Daniel Salinas

US Patent:

8522000, Aug 27, 2013

Filed:

Sep 29, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/569831

Inventors:

Michael C. Shebanow - Saratoga CA, US
Jack Choquette - Palo Alto CA, US
Brett W. Coon - San Jose CA, US
Steven J. Heinrich - Madison AL, US
Aravind Kalaiah - Los Gatos CA, US
John R. Nickolls - Los Altos CA, US
Daniel Salinas - San Francisco CA, US
Ming Y. Siu - Santa Clara CA, US
Tommy Thorn - Milpitas CA, US
Nicholas Wang - Saratoga CA, US

Assignee:

Nvidia Corporation - Santa Clara CA

International Classification:

G06F 9/00

US Classification:

712244, 712225

Abstract:

A trap handler architecture is incorporated into a parallel processing subsystem such as a GPU. The trap handler architecture minimizes design complexity and verification efforts for concurrently executing threads by imposing a property that all thread groups associated with a streaming multi-processor are either all executing within their respective code segments or are all executing within the trap handler code segment.

US Patent:

20110196723, Aug 11, 2011

Filed:

Feb 5, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/701243

Inventors:

David Baszucki - Portola Valley CA, US
Daniel Salinas - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 3/048
G06F 15/16
G06Q 30/00
G06Q 99/00

US Classification:

705 1412, 715757, 705 12, 709206

Abstract:

A three-dimensional virtual world is provided and includes an avatar representing an accusing party in an infringement case over one or more three-dimensional game objects, an avatar representing an accused party in the infringement case, a virtual space arena containing the objects in dispute, a jury box containing avatars representing a jury assembled to preside over the infringement case, and an avatar representing a judge for instructing the jury and for rendering a judgment in the case based on jury input. The jury observes the objects and object functionalities through demonstration of the objects in the virtual arena and supplies an opinion relative to the likeness of the objects to one another according to instruction given by the judge and wherein the judge renders a verdict based on statistical analysis of the opinions collected from the jury.

US Patent:

20140067901, Mar 6, 2014

Filed:

Aug 23, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/974708

Inventors:

Blake Shaw - New York NY, US
Andrew Hogue - Ho Ho Kus NJ, US
Daniel Salinas - San Francisco CA, US
Rongjing Xiang - Union City CA, US
Tianhui Li - Brooklyn NY, US
Anoop Ranganath - New York NY, US
Siddhartha Sinha - Brooklyn NY, US
Jon Shea - Brooklyn NY, US
Jackson Davis - San Francisco CA, US
Noah Weiss - New York NY, US
Jason Liszka - New York NY, US
Timothy Julien - New York NY, US
Mark Wyszomierski - Manhasset NY, US
Dennis Crowley - New York NY, US
Patrick Hayes - New York NY, US
Geoffroy Bablon - New York NY, US
Siobhan Quinn - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

H04L 29/08

US Classification:

709201

Abstract:

Systems and methods are provided that presents interesting local content to users at times when the content is most actionable and engaging without the user explicitly entering a search term or expressing intent. In one implementation, the system uses contextual signals about a user to rank local content. Signals may include, for example, who they (one or more users) are, what kinds of places they like, where they are, how familiar they are with the area, the time of day, where the user's friends have been nearby, among other information related to the one or more users. A system may be provided that uses contextual rules and machine learning to target content to users. The system learns which of these contextual signals are most important and alters its ranking function to optimize user engagement in terms of conversions.