Patents by Inventor Sara Su

Sara Su 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: 10061851
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a search query from a searching user, receiving contact data associated with a user that is determined to be responsive to the search query, the contact data being provided from one or more data sources, and providing an electronic document including instructions to display a search results page including search results responsive to the search query and a profile card associated with the user, the profile card including one or more graphical representations associated with an interaction channel, each interaction channel being associated with respective contact data of the contact data, and each graphical representation being operable to receive user input and initiate execution of an associated interaction from the search results page, an interaction interface used to execute the associated interaction being displayed concurrently with the search results page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sara Su, Subramaniam Ganapathy, Jin Zhou, Sean Liu, Saksiri Tanphaichitr, Abigail Jones
  • Publication number: 20170310615
    Abstract: This disclosure presents a system, methods, and software for using elements of social network objects associated with a user to prompt the user to engage in other activities on a social networking site. A system receives a plurality of social network content items associated with a user. The system stores the plurality of social network content items using one or more data stores. The system analyzes the plurality of social network content items associated with the user to determine an element of the plurality of social network content items for use in creating a personalized input prompt to encourage the user to interact with a social network. The system generates one or more personalized descriptors based on the element of the plurality of social network content items. The system transmits the one or more personalized descriptors to a client device for presentation by a client application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Sara Su
  • Patent number: 9767159
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing ranked search results responsive to a query. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a user device, a query specifying an entity, determining two or more resources each of which provide media content related to the entity, for each of the resources, determining an effectiveness measure that is a measure of the effectiveness of the resource to present, to a user of the user device, the media content related to the entity, ranking the resources using, at least in part, the respective effectiveness measure, and providing, to the user device, a presentation of search results for the ranked resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Chen, Sara Su, Michael Aaron Safyan, Jason B. Douglas, Samuel Shoji Fukujima Goto
  • Patent number: 9275421
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for information retrieval. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search input including one or more search terms; determining whether the search input includes a particular token; in response to determining that the search input includes the particular token, determining whether the one or more search terms are associated with a particular social page; in response to determining that the one or more search terms are associated with the particular social page, providing the particular social page without providing search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan C. Horling, David M. Byttow, Pavan K. Desikan, Pavani Diwanji, Ronald Ho, Sagar Kamdar, Sara Su, Vivek P. Gundotra
  • Publication number: 20150363401
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing ranked search results responsive to a query. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a user device, a query specifying an entity, determining two or more resources each of which provide media content related to the entity, for each of the resources, determining an effectiveness measure that is a measure of the effectiveness of the resource to present, to a user of the user device, the media content related to the entity, ranking the resources using, at least in part, the respective effectiveness measure, and providing, to the user device, a presentation of search results for the ranked resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Steve Chen, Sara Su, Michael Aaron Safyan, Jason B. Douglas, Samuel Shoji Fukujima Goto
  • Publication number: 20130117301
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for information retrieval. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search input including one or more search terms; determining whether the search input includes a particular token; in response to determining that the search input includes the particular token, determining whether the one or more search terms are associated with a particular social page; in response to determining that the one or more search terms are associated with the particular social page, providing the particular social page without providing search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Inventors: Bryan C. Horling, David M. Byttow, Pavan K. Desikan, Pavani Diwanji, Ronald Ho, Sagar Kamdar, Sara Su, Vic P. Gundotra
  • Patent number: D771090
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Sara Su, Hanway Shalin Pei