Patents by Inventor Leonid Gorkin
Leonid Gorkin 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).
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Publication number: 20240095264Abstract: A map-based graphical user interface for a social media application displays to special social media activity information based on submission of geo-tagged social media items to the platform. For users and or submitted items that need predefined location fuzzing criteria, such activity is represented in the graphical user interface at an intentionally inaccurate position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Dale Brody, Leonid Gorkin, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, John Rauser, Amer Shahnawaz, Evan Spiegel, Marcel M. Yung
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Patent number: 11893647Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging and imaging software and systems by determining the current activities of users based on location sensor information from the users' computing devices and generating customized media content items based on their activities. The media content can be generated for a variety of topics and shared with other users. For example, media content (e.g., images or video) can be generated and displayed on a user's computing device, as well as transmitted to other users via electronic communications, such as short message service (SMS) or multimedia service (MMS) texts and emails.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Brody, Leonid Gorkin, Andrew Lin, Evan Spiegel, Daniel Amitay, Sheridan Kates, Walton Lin, John Rauser, Amer Shahnawaz, Marcel M. Yung
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Patent number: 11842411Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging and imaging software and systems by determining the current activities of users based on location sensor information from the users' computing devices and generating customized media content items based on their activities. The media content can be generated for a variety of topics and shared with other users. For example, media content (e.g., images or video) can be generated and displayed on a user's computing device, as well as transmitted to other users via electronic communications, such as short message service (SMS) or multimedia service (MMS) texts and emails.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Leonid Gorkin, Sheridan Kates, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, John Rauser, Amer Shahnawaz, Evan Spiegel, Marcel M. Yung
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Patent number: 11812335Abstract: Systems, devices, media and methods are presented for retrieving a current location of client device, accessing geographic data based on the current location of the client device, analyzing the geographic data to identify a plurality of geographic features, for each geographic feature of the plurality of geographic features, identifying a direction from the current location of the client device to the respective geographic feature and a confidence level indicating a probability that the current location of the client device is at the direction, returning the direction and the confidence level to the client device, and based on the direction and confidence level, causing presentation of graphical data on a user interface within the client device.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2023Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Alexander Fung, Leonid Gorkin, Robert Marianski, Arif Oguz Yildiz
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Patent number: 11789179Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for analyzing messages generated by a plurality of computing devices associated with a plurality of users in a messaging system to generate training data to train a machine learning model to determine a probability that a media content item was generated inside an enclosed location or outside, receiving a media content item from a computing device, analyzing the media content item using the trained machine learning model to determine a probability that the media content item was generated inside an enclosed location or outside, determining, based on the probability generated by the trained machine learning model, that the media content item was generated inside an enclosed location, and determining an inside temperature associated with the venue based on messages generated by a plurality of computing devices in a messaging system comprising media content items and temperature information for the venue or a similar venue type.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Anup Prabhakar Dhalwani, Walton Lin, Andrew Lin, Amer Shahnawaz, Leonid Gorkin, Amber Taylor, Lillian Zheng, Eric Wood
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Publication number: 20230217214Abstract: Systems, devices, media and methods are presented for retrieving a current location of client device, accessing geographic data based on the current location of the client device, analyzing the geographic data to identify a plurality of geographic features, for each geographic feature of the plurality of geographic features, identifying a direction from the current location of the client device to the respective geographic feature and a confidence level indicating a probability that the current location of the client device is at the direction, returning the direction and the confidence level to the client device, and based on the direction and confidence level, causing presentation of graphical data on a user interface within the client device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Alexander Fung, Leonid Gorkin, Robert Marianski, Arif Oguz Yildiz
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Publication number: 20230113334Abstract: A server system for a map-based social media platform maintains user location information to enable the rendering of friend icons on a map at a corresponding display locations. The system maintains a per user access control list (ACL) that lists all users whose icons can be viewed by a requesting user. The ACL can include a designation of respective display granularity levels for different friend users.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Leonid Gorkin, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, Nayana Samaranayake, Evan Spiegel, Marcel M. Yung
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Publication number: 20230067248Abstract: A social media platform provides a map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for accessing social media content submitted for public accessibility via the social media platform supported by the map-based GUI. The GUI includes a map providing interactive location-based searching functionality in that selection of a target location by the user in the GUI, such as by tapping or clicking at the target location, triggers a search for social media content having geo-tag data indicating geographic locations within a geographical search area centered on the target location.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Timothy Jordan Garcia, Leonid Gorkin, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, Evan Spiegel, Nayana Samaranayake
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Publication number: 20230052351Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for analyzing messages generated by a plurality of computing devices associated with a plurality of users in a messaging system to generate training data to train a machine learning model to determine a probability that a media content item was generated inside an enclosed location or outside, receiving a media content item from a computing device, analyzing the media content item using the trained machine learning model to determine a probability that the media content item was generated inside an enclosed location or outside, determining, based on the probability generated by the trained machine learning model, that the media content item was generated inside an enclosed location, and determining an inside temperature associated with the venue based on messages generated by a plurality of computing devices in a messaging system comprising media content items and temperature information for the venue or a similar venue type.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Anup Prabhakar Dhalwani, Walton Lin, Andrew Lin, Amer Shahnawaz, Leonid Gorkin, Amber Taylor, Lillian Zheng, Eric Wood
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Patent number: 11574225Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for analyzing messages generated by a plurality of computing devices associated with a plurality of users in a messaging system to generate training data to train a machine learning model to determine a probability that a media content item was generated inside an enclosed location or outside, receiving a media content item from a computing device, analyzing the media content item using the trained machine learning model to determine a probability that the media content item was generated inside an enclosed location or outside, determining, based on the probability generated by the trained machine learning model, that the media content item was generated inside an enclosed location, and determining an inside temperature associated with the venue based on messages generated by a plurality of computing devices in a messaging system comprising media content items and temperature information for the venue or a similar venue type.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Anup Prabhakar Dhalwani, Walton Lin, Andrew Lin, Amer Shahnawaz, Leonid Gorkin, Amber Taylor, Lillian Zheng, Eric Wood
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Patent number: 11556221Abstract: A server system for a map-based social media platform maintains user location information to enable the rendering of friend icons on a map at a corresponding display locations. The system maintains a per user access control list (ACL) that lists all users whose icons can be viewed by a requesting user. The ACL can include a designation of respective display granularity levels for different friend users.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Leonid Gorkin, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, Nayana Samaranayake, Evan Spiegel, Marcel M. Yung
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Patent number: 11558709Abstract: Systems, devices, media and methods are presented for retrieving a current location of client device, accessing geographic data based on the current location of the client device, analyzing the geographic data to identify a plurality of geographic features, for each geographic feature of the plurality of geographic features, identifying a direction from the current location of the client device to the respective geographic feature and a confidence level indicating a probability that the current location of the client device is at the direction, returning the direction and the confidence level to the client device, and based on the direction and confidence level, causing presentation of graphical data on a user interface within the client device.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Alexander Fung, Leonid Gorkin, Robert Marianski, Arif Oguz Yildiz
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Patent number: 11503432Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: storing, on a distributed storage system, a front-end (FE) instance and a plurality of real-time graph (RTG) instances, each of the plurality of RTG instances includes a plurality of device objects, the FE instance being configured to communicate with a client device associated with a first user; establishing a bi-directional streaming remote procedure call (RPC) connection between the FE instance and the plurality of RTG instances; receiving, by the FE instance, a status update from the client device; determining, by the FE instance, that a first device object corresponding to the client device is stored on a first RTG instance of the plurality of RTG instances; and transmitting a first message comprising the status update from the FE instance to the first RTG instance to update the first device object.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Leonid Gorkin, Mengyao Li, Arif O{hacek over (g)}uz Yildiz, Jeremie Gabor, Robert Marianski, Xiaohan Zhao, Benjamin Feder
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Patent number: 11483267Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: storing, on a distributed storage system, a plurality of real-time graph (RTG) instances that include a plurality of device objects; receiving, by a first device object of the plurality of device objects, a status update from a client device associated with a first user; transmitting, by the first device object, a first message comprising the status update to a second device object associated with a second user over a real-time link; and transmitting, by the first device object, a second message comprising the status update to a third device object associated with a third user over a first rate-limited link.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Leonid Gorkin, Mengyao Li, Arif O{hacek over (g)}uz Yildiz, Jeremie Gabor, Robert Marianski, Xiaohan Zhao, Benjamin Feder
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Patent number: 11474663Abstract: A social media platform provides a map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for accessing social media content submitted for public accessibility via the social media platform supported by the map-based GUI. The GUI includes a map providing interactive location-based searching functionality in that selection of a target location by the user in the GUI, such as by tapping or clicking at the target location, triggers a search for social media content having geo-tag data indicating geographic locations within a geographical search area centered on the target location.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Timothy Jordan Garcia, Leonid Gorkin, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, Evan Spiegel, Nayana Samaranayake
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Patent number: 11451956Abstract: A map-based graphical user interface for a social media application displays to special social media activity information based on submission of geo-tagged social media items to the platform. For users and or submitted items that need predefined location fuzzing criteria, such activity is represented in the graphical user interface at an intentionally inaccurate position.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Leonid Gorkin, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, John Rauser, Amer Shahnawaz, Evan Spiegel, Marcel M. Yung
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Publication number: 20220291812Abstract: A map-based graphical user interface for a social media application displays to social media activity information based on submission of geo-tagged social media items to the platform. Geographical distributions of social activity is displayed on a map forming part of the application. A heatmap can represent posting density or unusualness.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Leonid Gorkin, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, John Rauser, Amer Shahnawaz, Evan Spiegel, Marcel M. Yung
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Patent number: 11385763Abstract: A map-based graphical user interface for a social media application displays to social media activity information based on submission of geo-tagged social media items to the platform. Geographical distributions of social activity is displayed on a map forming part of the application. A heatmap can represent posting density or unusualness.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Leonid Gorkin, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, John Rauser, Amer Shahnawaz, Evan Spiegel, Marcel M. Yung
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Patent number: 11314776Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: storing, on a distributed storage system, a plurality of real-time graph (RTG) instances that include a plurality of device objects, the plurality of device objects comprising a first device object associated with a given user; receiving, by the first device object, a friends list of the given user having a first version identifier; receiving, by the first device object, an update from a client device associated with the given user, the update comprising a friends list version identifier; determining that the first version identifier of the friends list in the first device object mismatches the friends list version identifier in the update; and synchronizing the friends list in the first device object prior to sending one or more messages that include the update to other device objects of the plurality of device objects.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Leonid Gorkin, Mengyao Li, Arif O{hacek over (g)}uz Yildiz, Jeremie Gabor, Robert Marianski, Xiaohan Zhao, Benjamin Feder
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Patent number: 11290851Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for performing operations comprising: storing, on a distributed storage system, one or more front-end (FE) instances and a plurality of real-time graph (RTG) instances; receiving, by a first online device object associated with a given user, an update from a first client device; generating, by the first online device object, a message that includes the update for transmission to a plurality of friends of the given user; storing, on a given one of the plurality of RTG instances, an offline device object for a first friend of the plurality of friends and a second online device object for a second friend of the plurality of friends; and transmitting, by the first online device object, the message that includes the update to the offline device object of the first friend and the second online device object of the second friend.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Leonid Gorkin, Mengyao Li, Arif O{hacek over (g)}uz Yildiz, Jeremie Gabor, Robert Marianski, Xiaohan Zhao, Benjamin Feder