Patents by Inventor Mahsa Ghafourian

Mahsa Ghafourian 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: 10831847
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query to search for multimedia objects of the online social network; searching an index to identify multimedia objects based on the search query, wherein the index indexes multimedia objects and associated keywords, each keyword being extracted from communications associated with a respective multimedia object, wherein each communication is of a particular communication-type, and wherein each identified multimedia object is indexed with keywords matching at least a portion of the search query; calculating, for each identified multimedia object, an object-score based on a communication-type of a communication from which one or more of the matching keywords were sourced; and sending instructions for presenting a search-results page to a client system, the search-results page including references to identified multimedia objects having an object-score greater than a threshold object-score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Anuj Bindal, Maxime Boucher, Sahil P. Thaker, Mahsa Ghafourian, Arpit Suresh Jain
  • Publication number: 20180349503
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query to search for multimedia objects of the online social network; searching an index to identify multimedia objects based on the search query, wherein the index indexes multimedia objects and associated keywords, each keyword being extracted from communications associated with a respective multimedia object, wherein each communication is of a particular communication-type, and wherein each identified multimedia object is indexed with keywords matching at least a portion of the search query; calculating, for each identified multimedia object, an object-score based on a communication-type of a communication from which one or more of the matching keywords were sourced; and sending instructions for presenting a search-results page to a client system, the search-results page including references to identified multimedia objects having an object-score greater than a threshold object-score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Anuj Bindal, Maxime Boucher, Sahil P. Thaker, Mahsa Ghafourian, Arpit Suresh Jain
  • Patent number: 10061856
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query for multimedia objects of an online social network from a user of the online social network; searching an index of multimedia objects to identify multimedia objects indexed with keywords that match n-grams of the search query, the keywords having been extracted from reshares associated with the multimedia objects; calculating an object-score for each identified multimedia object based on social signals; generating search results with references to the identified multimedia objects that have an object-score greater than a threshold object-score; and sending to the user one or more of the search results as part of a search-results page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Anuj Bindal, Maxime Boucher, Sahil P. Thaker, Mahsa Ghafourian, Arpit Suresh Jain
  • Publication number: 20160224672
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query for multimedia objects of an online social network from a user of the online social network; searching an index of multimedia objects to identify multimedia objects indexed with keywords that match n-grams of the search query, the keywords having been extracted from reshares associated with the multimedia objects; calculating an object-score for each identified multimedia object based on social signals; generating search results with references to the identified multimedia objects that have an object-score greater than a threshold object-score; and sending to the user one or more of the search results as part of a search-results page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Anuj Bindal, Maxime Boucher, Sahil P. Thaker, Mahsa Ghafourian, Arpit Suresh Jain