Patents by Inventor Shankar Kalyanaraman

Shankar Kalyanaraman 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: 11604821
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure include a character management system that determines and utilizes contextual meaning with regard to standardized image characters. In particular, the character management system determines contextual meaning with regard to standardized characters based on the manner in which the standardized characters are utilized in a repository of electronic documents. Moreover, the character management system can utilize the contextual meaning to search, recommend, analyze, and translate with regard to the use of standardized image characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Dimson, Bogdan State, Shankar Kalyanaraman, Hamdan Azhar
  • Publication number: 20220067084
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure include a character management system that determines and utilizes contextual meaning with regard to standardized image characters. In particular, the character management system determines contextual meaning with regard to standardized characters based on the manner in which the standardized characters are utilized in a repository of electronic documents. Moreover, the character management system can utilize the contextual meaning to search, recommend, analyze, and translate with regard to the use of standardized image characters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Dimson, Bogdan State, Shankar Kalyanaraman, Hamdan Azhar
  • Patent number: 11030238
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure include a character management system that determines and utilizes contextual meaning with regard to standardized image characters. In particular, the character management system determines contextual meaning with regard to standardized characters based on the manner in which the standardized characters are utilized in a repository of electronic documents. Moreover, the character management system can utilize the contextual meaning to search, recommend, analyze, and translate with regard to the use of standardized image characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Dimson, Bogdan State, Shankar Kalyanaraman, Hamdan Azhar
  • Patent number: 10726085
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can acquire a set of properties associated with a set of content items. A plurality of property combinations can be selected from the set of properties. A plurality of numbers of unique properties associated with the plurality of property combinations can be determined. A diversity metric for the set of content items can be generated based on at least some of the plurality of numbers of unique properties associated with the plurality of property combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Shankar Kalyanaraman
  • Publication number: 20200104316
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure include a character management system that determines and utilizes contextual meaning with regard to standardized image characters. In particular, the character management system determines contextual meaning with regard to standardized characters based on the manner in which the standardized characters are utilized in a repository of electronic documents. Moreover, the character management system can utilize the contextual meaning to search, recommend, analyze, and translate with regard to the use of standardized image characters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Dimson, Bogdan State, Shankar Kalyanaraman, Hamdan Azhar
  • Patent number: 10546015
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure include a character management system that determines and utilizes contextual meaning with regard to standardized image characters. In particular, the character management system determines contextual meaning with regard to standardized characters based on the manner in which the standardized characters are utilized in a repository of electronic documents. Moreover, the character management system can utilize the contextual meaning to search, recommend, analyze, and translate with regard to the use of standardized image characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Dimson, Bogdan State, Shankar Kalyanaraman, Hamdan Azhar
  • Publication number: 20180025087
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can acquire a set of properties associated with a set of content items. A plurality of property combinations can be selected from the set of properties. A plurality of numbers of unique properties associated with the plurality of property combinations can be determined. A diversity metric for the set of content items can be generated based on at least some of the plurality of numbers of unique properties associated with the plurality of property combinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventor: Shankar Kalyanaraman
  • Publication number: 20170154055
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure include a character management system that determines and utilizes contextual meaning with regard to standardized image characters. In particular, the character management system determines contextual meaning with regard to standardized characters based on the manner in which the standardized characters are utilized in a repository of electronic documents. Moreover, the character management system can utilize the contextual meaning to search, recommend, analyze, and translate with regard to the use of standardized image characters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Dimson, Bogdan State, Shankar Kalyanaraman, Hamdan Azhar
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20140101145
    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: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Omar Alonso, Shankar Kalyanaraman
  • Patent number: 8452752
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-storage media having computer-usable instructions embodied thereon, for prioritizing crawl lists based on social networking rankings are provided. Various scores are associated with users based on a variety of factors including activity levels with respect to social networking services, activity levels with respect to search engines, and interactions with other users in a social networking environment. The scores are used to compute a ranking for the users and, based on the rankings, a crawl list is prioritized such that content associated with the social networking environment is crawled at an appropriate time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Haas, Yi-An Lin, Shankar Kalyanaraman, Sameer Indarapu
  • Publication number: 20130041876
    Abstract: Links to web content can be identified as a function of one or more links shared by a user of an online social network service, among other things. The identified links can represent recommended links likely to be interesting to the user. Densification techniques can be employed to address data sparsity and thus enhance link recommendation. Furthermore, recommended links can be integrated with a search engine to personalize interaction with web content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Paul Alexander Dow, Shankar Kalyanaraman, Ittai Abraham, Sameer Indarapu
  • Publication number: 20120284251
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-storage media having computer-usable instructions embodied thereon, for prioritizing crawl lists based on social networking rankings are provided. Various scores are associated with users based on a variety of factors including activity levels with respect to social networking services, activity levels with respect to search engines, and interactions with other users in a social networking environment. The scores are used to compute a ranking for the users and, based on the rankings, a crawl list is prioritized such that content associated with the social networking environment is crawled at an appropriate time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kevin Haas, Yi-An Lin, Shankar Kalyanaraman, Sameer Indarapu