Patents by Inventor Vikas Sukla
Vikas Sukla 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).
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Patent number: 11194868Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query, identifying search results in response to the query, grouping the search results into one or more clusters, identifying similarities across the one or more clusters, determining a related topic associated with the query based on the similarities of the one or more clusters, determining a categories associated with the query, identifying supplemental information based on the related topic and the category, and providing the search results and the supplemental information for display in response to the query.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Anand Paka, Paul Brian Moody, Mayuresh Saoji, Vikas Sukla, Andre Rohe, Richard Louis Gingras, Maricia Scott
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Patent number: 10846320Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for automatic generation of news digests. One of the methods includes accessing a database storing news snapshots, each snapshot identifying a predetermined quantity of top news stories for a period of time, each of the top news stories in a particular snapshot for a particular period of time ranked according to an importance score that measures the importance of the news story relative to other news stories for the particular period of time, determining a digest time period, determining, for the digest time period, all of the snapshots with periods of time included in the digest time period, generating, from the top news stories in the determined snapshots, a digest ranking of digest news stories, and providing, to a user device, data identifying one or more of the digest news stories for presentation according to the digest ranking.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Pan Gu, Mayuresh Saoji, Yuqiang Guan, Maricia Scott, Vikas Sukla, Anand Devraj Paka
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Publication number: 20190171659Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for automatic generation of news digests. One of the methods includes accessing a database storing news snapshots, each snapshot identifying a predetermined quantity of top news stories for a period of time, each of the top news stories in a particular snapshot for a particular period of time ranked according to an importance score that measures the importance of the news story relative to other news stories for the particular period of time, determining a digest time period, determining, for the digest time period, all of the snapshots with periods of time included in the digest time period, generating, from the top news stories in the determined snapshots, a digest ranking of digest news stories, and providing, to a user device, data identifying one or more of the digest news stories for presentation according to the digest ranking.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2019Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: Pan Gu, Mayuresh Saoji, Yuqiang Guan, Maricia Scott, Vikas Sukla, Anand Devraj Paka
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Patent number: 10242096Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for automatic generation of news digests. One of the methods includes accessing a database storing news snapshots, each snapshot identifying a predetermined quantity of top news stories for a period of time, each of the top news stories in a particular snapshot for a particular period of time ranked according to an importance score that measures the importance of the news story relative to other news stories for the particular period of time, determining a digest time period, determining, for the digest time period, all of the snapshots with periods of time included in the digest time period, generating, from the top news stories in the determined snapshots, a digest ranking of digest news stories, and providing, to a user device, data identifying one or more of the digest news stories for presentation according to the digest ranking.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Pan Gu, Mayuresh Saoji, Yuqiang Guan, Maricia Scott, Vikas Sukla, Anand Devraj Paka
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Patent number: 10185780Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method configured for resharing content items. The system includes a processor and memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: receive one or more social-content items that contain one or more first links; determine whether the one or more social-content items are related to a news-story cluster (including one or more news-story items) based on the one or more first links, the news-story cluster including one or more second links; responsive to determining that the one or more social-content items are related to the news-story cluster, associate the one or more social-content items with the news-story cluster; rank the one or more social-content items; and generate a resharing content item including the one or more ranked social-content items.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Paul Moody, Mayuresh Saoji, Vikas Sukla, Andrey Prigogin
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Publication number: 20170270121Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for automatic generation of news digests. One of the methods includes accessing a database storing news snapshots, each snapshot identifying a predetermined quantity of top news stories for a period of time, each of the top news stories in a particular snapshot for a particular period of time ranked according to an importance score that measures the importance of the news story relative to other news stories for the particular period of time, determining a digest time period, determining, for the digest time period, all of the snapshots with periods of time included in the digest time period, generating, from the top news stories in the determined snapshots, a digest ranking of digest news stories, and providing, to a user device, data identifying one or more of the digest news stories for presentation according to the digest ranking.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2016Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Pan Gu, Mayuresh Saoji, Yuqiang Guan, Maricia Scott, Vikas Sukla, Anand Devraj Paka
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Patent number: 9678618Abstract: Documents relating to a topic may be presented to users using visually expandable views. In one implementation, a web page may include a number of topics each presented in a visual area that is presented to a user as one of two views, the two views including, for each of the particular topics: a first view in which a link to a document relating to the topic is presented to a user, and a second view, expanded visually relative to the first view, in which links, to a number of different types of documents and associated with a number of different domains, relating to the particular topic, are presented to the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jasson Arthur Schrock, Chase Hensel, Andre Rohe, Vikas Sukla, Allan Banaag, Krishna Bharat, Andrey Prigogin, Sam Felder
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Publication number: 20130298000Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method for providing socially relevant content in a news domain. The methods includes a steop for receiving a request from a user for a news aggregator page related to a news story. The method also includes a step for retrieving social contents items related to the news story. The method also includes a step for providing the news aggregator page for display, wherein the news aggregator page includes multiple links to news content items related to the news story, and the retrieved social content items related to the news story.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Scott ZUCCARINO, Justin Lewis Kosslyn, Richard Gingras, Andre Rohe, Vikas Sukla, Erich Schmidt, Lucian Florin Cionca, Trevor Pering, Michael Leotta
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Patent number: 8027915Abstract: A computer-implemented method of providing advertising to a client includes establishing a billing experience between a client and a provider, providing advertising opportunities to the client on at least one of a continual basis and a periodic basis, evaluating a credit risk associated with the client at least one of periodically and upon occurrence of an event, and modifying the billing experience automatically based on the credit risk associated with the client.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2010Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Ross Koningstein, Saksiri Tanphaichitr, Vikas Sukla, Michael Schulman, Giles Douglas, Emmett Andrew Cunningham
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Publication number: 20100324998Abstract: A computer-implemented method of providing advertising to a client includes establishing a billing experience between a client and a provider, providing advertising opportunities to the client on at least one of a continual basis and a periodic basis, evaluating a credit risk associated with the client at least one of periodically and upon occurrence of an event, and modifying the billing experience automatically based on the credit risk associated with the client.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Ross KONINGSTEIN, Saksiri Tanphaichitr, Vikas Sukla, Michael Schulman, Giles Douglas, Emmett Andrew Cunningham
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Patent number: 7792743Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for managing risk in business transactions. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method of managing risk exposure of a provide includes providing a product from the provider to a client under an initial billing experience between the provider and the client, evaluating a credit risk associated with the client at least one of periodically or upon occurrence of an event, and modifying a credit line the provider is willing to offer the client.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2007Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Ross Koningstein, Saksiri Tanphaichitr, Vikas Sukla, Michael Schulman, Giles Douglas, Emmett Andrew Cunningham
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Publication number: 20080275811Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for managing risk in business transactions. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method of managing risk exposure of a provide includes providing a product from the provider to a client under an initial billing experience between the provider and the client, evaluating a credit risk associated with the client at least one of periodically or upon occurrence of an event, and modifying a credit line the provider is willing to offer the client.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2007Publication date: November 6, 2008Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Ross Koningstein, Saksiri Tanphaichitr, Vikas Sukla, Michael Schulman, Giles Douglas, Emmett Andrew Cunningham