Social Networking Patents (Class 705/319)
  • Patent number: 12192414
    Abstract: A picture frame and methods of setup, gifting, and/or use. Network connection allows digital frames to be set up remotely by a first user for a second user. The first user can upload photos from electronic devices or from photo collections of community members before the second user receives the frame device. The frame is thus ready for display upon powering on by the second user. An integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer and can capture gesture-based feedback. The displayed photos are automatically shown and/or changed according to the detected viewers. The photos can be filtered and cropped at the receiver side. Clustering photos by content is used to improve display and to respond to photo viewer desires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: AURA HOME, INC.
    Inventors: Abdur Chowdhury, Eric Jensen, Ben Cherry
  • Patent number: 12151168
    Abstract: A disruptive behavior incident flag notification is received from a game player that marks a time during play of a video game corresponding to a potential disruptive behavior incident. A video clip for the disruptive behavior incident flag notification is automatically generated and stored with the disruptive behavior incident flag notification in association with an account of the game player. The game player accesses and reviews the disruptive behavior incident flag notification and corresponding generated video clip. The game player applies a validation indicator to the disruptive behavior incident flag notification. The validation indicator for the disruptive behavior incident flag notification as received from the game player is used to prioritize the disruptive behavior incident flag notification and corresponding generated video clip for platform moderator review.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Angela Bartolome, Celeste Bean, Olga Rudi
  • Patent number: 12147453
    Abstract: An apparatus for the generation of exploitation data is disclosed. The apparatus comprises at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory instructs the processor to receive a plurality of entity profiles from a plurality of entities, wherein each of the plurality of entity profiles comprises a plurality of operational data. The memory instructs the processor to identify demand data as a function of the plurality of entity profiles. The memory instructs the processor to generate exploitation data as a function of the operational data and the demand data. The memory instructs the processor to determine collaboration data as a function of the exploitation data. The memory instructs the processor to display the collaboration data using a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: The Strategic Coach Inc.
    Inventors: Barbara Sue Smith, Daniel J. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 12131392
    Abstract: A system and method for recommending matches between persons are provided. Data processing is performed using artificial intelligence technology. A supervised machine learning engine is trained from empirical data about existing relationships which have been evaluated as to quality of the relationships. Quality of candidate relationships is calculated as an output of the supervised machine learning engine when provided input data of attributes of two candidate persons. Likelihood of a successful relationship between two candidate persons is predicted by comparing the calculated quality of the candidate relationship against a threshold. The prediction in this learning task may be made by a neural network. A user is notified of a candidate match that is likely to become a successful relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Inventor: Timothy Dirk Stevens
  • Patent number: 12117309
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to techniques for providing destination recommendations and improving the user experience of autonomous vehicle riders using sentiment analysis. In some aspects, a process of the disclosed technology includes steps for receiving a ride request, at a computing system of an autonomous vehicle (AV), wherein the ride request comprises trip information that specifies a pick-up location associated with a user, navigating the AV to the pick-up location to provide ride service for the user, receiving in-cabin sensor data associated with the user, and analyzing the in-cabin sensor data to determine a sentiment score associated with the user. In some aspects, the process can further include steps for generating a destination recommendation based on the trip information and the sentiment score. Systems and computer-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Jessica Leary, Cecilia Ziniti
  • Patent number: 12105689
    Abstract: A method comprises storing a plurality of accounts; and generating a hierarchical data structure from the plurality of accounts by: identifying a first set of accounts and a second set of accounts responsive to the first set of accounts and the second set of accounts satisfying a first set of rules; linking the first set of accounts to a first entity profile and the second set of accounts to a second entity profile; and responsive to the first plurality of profile attribute-value pairs and the second plurality of profile attribute-value pairs of the second entity profile satisfying a second set of rules, linking the first entity profile and the second entity profile to a household entity profile by inserting a household identifier into a household attribute-value pair of each account of the first set of accounts and the second set of accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: U.S. BANCORP, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Xiaoqiao Wei, Christopher Kallas, Wentao Lu, Carlos A. Garavito Garzon, Jon Doyle, Ding Ma
  • Patent number: 12095886
    Abstract: An entity-centric approach has been proposed to provide a consistent user experience in accessing a unified software applications suite effortlessly. Entities are connected with one another. The entities and the connectivity between them are reflected in all three functional layers of 3-tier client-server architecture. Every entity has a set of attributes and each attribute represents a data item or record of a particular type. The data items or records are represented in the form of card(s) as determined by contextualization and access control engines. The contextualization engine determines the origin of the user. The access control engine determines the access permission of every user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Zoho Corporation Private Limited
    Inventor: Ramakrishna Raju Vegesna
  • Patent number: 12062083
    Abstract: Data from a first website and second website is used to determine a model for presenting a search output in response to a query received by the first website. The data from each website includes parameters of search queries, characteristics of items that were output in response, and an indication of items that were purchased. Characteristics of the first website are used to determine weights that are applied to data from the second website. A relationship between search queries received by each website is used to determine a first weight. A relationship between features or options offered by the second website and those offered by the first website is used to determine a second weight. For example, if the second website offers a service that the first website does not, the availability of this service for particular items may be disregarded when determining the model for the first website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Pierre-Antoine Sondag
  • Patent number: 12010123
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may monitor consumer information in order to determine a probability of a data breach associated with a customer based on an online presence of the customer. The probability of a data breach may be used to present metrics to a consumer and/or a service provider. Further, the consumer may be presented with information indicating what factors contribute to the probability of a data breach, as well as information regarding how to reduce those factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Jason D. Park, Howard Hayes, Tao Chen, John S. Parkinson
  • Patent number: 11979309
    Abstract: A method includes computing a diffusion vector starting with a seed, querying nodes for connections, reweighting diffusion vector based on the degrees, sorting nodes based upon magnitude in the reweighted diffusion vector which is obtained through wave relaxation solution of a time-dependent initial value problem, detecting a community through a sweep over the nodes according to their rank, and selecting a prefix that minimizes or maximizes an objective function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Haim Avron, Lior Horesh, Raya Horesh, Omer Tripp
  • Patent number: 11972218
    Abstract: A specific target-oriented social media tweet sentiment analysis method includes: preprocessing social media tweet data to obtain a target text and a specific target; passing the target text and the specific target through an embedding layer to obtain target text word vectors and obtain a specific target word vector, respectively; passing the target text word vectors through a self-attention structure to obtain a self-attention result; combining the self-attention result with the specific target word vector and passing through a cross-attention structure to obtain cross-attention results; concatenating the cross-attention results to obtain an attention representation matrix; and passing the attention representation matrix through a pooling layer, a fully connected layer and a softmax layer to obtain a sentiment tendency of the specific target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Jinan University
    Inventors: Feiran Huang, Zihong Yang, Tingrong Zhi
  • Patent number: 11966935
    Abstract: A sentiment analysis computing system includes a storage medium and a processing system. Sentiment input is received from audience members viewing a streamed/webcasted event. The received input is stored to the storage medium. A time slice of the webcasted event is determined and sentiment inputs that are within that time slice are obtained. A sentiment value is calculated for the determined time slice based on aggregated sentiment values. The calculated sentiment value for the time slice is then output by the sentiment analysis computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NASDAQ, INC.
    Inventor: Matthew B. Farlie
  • Patent number: 11968589
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for enabling beta testing of new features within a native application. In one embodiment, a native application executed by a client device may include executable instructions that are activated and executed only upon indication of a user belonging to a beta test group. The client device may receive a signal from a service or content provider that includes test group information indicating whether a user is a member of a test group. The client device may process the received signal to determine whether the user is a member of a test group and, if so, activates and executes certain instructions received as part of the native application that define a user interface enabling access to additional functionality unavailable to a user determined not to be a member of a test group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Kjell Hegstad, Dennis R. Brandt
  • Patent number: 11922112
    Abstract: The system receives a message having a sender and a recipient. The system identifies entities associated with the message and associated with any content that is associated with the message. The system determines whether to, and how to, modify the message based on relationship information among the sender, the recipient, and any entities identified in the message or components of the message. A relationship between a sender and recipient may be determined using, for example, a database of relationship information. The system modifies, for example, text, images, or video of the message to generate the personalized message. The personalized message include the original message along with context information to help indicate the relevance of the message to the recipient. The context information can include text, images, video, or other information. To illustrate, the context information can include keywords or identifiers that indicate entities associated with the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Madhusudhan Srinivasan, Deviprasad Punja
  • Patent number: 11916866
    Abstract: A computer-implemented framework and/or system for cyberbullying detection is disclosed. The system includes two main components: (1) A representation learning network that encodes the social media session by exploiting multi-modal features, e.g., text, network, and time; and (2) a multi-task learning network that simultaneously fits the comment inter-arrival times and estimates the bullying likelihood based on a Gaussian Mixture Model. The system jointly optimizes the parameters of both components to overcome the shortcomings of decoupled training. The system includes an unsupervised cyberbullying detection model that not only experimentally outperforms the state-of-the-art unsupervised models, but also achieves competitive performance compared to supervised models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Lu Cheng, Kai Shu, Siqi Wu, Yasin Silva, Deborah Hall, Huan Liu
  • Patent number: 11883730
    Abstract: This document presents devices, systems, and their methods of use for content generation, engagement, and distribution by which a user can interact with collected content in a variety of different manners. Generally, a content engagement platform is provided, where the platform may be implemented on one or more computing devices, such as one or more of: a remote server, a desktop computer, a tablet computer, a handheld mobile computing device, for instance, a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, a smart accessory, such as a watch or eyeglasses, and the like. The platform allows a user to annotate and distribute video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FANMOUNTAIN LLC
    Inventors: Todd Wanke, James Scott Nolan, James P. Cleary
  • Patent number: 11871082
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods for media playback based on cue points. Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to instructional media components (e.g., video, audio, and/or text) that focus the user's attention on details of proper form. The cue point navigation system enables the user to navigate the instructional media according to specific movement cues. Notably, the UI minimizes navigational complexity, while simultaneously maximizing user comprehension. As described in greater detail herein, hybrid media playback advantageously provides the user with different ways to absorb the instructional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MyFitnessPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Gloria Wu, Scott Laing, Lauren McKenna
  • Patent number: 11869097
    Abstract: A system for viewing shopping information on a social networking platform is disclosed. At the social networking platform, the system receives a request from a user device corresponding to a first user of the social networking platform to view a list of a second user of the social networking platform. The list may include items offered for transaction on a network-based commerce server. In response to receiving the request from the user device, the system forwards the request to the network-based commerce server, and then receives updated information for at least one item on the list from the network-based corner server. Then, the system communicates the updated information received from the network-based commerce server to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Law, Yuan Der Ho, Choon Chong, Rolf Skyberg, Massimiliano Mancini, Adam Trachtenberg, Trisha Lee Okubo
  • Patent number: 11861539
    Abstract: A processing system uses a set of rules that identify a set of keywords and stores a set of creative images associated with the keywords. The processing system identifies metrics for the social media that includes the keywords and displays the creative images associated with the keywords with the largest social media metrics. The set of rules may include promotions to display with the creative content and filters that determine what social media to use to generate the metrics. No manual curation of content is necessary. The processing system saves time and effort as well as taps into real time consumer trends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SPRINKLR, INC.
    Inventors: Justin Trevor Garrity, Ryan Robert Parr, David James Stewart
  • Patent number: 11837222
    Abstract: A determination device includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to accept input of a plurality of sequences provided as candidates for a solution to one given input, and determine, for two sequences of the plurality of sequences, a sequence that has a higher accuracy than the other sequence of the two sequences, using a model expressed as a neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsunori Ogawa, Marc Delcroix, Shigeki Karita, Tomohiro Nakatani
  • Patent number: 11829430
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for generating recommendations using multi-level social network analysis of user behavior. In some embodiments, the system receives a set of user interactions, from a plurality of users, performed on a set of data objects; generates a set of associations between the set of data objects; and identifies a set of data object clusters indicative of the set of associations. The system generates an organization of the set of data objects based on the set of associations and the set of data object clusters and causes presentation of a plurality of data objects of the set of data objects on a user interface of a user device based on the organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Michael Gilbert, Elizabeth Churchill
  • Patent number: 11816720
    Abstract: Devices and techniques are generally described for ranking of search results. In some examples, a query may be received. A first ranked list of content items may be determined for the query ranked based on a first optimization objective. A second ranked list of the content items may be determined for the query ranked based on a second optimization objective. A first rank product may be determined for a first content item based at least in part on multiplication of a rank of the first content item in the first ranked list with a rank of the first content item in the second ranked list. A third ranked list of the content items may be determined based at least in part on the first rank product. At least a portion of the third ranked list of the content items may be displayed on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Roberto Fernandez Galan
  • Patent number: 11818408
    Abstract: A mechanism to automate the aggregation of independent videos for integration includes a video networking platform comprising one or more user accounts that upload one or more recorded videos having metadata to a video networking platform. A playing module plays the one or more displayed recorded videos and synchronizes the one or more recorded videos based at least in part on the metadata of the recorded video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventor: James R. Jeffries
  • Patent number: 11804134
    Abstract: A control device includes: a communication unit that receives input data from a terminal device of a first member who is a member of a first family staying in a vehicle, the input data indicating a family composition and a family stress for the first family; and a control unit that searches a database in which data indicating the family composition and the family stress for each of a plurality of families staying in individual vehicles is registered, using the input data received by the communication unit as a search key, selects a second family from the families based on a search result obtained, and causes the communication unit to transmit notification data that notifies the first member of information for establishing a relationship with a second member who is a member of the second family selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yui Sugie, Hikaru Gotoh, Hiroki Kido, Shuichi Sawada, Genshi Kuno, Katsuhiro Ohara
  • Patent number: 11797634
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, one or more images of an object may be received from a device associated with a first account on a communications network. Features of the object may be extracted based on the one or more images, and one or more content items related to the object may be determined based on the features. A hashtag associated with at least one of the features may be determined. A second account connected to the first account may be selected where the second account previously performed a search for the hashtag on the communications network, and at least one of the one or more content items may be provided to the second account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Lukiih Cuan, Ljubica Chatman, Xiaoguang Zhu
  • Patent number: 11790324
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for initiating and managing electronic focus sessions are provided. A focus session window may be displayed. The focus session window may comprise a timer pane comprising a focus session duration input element; a task pane comprising an identity of at least one task object created by a task management application; a music pane comprising an identity of at least one music playlist; and/or a daily progress pane that includes a goal display element indicating a duration of time spent in focus sessions for a current day. An indication to initiate a focus session may be received. The initiating may comprise causing a timer for the duration of time to be initiated and displayed in the timer pane and causing one of the music playlists to be automatically played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Liang Chen, Rian Keith McCormack, Herrick Heath Spencer, Eric Hwa-Wei Wong, David Grochocki, Jr., Marcus Henry Perryman
  • Patent number: 11790381
    Abstract: A method and system assists experts associated with an electronic bookkeeping system to increase a rate at which users select to receive the services of the expert. The method and system retain information regarding the selection rates of a plurality of experts, and the profiles of the plurality of experts. The method and system trains an analysis model with a machine learnings process to learn how the attributes in the profiles relate to the selection rates. The method and system then utilizes the analysis model to predict changes to the profile that an expert can make to increase the selection rate of the expert. The method and system outputs recommendation data to the expert recommending one or more changes in the expert's profile that will likely result in an increase in the expert's selection rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventor: Krishna Kolli
  • Patent number: 11784960
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for leveraging connections. One embodiment is a method that includes determining, by a processor, a plurality of subset lists of leads from a list of leads, and creating, by the processor, a message for each one of the plurality of subset lists of leads to one of a plurality of collaborators. The method further includes transmitting, by the processor, each message with one of the plurality of subset lists of leads to each of the plurality of collaborators from a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: DotAlign, Inc.
    Inventors: Vince Scafaria, Jaspreet Bakshi, Kenneth Dreyer, Joshua Quintus
  • Patent number: 11783360
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in the specification can be embodied in methods, systems and program products for a verified participant database system that verifies information on potential participants for surveys and promotions that require numerous participants with certain characteristics. Among other features, the verified participant database system aggregates and preferably verifies information, for example, the demographic and purchasing information, of potential participants by receiving permission to obtain information from third-party sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventor: Philip Ta-te Chen
  • Patent number: 11775600
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an interface and a processor. The interface sends and receives data over a network. The processor uses the interface to transmit a first series of profiles to a first user that includes recommended profiles for a second user. The processor uses the interface to receive a selection from the first user of a profile corresponding to a third user. The processor uses the interface to transmit a second series of profiles to the third user that includes recommended profiles for the third user. The processor uses the interface to receive a selection from the third user of a profile corresponding to the second user. In response to receiving the selection from the first user of the profile corresponding to the third user and the selection from the third user of the profile corresponding to the second user, the processor enables communication between the second and third users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: MATCH GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Rahim Sherali Makani, John Masten Mitchell, Kenneth Basil Hoskins
  • Patent number: 11756068
    Abstract: Systems and methods deliver advertisements to electronic billboards, additionally deliver social media content relevant to the advertisements, control content of the electronic billboards, including through social media interactions, and deliver interactive applications to the electronic billboards and control the interactive applications. An advertisement is delivered to an electronic billboard for display, and social media content relevant to the advertisement is also delivered to the electronic billboard for display in real time. The social media content is used to update the display of the electronic billboard in temporal proximity to a time of posting of social media content. Content and applications are received at the electronic billboard by push, and may be removed from storage of electronic billboard after display to make storage room available for additional interactive applications and to ensure that updated content is always displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SPECTRIO LLC
    Inventors: Nanxi Liu, David Zhu, David A. Ross, Zach Spitulski, Navdeep Reddy
  • Patent number: 11748426
    Abstract: A personalized comment recommendation method based on a link prediction model of a graph bidirectional aggregation network. In a user-comment bipartite graph, comment features are aggregated into a user feature. A social network is used to fuse a neighbor feature of a user to obtain an embedding representation of the user. The embedding representation of the user is aggregated into a comment after an original feature of the user is removed, and the embedding representation of the user is adjusted based on a difference before and after comment aggregation. On this basis, a forwarding network is used to calculate a score of an edge based on an inner product of user node features at both ends of the edge, and finally make a recommendation based on the score. Furthermore, a recommendation system converts a comment recommendation task into a link prediction task between users in a small range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: Minglei Shu, Muchen Wang, Yinglong Wang, Zhao Li, Tianlei Gao
  • Patent number: 11736542
    Abstract: Examples can include a system for video chat cycles within a social media application. An organizer platform can be used to design a schedule for the video chat cycles. This can include scheduled organizer content before, after, and between video chats. The organizer content can include graphics, video, and even live streams by the organizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Lynk Technology Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Emile, Mark Brown
  • Patent number: 11726818
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for executing a sequence of tasks are provided. An analytics engine receives a request to execute a group of tasks, where tasks execute in different programming languages. A sequence for executing the tasks in the group of tasks is determined using the input and output parameters of the tasks. The tasks are executed according to a determined sequence. To execute each task, the analytics engine instantiates a process that corresponds to programming language associated with the tasks. The process executes the task. Once all tasks complete execution, an output of the last task is a result of the group of tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: BlackRock, Inc.
    Inventors: Nick Sutton, Jenö Kovács, Sylvain Olivier Eric Cheroutre, Philippe Benjamin de Koning
  • Patent number: 11727048
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting recommended content based on social cues are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a method for presenting recommended content is provided comprising: receiving a query associated with a user; generating a list of relevant media content items based on the query; selecting items for presentation to the user based on social relevance scores based on social connections of the user that have consumed a relevant item and contextual relevance scores for each item; causing the selected items to be presented to the user; and indicating that a particular item was consumed by a particular social connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jason Robert Richard Sanio, Martin Brandt Freund
  • Patent number: 11706308
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for automating network account transfers based on predicted inactivity are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Mohit Goenka, Ashish Khushal Dharamshi, Nikita Varma
  • Patent number: 11695721
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product may be provided for updating a graph-based knowledge representation data structure using one or more conversation segments. Updating a graph-based knowledge representation data structure may include receiving a conversation segment. The conversation segment may comprise one or more group-based communication messages and one or more sending user identifiers of the one or more group-based communication messages. Updating a graph-based knowledge representation data structure may further include identifying the one or more sending user identifiers of each group-based communication message of the conversation segment. Updating a graph-based knowledge representation data structure may further include determining one or more user identifiers of the sending user identifiers that satisfy conversation participation criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry Talton, Andrew S. Morrison, Japinder Singh, Jon Katzur, John Gallagher
  • Patent number: 11657073
    Abstract: A system and apparatus for rating accessibility of a number of locations for user and/or members with specific accessibility needs. The user and/or member interacts with a database through his or her communication device or through a website to access locations in a geographic zone that provide accommodations for people with specific accessibility needs in a variety of accessibility categories. The system provides detailed accessibility features within each accessibility category and rates the locations according to the accessibility categories. The member can also input new locations, rate locations already contained in the database, or provide other feedback regarding compliance with legal accessibility guidelines and/or other accessibility standards within the United States and abroad. The system updates the ratings of the accessibility categories and the accessibility features based on input from members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: THE FUNABILITIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Sharol A. Signorelli, Steven Joseph Signorelli, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11620663
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. Activity of a plurality of devices may be analyzed to identify network traffic. A network profile associated with the plurality of devices may be generated based upon the network traffic. The network profile may be indicative of one or more sets of transmission metrics associated with a first device of the plurality of devices. The network profile may be indicative of one or more sets of reception metrics associated with the first device. Content may be generated based upon the network profile. The content may be transmitted to a device based upon the network profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLC
    Inventor: Sreenivas Rachamadugu
  • Patent number: 11605115
    Abstract: A system and method of identifying suspicious item-related features are disclosed. In some embodiments, a new item listing is received. The item listing may correspond to a request to list an item for sale on an e-commerce website. Item-related data for the item listing may be extracted. The item-related data can be used by a model to classify the new item listing. The model may be trained on data comprising identifications of which item listings in the sample of item listings are suspicious and identifications of which item listings in the sample of item listings are not suspicious may be received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Scott Johnson, Michael Ching, Julie Lavee Netzloff, Vamsi Krishna Salaka
  • Patent number: 11599647
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a network node for securing physical assets may be provided. The network node may include a processor and a memory storing instructions. The network may be configured to: receive, from a first entity, a cryptographic data structure configured to identify a physical item stored in a secured location; in response to receiving the cryptographic data structure, generate and transmit to the first entity a plurality of fungible cryptographic items; secure the cryptographic data structure on a public data structure, such that the cryptographic data structure cannot be released unless the plurality of fungible cryptographic items are received; receive, from a second entity, the plurality of fungible cryptographic items; and in response to receiving the plurality of fungible cryptographic items, transmit to the second entity the cryptographic data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Collectible Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Evan Vandenberg, Till Mueller
  • Patent number: 11593733
    Abstract: Provided is a plan coordination apparatus that swiftly coordinates plans between business operators regardless of presence or absence of product order placement/receipt-relation. The plan coordination apparatus includes a value chain management unit and a scheduling unit. The value chain management unit prepares value chain data, recalculates reliability of order placement/receipt-relation between the business operators each time a new track record of product order placement/receipt-relation is collected, updates the reliability, and assigns the reliability to the edge. The scheduling unit accepts a plan alteration request from one of the business operators to be managed, refers to automatically adjustable volumes of the product data, the value chain data, and the plan data, judges whether a related business operator can alter the plan, identifies an alternative business operator, gives a notification of the alteration of the plan to the business operator, and alters the plan data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Igawa, Motonobu Saito
  • Patent number: 11593745
    Abstract: Cognitive and heuristics-based emergent financial management is provided. A method includes obtaining data related to an individual, an organization, a process, or combinations thereof. The data is obtained from internal sources, external sources, or combinations thereof. The method also includes creating data sets from the data based on determined classifications of the data. Further, the method includes establishing relationships between the data sets and determining a conclusion based on the relationships. The conclusion is based on a hypothesis that has undergone a test process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N. A.
    Inventor: Andrew Guitarte
  • Patent number: 11595337
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for adaptively splitting electronic chats are provided. An e-discovery system comprises a computer processor and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium embodying thereon a set of computer instructions executable by the computer processor. The set of computer instructions includes instructions for: sending a chat query to a remote electronic chat service; receiving an electronic chat responsive to the chat query, the electronic chat embodying a set of electronic chat messages; adaptively splitting the set of electronic chat messages into a set of conversations, each conversation in the set of conversations comprising a subset of electronic chat messages from the set of electronic chat messages; and storing each conversation from the set of conversations as a separate document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Open Text Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Stadermann
  • Patent number: 11568375
    Abstract: Systems and methods which utilize one or more social networking systems when creating, funding, and/or notifying a party of a transaction are provided. In accordance with one aspect, a money transfer transaction may be staged by a user whereupon a link corresponding to the staged transaction may be posted to one or more social networking services in order to allow for multiple users to access and fund the staged transaction. Additionally, in some aspects a user of a social networking service may generate a comment or post which then automatically triggers the staging of a money transfer transaction. Moreover, social networking services may be utilized to provide various notifications regarding money transfer transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: MoneyGram International, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel David Kosloski, Thadd Rae Tokerud, Khaled Adel Sioufi, Chelsea Adina Lish, Brinkley Brown Eiting, Eric M. Garza, Sarah Elizabeth Bradbury
  • Patent number: 11556754
    Abstract: Systems and methods for computer-implemented evaluation of a performance are provided. In a first aspect, a computer-implemented method of evaluating an interaction generates a first temporal record of first behavior features exhibited by a first entity during an interaction between a first entity and a second entity. A second temporal record is generated including second behavior features exhibited by a second entity during an interaction with a first entity. A determination is made that a first feature of a first temporal record is associated with a second feature of a second temporal record. The length of time that passes between the first feature and second feature is evaluated, and a determination is made that the length of time satisfies a temporal condition. A co-occurrence record associated with a first feature and a second feature is generated and included in a co-occurrence record data-structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Educational Testing Service
    Inventors: Vikram Ramanarayanan, Saad Khan
  • Patent number: 11551187
    Abstract: Provided is a system and method for generating job posting content through machine learning. In one example, the method may include storing text content of previous postings, receiving target attributes of a candidate that is a subject of a new posting, identifying, via a machine learning model, a subset of previous postings from among the previous postings which are most closely related to the new posting based on the target attributes of the candidate with respect to content of the previous postings, and detecting text objects from the identified subset of previous postings and outputting a display of the detected text objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Jochen Mayerle, Udo Klein, Vladislav Bezrukov
  • Patent number: 11544684
    Abstract: Embedding applications, or parts thereof, into other applications, or parts thereof, is described. In an example, an engagement with a first application, or a part thereof, can be detected, which can trigger a second application, or a part thereof, to be initialized in response to the engagement. In at least one example, the first application, or a part thereof, can provisionally transfer to the second application, or a part thereof. Based at least in part on detecting a user interaction with the second application, or a part thereof, a portion of the user interaction can be embedded in the first application, or a part thereof, and the embedded portion of the user interaction can be presented via a user interface associated with the first application, or part thereof, via a user computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Goolkasian, Brandon Labbe, Vitaly Odemchuk, Shaun Forouzandeh
  • Patent number: 11537273
    Abstract: An online system presents a content item to users and receives selections of reaction icons from the users. The online system generates a background animation with the selected reaction icons and a foreground animation to be layered on top of the background animation. The online system sends the background and foreground animations to a client device to be cached. Further, the online system presents the content item to a viewing user associated with the client device and receives a selection of a reaction icon from the viewing user. The online system selects a subset of the users based on the viewing user's affinity to the users, retrieves images of the selected users, and send the images to the client device. The client device customizes the background and foreground animations based on the images and the viewing user's reaction icon to generate a compound animation for display to the viewing user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Benson Walton, Zachary W. Stubenvoll, Julia Harter Toffey, Skyler Bock, Silvia Chyou, Jordan Richard Honnette, Wei-Sheng Su, Jerod Wanner, Stefan Casey Parker, Renyu Liu, Rajat Bhardwaj
  • Patent number: 11538071
    Abstract: An online system communicates a lead generation message to a client device associated with a user. The lead generation message includes a selectable option authorizing a third-party entity to open a channel of communication with the user. If the online system receives from the client device an interaction with the selectable option, the online system sends a notification to the third-party entity indicating that the user associated with the client device interacted with the lead generation content item. The third-party entity may then send a request to the online system to send a message to the user via a messaging system controlled by the online system. The online system thus enables the third-party entity to communicate with the user via the messaging system. The online system then uses information about the communication to train a model to optimize the selection of lead generation messages to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongzheng Xiong, Shashank Ramaprasad, Rohan Kuruvilla, Rachel Barrie Tucker, Asad K. Awan