Patents by Inventor Rohit Poddar

Rohit Poddar 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: 11468474
    Abstract: An online system uses a model to determine affinities of users for geographical locations. Using the affinities, which may indicate travel-related preferences of the users, the online system may customize content items to include content captured by client devices of other users of the online system. For example, the online system presents to a particular user a content item including a photo or video of a geographical location captured by a camera of a client device of another user who is connected to the particular user. The model may implement, for example, collaborative filtering or other machine learning techniques to determine commonalities between users' travel affinities. Additionally, the model may determine latent properties or temporal trends of user preferences based on training data including historical actions performed on the online system or social data. The model may also classify different types of geographical locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Arpit Sood, Gurpreetsingh Baljeetsingh Sachdev, Alex Meyer, Rohit Poddar, Manisha Singh, Tao Cui Baecklund, Anthony Mang Yau, Shashikant Khandelwal
  • Patent number: 11054270
    Abstract: An online system provides navigation information customized using travel preferences of users. The online system receives actions performed by users that may indicate their geographical locations of interest. The online system may use a model to predict a user's level of interest in destination geographical locations. The online system generates navigation information or travel information that describes routes from origin geographical locations of users to destination geographical locations to which the users are likely to travel. The online system transmits the navigation information to client devices for presentation as personalized or dynamically-created content items to users. The online system may generate navigation information using catalogs describing routes between geographical locations. For instance, the catalog indicates a vehicle for navigation along a route, as well as origin and destination geographical locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Manisha Singh, Tao Cui Baecklund, Rohit Poddar, Ido Wakrat, Robert P. Otillar, Shashikant Khandelwal
  • Patent number: 10907983
    Abstract: An online system provides navigation information customized using travel preferences of users. The online system receives actions performed by users that may indicate their geographical locations of interest. The online system may use a model to predict a user's level of interest in destination geographical locations. The online system generates navigation information or travel information that describes routes from origin geographical locations of users to destination geographical locations to which the users are likely to travel. The online system transmits the navigation information to client devices for presentation as personalized or dynamically-created content items to users. The online system may generate navigation information using catalogs describing routes between geographical locations. For instance, the catalog indicates a vehicle for navigation along a route, as well as origin and destination geographical locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Manisha Singh, Tao Cui Baecklund, Rohit Poddar, Shashikant Khandelwal, Ido Wakrat, Robert P. Otillar
  • Publication number: 20190139089
    Abstract: An online system uses a model to determine affinities of users for geographical locations. Using the affinities, which may indicate travel-related preferences of the users, the online system may customize content items to include content captured by client devices of other users of the online system. For example, the online system presents to a particular user a content item including a photo or video of a geographical location captured by a camera of a client device of another user who is connected to the particular user. The model may implement, for example, collaborative filtering or other machine learning techniques to determine commonalities between users' travel affinities. Additionally, the model may determine latent properties or temporal trends of user preferences based on training data including historical actions performed on the online system or social data. The model may also classify different types of geographical locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Arpit Sood, Gurpreetsingh Baljeetsingh Sachdev, Alex Meyer, Rohit Poddar, Manisha Singh, Tao Cui Baecklund, Anthony Mang Yau, Shashikant Khandelwal
  • Publication number: 20180276571
    Abstract: An online system uses rules and/or machine learning models to provide travel related content items to users. The online system may determine when a user is likely to travel and provide the content items in advance of a trip. The online system may also provide content items during a trip that indicate modifications to the user's itinerary, for example, adding a rental car, upgrading a flight ticket, or upgrading a hotel room. Further, the online system may provide a content item after a user has checked out of a hotel that describes a loyalty program of the hotel. In one example, the online system trains machine learning models using feature vectors derived based on trips taken by a population of users of the online system and itinerary information from third parties. The content items may be generated based on information provided from the third parties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Rohit Poddar, Jinfu Leng, Robert P. Otillar, Loren William Abrams, Tao Cui Baecklund