Patents by Inventor Namit Rai Surana

Namit Rai Surana 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).

  • Identifying additional applications for comparison to an application with which online system users interact
    Patent number: 10402758
    Abstract: An online system maintains information describing interactions by its users with various applications. To allow evaluation of an application against other applications, the online system identifies additional applications having a threshold measure of similarity to the application and with which at least at threshold number of users interacted during a time interval. Based on a number of users who interacted with various additional applications and amounts of revenue obtained by additional applications, the online system selects a group of additional applications. The online system selects additional applications from the group based on scores for the additional applications determined from user interaction and revenue obtained by the additional applications and provides information about the additional applications selected from the group to an entity associated with the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Srikant Ramakrishna Ayyar, Akin Husnu Babayigit, Jing Bao, Estelle Fume, Namit Rai Surana
  • IDENTIFYING ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS FOR COMPARISON TO AN APPLICATION WITH WHICH ONLINE SYSTEM USERS INTERACT
    Publication number: 20170109677
    Abstract: An online system maintains information describing interactions by its users with various applications. To allow evaluation of an application against other applications, the online system identifies additional applications having a threshold measure of similarity to the application and with which at least at threshold number of users interacted during a time interval. Based on a number of users who interacted with various additional applications and amounts of revenue obtained by additional applications, the online system selects a group of additional applications. The online system selects additional applications from the group based on scores for the additional applications determined from user interaction and revenue obtained by the additional applications and provides information about the additional applications selected from the group to an entity associated with the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Srikant Ramakrishna Ayyar, Akin Husnu Babayigit, Jing Bao, Estelle Fume, Namit Rai Surana