Patents by Inventor Robert Alexander Durbin

Robert Alexander Durbin 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: 11570512
    Abstract: This document describes, among other things, systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for using information about how long various videos were presented at client devices to determine subsequent video recommendations and search results. In some implementations, a computing can include a modeling apparatus, a front-end server, a request manager, one or more video file storage devices, a video selector, or a combination of some or all of these. The video selector can select video content for a particular digitized video among a plurality of digitized videos to serve to a computing device responsive to a request. The selection can be based at least in part on how long the particular digitized video has been presented at client devices associated with users having characteristics that match one or more characteristics of the user that submitted the request for video content, as indicated by the modeling apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Robert Alexander Durbin
  • Publication number: 20210368233
    Abstract: This document describes, among other things, systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for using information about how long various videos were presented at client devices to determine subsequent video recommendations and search results. In some implementations, a computing can include a modeling apparatus, a front-end server, a request manager, one or more video file storage devices, a video selector, or a combination of some or all of these. The video selector can select video content for a particular digitized video among a plurality of digitized videos to serve to a computing device responsive to a request. The selection can be based at least in part on how long the particular digitized video has been presented at client devices associated with users having characteristics that match one or more characteristics of the user that submitted the request for video content, as indicated by the modeling apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Robert Alexander Durbin
  • Patent number: 11109097
    Abstract: This document describes, among other things, systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for using information about how long various videos were presented at client devices to determine subsequent video recommendations and search results. In some implementations, a computing can include a modeling apparatus, a front-end server, a request manager, one or more video file storage devices, a video selector, or a combination of some or all of these. The video selector can select video content for a particular digitized video among a plurality of digitized videos to serve to a computing device responsive to a request. The selection can be based at least in part on how long the particular digitized video has been presented at client devices associated with users having characteristics that match one or more characteristics of the user that submitted the request for video content, as indicated by the modeling apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Robert Alexander Durbin
  • Publication number: 20190020920
    Abstract: This document describes, among other things, systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for using information about how long various videos were presented at client devices to determine subsequent video recommendations and search results. In some implementations, a computing can include a modeling apparatus, a front-end server, a request manager, one or more video file storage devices, a video selector, or a combination of some or all of these. The video selector can select video content for a particular digitized video among a plurality of digitized videos to serve to a computing device responsive to a request. The selection can be based at least in part on how long the particular digitized video has been presented at client devices associated with users having characteristics that match one or more characteristics of the user that submitted the request for video content, as indicated by the modeling apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Robert Alexander Durbin
  • Patent number: 10152554
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying a set of digital content that are responsive to a search query; detecting an electronic tag within the set of digital content; automatically converting the electronic tag to a frame element; generating and transmitting to an user device a composite page that: is hosted at a different domain than at least some digital content; includes different digital content from the set of digital content; and initially hides presentation of the frame element in the composite page; receiving a request for additional content generated by the frame element that identifies one of the various digital content sources; embedding observation code into the additional content; and determining that the additional content was visually perceptible on a display of the user device based on an electronic message received from the intersection observer code executing at the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Robert Alexander Durbin
  • Patent number: 10003847
    Abstract: This document describes, among other things, systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for using information about how long various videos were presented at client devices to determine subsequent video recommendations and search results. In some implementations, a computing can include a modeling apparatus, a front-end server, a request manager, one or more video file storage devices, a video selector, or a combination of some or all of these. The video selector can select video content for a particular digitized video among a plurality of digitized videos to serve to a computing device responsive to a request. The selection can be based at least in part on how long the particular digitized video has been presented at client devices associated with users having characteristics that match one or more characteristics of the user that submitted the request for video content, as indicated by the modeling apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Robert Alexander Durbin
  • Publication number: 20170311035
    Abstract: This document describes, among other things, systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for using information about how long various videos were presented at client devices to determine subsequent video recommendations and search results. In some implementations, a computing can include a modeling apparatus, a front-end server, a request manager, one or more video file storage devices, a video selector, or a combination of some or all of these. The video selector can select video content for a particular digitized video among a plurality of digitized videos to serve to a computing device responsive to a request. The selection can be based at least in part on how long the particular digitized video has been presented at client devices associated with users having characteristics that match one or more characteristics of the user that submitted the request for video content, as indicated by the modeling apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Robert Alexander Durbin
  • Publication number: 20170242931
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying a set of digital content that are responsive to a search query; detecting an electronic tag within the set of digital content; automatically converting the electronic tag to a frame element; generating and transmitting to an user device a composite page that: is hosted at a different domain than at least some digital content; includes different digital content from the set of digital content; and initially hides presentation of the frame element in the composite page; receiving a request for additional content generated by the frame element that identifies one of the various digital content sources; embedding observation code into the additional content; and determining that the additional content was visually perceptible on a display of the user device based on an electronic message received from the intersection observer code executing at the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Robert Alexander Durbin