Patents by Inventor Andrew G. Bosworth
Andrew G. Bosworth has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10984174Abstract: To display a news feed in a social network environment, a social networking system generates news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment. The social networking system may also attach an informational link associated with at least one of the activities to at least one of the news items, limit access to the news items to a predetermined set of viewers, and assign an order to the news items. The news items may be displayed in the assigned order to at least one viewing user of the predetermined set of viewers, and the number of news items displayed may be dynamically limited.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ruchi Sanghvi, Andrew G. Bosworth, Chris Cox, Aaron Sittig, Chris Hughes, Katie Geminder, Daniel Corson
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Patent number: 10579711Abstract: To display a news feed in a social network environment, a social networking system generates news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment. The social networking system may also attach an informational link associated with at least one of the activities to at least one of the news items, limit access to the news items to a predetermined set of viewers, and assign an order to the news items. The news items may be displayed in the assigned order to at least one viewing user of the predetermined set of viewers, and the number of news items displayed may be dynamically limited.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ruchi Sanghvi, Andrew G. Bosworth, Chris Cox, Aaron Sittig, Chris Hughes, Katie Geminder, Daniel Corson
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Patent number: 10348792Abstract: A system and method provides dynamically selected media content to someone using an electronic device in a social network environment. Items of media content are selected for the user based on his or her relationships with one or more other users. The user's relationships with other users are reflected in the selected media content and its format. An order is assigned to the items of media content, for example, based on their anticipated importance to the user, and the items of media content are displayed to the user in the assigned order. The user may change the order of the items of media content. The user's interactions with media content available in the social network environment are monitored, and those interactions are used to select additional items of media content for the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Andrew G. Bosworth, Chris Cox, Ruchi Sanghvi, Matthew Cahill
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Patent number: 10341404Abstract: A system and method provides dynamically selected media content to someone using an electronic device in a social network environment. Items of media content are selected for the user based on his or her relationships with one or more other users. The user's relationships with other users are reflected in the selected media content and its format. An order is assigned to the items of media content, for example, based on their anticipated importance to the user, and the items of media content are displayed to the user in the assigned order. The user may change the order of the items of media content. The user's interactions with media content available in the social network environment are monitored, and those interactions are used to select additional items of media content for the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2013Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Andrew G. Bosworth, Chris Cox, Ruchi Sanghvi, Matthew Cahill
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Patent number: 10325273Abstract: A social networking system allows users that are people to partner with users that are non-person entities. A partnership allows the entity participating in the partnership to personalize an associated page with content from the person participating in the partnership and similarly allows the person to include certain content from the entity, made available because of the partnership, in the person's user profile. The entity may provide additional benefits, such as enrollment in a rewards program or access to new products, to a user participating in a partnership. The partnership is bidirectional, and is separate from other unidirectional connection mechanisms provided by the social networking system such as indications of affinity (e.g., “likes”), friendships, and subscriptions.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Andrew G. Bosworth, William Blakeley Chandlee, Ravi Mahesh Daswani Buxani
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Patent number: 10068258Abstract: A social networking system generates socially-relevant stories for a user based on actions taken by other users to whom the user is connected. The social networking system may receive a request for a sponsored story for a viewing user and may select information about one or more actions performed by one or more users to whom the viewing user is connected to identify one of a plurality of candidate information for a sponsored story based on one or more criteria (e.g., affinity of the viewing user for the candidates, expected value for the candidates, etc.). The social networking system may also generate the sponsored story and generate a feed comprising the sponsored story and news stories (e.g., non-sponsored stories) about one or more users of the social networking system with whom the viewing user is connected. This feed may be provided for display to the viewing user.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2012Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Kendall, Matthew R. Cohler, Mark E. Zuckerberg, Yun-Fang Juan, Robert Kang-Xing Jin, Justin M. Rosenstein, Andrew G. Bosworth, Yishan Wong, Adam D'Angelo, Chamath M. Palihapitiya
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Patent number: 10032189Abstract: A social networking system generates socially-relevant stories for a user based on actions taken by other users to whom the user is connected. The social networking system may receive a request for a sponsored story for a viewing user and may select information about one or more actions performed by one or more users to whom the viewing user is connected to identify one of a plurality of candidate information for a sponsored story based on one or more criteria (e.g., affinity of the viewing user for the candidates, expected value for the candidates, etc.). The social networking system may also generate the sponsored story and generate a feed comprising the sponsored story and news stories (e.g., non-sponsored stories) about one or more users of the social networking system with whom the viewing user is connected. This feed may be provided for display to the viewing user.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Kendall, Matthew R. Cohler, Mark E. Zuckerberg, Yun-Fang Juan, Robert Kang-Xing Jin, Justin M. Rosenstein, Andrew G. Bosworth, Yishan Wong, Adam D'Angelo, Chamath M. Palihapitiya
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Patent number: 9984391Abstract: A social networking website logs information about actions taken by members of the website. For a particular member of the website, the website generates socially relevant ads for the member based on the actions logged for other members on the website to whom the member is connected (i.e., the member's online friends). The advertiser associated with the social ad may compensate the social networking website for publishing the ad on the website. When presenting a member with a social ad, the website may optimize advertising revenue by selecting an ad from the received ads that will maximize the expected value of the social ad. The expected value may be computed according to a function that includes the member's affinity for the ad content and the bid amount. The technique is also applied for providing socially relevant information off the social networking website.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2010Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Timothy A. Kendall, Matthew R. Cohler, Mark E. Zuckerberg, Yun-Fang Juan, Robert Kang-Xing Jin, Justin M. Rosenstein, Andrew G. Bosworth, Yishan Wong, Adam D'Angelo, Chamath M. Palihapitiya
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Patent number: 9984392Abstract: A social networking website logs information about actions taken by members of the website. For a particular member of the website, the website generates socially relevant ads for the member based on the actions logged for other members on the website to whom the member is connected (i.e., the member's online friends). The advertiser associated with the social ad may compensate the social networking website for publishing the ad on the website. When presenting a member with a social ad, the website may optimize advertising revenue by selecting an ad from the received ads that will maximize the expected value of the social ad. The expected value may be computed according to a function that includes the member's affinity for the ad content and the bid amount. The technique is also applied for providing socially relevant information off the social networking website.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Timothy A. Kendall, Matthew R. Cohler, Mark E. Zuckerberg, Yun-Fang Juan, Robert Kang-Xing Jin, Justin M. Rosenstein, Andrew G. Bosworth, Yishan Wong, Adam D'Angelo, Chamath M. Palihapitiya
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Patent number: 9940308Abstract: To display a news feed in a social network environment, a social networking system generates news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment. The social networking system may also attach an informational link associated with at least one of the activities to at least one of the news items, limit access to the news items to a predetermined set of viewers, and assign an order to the news items. The news items may be displayed in the assigned order to at least one viewing user of the predetermined set of viewers, and the number of news items displayed may be dynamically limited.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ruchi Sanghvi, Andrew G. Bosworth, Chris Cox, Aaron Sittig, Chris Hughes, Katie Geminder, Daniel Corson
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Patent number: 9929994Abstract: A messaging system that organizes and presents messages to users of the messaging system. The messaging system includes a mailbox module that receives messages and generates conversation threads from the messages. Messages received from different electronic message channels may be aggregated into a common conversation thread. The conversation threads are also organized in a message interface and then presented to a user of the messaging system. The messaging system may include a social networking system that stores social information about users, which can be used to organize the conversation threads. Other features include a multi mode message interface, and a method for adding contextual information to messages.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Drew W. Hamlin, Daniel Hsiao, Mark E. Zuckerberg, Andrew G. Bosworth, Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Ross David Bayer
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Patent number: 9882946Abstract: To generate dynamic relationship-based content personalized for members of a social networking system, at least one action of one or more members of the social networking system is associated with relationship data for the one or more members to produce consolidated data. One or more elements associated with the consolidated data is identified and used to aggregate the consolidated data. Further exemplary methods comprise weighting by affinity the aggregated consolidated data to generate dynamic relationship-based content personalized for the members of the web-based social network.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Andrew G. Bosworth, Chris Cox, Ruchi Sanghvi, Thyagarajapuram S. Ramakrishnan, Adam D'Angelo
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Patent number: 9836761Abstract: An influence metric describing the influence of a social networking system object on social networking system users is determined based on affinities between the users and the object. For example, affinities between the associated users and the object are combined to determine the influence metric. Content may be selected for presentation to users based in part on influence metrics of the content. Additionally, influence metrics of objects associated with a user may be combined to determine the relevance of objects associated with the user, which may also be used to select content for presentation to the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Andrew G. Bosworth, Aruna Bharathi
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Patent number: 9819634Abstract: A messaging system receives a message that is intended for a recipient, who is a user of a social networking system. An object associated with the message is identified based on the message content and/or metadata associated with the message. The messaging system accesses a social networking system database to obtain social information about a relationship between the recipient and the identified object. The message is then indexed using the social information, wherein an entry for the message is stored in a message index based on the social information. This process may be repeated for each received message, and multiple different message indexes may be generated for received messages to track different types of social information. A user interface for viewing messages uses the message index to organize the messages, such as to filter, categorize, and/or sort the messages in the display.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Prashant Malik, Jiakai Liu, Andrew G. Bosworth, Joel Benjamin Seligstein
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Patent number: 9800529Abstract: A messaging system that organizes and presents messages to users of the messaging system. The messaging system includes a mailbox module that receives messages and generates conversation threads from the messages. Messages received from different electronic message channels may be aggregated into a common conversation thread. The conversation threads are also organized in a message interface and then presented to a user of the messaging system. The messaging system may include a social networking system that stores social information about users, which can be used to organize the conversation threads. Other features include a multi mode message interface, and a method for adding contextual information to messages.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Prashant Malik, Jiakai Liu, Andrew G. Bosworth, Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Drew W. Hamlin, Daniel Hsiao, Kenneth M. Lau, Ross David Bayer, Mark E. Zuckerberg
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Publication number: 20170221096Abstract: An influence metric describing the influence of a social networking system object on social networking system users is determined based on affinities between the users and the object. For example, affinities between the associated users and the object are combined to determine the influence metric. Content may be selected for presentation to users based in part on influence metrics of the content. Additionally, influence metrics of objects associated with a user may be combined to determine the relevance of objects associated with the user, which may also be used to select content for presentation to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2017Publication date: August 3, 2017Inventors: Andrew G. Bosworth, Aruna Bharathi
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Patent number: 9659308Abstract: An influence metric describing the influence of a social networking system object on social networking system users is determined based on affinities between the users and the object. For example, affinities between the associated users and the object are combined to determine the influence metric. Content may be selected for presentation to users based in part on influence metrics of the content. Additionally, influence metrics of objects associated with a user may be combined to determine the relevance of objects associated with the user, which may also be used to select content for presentation to the user.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Andrew G. Bosworth, Aruna Bharathi
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Publication number: 20170118163Abstract: A messaging system receives a message that is intended for a recipient, who is a user of a social networking system. An object associated with the message is identified based on the message content and/or metadata associated with the message. The messaging system accesses a social networking system database to obtain social information about a relationship between the recipient and the identified object. The message is then indexed using the social information, wherein an entry for the message is stored in a message index based on the social information. This process may be repeated for each received message, and multiple different message indexes may be generated for received messages to track different types of social information. A user interface for viewing messages uses the message index to organize the messages, such as to filter, categorize, and/or sort the messages in the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2017Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: Prashant Malik, Jiakai Liu, Andrew G. Bosworth, Joel Benjamin Seligstein
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Publication number: 20170085659Abstract: A system and method for measuring user affinity in a social network environment is provided. One or more activities performed by a user associated with a social network environment are monitored. A relationship associated with the one or more activities is identified. An affinity for one or more objects associated with the social network environment is then determined based on the one or more activities and the relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Andrew G. Bosworth, Christopher K. Cox
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Publication number: 20170083943Abstract: An influence metric describing the influence of a social networking system object on social networking system users is determined based on affinities between the users and the object. For example, affinities between the associated users and the object are combined to determine the influence metric. Content may be selected for presentation to users based in part on influence metrics of the content. Additionally, influence metrics of objects associated with a user may be combined to determine the relevance of objects associated with the user, which may also be used to select content for presentation to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Andrew G. Bosworth, Aruna Bharathi