Patents by Inventor Martin B. Freund

Martin B. Freund 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).

  • Publication number: 20230281234
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributing content based on context are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying, in a single resource, multiple different content item slots that are available for presentation of multiple different content items. A determination is made that a first content item slot is located in a first portion of the single resource, and that a second content item slot is located in a second different portion of the resource. A first content item is selected for presentation in the first content item slot based on terms that correspond to a first topic of the first portion of the resource. A second content item is selected for presentation in the second content item slot based on terms that correspond to a second topic of the second portion of the resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Jason Robert Richard Sanio, Martin B. Freund
  • Patent number: 11615128
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributing content based on context are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying, in a single resource, multiple different content item slots that are available for presentation of multiple different content items. A determination is made that a first content item slot is located in a first portion of the single resource, and that a second content item slot is located in a second different portion of the resource. A first content item is selected for presentation in the first content item slot based on terms that correspond to a first topic of the first portion of the resource. A second content item is selected for presentation in the second content item slot based on terms that correspond to a second topic of the second portion of the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jason Robert Richard Sanio, Martin B. Freund
  • Patent number: 11609943
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributing content based on context are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying, in a single resource, multiple different content item slots that are available for presentation of multiple different content items. A determination is made that a first content item slot is located in a first portion of the single resource, and that a second content item slot is located in a second different portion of the resource. A first content item is selected for presentation in the first content item slot based on terms that correspond to a first topic of the first portion of the resource. A second content item is selected for presentation in the second content item slot based on terms that correspond to a second topic of the second portion of the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jason Robert Richard Sanio, Martin B. Freund
  • Patent number: 11409944
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adjusting ordinal positions for content item slots in response to determining that a content item slot with a highest slot ordinal position relative to the other content item slots in a resource is not within a viewport area. Adjusting the adjusting ordinal positions of either the content item slots or content items to be served in the content item slots ensures that a content item slot in the viewport displays a content item with a highest respective ordinal position in a ranking relative to other content items is rendered in the content item slot within the viewport area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Momchil Filev, Martin B. Freund
  • Publication number: 20210089566
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributing content based on context are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying, in a single resource, multiple different content item slots that are available for presentation of multiple different content items. A determination is made that a first content item slot is located in a first portion of the single resource, and that a second content item slot is located in a second different portion of the resource. A first content item is selected for presentation in the first content item slot based on terms that correspond to a first topic of the first portion of the resource. A second content item is selected for presentation in the second content item slot based on terms that correspond to a second topic of the second portion of the resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Jason Robert Richard Sanio, Martin B. Freund
  • Publication number: 20200242297
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adjusting ordinal positions for content item slots in response to determining that a content item slot with a highest slot ordinal position relative to the other content item slots in a resource is not within a viewport area. Adjusting the adjusting ordinal positions of either the content item slots or content items to be served in the content item slots ensures that a content item slot in the viewport displays a content item with a highest respective ordinal position in a ranking relative to other content items is rendered in the content item slot within the viewport area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Momchil Filev, Martin B. Freund
  • Patent number: 10657310
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adjusting ordinal positions for content item slots in response to determining that a content item slot with a highest slot ordinal position relative to the other content item slots in a resource is not within a viewport area. Adjusting the adjusting ordinal positions of either the content item slots or content items to be served in the content item slots ensures that a content item slot in the viewport displays a content item with a highest respective ordinal position in a ranking relative to other content items is rendered in the content item slot within the viewport area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Momchil Filev, Martin B. Freund
  • Publication number: 20180121576
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a layout of a utility network. In one aspect, a system includes a set of autonomous mobile data collection devices for deploying to a geographic area to collect data about the geographic area. A data processing apparatus can determine, from the data about the geographic area, physical structures located in the geographic area. The data processing apparatus can generate a three dimensional model that represents the physical structures located in the geographical area and obtain, at least from the data about the geographic area, data describing existing infrastructure on which components of the utility network can be installed. The server can generate, based on the three dimensional model and the data describing the existing infrastructure, a layout of the utility network using a trained network planning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: John Harold Mosher, Martin B. Freund
  • Publication number: 20180101505
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adjusting ordinal positions for content item slots in response to determining that a content item slot with a highest slot ordinal position relative to the other content item slots in a resource is not within a viewport area. Adjusting the adjusting ordinal positions of either the content item slots or content items to be served in the content item slots ensures that a content item slot in the viewport displays a content item with a highest respective ordinal position in a ranking relative to other content items is rendered in the content item slot within the viewport area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Momchil Filev, Martin B. Freund
  • Patent number: 9870344
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adjusting ordinal positions for content item slots in response to determining that a content item slot with a highest slot ordinal position relative to the other content item slots in a resource is not within a viewport area. Adjusting the adjusting ordinal positions of either the content item slots or content items to be served in the content item slots ensures that a content item slot in the viewport displays a content item with a highest respective ordinal position in a ranking relative to other content items is rendered in the content item slot within the viewport area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Momchil Filev, Martin B. Freund
  • Patent number: 9811587
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributing content based on context are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying, in a single resource, multiple different content item slots that are available for presentation of multiple different content items. A determination is made that a first content item slot is located in a first portion of the single resource, and that a second content item slot is located in a second different portion of the resource. A first content item is selected for presentation in the first content item slot based on terms that correspond to a first topic of the first portion of the resource. A second content item is selected for presentation in the second content item slot based on terms that correspond to a second topic of the second portion of the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Robert Richard Sanio, Martin B. Freund
  • Patent number: 9535653
    Abstract: A multiple media module receives data indicating a status of a tab of a graphical user interface (GUI) presented on a user device. The multiple media module determines, based on the data indicating the status of the tab, whether the tab is active, the tab comprising a streaming media player. If the tab of the web browser is not active, the multiple media module mutes an audio component of a streaming media file playing in the streaming media player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Momchil Filev, Martin B. Freund
  • Patent number: 9424345
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributing content based on context are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying, in a single resource, multiple different content item slots that are available for presentation of multiple different content items. A determination is made that a first content item slot is located in a first portion of the single resource, and that a second content item slot is located in a second different portion of the resource. A first content item is selected for presentation in the first content item slot based on terms that correspond to a first topic of the first portion of the resource. A second content item is selected for presentation in the second content item slot based on terms that correspond to a second topic of the second portion of the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Robert Richard Sanio, Martin B. Freund
  • Patent number: 9276757
    Abstract: A method performed by one or more processing devices includes transmitting, to a first client device, content items, wherein one of the content items is selected by a user of the first client device; receiving, from a second client device, information indicative of a selection, by a user of the second client device, of a reference in a social networking system to a resource associated with the selected content item; wherein the user of the first client device has a social connection in the social networking system to the user of the second client device; and generating, based on the information received, one or more viral metrics for the selected content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Martin B. Freund, Momchil Filev
  • Publication number: 20160036939
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium for providing content to a group of users. A method includes: determining that a plurality of users are in proximity to each other and a likelihood that the users are viewing content on a single device; receiving a request for content from the single device; identifying a profile associated with each of the plurality of users, the profile for use in identifying relevant content for delivery to a respective user; creating a group profile based on the identified profiles; and selecting one or more content items for delivery responsive to the request based at least in part on the group profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Martin B. Freund, Sarah Xie
  • Publication number: 20140095514
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adjusting ordinal positions for content item slots in response to determining that a content item slot with a highest slot ordinal position relative to the other content item slots in a resource is not within a viewport area. Adjusting the adjusting ordinal positions of either the content item slots or content items to be served in the content item slots ensures that a content item slot in the viewport displays a content item with a highest respective ordinal position in a ranking relative to other content items is rendered in the content item slot within the viewport area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventors: Momchil Filev, Martin B. Freund
  • Publication number: 20140068434
    Abstract: A multiple media module receives data indicating a status of a tab of a graphical user interface (GUI) presented on a user device. The multiple media module determines, based on the data indicating the status of the tab, whether the tab is active, the tab comprising a streaming media player. If the tab of the web browser is not active, the multiple media module mutes an audio component of a streaming media file playing in the streaming media player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Momchil Filev, Martin B. Freund