Patents by Inventor Lucian F. Cionca

Lucian F. Cionca 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: 9569429
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for augmenting clusters of news articles with translated news articles. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining data characterizing a first cluster of electronically published news articles in a presentation language, wherein the data characterizing the first cluster of news articles comprises one or more terms in the presentation language and region data identifying a first geographical region associated with the first cluster; generating translated terms by translating one or more of the terms from the presentation language to a first language, wherein the first language corresponds to the first geographical region; and obtaining one or more news articles in the first language in response to a search query derived from the one or more translated terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Mikhail Vladimirovich Reutov, Chen Ding, Lucian F. Cionca, Vadzim Bazuyeu, Awaneesh Verma, Yaroslav Igorevich Kurovtsev, Andre Rohe, Dmitry Alekseevich Lizorkin, Dmitry Michailovich Chernenkov
  • Patent number: 9323847
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for presenting search results. One of the methods includes obtaining, based on a search request, search results that comprise a first user profile and a second user profile. The method includes determining a popularity difference between a first popularity associated with the first user profile and a second popularity associated with the second user profile. The method includes determining that the popularity difference exceeds a threshold. The method includes based on determining that the popularity difference exceeds the threshold, causing the search results to be presented in a display area such that the first user profile is emphasized relative to the second user profile within the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Lucian F. Cionca, Alexander Sobol, Andre Rohe, Sangsoo Sung, Okan Kolak, Bryan C. Horling
  • Patent number: 9294537
    Abstract: Techniques for suggesting a tag for content may include the following: receiving, from a member of a social network, an entry in a display field along with an indication that the entry is for a post; after receiving the entry and the indication, identifying content by performing a search using at least some of the entry and information about the member of the social network; obtaining tags corresponding to the identified content; ranking the tags; outputting the ranked tags as suggestions to include with the display field; and augmenting the entry by adding a selected tag to the display field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Zuccarino, Samuel Shoji Goto, Christopher Reaves Messina, Richard Gingras, Lucian F. Cionca, Andre Rohe, Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 9286357
    Abstract: Techniques include obtaining ranges of content relevance scores for different collections of content; generating a normalized range based on the ranges of content relevance scores; and normalizing a particular range of a particular collection of content including: generating a distribution of content relevance scores for the collection of content; identifying portions in the distribution; and generating a mapping of portions from the distribution to portions in the normalized range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Sobol, Andre Rohe, Sangsoo Sung, Lucian F. Cionca
  • Publication number: 20150120280
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for augmenting clusters of news articles with translated news articles. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining data characterizing a first cluster of electronically published news articles in a presentation language, wherein the data characterizing the first cluster of news articles comprises one or more terms in the presentation language and region data identifying a first geographical region associated with the first cluster; generating translated terms by translating one or more of the terms from the presentation language to a first language, wherein the first language corresponds to the first geographical region; and obtaining one or more news articles in the first language in response to a search query derived from the one or more translated terms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Mikhail Vladimirovich Reutov, Chen Ding, Lucian F. Cionca, Vadzim Bazuyeu, Awaneesh Verma, Yaroslav Igorevich Kurovtsev, Andre Rohe, Dmitry Alekseevich Lizorkin, Dmitry Michailovich Chernenkov
  • Patent number: 8935245
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for presenting search results. One of the methods includes obtaining, based on a search request, search results that comprise a first user profile and a second user profile. The method includes determining a popularity difference between a first popularity associated with the first user profile and a second popularity associated with the second user profile. The method includes determining that the popularity difference exceeds a threshold. The method includes based on determining that the popularity difference exceeds the threshold, causing the search results to be presented in a display area such that the first user profile is emphasized relative to the second user profile within the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Lucian F. Cionca, Alexander Sobol, Andre Rohe, Sangsoo Sung, Okan Kolak, Bryan C. Horling
  • Patent number: 8930340
    Abstract: Techniques include obtaining ranges of content relevance scores for different collections of content; generating a normalized range based on the ranges of content relevance scores; and normalizing a particular range of a particular collection of content including: generating a distribution of content relevance scores for the collection of content; identifying portions in the distribution; and generating a mapping of portions from the distribution to portions in the normalized range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Sobol, Andre Rohe, Sangsoo Sung, Lucian F. Cionca