Patents by Inventor Ben Frederickson

Ben Frederickson 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).

  • Selecting additional supplemental content for presentation in conjunction with a content item presented via a digital magazine
    Patent number: 9971755
    Abstract: A digital magazine server provides a digital magazine including content items to a client device for presentation to a user. To increase user interaction with the digital magazine, the digital magazine server identifies a content item in the digital magazine and determines one or more topics associated with the identified content item. From the one or more topics, the digital magazine server identifies a topic and obtains candidate content items that are also associated with the identified topic. A candidate content item is selected from the candidate content item and the selected candidate content item is presented in conjunction with the identified content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Chi, Yuechen Zhao, Ben Frederickson
  • Selecting Additional Supplemental Content for Presentation in Conjunction with a Content Item Presented via a Digital Magazine
    Publication number: 20160224557
    Abstract: A digital magazine server provides a digital magazine including content items to a client device for presentation to a user. To increase user interaction with the digital magazine, the digital magazine server identifies a content item in the digital magazine and determines one or more topics associated with the identified content item. From the one or more topics, the digital magazine server identifies a topic and obtains candidate content items that are also associated with the identified topic. A candidate content item is selected from the candidate content item and the selected candidate content item is presented in conjunction with the identified content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Sang Chi, Yuechen Zhao, Ben Frederickson