagement tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to detect an exposure of a client device to a media item maintained by the engagement tracking system. In response to detecting the exposure of the client device to the media item, the engagement tracking system tracks a location of the client device based on access requests to location based media items. The engagement tracking system may thereby monitor client devices exposed to the media item in order to calculate an engagement score of the media item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Brent Davis, Peter Sellis, Farnaz Azmoodeh, Samir Ahmed, Douglas Cohen
  • Patent number: 11445326
    Abstract: An engagement tracking system monitors user interactions with media items to calculate an engagement score of the media item. The engagement tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to detect an exposure of a client device to a media item maintained by the engagement tracking system. In response to detecting the exposure of the client device to the media item, the engagement tracking system tracks a location of the client device based on access requests to location based media items. The engagement tracking system may thereby monitor client devices exposed to the media item in order to calculate an engagement score of the media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Brent Davis, Peter Sellis, Farnaz Azmoodeh, Samir Ahmed, Douglas Cohen
  • Publication number: 20220027931
    Abstract: A location based measurement system monitors user interactions with media items, and visitation data to physical locations, to calculate an engagement score of the media item, wherein the engagement score serves as an indication of a “lift” incited by the media item on a population of users exposed to the media item. The location based measurement system may be or include any instrumentality or aggregate of instrumentalities operable to compute, process, store, display, generate, communicate, or apply various forms of data for geo-fencing, control, or other purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yiwei Ma, Shuo Wu, Masoud Akhoondi, Houshmand Shirani-Mehr, Douglas Cohen
  • Patent number: 11170393
    Abstract: A location based measurement system monitors user interactions with media items, and visitation data to physical locations, to calculate an engagement score of the media item, wherein the engagement score serves as an indication of a “lift” incited by the media item on a population of users exposed to the media item. The location based measurement system may be or include any instrumentality or aggregate of instrumentalities operable to compute, process, store, display, generate, communicate, or apply various forms of data for geo-fencing, control, or other purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Yiwei Ma, Shuo Wu, Masoud Akhoondi, Houshmand Shirani-Mehr, Douglas Cohen
  • Publication number: 20210279262
    Abstract: A system analyzes user activity data generated by computing devices associated with a plurality of users in a messaging system to extract a random user from the plurality of users. Based on determining that user activity data associated with the random user comprises a consistent pattern, a cluster associated with the consistent pattern is generated and the random user is added to the cluster. Then user activity data for the other users in the plurality of users is analyzed to determine whether user activity data for each of the other users comprises a similar pattern as the generated cluster. Each user that is determined to be associated with user activity data comprising a similar pattern as the consistent pattern of the generated cluster is added to the generated cluster and user activity data associated with each user added to the generated cluster is removed from the user activity data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Anatoli Chklovski, Douglas Cohen, Scott Lippert
  • Publication number: 20210268210
    Abstract: A compact modular multifunctional inhalation device including a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port; a removable cartridge module adapted to seat within the housing, the cartridge including: a tray within the cartridge for holding a solid inhalant, a heating element mounted within the cartridge above and through the tray for heating the inhalant; and a removable modular electronic circuit adapted to seat within the housing to provide electrical current to the heating element. The heating element is a coil mounted within a chamber in thermal proximity to the solid inhalant. A quartz rod is mounted within the coil. A plunger is mounted within the cartridge to translate therein and compact the solid inhalant. In an alternative embodiment, dual channels and outlet ports are mounted in communication with an inlet port. In another embodiment, the cartridge is a split chamber cartridge with a split plunger mounted therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Peter Daniel Klurfeld, Douglas Cohen, Elliott Galynsky
  • Patent number: 11023496
    Abstract: A system analyzes user activity data generated by computing devices associated with a plurality of users in a messaging system to extract a random user from the plurality of users. Based on determining that user activity data associated with the random user comprises a consistent pattern, a cluster associated with the consistent pattern is generated and the random user is added to the cluster. Then user activity data for the other users in the plurality of users is analyzed to determine whether user activity data for each of the other users comprises a similar pattern as the generated cluster. Each user that is determined to be associated with user activity data comprising a similar pattern as the consistent pattern of the generated cluster is added to the generated cluster and user activity data associated with each user added to the generated cluster is removed from the user activity data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Anatoli Chklovski, Douglas Cohen, Scott Lippert
  • Patent number: 11011003
    Abstract: System and method for infectious disease prevention includes transmitting, via a server, a facility credential associated with a facility configured to identify a user operating on an application deployed by server from a mobile computing device. The server receives a user identification test code (UITC) associated with a status of an infectious disease of the user. The server then generates a two-dimensional code associated with the facility credential based on the UITC. The server determines if the two-dimensional code is valid for permitting access to the facility based on the status of the infectious disease. Thereafter, the server activates the two-dimensional code on the mobile computing device for a predetermined period of time. A gatekeeper device responds to the two-dimensional code from the mobile computing device and then permits the user access to the facility within the predetermined period of time based on the facility credential and the two-dimensional code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: AAJ COMPUTER SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Amjad Shamim Jafri, Ricardo Cavieres, Douglas A. Cohen, Salvano Cardozo, Patricio Jorge Scanchez, Mark Lewis Pullen
  • Publication number: 20200374651
    Abstract: An engagement tracking system monitors user interactions with media items to calculate an engagement score of the media item. The engagement tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to detect an exposure of a client device to a media item maintained by the engagement tracking system. In response to detecting the exposure of the client device to the media item, the engagement tracking system tracks a location of the client device based on access requests to location based media items. The engagement tracking system may thereby monitor client devices exposed to the media item in order to calculate an engagement score of the media item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Brent Davis, Peter Sellis, Farnaz Azmoodeh, Samir Ahmed, Douglas Cohen
  • Patent number: 10835693
    Abstract: A compact wearable modular multifunctional inhalation device of the present invention. In the illustrative embodiment, the device includes a housing with at least one port; a removable cartridge module adapted to seat within the housing, the cartridge including: a source of inhalant mounted within the cartridge for providing inhalant into the port and a heating element mounted within the cartridge for heating the inhalant; a removable modular electronic circuit adapted to seat within the housing to provide electrical current to the heating element; and a mechanism coupled to the housing for wearing the device. The electronic circuit may include a processor and memory. A removable modular electronic display is adapted to seat within the housing and connect electrically with the circuit. Software is stored in the memory for execution by the processor for activating the heating element. The software includes code for monitoring the status of the inhalant and/or the source of electrical potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Inventors: Peter Daniel Klurfeld, Douglas Cohen, Elliott Galynsky
  • Patent number: 10785597
    Abstract: An engagement tracking system monitors user interactions with media items to calculate an engagement score of the media item. The engagement tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to detect an exposure of a client device to a media item maintained by the engagement tracking system. In response to detecting the exposure of the client device to the media item, the engagement tracking system tracks a location of the client device based on access requests to location based media items. The engagement tracking system may thereby monitor client devices exposed to the media item in order to calculate an engagement score of the media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Brent Davis, Peter Sellis, Farnaz Azmoodeh, Samir Ahmed, Douglas Cohen
  • Publication number: 20200260216
    Abstract: An engagement tracking system monitors user interactions with media items to calculate an engagement score of the media item. The engagement tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to detect an exposure of a client device to a media item maintained by the engagement tracking system. In response to detecting the exposure of the client device to the media item, the engagement tracking system tracks a location of the client device based on access requests to location based media items. The engagement tracking system may thereby monitor client devices exposed to the media item in order to calculate an engagement score of the media item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Brent Davis, Peter Sellis, Farnaz Azmoodeh, Samir Ahmed, Douglas Cohen
  • Patent number: 10735892
    Abstract: An engagement tracking system monitors user interactions with media items to calculate an engagement score of the media item. The engagement tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to detect an exposure of a client device to a media item maintained by the engagement tracking system. In response to detecting the exposure of the client device to the media item, the engagement tracking system tracks a location of the client device based on access requests to location based media items. The engagement tracking system may thereby monitor client devices exposed to the media item in order to calculate an engagement score of the media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Brent Davis, Peter Sellis, Farnaz Azmoodeh, Samir Ahmed, Douglas Cohen
  • Publication number: 20200206439
    Abstract: A compact wearable modular multifunctional inhalation device of the present invention. In the illustrative embodiment, the device includes a housing with at least one port; a removable cartridge module adapted to seat within the housing, the cartridge including: a source of inhalant mounted within the cartridge for providing inhalant into the port and a heating element mounted within the cartridge for heating the inhalant; a removable modular electronic circuit adapted to seat within the housing to provide electrical current to the heating element; and a mechanism coupled to the housing for wearing the device. The electronic circuit may include a processor and memory. A removable modular electronic display is adapted to seat within the housing and connect electrically with the circuit. Software is stored in the memory for execution by the processor for activating the heating element. The software includes code for monitoring the status of the inhalant and/or the source of electrical potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Peter Daniel Klurfeld, Douglas Cohen, Elliott Galynsky, Ralph Henry Gutierrez
  • Publication number: 20200068342
    Abstract: An engagement tracking system monitors user interactions with media items to calculate an engagement score of the media item. The engagement tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to detect an exposure of a client device to a media item maintained by the engagement tracking system. In response to detecting the exposure of the client device to the media item, the engagement tracking system tracks a location of the client device based on access requests to location based media items. The engagement tracking system may thereby monitor client devices exposed to the media item in order to calculate an engagement score of the media item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Brent Davis, Peter Sellis, Farnaz Azmoodeh, Samir Ahmed, Douglas Cohen
  • Patent number: 10506371
    Abstract: An engagement tracking system monitors user interactions with media items to calculate an engagement score of the media item. The engagement tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to detect an exposure of a client device to a media item maintained by the engagement tracking system. In response to detecting the exposure of the client device to the media item, the engagement tracking system tracks a location of the client device based on access requests to location based media items. The engagement tracking system may thereby monitor client devices exposed to the media item in order to calculate an engagement score of the media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Brent Davis, Peter Sellis, Farnaz Azmoodeh, Samir Ahmed, Douglas Cohen