US 12,216,722 B2Granted

Intelligent selection and presentation of people highlights on a computing device

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsLionel Antonio Robinson, Vegard Thue Bjørlykke, Katrine Øverlie Svela, Jon Meling, Andreea Sandu, Srinivas Pushkar Ravipati, Cem Aykan, Polijana Andrijana Nincevic, Bergljot Engen, Matthew Gunter Kroe

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Abstract

Technology is disclosed for selecting at least one people highlight, with respect to a person of interest, to be shown on one or more user devices. The user device is monitored to determine a user interest in a person of interest. A set of possible people highlights, with respect to the person of interest is determined. A determination is made as to whether any of the possible people highlights should be suppressed and not presented to the user on the user device. Any people highlights that were determined to be people highlights that should be suppressed and not presented are removed to create a remaining set of possible people highlights. At least one of the remaining set of possible people highlights are presented on the user device.

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Dependent claims

A computing system for selecting at least one people highlight, with respect to a person of interest, to be shown on a user device, comprising:

one or more processors;
and
computer storage memory having computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, implement a method for selecting a people highlight to be shown on a user device, the method comprising:
monitoring the user device to determine a person of interest to a user of the user device;
determining a set of possible people highlights associated with the person of interest, each highlight of the set of possible people highlights identifying a fact pertaining to the person of interest;
determining a user context relative to the person of interest;
based on the user context, ranking the set of possible people highlights;
based on interactions of the user with previous people highlights or user-configured preferences pertaining to the set of possible people highlights determining to suppress and not present at least one people highlight within the ranking of the set of possible people highlights;
creating a modified ranking by removing from the ranking the at least one people highlight determined to be suppressed;
and
presenting on the user device at least one people highlight from the modified ranking of the set of possible people highlights.

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Application: 17/855,419Filed 30 Jun 2022 · continuation
Priority: 13 Feb 2020
Published: US 2022/0335102 A120 Oct 2022
Granted: 4 Feb 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 16/9535
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
G06F 16/9536
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering
G06F 16/9538
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: presentation of query results
G06Q 10/40
Administration; Management: business processes related to social networking or social networking services

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Application16/789,669Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Feb 2020
US 2022/0335102 A1Pre-grant publication · published 20 Oct 2022
US 11,392,657 B2Parent of this continuation
US 12,086,196 B2Related patent
US 2021/0256080 A1Published application
US 12,216,722 B2This patent

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