Thread navigation for messaging applications
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12143350
The technology involves messaging applications that support message threads that can involve grouped messages pertaining a conversation, post, or topic. A user interface can employ a communication pane or other message area to present all threads in a particular room, not just the threads that the user is currently following. Following can occur when a user elects to be notified of new replies by clicking a “follow” indicia, replying to or starting a thread, or when someone else…
Suspension for moving magnet actuator
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12143771
An actuator module includes a baseplate extending in a plane, a voice coil connected to the baseplate, and a magnet assembly. The actuator module also includes a rigid frame attached to the baseplate, the rigid frame comprising four stubs. The actuator module further includes a pair of springs suspending the magnet assembly relative to the frame and baseplate so that the voice coil extends into the air gap, the pair of springs including a first and second spring each shaped as a loop…
Microvideo system, format, and method of generation
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12143720
The present disclosure provides systems and methods that use and/or generate image files according to a novel microvideo image format. For example, a microvideo can be a file that contains both a still image and a brief video. The microvideo can include multiple tracks, such as, for example, a separate video track, audio track, and/or one or more metadata tracks. As one example track, the microvideo can include a motion data track that stores motion data that can be used (e.g., at file…
Optimizing timing of display of a video overlay
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12143683
The timing for displaying an overlay a video is optimized using a system that includes an engagement component that receives information regarding frames of a video at which respective users of a plurality of users stop engaging with the video and an analysis component that calculates user engagement scores for the frames based on the information, wherein the user engagement scores reflect a percentage of the plurality of users that stop engaging with the video at the respective frames,…
Systems and methods of image searching
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12143676
Systems and methods of image searching include receiving content, receiving a request to select an image from content, selecting a plurality of items in the image, retrieving information about the selected item, and providing display data based on the retrieved information.
Systems and methods for detecting improper implementation of presentation of content items by applications executing on client devices
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12143672
Systems and methods for detecting improper presentation of content items by applications executing on client devices. A method can include: (i) receiving content requests from a plurality of client devices, wherein each of the content requests is generated by an application executing on a respective client device of the plurality of client devices; (ii) transmitting to each client device of the plurality of client devices, responsive to a content request from the client device, a content…
Audience attendance monitoring through facial recognition
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12143668
In accordance with some implementations, a method for measuring viewership of media content is disclosed. The method is performed on a client system. The client system obtains identification information for individuals who have agreed to participate in a media viewership totals measurement study, detects a first user of the client system, determines media content being presented in proximity to the first user, automatically determines if the first user is an individual who has agreed to…
Non-occluding video overlays
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12143663
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for overlaying content on video streams. In one aspect, a category of a video is identified. Confidence scores are determined that each indicate a likelihood that a location in a frame includes a feature of a feature type. A weight for each feature type is determined, based on the category, that reflects an importance of not occluding features of the feature type. Confidence scores are…
Inter-prediction mode-dependent transforms for video coding
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12143605
Transform modes are derived for inter-predicted blocks using side information. A prediction residual is generated for a current video block using a reference frame. Side information associated with one or both of the current video block or the reference frame is identified. A trained transform is determined from amongst multiple trained transforms based on the side information, in which each of the trained transforms is determined using individual side information types and combinations…
Usage-based network connection management
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12143457
A computing device is described that includes at least one processor, a network interface, and a storage device that stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to obtain a usage profile generated by at least applying a machine learning model to historical feature usage information of the computing device collected while the computing device was wirelessly connected to a companion computing device. The instructions may further cause the one or more processors to…
Adaptive content control and display for internet media
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141418
This disclosure relates to adaptive content control and display for internet media. A playback component provides for playback of media content. An input component detects user inputs during playback of the content. In response to the user inputs being detected, a menu component displays a level of a pivot menu during playback of the content. The pivot menu is displayed on top, or in front, of a portion of the content during playback, and the pivot menu can be at least partially…
Human and gesture sensing in a computing device
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12142818
Devices are provided that include radar circuits arranged to send and receive radar signals that can be used to, for example, detect gestures performed in the vicinity of the device. Arrangements of the circuits and associated antennas allow for the device to have no bezel or a minimal bezel.
Methods, systems, and media for rights management of embedded sound recordings using composition clustering
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141882
Methods, systems, and media for determining and presenting information related to embedded sound recordings are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving a content item; extracting a sound recording from the content item; generating a melody fingerprint of the extracted sound recording; determining whether the melody fingerprint of the extracted sound recording matches one of a plurality of clusters of similar sounding sound recordings in a reference database,…
Controlling content distribution
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141833
A computer-implemented method for controlling content distribution includes forwarding information associated with a user to a device operated by the user, the information being configured for use in selecting content from any of multiple content providers for a content distribution to the user. The method includes receiving, in response to the information, an edit of the information forwarded from the device. The edit identifies a first content provider and including a first…
Providing contextual actions for mobile onscreen content
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141709
Systems and methods provide an application programming interface to offer action suggestions to third-party applications using context data associated with the third-party. An example method includes receiving content information and context information from a source mobile application, the content information representing information to be displayed on a mobile device as part of a source mobile application administered by a third party, the context information being information specific…
Rapid multi-level qubit reset
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141661
Methods, systems and apparatus for resetting a qubit. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a qubit, wherein the state of the qubit occupies a plurality of levels comprising two computational levels and one or more non-computational levels; a resonator that operates at a resonator frequency; control electronics that control a frequency of the qubit such that during a reset operation the qubit frequency is adjusted from a holding frequency that is lower than the resonator frequency to an…
Scheduling operations on a computation graph
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141605
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for scheduling operations represented on a computation graph. One of the methods receiving, by a computation graph system, a request to generate a schedule for processing a computation graph, obtaining data representing the computation graph generating a separator of the computation graph; and generating the schedule to perform the operations represented in the computation graph, wherein…
Just-in-time containers
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141586
A method for configuring and deploying execution environments for software applications includes receiving a bootstrap execution environment from a data store, the bootstrap execution environment including a software application, the software application including a manifest of dependencies. The method includes executing the bootstrap execution environment and determining whether an enhanced execution environment is available from the data store. When the enhanced execution environment…
Transparent and controllable human-AI interaction via chaining of machine-learned language models
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141556
The present disclosure provides to transparent and controllable human-AI interaction via chaining of machine-learned language models. In particular, although existing language models (e.g., so-called “large language models” (LLMs)) have demonstrated impressive potential on simple tasks, their breadth of scope, lack of transparency, and insufficient controllability can make them less effective when assisting humans on more complex tasks. In response, the present disclosure introduces…
Soft capacity constraints for storage assignment in a distributed environment
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141455
A system and method for balancing data storage among a plurality of groups of computing devices, each group comprising one or more respective computing devices, each group having an available storage capacity. The method may involve, for each group of computing devices, determining an amount of used storage at the group of computing devices exceeding a predefined first threshold value that is less than the available storage capacity and calculating a storage cost based on the determined…
