Patents by Inventor Michael Conover
Michael Conover 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: 10762583Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system uses one or more queries of a data set to aggregate one or more measurements of user engagement with a set of content items within a second-degree network of a member. Next, the system calculates one or more metrics from the one or more measurements. The system then ranks the set of content items by the one or more metrics. Finally, the system uses the ranking to present one or more of the content items in a content feed to the member.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Michael Conover, Timothy P. Jurka, Claire D. McGinty, Quinn Z. Shen
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Patent number: 10559319Abstract: A method of forming a recording head for use with a data storage medium in a data storage device. The method includes forming first and second writers of different target geometries. A first recording measurement is performed on one or more storage media using the first writer. A second recording measurement is performed on the one or more storage media using the second writer. Based on a comparison of the first and second recording measurements to a predetermined quantity, either the first writer or the second writer is selected to be operational in the data storage device.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Kurt Wiesen, Javier Guzman, Joseph Mundenar, Michael Conover
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Patent number: 10504191Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system calculates one or more quantiles from a distribution of historic user engagement with content within a member segment of a social network. Next, the system performs a comparison of the one or more quantiles with a current measurement of user engagement with a content item within the member segment. When the comparison indicates that the current measurement of user engagement exceeds a threshold, the system presents the content item to one or more members in the member segment.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Michael Conover, Timothy P. Jurka, Claire D. McGinty, Quinn Z. Shen
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Publication number: 20190221229Abstract: A method of forming a recording head for use with a data storage medium in a data storage device. The method includes forming first and second writers of different target geometries. A first recording measurement is performed on one or more storage media using the first writer. A second recording measurement is performed on the one or more storage media using the second writer. Based on a comparison of the first and second recording measurements to a predetermined quantity, either the first writer or the second writer is selected to be operational in the data storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Kurt Wiesen, Javier Guzman, Joseph Mundenar, Michael Conover
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Patent number: 10325619Abstract: A method of forming a recording head for use with a data storage medium in a data storage device. The method includes forming first and second writers of different target geometries. A first recording measurement is performed on one or more storage media using the first writer. A second recording measurement is performed on the one or more storage media using the second writer. Based on a comparison of the first and second recording measurements to a predetermined quantity, either the first writer or the second writer is selected to be operational in the data storage device.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Kurt Wiesen, Javier Guzman, Joseph Mundenar, Michael Conover
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Patent number: 10255933Abstract: A method of forming a recording head for use with a data storage medium in a data storage device. The method includes forming first and second writers of different target geometries. A first recording measurement is performed on one or more storage media using the first writer. A second recording measurement is performed on the one or more storage media using the second writer. Based on a comparison of the first and second recording measurements to a predetermined quantity, either the first writer or the second writer is selected to be operational in the data storage device.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Kurt Wiesen, Javier Guzman, Joseph Mundenar, Michael Conover
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Patent number: 10042897Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains one or more metrics associated with user interaction with a set of content items in a member segment of a social network. Next, the system ranks the set of content items by the one or more metrics. The system then generates a content pool for the member segment based on the ranking of the content items. Finally, the system creates a content feed from the content pool for presentation to a user in the member segment.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Timothy P. Jurka, Patrick A. Chase, Claire D. McGinty, Andrew O. Hatch, Alejandro Jorge Perez, Michael Conover, Samuel Stokes, Gregory W. Bayer, Akshay D. Kothari, Ankit Gupta
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Publication number: 20180082714Abstract: A method of forming a recording head for use with a data storage medium in a data storage device. The method includes forming first and second writers of different target geometries. A first recording measurement is performed on one or more storage media using the first writer. A second recording measurement is performed on the one or more storage media using the second writer. Based on a comparison of the first and second recording measurements to a predetermined quantity, either the first writer or the second writer is selected to be operational in the data storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Kurt Wiesen, Javier Guzman, Joseph Mundenar, Michael Conover
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Patent number: 9865301Abstract: A method of forming a recording head for use with a data storage medium in a data storage device. The method includes forming first and second writers of different target geometries. A first recording measurement is performed on one or more storage media using the first writer. A second recording measurement is performed on the one or more storage media using the second writer. Based on a comparison of the first and second recording measurements to a predetermined quantity, either the first writer or the second writer is selected to be operational in the data storage device.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Kurt Wiesen, Javier Guzman, Joseph Mundenar, Michael Conover
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Publication number: 20170262532Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system uses one or more queries of a data set to aggregate one or more measurements of user engagement with a set of content items within a second-degree network of a member. Next, the system calculates one or more metrics from the one or more measurements. The system then ranks the set of content items by the one or more metrics. Finally, the system uses the ranking to present one or more of the content items in a content feed to the member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2016Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: LinkedIn CorporationInventors: Michael Conover, Timothy P. Jurka, Claire D. McGinty, Quinn Z. Shen
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Publication number: 20170262762Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system calculates one or more quantiles from a distribution of historic user engagement with content within a member segment of a social network. Next, the system performs a comparison of the one or more quantiles with a current measurement of user engagement with a content item within the member segment. When the comparison indicates that the current measurement of user engagement exceeds a threshold, the system presents the content item to one or more members in the member segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2016Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: LinkedIn CorporationInventors: Michael Conover, Timothy P. Jurka, Claire D. McGinty, Quinn Z. Shen
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Publication number: 20170214589Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for facilitating interaction within a social network. During operation, the system obtains a graph of a social network, wherein the graph includes a set of nodes representing members of the social network and a set of edges representing relationships between pairs of the members. Next, the system uses the graph to identify a subset of the members with high betweenness centrality within a subgraph that includes a first group in the social network and a second group in the social network. The system then outputs an indication of high betweenness centrality for the subset of the members to facilitate interaction between the first and second groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: LinkedIn CorporationInventor: Michael Conover
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Publication number: 20160350669Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a set of content pools for a user, wherein each content pool in the set of content pools includes a set of content items associated with user activity in a member segment of a social network. Next, the system calculates a set of probabilities of clicking the content items in the content pool. The system then uses the probabilities to order the content items with other content items from other content pools into a content feed for the user. Finally, the system presents the content feed to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2015Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicant: LINKEDIN CORPORATIONInventors: Timothy P. Jurka, Patrick A. Chase, Claire D. McGinty, Andrew O. Hatch, Alejandro Jorge Perez, Michael Conover, Samuel Stokes, Gregory W. Bayer, Akshay D. Kothari, Ankit Gupta
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Publication number: 20160350310Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains one or more metrics associated with user interaction with a set of content items in a member segment of a social network. Next, the system ranks the set of content items by the one or more metrics. The system then generates a content pool for the member segment based on the ranking of the content items. Finally, the system creates a content feed from the content pool for presentation to a user in the member segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2015Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicant: LINKEDIN CORPORATIONInventors: Timothy P. Jurka, Patrick A. Chase, Claire D. McGinty, Andrew O. Hatch, Alejandro Jorge Perez, Michael Conover, Samuel Stokes, Gregory W. Bayer, Akshay D. Kothari, Ankit Gupta
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Publication number: 20160261544Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for facilitating interaction within a social network. During operation, the system obtains a set of clusters of users in a graph of a social network, wherein the graph includes a set of nodes representing the users and a set of edges representing relationships between pairs of the users. Next, the system identifies low connectivity between a first cluster and second cluster in the set of clusters and high compatibility between a first user from the first cluster and a second user from the second cluster. The system then generates, based on the high compatibility, an introduction of the first and second users to facilitate increased interaction between the first and second users.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2015Publication date: September 8, 2016Applicant: Linkedln CorporationInventor: Michael Conover
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Patent number: 9330125Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a reputation system. The reputation system includes a ranking apparatus that obtains a set of reputation scores for one or more dimensions of a set of items in the reputation system and generates a ranking of the items based on the reputation scores and the one or more quantiles. The reputation system also includes a query-processing apparatus that obtains a query comprising the one or more dimensions and one or more quantiles associated with the one or more dimensions and provides the ranking in a response to the query.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: LinkedIn CorporationInventors: Mario S. Rodriguez, Viet Thuc Ha, Jessica V. Zuniga, Mathieu Bastian, Michael Conover
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Publication number: 20150262081Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a reputation system. The reputation system includes a statistical model associated with a set of items and a set of dimensions of the items in the reputation system, wherein the statistical model is trained using a positive class and a negative class. The reputation system also includes a scoring apparatus that applies the statistical model to a set of features for each of the items to estimate a set of reputation scores for the items. Finally, the reputation system includes a ranking apparatus that enables use of the set of reputation scores in the reputation system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2014Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: LinkedIn CorporationInventors: Mario S. Rodriguez, Viet Thuc Ha, Jessica V. Zuniga, Mathieu Bastian, Michael Conover
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Publication number: 20150261759Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a reputation system. The reputation system includes a ranking apparatus that obtains a set of reputation scores for one or more dimensions of a set of items in the reputation system and generates a ranking of the items based on the reputation scores and the one or more quantiles. The reputation system also includes a query-processing apparatus that obtains a query comprising the one or more dimensions and one or more quantiles associated with the one or more dimensions and provides the ranking in a response to the query.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2015Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: LinkedIn CorporationInventors: Mario S. Rodriguez, Viet Thuc Ha, Jessica V. Zuniga, Mathieu Bastian, Michael Conover
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Patent number: 9135573Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a reputation system. The reputation system includes a statistical model associated with a set of items and a set of dimensions of the items in the reputation system, wherein the statistical model is trained using a positive class and a negative class. The reputation system also includes a scoring apparatus that applies the statistical model to a set of features for each of the items to estimate a set of reputation scores for the items. Finally, the reputation system includes a ranking apparatus that enables use of the set of reputation scores in the reputation system.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: LinkedIn CorporationInventors: Mario S. Rodriguez, Viet Thuc Ha, Jessica V. Zuniga, Mathieu Bastian, Michael Conover
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Patent number: 9081825Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a reputation system. The reputation system includes a ranking apparatus that obtains a set of reputation scores for one or more dimensions of a set of items in the reputation system and generates a ranking of the items based on the reputation scores and the one or more quantiles. The reputation system also includes a query-processing apparatus that obtains a query comprising the one or more dimensions and one or more quantiles associated with the one or more dimensions and provides the ranking in a response to the query.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: LinkedIn CorporationInventors: Mario S. Rodriguez, Viet Thuc Ha, Jessica V. Zuniga, Mathieu Bastian, Michael Conover