Patents by Inventor William Crosby Presant

William Crosby Presant 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: 20240062536
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an initial input in a first modality from a first user at a virtual-reality (VR) headset, determining intents corresponding to the initial input by an intent-understanding module, generating candidate continuation-inputs in respective candidate modalities based on the intents, wherein the candidate modalities are different from the first modality, and presenting suggested inputs corresponding to one or more of the candidate continuation-inputs at the VR headset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: William Crosby Presant, Francislav P. Penov, Anuj Kumar
  • Patent number: 11869231
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a user input comprising an incomplete three-dimensional (3D) gesture performed by one or more hands of a first user by a virtual-reality (VR) headset, selecting candidate 3D gestures from pre-defined 3D gestures based on a personalized gesture-recognition model, wherein each of the candidate 3D gestures is associated with a confidence score representing a likelihood the first user intended to input the respective candidate 3D gesture, and presenting one or more suggested inputs corresponding to one or more of the candidate 3D gestures at the VR headset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William Crosby Presant, Francislav P Penov, Anuj Kumar
  • Patent number: 11694429
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an initial input in a first modality from a first user from a client system associated with the first user, determining one or more intents corresponding to the initial input by an intent-understanding module, generating one or more candidate continuation-inputs based on the one or more intents, where the one or more candidate continuation-inputs are in one or more candidate modalities, respectively, and wherein the candidate modalities are different from the first modality, and sending instructions for presenting one or more suggested inputs corresponding to one or more of the candidate continuation-inputs to the client system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William Crosby Presant, Francislav P. Penov, Anuj Kumar
  • Patent number: 11663818
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an initial input in a first modality from a first user from a client system associated with the first user, determining one or more intents corresponding to the initial input by an intent-understanding module, generating one or more candidate continuation-inputs based on the one or more intents, where the one or more candidate continuation-inputs are in one or more candidate modalities, respectively, and wherein the candidate modalities are different from the first modality, and sending instructions for presenting one or more suggested inputs corresponding to one or more of the candidate continuation-inputs to the client system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William Crosby Presant, Francislav P. Penov, Anuj Kumar
  • Publication number: 20230154175
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a user input comprising an incomplete three-dimensional (3D) gesture performed by one or more hands of a first user by a virtual-reality (VR) headset, selecting candidate 3D gestures from pre-defined 3D gestures based on a personalized gesture-recognition model, wherein each of the candidate 3D gestures is associated with a confidence score representing a likelihood the first user intended to input the respective candidate 3D gesture, and presenting one or more suggested inputs corresponding to one or more of the candidate 3D gestures at the VR headset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: William Crosby Presant, Francislav P. Penov, Anuj Kumar
  • Patent number: 11604817
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an initial input in a first modality from a first user from a client system associated with the first user, determining one or more intents corresponding to the initial input by an intent-understanding module, generating one or more candidate continuation-inputs based on the one or more intents, where the one or more candidate continuation-inputs are in one or more candidate modalities, respectively, and wherein the candidate modalities are different from the first modality, and sending instructions for presenting one or more suggested inputs corresponding to one or more of the candidate continuation-inputs to the client system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William Crosby Presant, Francislav P. Penov, Anuj Kumar
  • Publication number: 20220050696
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an initial input in a first modality from a first user from a client system associated with the first user, determining one or more intents corresponding to the initial input by an intent-understanding module, generating one or more candidate continuation-inputs based on the one or more intents, where the one or more candidate continuation-inputs are in one or more candidate modalities, respectively, and wherein the candidate modalities are different from the first modality, and sending instructions for presenting one or more suggested inputs corresponding to one or more of the candidate continuation-inputs to the client system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: William Crosby Presant, Francislav P. Penov, Anuj Kumar
  • Patent number: 11249773
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a user input comprising an incomplete gesture performed by one or more hands of a first user by a client system associated with the first user; selecting one or more candidate gestures from a plurality of pre-defined gestures by the client system based on a personalized gesture-recognition model, wherein each of the candidate gestures is associated with a confidence score representing a likelihood the first user intended to input the respective candidate gesture, and presenting one or more suggested inputs corresponding to one or more of the candidate gestures at the client system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC.
    Inventors: William Crosby Presant, Francislav P. Penov, Anuj Kumar
  • Publication number: 20210343286
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an initial input in a first modality from a first user at a client system, determining intents and slots corresponding to the initial input, wherein the slots are conditioned on the intents, generating one or more candidate continuation-inputs based on the intents and slots, where the one or more candidate continuation-inputs are in one or more candidate modalities, respectively, wherein the candidate modalities are different from the first modality, and wherein each of the candidate continuation-inputs references entities represented by the slots, and presenting one or more suggested inputs corresponding to one or more of the candidate continuation-inputs at the client system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: William Crosby Presant, Francislav P. Penov, Anuj Kumar
  • Patent number: 11087756
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an initial input in a first modality from a first user from a client system associated with the first user, determining one or more intents corresponding to the initial input by an intent-understanding module, generating one or more candidate continuation-inputs based on the one or more intents, where the one or more candidate continuation-inputs are in one or more candidate modalities, respectively, and wherein the candidate modalities are different from the first modality, and sending instructions for presenting one or more suggested inputs corresponding to one or more of the candidate continuation-inputs to the client system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William Crosby Presant, Francislav P. Penov, Anuj Kumar
  • Publication number: 20210117214
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving one or more inputs associated with proactive triggers associated with a first user, determining whether the first user is eligible to receive proactive suggestions based on one or more proactive policies, generating one or more proactive suggestions based on the one or more inputs and user context data associated with the first user, selecting one or more of the proactive suggestions based on task history data associated with the first user, and sending instructions for presenting proactive content to the first user to a client system associated the first user, wherein the proactive content comprises the selected proactive suggestions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: William Crosby Presant, Xiaolei Li, Hao Zhou, Piyush Khemka, Paul Anthony Crook, Kai Jun Weng, Franz-Julius Chen
  • Publication number: 20200401423
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a user input comprising an incomplete gesture performed by one or more hands of a first user by a client system associated with the first user; selecting one or more candidate gestures from a plurality of pre-defined gestures by the client system based on a personalized gesture-recognition model, wherein each of the candidate gestures is associated with a confidence score representing a likelihood the first user intended to input the respective candidate gesture, and presenting one or more suggested inputs corresponding to one or more of the candidate gestures at the client system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: William Crosby Presant, Francislav P. Penov, Anuj Kumar
  • Patent number: 10795703
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input from a client system associated with a first user, wherein the user input comprises an incomplete gesture performed by the first user, calculating one or more confidence scores by an intent-understanding module for one or more intents corresponding to the incomplete gesture, determining the calculated confidence scores associated with each of the intents are below a threshold score, selecting candidate gestures from a plurality of pre-defined gestures based on a personalized gesture-recognition model responsive to determining that the calculated confidence scores for each of the intents are below the threshold score, wherein each of the candidate gestures is associated with a confidence score representing a likelihood the first user intended to input the respective candidate gesture, and sending instructions for presenting one or more suggested inputs corresponding to one or more of the candidate gestures to the client system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William Crosby Presant, Francislav P. Penov, Anuj Kumar
  • Publication number: 20190324527
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input from a client system associated with a first user, wherein the user input comprises an incomplete gesture performed by the first user, calculating one or more confidence scores by an intent-understanding module for one or more intents corresponding to the incomplete gesture, determining the calculated confidence scores associated with each of the intents are below a threshold score, selecting candidate gestures from a plurality of pre-defined gestures based on a personalized gesture-recognition model responsive to determining that the calculated confidence scores for each of the intents are below the threshold score, wherein each of the candidate gestures is associated with a confidence score representing a likelihood the first user intended to input the respective candidate gesture, and sending instructions for presenting one or more suggested inputs corresponding to one or more of the candidate gestures to the client system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: William Crosby Presant, Francislav P. Penov, Anuj Kumar