Patents by Inventor Sasha Sobol

Sasha Sobol 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).

  • Scoring stream items in real time
    Patent number: 9158775
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a real-time stream of content from heterogeneous data sources and a real-time index. The heterogeneous data sources include search, entertainment, social activity and activity on third-party sites. A fetching unit retrieves recent content that is indexed in the real-time index according to keywords. A model generation engine generates a model based on user activities. The mixer compares candidate content items from the heterogeneous data sources and the real-time index to the model to generate scores for each item and generates a stream of content based on the scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Tomkins, Dandapani Sivakumar, Sangsoo Sung, Justin Kosslyn, Todd Jackson, Andre Rohe, Ya Luo, Andrew Bunner, Sasha Sobol, Luca de Alfaro
  • Scoring stream items with models based on user interests
    Patent number: 8732240
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a stream of content includes a content stream module that generates a model based on user input and/or prior activities using heterogeneous data sources. The heterogeneous data sources include search, entertainment, social activity and activity on third-party sites. The content stream module retrieves candidate content items that have interests that are similar to the user. The candidate content items are compared to the model and scored based upon interestingness of the content item to the user. The content stream module generates the stream of content from the candidate content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Tomkins, Dandapani Sivakumar, Sangsoo Sung, Justin Kosslyn, Todd Jackson, Andre Rohe, Ya Luo, Andrew Bunner, Sasha Sobol, Luca de Alfaro
  • Scoring stream items with models based on user interests
    Patent number: 8719347
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a stream of content includes a content stream module that generates a model based on user input and/or prior activities using heterogeneous data sources. The heterogeneous data sources include search, entertainment, social activity and activity on third-party sites. The content stream module retrieves candidate content items that have interests that are similar to the user. The candidate content items are compared to the model and scored based upon interestingness of the content item to the user. The content stream module generates the stream of content from the candidate content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Tomkins, Dandapani Sivakumar, Sangsoo Sung, Justin Kosslyn, Todd Jackson, Andre Rohe, Ya Luo, Andrew Bunner, Sasha Sobol, Luca de Alfaro