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).
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Patent number: 11256774Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Xiaojun Liang, Varun Kacholia, Maher Afif Saba, Mahmud Sami Tas, Gang Liu
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Publication number: 20200334318Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Xiaojun Liang, Varun Kacholia, Maher Afif Saba, Mahmud Sami Tas, Gang Liu
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Patent number: 10789258Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Mahmud Sami Tas, Vibhi Kant, Gregory Matthew Marra, Dean Griffin Eckles, Yaroslav O. Dudin
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Patent number: 10783157Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Meihong Wang, Mahmud Sami Tas, Ansha Yu
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Patent number: 10754911Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Xiaojun Liang, Varun Kacholia, Maher Afif Saba, Mahmud Sami Tas, Gang Liu
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Patent number: 10733254Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Matthew Marra, David Vickrey, Mahmud Sami Tas, Yue Zhuo
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Patent number: 10204166Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Alexandru Petrescu, Mahmud Sami Tas, Syed Shahbaz Ahmed, Sarah T. Rowe, Ansha Yu, Guannan Zhang
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Patent number: 10055465Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Meihong Wang, Mahmud Sami Tas, Ansha Yu
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Publication number: 20180075146Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Alexandru Petrescu, Mahmud Sami Tas, Syed Shahbaz Ahmed, Sarah T. Rowe, Ansha Yu, Guannan Zhang
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Publication number: 20180075034Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Meihong Wang, Mahmud Sami Tas, Ansha Yu
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Publication number: 20180012236Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2016Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: Yue Zhuo, Meihong Wang, Mahmud Sami Tas, Jie Xu, Kristin S. Hendrix, Vibhi Kant
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Publication number: 20170177578Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2015Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Mahmud Sami Tas, Vibhi Kant, Gregory Matthew Marra, Dean Griffin Eckles, Yaroslav O. Dudin
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Publication number: 20170171139Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2015Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: Gregory Matthew Marra, David Vickrey, Mahmud Sami Tas, Yue Zhuo
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Publication number: 20170097741Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Xiaojun Liang, Varun Kacholia, Maher Afif Saba, Mahmud Sami Tas, Gang Liu