Patents by Inventor Omar Alonso

Omar Alonso 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: 20170249384
    Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein generate a comment-summary interface that can help a user find comments of interest to the user. The comment-summary interface allows a user to access comments according to topics instead of scrolling through all of the comments found in a comment section associated with a primary content, such as a news article on a website, a social post, product review, and such. Categorizing the comments into topics makes more efficient use of computer resources by avoiding the need to display comments that are not of interest to the user. The plurality of comments analyzed by aspects of the technology described herein are unstructured comments. Unstructured comments lack specific subject matter categories designated by a user or preselected by a webpage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: VASILEIOS KANDYLAS, SERGE-ERIC TREMBLAY, OMAR ALONSO
  • Publication number: 20170249388
    Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein detect experts in social networks. Experts may be identified within social networks using social network data. A collection of topics may be compiled based on search engine behavioral data. A combination of the social network data and search engine behavioral data is utilized to score each topic within potential topics for a user. When a topic score is over a predetermined threshold, a user may be classified as an expert for that topic. Expert search interfaces may be generated for use in browsing or searching for experts within a topic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Omar Alonso, Martin Hentschel, Vasileios Kandylas, Thibault Sellam
  • Patent number: 9557127
    Abstract: A projectile launcher includes a receiver and a dual cylindrical-shaped magazine (“DCM”) wherein the receiver contains a propelling mechanism and an ammunition receiving port. The propelling mechanism is used for launching a projectile. The ammunition receiving port, which may be situated at bottom of the receiver, is able to receive projectiles. It should be noted that the projectile launcher can also be a gun or firearm. The DCM includes two canisters and an ammunition supply port which is situated between the two canisters. The DCM carries multiple projectiles in such a way that a first portion of projectiles moves toward the receiver against gravity for supplying projectiles from the ammunition supply port to the ammunition receiving port while a second portion of projectiles move in a direction parallel to the receiver for replenishing projectiles from the second portion of projectiles to the first portion of projectiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Real Action Paintball (RAP4), Inc.
    Inventor: Omar Alonso Macy
  • Publication number: 20170017696
    Abstract: Objects in an object system may be identified by names, and a user may query the object system by specifying a set of keywords that are compared with the names to provide matching objects as search results. However, keyword ambiguity in both the query and the object names may cause query results that include objects using the keyword in a different context than the intent of the query. Presented herein are techniques for identifying objects using annotated names, where various entity values that are present in the object name are tagged with an entity type. The entity tags may be hidden when presenting the object name to a user, and may be utilized to index objects according by entity values and corresponding entity types. Queries may be fulfilled through comparison of the query with entity type and entity value pairs present in the annotated names of the objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Omar Alonso
  • Patent number: 9541341
    Abstract: A projectile launcher using a self-resetting trigger system includes a striker, a sear, and a trigger. The striker, also known as hammer, includes an anchoring notch and is able to slide between a firing position and a ready-for-firing position for launching an object. The sear, which is substantially L-shaped sear, has a first sear end and a second sear end wherein the sear maintains the striker to the ready-for-firing position when the first sear end engages with the anchoring notch of the striker. The trigger, which is capable of self resetting independent from the movement of the striker, contains an elastic lip with a ramp and is able to maintain the sear in a ready position when the elastic lip and the second sear end are coupled in a lock position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Real Action Paintball (RAP4), Inc.
    Inventor: Omar Alonso Macy
  • Publication number: 20160379232
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a social sketch from social communications are provided. Unlike a typical summary of a subject (or of multiple subjects), a social sketch represents a “snapshot” summary of the social communications of people during a given period of time. The social sketch is generated by obtaining a corpus of social communications and filtering the social communications according to time. The filtered results are clustered according to the subject matter/topics of the social communications. Selected clusters are identified and the topic, representative high-quality social communications from non-experts and experts are extracted from each of the selected clusters and saved as a social sketch corresponding to the time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Omar Alonso, Serge-Eric Tremblay, Vasileios Kandylas
  • Patent number: 9523550
    Abstract: A projectile launching device such as a paintball gun capable of firing a paintball using a hammer is disclosed. The paintball gun, in one embodiment, includes a bolt, a valve, and a hammer wherein the bolt has an air channel and is able to move within a bolt chamber. The valve, which is situated in a firing control chamber arranged in parallel to the bolt chamber, controls pressurized gas. The hammer, in one aspect, includes a pivot hole capable of hosting a pivot pin which facilitates a swing motion for the hammer. When the hammer swings around the pivot hole, the hammer contacts the valve whereby a portion of the pressurized gas is release. The bolt further includes a hammer reset element which is able to reset the hammer to a ready for firing position during a launch process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Real Action Paintball (RAP4), Inc.
    Inventor: Omar Alonso Macy
  • Publication number: 20160358096
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for metadata tag evaluation. For example, a metadata tag, associated with content, may be identified (e.g., a hashtag #ML may be used to tag a social network post). A set of characters, within the content, may be evaluated utilizing a probability matrix and the content to identify an expanded metadata tag (e.g., an expanded hashtag “machine learning”). Descriptive content, such as websites, articles, social network posts, and/or other content associated with the expanded metadata tag, may be retrieved. A description for the metadata tag may be generated based upon the descriptive content (e.g., a definition for machine learning). In this way, the description, related metadata tags, and/or supplemental content may be provided to users having an interest in learning about the metadata tag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Sushma Nagesh Bannur, Omar Alonso, Martin Hentschel
  • Publication number: 20160357870
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for identifying relationships between entities and/or for classifying entities into sectors. Social network commentary of users may be evaluated to select comments having co-occurrences of entity identifiers and/or co-occurrences of entity identifiers with sector identifiers. For example, a microblog message “I love these stores!! $CO(A) $CO(B) #ShoeShopping” may have a co-occurrence of entity identifiers $CO(A) of a Company (A) entity and $CO(B) of a Company (B) entity along with co-occurrence with a #ShoeShopping sector identifier of a Retail Clothing sector. A relationship between the Company (A) entity and the Company (B) entity may be specified based upon the co-occurrence of the entity identifiers. A sector classification of the Retail Clothing sector may be assigned to the Company (A) entity and to the Company (B) entity based upon the co-occurrence of the entity identifiers $CO(A) and $CO(B) with the #ShoeShopping sector identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Martin Hentschel, Omar Alonso
  • Patent number: 9500436
    Abstract: A projectile launcher having an upper receiver capable of swinging away from a lower receiver is disclosed. In one aspect, the lower receiver having a first end and a second end contains a firing control chamber. While the second end is located closer to barrel of the launcher, the first end of launcher is located closer to a buttstock. The firing control chamber includes a gas channel, wherein one end of gas channel is coupled to a valve and another end of gas channel reaches to the top of external wall of the chamber. The upper receiver having a first end and a second end contains a bolt chamber. The second end of upper receiver and the second end of lower receiver are pivotally coupled whereby allowing the first end of upper receiver to be pivotally swung away from the first end of lower receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Real Action Paintball, Inc. (RAP4)
    Inventor: Omar Alonso Macy
  • Publication number: 20160327360
    Abstract: A projectile launching device such as a paintball gun capable of firing a paintball using a hammer is disclosed. The paintball gun, in one embodiment, includes a bolt, a valve, and a hammer wherein the bolt has an air channel and is able to move within a bolt chamber. The valve, which is situated in a firing control chamber arranged in parallel to the bolt chamber, controls pressurized gas. The hammer, in one aspect, includes a pivot hole capable of hosting a pivot pin which facilitates a swing motion for the hammer. When the hammer swings around the pivot hole, the hammer contacts the valve whereby a portion of the pressurized gas is release. The bolt further includes a hammer reset element which is able to reset the hammer to a ready for firing position during a launch process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: Real Action Paintball, Inc.
    Inventor: OMAR ALONSO MACY
  • Publication number: 20160239502
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and media bearing computer-executable instructions are provided for responding to a search query directed to a request for activities in a specified location. In response, a location-action data store storing a plurality of location-activity records is accessed and location-activity responses (each identifying an activity at a specific location) are returned. The location-activity records are aggregated from check-in data from a plurality of users from one or more social networking services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Omar Alonso, Stewart William Whiting
  • Publication number: 20160212200
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for populating an information interface based upon social media data. For example, users may post, share, and/or discuss various information through social media sources. Accordingly, social media data may be obtained from such social media sources. The social media data may be grouped into sets of social media data based upon temporal information. Within the sets of social media data, social media entries may be clustered into topic clusters (e.g., a royal wedding topic cluster, a plane crash topic cluster, etc.). Event summaries may be generated for respective topic clusters. The event summaries may be used to populate timeslots of an information interface, such as a calendar or timeline, to create annotated timeslots. In this way, the information interface may provide users with an interactive view of events over a time period, such as a year-in-review, based upon social media data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Omar Alonso, Vasileios Kandylas, Kartikay Khandelwal
  • Publication number: 20160203187
    Abstract: The described implementations relate to communication platforms that are provided over computer networks. One implementation provides a system that can include a storage component configured to store a plurality of communications having a common connector. The system can also include a score computation component that is configured to compute scores reflecting semantic relationships between individual communications from the plurality of communications. The system can also include a summary generation component that is configured to select one or more of the individual communications, based on the scores, and generate a summary of the common connector. The summary can represent the selected individual communications. The system can also include at least one processor configured to execute one or more of the components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Omar ALONSO, Karen SHIELLS, Ho John LEE, Chad CARSON
  • Publication number: 20160203225
    Abstract: Systems and methods for extracting and organizing quantitative content with a corresponding topic in regard to a particular, desired event, from a body of user posts is presented. More particularly, nearly ubiquitously a body of user posts includes a substantial amount of highly relevant and interesting information goes largely unprocessed and widely inaccessible. According to the disclosed subject matter, a body/corpus of user posts is filtered according to a desired event such that those user posts relating to a desired event is identified. Additionally, the user posts are also filtered according to whether or not the user posts include a quantitative value. An analysis of the filtered user posts is conducted to extract, for qualifying user posts, a quantitative tuple comprising a quantitative value and a corresponding topic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
    Inventors: Omar Alonso, Thibault Henri Joseph Sellam
  • Publication number: 20160178303
    Abstract: A projectile launcher using a self-resetting trigger system includes a striker, a sear, and a trigger. The striker, also known as hammer, includes an anchoring notch and is able to slide between a firing position and a ready-for-firing position for launching an object. The sear, which is substantially L-shaped sear, has a first sear end and a second sear end wherein the sear maintains the striker to the ready-for-firing position when the first sear end engages with the anchoring notch of the striker. The trigger, which is capable of self resetting independent from the movement of the striker, contains an elastic lip with a ramp and is able to maintain the sear in a ready position when the elastic lip and the second sear end are coupled in a lock position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Real Action Paintball, Inc.
    Inventor: Omar Alonso Macy
  • Patent number: 9355181
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for augmenting search results with a user defined suggestion and/or for providing a user defined suggestion. For example, a venue entity may be associated with search results and/or user information (e.g., a set of search results may correspond to the Eiffel Tower). User defined data associated with the venue entity may be evaluated to generate a user defined suggestion associated with the venue entity. For example, user generated content about the Eiffel Tower, such as tips, advice, opinions, and/or other information specified by social network users, may be evaluated to determine a user defined suggestion “get tower tickets early, they sell out fast”. The user defined suggestion may be provided to a user (e.g., visiting the venue entity) and/or used to augment the set of search results. In this way, practical information, derived from opinions shared by other users, may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sushma Nagesh Bannur, Omar Alonso
  • Patent number: 9328988
    Abstract: A projectile launching device includes a receiver, an ammunition magazine, and a trap. The receiver has a magazine receiving port, a loading chamber, and a launching mechanism configured to launch a projectile via pressurized gas. The ammunition magazine has a projectile supply port and stores projectiles. The projectile supply port can be inserted into the magazine receiving port for supplying projectiles. The trap, which is located in the vicinity of the loading chamber and magazine receiving port, is oriented in a trap orientation which prevents projectile from leaving the loading chamber when the ammunition magazine is removed from the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Real Action Paintball, Inc. (RAP4)
    Inventor: Omar Alonso Macy
  • Patent number: 9328989
    Abstract: A paintball assembly capable of retaining a paintball in a loading chamber using a paintball catcher is disclosed. The paintball assembly includes a loading chamber, a detent, and a bolt. The loading chamber is coupled to a loading port to receive paintballs. In one embodiment, the detent includes a paintball catcher capable of catching the paintball as it is loaded into the loading chamber. In one example, the paintball catcher is a flexible paintball catcher extending into the loading chamber and is able to catch the paintball and hold it in a predefined position. When a trigger is pulled, the bolt pushes the paintball into a firing chamber while the paintball catcher releases the paintball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Real Action Paintball, Inc. (RAP4)
    Inventors: Loc T. Pham, Omar Alonso Macy, Khanh Tran
  • Patent number: 9317583
    Abstract: Architecture that augments a search result entry caption with keywords related to topics currently being shared and discussed in other social network information sources. This can provide a much better idea of the content of the website or webpage. The architecture obtains a link from updates of social topics of social network information sources (e.g., social networks for people places professionals, etc.), extracts title content of a document title associated with the link, compares the title content to document text for similarity to create non-duplicative content, creates keywords related to popular social topics from the non-duplicative content, and then augments a search result entry of a search result page with the keywords of the popular social topics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Omar Alonso, Shankar Kalyanaraman