Patents by Inventor Tom Susel

Tom Susel 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).

  • Publication number: 20220237637
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can be configured to receive a question associated with an entity. At least one local user can be determined based at least in part on a location associated with the at least one local user. The question can be provided to the at least one local user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventor: Tom Susel
  • Patent number: 10757530
    Abstract: An online system receives a request from a user of a manager transmitter to generate a unique beacon identifier (ID) associated with a physical location. Responsive to receiving the beacon ID from the online system, the manager transmitter transmits a Bluetooth signal comprising the beacon ID to user client devices, which send the beacon ID to the online system for identification. Responsive to detecting that a received signal strength exceeds a threshold, a location context module classifies the instance of the user client device detecting the signal as an example of a user being present at the physical location. A location prediction module uses the instance as training data to train a machine-learning model to predict the presence of online system users at the physical location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Susel, Benjamin Tucker Savage
  • Patent number: 10251018
    Abstract: An online system receives a request from a user of a manager transmitter to generate a unique beacon identifier (ID) associated with a physical location. Responsive to receiving the beacon ID from the online system, the manager transmitter transmits a Bluetooth signal comprising the beacon ID to user client devices, which send the beacon ID to the online system for identification. Responsive to detecting that a received signal strength exceeds a threshold, a location context module classifies the instance of the user client device detecting the signal as an example of a user being present at the physical location. A location prediction module uses the instance as training data to train a machine-learning model to predict the presence of online system users at the physical location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Susel, Benjamin Tucker Savage