Patents by Inventor Jon Napper

Jon Napper 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: 20230196836
    Abstract: The technology provides a computing device having a human presence sensor module. An image sensor of the human presence sensor module captures imagery, and the imagery is not disseminated outside of the human presence sensor module to another part of the computing device. One or more machine learning models, each trained to identify whether one or more persons are present in the imagery, are retrieved from memory within the human presence sensor module. The imagery received from the image sensor is processed using the one or more machine learning models to determine whether one or more persons are present in the imagery. Upon detection that one or more persons are present in the imagery, the human presence sensor module issues a signal to an operating system of the computing device so that the computing device can respond to that presence by performing one or more actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Megha Malpani, Jon Napper, Alan Green, Aneesha Govil, Stuart Langley, Ken Hoetmer, Christopher Igo, Fei Wu, Jakub Mlynarczyk, Evan Benn, Edward O'Callaghan, Andrew McRae, David Lattimore, Dan Callaghan, Eddy Chen, Boris Lee, Tim Callahan, Guoxing Zhao, Rachael Morgan, Michael Martis, Sitar Harel, Ryosuke Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10825110
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for an online community management system. One method includes detecting that a user has interacted with a post on a social network. The social network provides a plurality of entity contents. Further, the method includes determining a topic of the post based on content of the post. The method includes recommending following a related entity content of the plurality of entity contents to the user in response to determining that the topic is associated with the related entity content, the user is not following the related entity content, one or more users of the social network have posted in connection with the related entity content within a threshold amount of time, and the user is not blocked from accessing the related entity content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jon Napper, Tsung-Yuan Liu, Bruce Leendert Polderman, Grace Chung, Edward Kessler
  • Publication number: 20170337638
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for an online community management system. One method includes detecting that a user has interacted with a post on a social network. The social network provides a plurality of entity contents. Further, the method includes determining a topic of the post based on content of the post. The method includes recommending following a related entity content of the plurality of entity contents to the user in response to determining that the topic is associated with the related entity content, the user is not following the related entity content, one or more users of the social network have posted in connection with the related entity content within a threshold amount of time, and the user is not blocked from accessing the related entity content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Jon Napper, Tsung-Yuan Liu, Bruce Leendert Polderman, Grace Chung, Edward Kessler
  • Patent number: 9727926
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for an online community management system. One method includes an operation for detecting a post on a social network, where the post is associated with an article. The social network has a plurality of entity pages associated with respective entities. Further, the method includes operations for determining a topic of the article based on a content of the article, and for determining whether the topic is associated with a related entity page on the social network. The related entity page is recommended to a user accessing the post when the topic is associated with the related entity page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Napper, Tsung-Yuan Liu, Bruce Leendert Polderman, Grace Chung, Edward Kessler
  • Publication number: 20170093934
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for an online community management system. One method includes an operation for detecting a post on a social network, where the post is associated with an article. The social network has a plurality of entity pages associated with respective entities. Further, the method includes operations for determining a topic of the article based on a content of the article, and for determining whether the topic is associated with a related entity page on the social network. The related entity page is recommended to a user accessing the post when the topic is associated with the related entity page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Napper, Tsung-Yuan Liu, Bruce Leendert Polderman, Grace Chung, Edward Kessler