Patents by Inventor Mahmud Sami Tas

Mahmud Sami Tas 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: 11256774
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide a content feed through a display interface. The content feed can include at least a snippet of a first content item that is associated with a preview time threshold. A determination can be made that the snippet of the first content item has been positioned within a viewport region of the display interface for a duration of time that satisfies the preview time threshold. Data associated with the first content item can be obtained from a content distribution system. The data associated with the first content item can be stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaojun Liang, Varun Kacholia, Maher Afif Saba, Mahmud Sami Tas, Gang Liu
  • Publication number: 20200334318
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide a content feed through a display interface. The content feed can include at least a snippet of a first content item that is associated with a preview time threshold. A determination can be made that the snippet of the first content item has been positioned within a viewport region of the display interface for a duration of time that satisfies the preview time threshold. Data associated with the first content item can be obtained from a content distribution system. The data associated with the first content item can be stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Xiaojun Liang, Varun Kacholia, Maher Afif Saba, Mahmud Sami Tas, Gang Liu
  • Patent number: 10789258
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can obtain at least one content item to be scored with respect to a user, wherein the score is used to determine whether the content item is included in a content feed of the user. A value for a first event is determined based at least in part on a likelihood of the user performing an action with respect to the content item, wherein the likelihood of the user performing the action is greater than an average user of the social networking system. The score for the content item is determined based at least in part on the value for the first event, wherein the first value is dampened to reduce its contribution to the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahmud Sami Tas, Vibhi Kant, Gregory Matthew Marra, Dean Griffin Eckles, Yaroslav O. Dudin
  • Patent number: 10783157
    Abstract: An online system provides a continuous feed of content items to a client device. The online system maintains an ordered set of ranked content items for sending to the client device. The online system receives requests from the client device for content items and selects a subset from an ordered set of ranked content items in response to each request. The number of content items in the subset may be based on factors such as the network connection strength of the client device. The client device re-ranks content items received from the online system based on information received during a given session. The session information may indicate the types of content items viewed during the given session, or the speed at which the user is viewing content items during the given session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Meihong Wang, Mahmud Sami Tas, Ansha Yu
  • Patent number: 10754911
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide a content feed through a display interface. The content feed can include at least a snippet of a first content item that is associated with a preview time threshold. A determination can be made that the snippet of the first content item has been positioned within a viewport region of the display interface for a duration of time that satisfies the preview time threshold. Data associated with the first content item can be obtained from a content distribution system. The data associated with the first content item can be stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaojun Liang, Varun Kacholia, Maher Afif Saba, Mahmud Sami Tas, Gang Liu
  • Patent number: 10733254
    Abstract: An online system, such as a social networking system, monitors user interactions with news feed stories of the social networking system and divides the user interactions into non-content clicks and content clicks. The non-content clicks indicate a user's interest in news feed stories based on user actions such as comments on, likes, shares, and hides the news feed stories. The content clicks indicate a user's interest in news feed stories based on user actions on different specific portions of multimedia content (e.g., videos) in the news feed stories such as playing, fast forwarding. The social networking system trains a model based on the monitored user interactions with news feed stories and uses the trained model to rank news feed stories for presentation to a user. The ranks of news feed stories for a user are determined based on a likelihood that the user would find the story interesting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Matthew Marra, David Vickrey, Mahmud Sami Tas, Yue Zhuo
  • Patent number: 10204166
    Abstract: An online system provides a continuous feed of content items to a client device. The online system maintains an ordered set of ranked content items for sending to the client device. The online system receives requests from the client device for content items and selects a subset from an ordered set of ranked content items in response to each request. The number of content items in the subset may be based on factors such as the network connection strength of the client device. The client device re-ranks content items received from the online system based on information received during a given session. The session information may indicate the types of content items viewed during the given session, or the speed at which the user is viewing content items during the given session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandru Petrescu, Mahmud Sami Tas, Syed Shahbaz Ahmed, Sarah T. Rowe, Ansha Yu, Guannan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10055465
    Abstract: An online system provides a continuous feed of content items to a client device. The online system maintains an ordered set of ranked content items for sending to the client device. The online system receives requests from the client device for content items and selects a subset from an ordered set of ranked content items in response to each request. The number of content items in the subset may be based on factors such as the network connection strength of the client device. The client device re-ranks content items received from the online system based on information received during a given session. The session information may indicate the types of content items viewed during the given session, or the speed at which the user is viewing content items during the given session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Meihong Wang, Mahmud Sami Tas, Ansha Yu
  • Publication number: 20180075146
    Abstract: An online system provides a continuous feed of content items to a client device. The online system maintains an ordered set of ranked content items for sending to the client device. The online system receives requests from the client device for content items and selects a subset from an ordered set of ranked content items in response to each request. The number of content items in the subset may be based on factors such as the network connection strength of the client device. The client device re-ranks content items received from the online system based on information received during a given session. The session information may indicate the types of content items viewed during the given session, or the speed at which the user is viewing content items during the given session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Alexandru Petrescu, Mahmud Sami Tas, Syed Shahbaz Ahmed, Sarah T. Rowe, Ansha Yu, Guannan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180075034
    Abstract: An online system provides a continuous feed of content items to a client device. The online system maintains an ordered set of ranked content items for sending to the client device. The online system receives requests from the client device for content items and selects a subset from an ordered set of ranked content items in response to each request. The number of content items in the subset may be based on factors such as the network connection strength of the client device. The client device re-ranks content items received from the online system based on information received during a given session. The session information may indicate the types of content items viewed during the given session, or the speed at which the user is viewing content items during the given session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Meihong Wang, Mahmud Sami Tas, Ansha Yu
  • Publication number: 20180012236
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can select one or more content items that are associated with one or more interactions that each at least meet a specified interaction metric threshold. Data associated with the one or more content items can be acquired. A classifier can be developed based on the data associated with the one or more content items. At least some of the one or more content items can be identified, based on the classifier, as having at least a threshold confidence score of being interaction-bait content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Yue Zhuo, Meihong Wang, Mahmud Sami Tas, Jie Xu, Kristin S. Hendrix, Vibhi Kant
  • Publication number: 20170177578
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can obtain at least one content item to be scored with respect to a user, wherein the score is used to determine whether the content item is included in a content feed of the user. A value for a first event is determined based at least in part on a likelihood of the user performing an action with respect to the content item, wherein the likelihood of the user performing the action is greater than an average user of the social networking system. The score for the content item is determined based at least in part on the value for the first event, wherein the first value is dampened to reduce its contribution to the score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Mahmud Sami Tas, Vibhi Kant, Gregory Matthew Marra, Dean Griffin Eckles, Yaroslav O. Dudin
  • Publication number: 20170171139
    Abstract: An online system, such as a social networking system, monitors user interactions with news feed stories of the social networking system and divides the user interactions into non-content clicks and content clicks. The non-content clicks indicate a user's interest in news feed stories based on user actions such as comments on, likes, shares, and hides the news feed stories. The content clicks indicate a user's interest in news feed stories based on user actions on different specific portions of multimedia content (e.g., videos) in the news feed stories such as playing, fast forwarding. The social networking system trains a model based on the monitored user interactions with news feed stories and uses the trained model to rank news feed stories for presentation to a user. The ranks of news feed stories for a user are determined based on a likelihood that the user would find the story interesting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Gregory Matthew Marra, David Vickrey, Mahmud Sami Tas, Yue Zhuo
  • Publication number: 20170097741
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide a content feed through a display interface. The content feed can include at least a snippet of a first content item that is associated with a preview time threshold. A determination can be made that the snippet of the first content item has been positioned within a viewport region of the display interface for a duration of time that satisfies the preview time threshold. Data associated with the first content item can be obtained from a content distribution system. The data associated with the first content item can be stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Xiaojun Liang, Varun Kacholia, Maher Afif Saba, Mahmud Sami Tas, Gang Liu