Patents by Inventor Maheen Sohail
Maheen Sohail 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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Patent number: 11948594Abstract: A conversation augmentation system can automatically augment a conversation with content items based on natural language from the conversation. The conversation augmentation system can select content items to add to the conversation based on determined user “intents” generated using machine learning models. The conversation augmentation system can generate intents for natural language from various sources, such as video chats, audio conversations, textual conversations, virtual reality environments, etc. The conversation augmentation system can identify constraints for mapping the intents to content items or context signals for selecting appropriate content items. In various implementations, the conversation augmentation system can add selected content items to a storyline the conversation describes or can augment a platform in which an unstructured conversation is occurring.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Maheen Sohail, Hyunbin Park, Ruoni Wang, Vincent Charles Cheung
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Patent number: 11934445Abstract: An automatic memory system can automatically identify and present content items that match a user's natural language (NL) input. The automatic memory system can compute a match score between the NL input and each of multiple potential memory content items. The automatic memory system can compute the match score using a variety of algorithms and/or machine learning models such as an image/NL matching process to get a first match score, a tag matching process to get a second match score, and/or a combination match score from the first and second match scores. The automatic memory system can select one or more of the content items with the highest match score(s). The automatic memory system can provide the selected content items, such as by suggesting them to the NL providing user, automatically displaying or playing them, inserting them into the conversation thread, etc.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Maheen Sohail, Hyunbin Park, Xinyue Zhang, Tali Zvi
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Publication number: 20230063052Abstract: A conversation augmentation system can automatically augment a conversation with content items based on natural language from the conversation. The conversation augmentation system can select content items to add to the conversation based on determined user “intents” generated using machine learning models. The conversation augmentation system can generate intents for natural language from various sources, such as video chats, audio conversations, textual conversations, virtual reality environments, etc. The conversation augmentation system can identify constraints for mapping the intents to content items or context signals for selecting appropriate content items. In various implementations, the conversation augmentation system can add selected content items to a storyline the conversation describes or can augment a platform in which an unstructured conversation is occurring.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Maheen SOHAIL, Hyunbin PARK, Ruoni WANG, Vincent Charles CHEUNG
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Patent number: 11508392Abstract: A conversation augmentation system can automatically augment a conversation with content items based on natural language from the conversation. The conversation augmentation system can select content items to add to the conversation based on determined user “intents” generated using machine learning models. The conversation augmentation system can generate intents for natural language from various sources, such as video chats, audio conversations, textual conversations, virtual reality environments, etc. The conversation augmentation system can identify constraints for mapping the intents to content items or context signals for selecting appropriate content items. In various implementations, the conversation augmentation system can add selected content items to a storyline the conversation describes or can augment a platform in which an unstructured conversation is occurring.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Maheen Sohail, Hyunbin Park, Ruoni Wang, Vincent Charles Cheung
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Publication number: 20220335026Abstract: The present embodiments relate to automated memory creation and retrieval from moment content items. In some implementations, the automated memory creation and retrieval system can obtain moment content items from user-designated sources with a single user perspective or multiple user perspectives. The moment content items can be assigned tags and arranged in chronological order. The arranged moment content items can be clustered into memory content items based on clustering conditions. Once memory content items are created, they can be arranged into a memory hierarchy made up of connected nodes. In some implementations, the memory content items are also linked together based on similarity in various dimensions in a memory graph. The automated memory creation and retrieval system can receive search criteria for memories from a user interface and provide the user with memories from matched nodes in the memory hierarchy or linked memories in the memory graph.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Hyunbin Park, Chengxuan Bai, Jiemin Zhang, Vincent Charles Cheung, Andrew Pitcher Thompson, Maheen Sohail, Tali Zvi
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Publication number: 20220335538Abstract: The present embodiments relate to automated memory creation and retrieval from moment content items. In some implementations, the automated memory creation and retrieval system can obtain moment content items from user-designated sources with a single user perspective or multiple user perspectives. The moment content items can be assigned tags and arranged in chronological order. The arranged moment content items can be clustered into memory content items based on clustering conditions. Once memory content items are created, they can be arranged into a memory hierarchy made up of connected nodes. In some implementations, the memory content items are also linked together based on similarity in various dimensions in a memory graph. The automated memory creation and retrieval system can receive search criteria for memories from a user interface and provide the user with memories from matched nodes in the memory hierarchy or linked memories in the memory graph.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Hyunbin Park, Chengxuan Bai, Jiemin Zhang, Vincent Charles Cheung, Andrew Pitcher Thompson, Maheen Sohail, Tali Zvi
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Patent number: 11397759Abstract: The present embodiments relate to automated memory creation and retrieval from moment content items. In some implementations, the automated memory creation and retrieval system can obtain moment content items from user-designated sources with a single user perspective or multiple user perspectives. The moment content items can be assigned tags and arranged in chronological order. The arranged moment content items can be clustered into memory content items based on clustering conditions. Once memory content items are created, they can be arranged into a memory hierarchy made up of connected nodes. In some implementations, the memory content items are also linked together based on similarity in various dimensions in a memory graph. The automated memory creation and retrieval system can receive search criteria for memories from a user interface and provide the user with memories from matched nodes in the memory hierarchy or linked memories in the memory graph.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Hyunbin Park, Chengxuan Bai, Jiemin Zhang, Vincent Charles Cheung, Andrew Pitcher Thompson, Maheen Sohail, Tali Zvi
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Publication number: 20220207073Abstract: An automatic memory system can automatically identify and present content items that match a user's natural language (NL) input. The automatic memory system can compute a match score between the NL input and each of multiple potential memory content items. The automatic memory system can compute the match score using a variety of algorithms and/or machine learning models such as an image/NL matching process to get a first match score, a tag matching process to get a second match score, and/or a combination match score from the first and second match scores. The automatic memory system can select one or more of the content items with the highest match score(s). The automatic memory system can provide the selected content items, such as by suggesting them to the NL providing user, automatically displaying or playing them, inserting them into the conversation thread, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Maheen Sohail, Hyunbin Park, Xinyue Zhang, Tali Zvi
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Patent number: 10931941Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending information configured to render a virtual space on a display device associated with a first user, wherein the virtual space provides a virtual experience to the first user; receiving a pause input from the first user to enter a pause mode; and causing the first user to enter the pause mode, wherein the virtual experience within the virtual space is paused for the first user.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Valdivia, Cliff Warren, Maheen Sohail, Christophe Marcel Rene Tauziet, Alexandras Alexander, Michael Stephen Booth, Charles Matthew Sutton
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Patent number: 10602133Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending information configured to render a virtual space on a display device associated with a first user, the virtual space comprising a virtual room; receiving an input from a first user selecting a particular virtual object; calculating a score for a set of interactive-surface types, the score being based on a current context, wherein the current context is based on information associated with the virtual object; selecting, from the set of interactive-surface types, one of the interactive-surface types based on the selected interactive-surface type having a score greater than a threshold score; and sending information configured to render an interactive surface that is of the selected interactive-surface type.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Valdivia, Cliff Warren, Maheen Sohail, Christophe Marcel Rene Tauziet, Alexandros Alexander, Michael Stephen Booth, Charles Matthew Sutton
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Patent number: 10536691Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending information configured to render a virtual space on a display device; receiving a first input from a first controller device, wherein the first controller device is associated with a first location on a body of a user; sending information configured to render a user interface comprising a menu of items, the menu of items comprising one or more interactive elements; receiving a second input from a second controller device, wherein the second controller device is associated with a second location on the body of the user, and wherein the second input indicates a selection of a particular interactive element; and sending information configured to render a response to the selection of the particular interactive element on a display device associated with the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Valdivia, Cliff Warren, Maheen Sohail, Christophe Marcel Rene Tauziet, Alexandros Alexander, Michael Stephen Booth, Charles Matthew Sutton
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Patent number: 10511833Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving first visual information associated with at least a portion of a 360-degree perspective; determining that the first visual information is not sufficient to render a complete 360-degree perspective on a display device associated with a first user; receiving second visual information, wherein the second visual information comprises information configured to render a display of one or more videos from one or more second users; and sending rendering information, wherein the rendering information comprises information configured to render a unified 360-degree perspective on the display device, wherein: a first portion of the unified 360-degree perspective is based on the first visual information, and a second portion of the unified 360-degree perspective is based on the second visual information.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Valdivia, Cliff Warren, Maheen Sohail, Christophe Marcel Rene Tauziet, Alexandros Alexander, Michael Stephen Booth, Charles Matthew Sutton
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Publication number: 20190098291Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving first visual information associated with at least a portion of a 360-degree perspective; determining that the first visual information is not sufficient to render a complete 360-degree perspective on a display device associated with a first user; receiving second visual information, wherein the second visual information comprises information configured to render a display of one or more videos from one or more second users; and sending rendering information, wherein the rendering information comprises information configured to render a unified 360-degree perspective on the display device, wherein: a first portion of the unified 360-degree perspective is based on the first visual information, and a second portion of the unified 360-degree perspective is based on the second visual information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Gabriel Valdivia, Cliff Warren, Maheen Sohail, Christophe Marcel Rene Tauziet, Alexandros Alexander, Michael Stephen Booth, Charles Matthew Sutton
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Patent number: 10165261Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving first visual information associated with at least a portion of a 360-degree perspective; determining that the first visual information is not sufficient to render a complete 360-degree perspective on a display device associated with the first user; retrieving second visual information; and sending information configured to render a unified 360-degree perspective on the display device, wherein: a first portion of the unified 360-degree perspective is based on the first visual information, and a second portion of the unified 360-degree perspective is based on the second visual information.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Valdivia, Cliff Warren, Maheen Sohail, Christophe Marcel Rene Tauziet, Alexandros Alexander, Michael Stephen Booth, Charles Matthew Sutton
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Publication number: 20180096506Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending information configured to render a virtual room on a display device associated with a user, wherein the virtual room comprises a visual representation of the user and a virtual mirror that displays a virtual reflection of the visual representation of the user; receiving a first input from the user selecting a visible feature on the visual representation of the user; presenting one or more alternative options to the user, each of the alternative options corresponding to a variation of the selected visible feature; and receiving a second input from the user selecting a particular alternative option corresponding to a particular variation of the selected visible feature; and causing the visual representation of the user to be modified such that the particular variation of the selected visible feature is implemented.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: Gabriel Valdivia, Cliff Warren, Maheen Sohail, Christophe Marcel Rene Tauziet, Alexandros Alexander, Michael Stephen Booth, Charles Matthew Sutton
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Publication number: 20180098059Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving first visual information associated with at least a portion of a 360-degree perspective; determining that the first visual information is not sufficient to render a complete 360-degree perspective on a display device associated with the first user; retrieving second visual information; and sending information configured to render a unified 360-degree perspective on the display device, wherein: a first portion of the unified 360-degree perspective is based on the first visual information, and a second portion of the unified 360-degree perspective is based on the second visual information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: Gabriel Valdivia, Cliff Warren, Maheen Sohail, Christophe Marcel Rene Tauziet, Alexandros Alexander, Michael Stephen Booth, Charles Matthew Sutton
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Publication number: 20180095636Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending information configured to render a first view of a virtual space on a display device associated with a user, wherein the virtual space has a first location associated with a first social-commentary item and a second location associated with a second social-commentary item, wherein the first location is within the first view and the second location is outside the first view; sending information configured to render a first user-interface element comprising a representation of the first social-commentary item and a second user-interface element indicating a presence of the second social-commentary item; receiving an input from the user comprising a request to change the first view to a second view of the virtual space; and sending information configured to render the second view of the virtual space and a representation of the second social-commentary item within the second view.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: Gabriel Valdivia, Cliff Warren, Maheen Sohail, Christophe Marcel Rene Tauziet, Alexandros Alexander, Michael Stephen Booth, Charles Matthew Sutton
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Publication number: 20180095637Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending information configured to render a virtual space on a display device associated with a first user, wherein the virtual space provides a virtual experience to the first user; receiving a pause input from the first user to enter a pause mode; and causing the first user to enter the pause mode, wherein the virtual experience within the virtual space is paused for the first user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: Gabriel Valdivia, Cliff Warren, Maheen Sohail, Christophe Marcel Rene Tauziet, Alexandros Alexander, Michael Stephen Booth, Charles Matthew Sutton
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Publication number: 20180096526Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending information configured to render a ground-level view of a virtual space on a display device associated with a first user, wherein the virtual space comprises a representation of the first user at a first spot corresponding to a first location in the virtual space, and wherein the virtual space further comprises a second spot corresponding to a second location in the virtual space; receiving an input from the first user to summon an aerial view of the virtual space; sending information configured to render the aerial view, the aerial view comprising an indication of the first spot and an indication of the second spot; receiving an input from the first user selecting the second spot; and sending information configured to render the representation of the first user at the second spot in the ground-level view of the virtual space.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: Gabriel Valdivia, Cliff Warren, Maheen Sohail, Christophe Marcel Rene Tauziet, Alexandros Alexander, Michael Stephen Booth, Charles Matthew Sutton
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Patent number: D852827Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Valdivia, Cliff Warren, Maheen Sohail