Patents Assigned to Twitter, Inc.
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Patent number: 11310324Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a computing device, information associated with an entity from one or more social media sites. One or more attributes for the information associated with the entity is identified. A relevance profile associated with the one or more attributes is generated. A plurality of posts from the one or more social media sites is identified, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of posts includes at least a portion of the one or more attributes for the information associated with the entity. At least the portion of the plurality of posts is ordered on a display based upon, at least in part, the relevance profile associated with the one or more attributes.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Patrick A. Kinsel, Alexander P. Lambert, Simon S. Yun, Alexander James Jenkins, Jeffrey Lupien, Keh-Li Sheng
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Patent number: 11310338Abstract: A method for generating recommendations involves selecting a first platform message, making a first determination that the first platform message is potentially associated with a plurality of topics including a first topic and a second topic, obtaining additional information associated with the first platform message including at least one of information about an account that authored the first platform message and information about third party accounts engaging with the first platform message, making a second determining that the first platform message is associated with the first topic using the plurality of topics and at least a portion of the additional information, wherein the first topic is an initial classification of the first platform message, generating a recommendation for at least one account based on the second determination, and providing the recommendation to at least one account.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventor: Alek Kolcz
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Patent number: 11301115Abstract: A computing device can receive at least a first post in association with a first account, a second post in association with the first account, the second post being associated with the first post, a third post in association with a second account, the third post being associated with the first post, a fourth post in association with the second account, the fourth post being associated with the first post, and a fifth post in association with a third account, the fifth post being associated with the first post, determine that the first account and the second account are most relevant to a conversation, and based on determining that the first account and the second account are most relevant to the conversation, present the first post, the second post, the third post, and the fourth post without presenting the fifth post.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Lisa Ding, Jose Hernandez, Hugo Broche, Melissa Hribar
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Patent number: 11303623Abstract: A system and method including: receiving an authorization request originating from an authorization module of an application executing on a client device, where the authorization request includes an identifier identifying the client device; causing transmission, based on the identifier, of a verification message to the client device, where the verification message includes a verification code; receiving a confirmation of the verification code from the authorization module of the application executing on the client device; authenticating the application based on the receiving the confirmation of the verification code; determining that the client device identified by the identifier corresponds to a user account including secure user data associated with a user; and transmitting a unique token verifying that the application is authorized to sign into the user account, where: the unique token uniquely identifies the user account to the application, and the secure user data is not shared with the application.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Michael Ducker, Sean Cook, Jeffrey Seibert, Jr., Alex Roetter, Kevin Weil, Akash Garg, Jeremy Gordon
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Patent number: 11295018Abstract: A system and method for message analysis, including: receiving, by a control service, a first modification request to modify a file system of a computing device, wherein the computing device is operating in a read-only state; identifying, by the control service, a request parameter associated with the first modification request; determining, by the control service, that the request parameter satisfies a permission criteria to perform the first modification request; provisioning, by the control service, the computing device to operate in a read/write state in response to determining that the permission criteria has been satisfied, wherein the first modification request is executed to modify the file system while the computing device is operating in the read/write state; and, upon a determination that the first modification request has successfully completed, provisioning, by the control service, the computing device to operate in the read-only state.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventor: Matthew D. Klein
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Patent number: 11288702Abstract: A real-time messaging platform allows advertiser accounts to pay to insert candidate messages into the message streams requested by account holders. To accommodate multiple advertisers, the messaging platform controls an auction process that determines which candidate messages are selected for inclusion in a requested account holder's message stream. Selection is based on a bid for the candidate message, the message stream that is requested, and a variety of other factors that vary depending upon the implementation. The process for selection of candidate messages generally includes the following steps, though any given step may be omitted or combined into another step in a different implementation: targeting, filtering, prediction, ranking, and selection.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Reid Andersen, James Neufeld, Ashish Goel, Michael Jahr, Utkarsh Srivastava, Sandeep Pandey
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Patent number: 11290551Abstract: A method for determining a circle of trust (CoT) includes receiving a request for the CoT, generating the CoT for the context account by: identifying a primary graph with nodes based on at least one action within a social network for the context account. The method further includes performing random walks through the nodes of the primary graph, each of the random walks including two steps, ranking each of the nodes based on an amount of the random walks that end on each of the nodes, with the CoT including a number of the highest ranking plurality of nodes, filtering content items using the CoT to identify a subset of relevant items, and providing the subset for display on a client device.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Pankaj Gupta, Aneesh Sharma, Ashish Goel
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Patent number: 11290413Abstract: In some examples, a method includes receiving, from one or more client devices, a stream of messages composed by one or more users of the one or more client devices, wherein each of the messages includes a particular hashtag, determining, using a set of metrics that are based at least in part on the messages, a trending score that represents a magnitude of a trend for the particular hashtag, in response to determining that the trending score satisfies a threshold, sending, to a content provider system, a set of demographic data that describes one or more of the users who associated with the particular hashtag, and, in response to receiving, from the content provider system, targeted content that is based at least in part on the particular hashtag and the set of demographic data, sending, for display at the one or more of the one or more client devices, the targeted content.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Dinkar Jain, Mu Lin, David Hotchkiss
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Patent number: 11284170Abstract: A system and method including: a request to display a message stream for a context account of a social media platform may be received by a client device; a preview video including a set of video snippets of a source video may be identified by the client device; automatic playback of the preview video in a playback area displayed inline with the message stream may be initiated; a user input indicating a request to play the source video may be received by the client device; and playback of the source video may be initiated in response to the request for the source video.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Baljeet Singh, David Regan, Yi Wang, Noah Vihinen
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Patent number: 11283725Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for delivering event content. One of the methods includes initiating, for one or more client devices, a subscription to a topic; receiving an event relevant to a topic; determining a number of channel servers that correspond to the topic, wherein each channel server is associated with one or more client devices; determining that the number of channel servers that correspond to the topic is greater than a threshold number of channel servers; writing the received event from the event processor to an event fan-out queue, in response to the determination that the number of channel servers that correspond to the topic is greater than the threshold number of channel servers; reading the received event from the event fan-out queue; and sending the received event to the one or more client devices associated with each respective channel server.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Jie Jin, Dustin Norlander
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Patent number: 11276075Abstract: According to an implementation, a method for digital information retrieval in a social media platform includes transmitting, over a network, information to render a timeline of social content for a user of a client application. The timeline of social content includes messages posted on the messaging platform by user accounts that are connected to a user account of the user in a connection graph. The method includes computing, using a machine-learning algorithm inputted with relevance signals, a relevance level between the user account of the user and a user account not linked to the user account of the user in the connection graph, and transmitting information about a profile of the user to a computing device associated with the user account not linked to the user account of the user in response to the relevance level being greater than a threshold level.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Wook Jin Chung, Kiryl Lashuk, Kelly Huffman
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Patent number: 11270333Abstract: In some examples, a computing device includes at least one processor and at least one module, operable by the at least one processor to receive, from a client device of a user, a request for one or more advertisements to display at the client device with a set of messages. The set of messages is associated with the user in a social network messaging service. The at least one module may be further operable to determine a probability that the user will select a candidate advertisement using a machine learning model based on point-wise learning and pair-wise learning. The at least one module may be further operable to determine, based on the probability that the user will select the candidate advertisement, a candidate score for the candidate advertisement, determine that the candidate score satisfies a threshold, and send, for display at the client device, the candidate advertisement.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Yue Lu, Parag Agrawal, Cheng Li, Sandeep Pandey, Michael Jahr, Jeremy Ginsberg
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Patent number: 11269940Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing related content on social networking platforms. One of the methods includes displaying multiple messages of a social networking platform, wherein each of the multiple messages of the social networking platform has an associated user-selectable user interface element; receiving, from a user, a first request for content related to a user-selected message, wherein the first request is submitted by selecting the associated user-selectable user interface element; in response to receiving the first request, processing the user's social network profile to obtain multiple user-related signals; processing the user-selected message to obtain multiple message-related signals; and obtaining, based on the multiple user-related and message-related signals, multiple terms and multiple relevant messages; and displaying, in a second client user interface, the multiple terms and the multiple relevant messages.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Xiao Zhu, Joe Connors
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Patent number: 11269819Abstract: Embodiments are provided for enabling a dynamic management of a multi-tenant distributed database. According to certain aspects, a management module supports an interface that enables a customer to configure one or more consistency models for a service to be supported by the distributed database. The management module may determine computing resources within the distributed database that are needed to support the service according to the configured consistency model(s), and may instantiate the computing resources for testing and development of the service by the customer.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Peter Schuller, Christopher Goffinet, Boaz Avital, Armond Bigian, Spencer G. Fang, Anthony Asta
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Patent number: 11263255Abstract: Techniques of the disclosure are directed to a computing device creating and outputting, for display at client devices accessing a social media platform, targeted content. The computing device may receive candidate messages composed by users of a group of client devices, where the candidate messages each include a reference to the requisite product, brand, or market. If a candidate message has a determined interest score that satisfies a threshold interest score, the computing device includes the candidate message into a group of brand messages. The computing device may then send the targeted message to be output for display at another group of client devices, where the targeted message includes both an original portion and a carousel portion. The carousel portion includes a group of transitional windows, where each transitional window includes one of the brand messages from the group of brand messages.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventor: Andrew Bragdon
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Patent number: D945438Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventor: Lisa Ding
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Patent number: D947865Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Richard Plom, Sean Thompson
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Patent number: D947875Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventor: Madhu Muthukumar
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Patent number: D947876Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Charles Warren, Sara Haider
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Patent number: D949163Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventor: Veronika Wu