Patents by Inventor Brian Jay Thomas

Brian Jay Thomas 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).

  • Managing privacy settings for content on online social networks
    Patent number: 10659299
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication of a trigger action associated with a first user and with respect to a particular entity, sending to the first user a content-update interface for updating privacy settings associated with multiple content objects associated with the first user or the particular entity, receiving, from the first user via the content-update interface, settings updates for the content objects, and applying the settings updates to the privacy settings associated with the content objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Kelly B. Winters, Brian Jay Thomas, Daniel Gregory Muriello, Emily Grace Albert
  • Systems, methods, and apparatus for relationship mapping
    Patent number: 9860338
    Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems for relationship mapping are detailed. In some embodiments, a post by a first user includes a relationship term associated with a second user. Depending upon privacy policy settings, a link to the second user's profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Dante Nardone, Brian Jay Thomas, Zizhuang Yang
  • Aggregated actions
    Patent number: 9680947
    Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a first plurality of actions from a first entity with respect to a first plurality of objects. A global object related to each of the first plurality of objects is determined and a representation of the global object is displayed in association with a representation of the first entity. Additionally, in response to receiving user feedback on the representation of the global object displayed in association with the representation of the first entity, an instance of the global object that is unique to the first entity is created. The displayed representation of the global object is converted into a representation of the instance of the global object that is unique to the first entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Rose Yao, Lincoln Hochberg, Brian Jay Thomas, Naitik H. Shah, Arthur G. Rudolph
  • AGGREGATED ACTIONS
    Publication number: 20160241655
    Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a first plurality of actions from a first entity with respect to a first plurality of objects. A global object related to each of the first plurality of objects is determined and a representation of the global object is displayed in association with a representation of the first entity. Additionally, in response to receiving user feedback on the representation of the global object displayed in association with the representation of the first entity, an instance of the global object that is unique to the first entity is created. The displayed representation of the global object is converted into a representation of the instance of the global object that is unique to the first entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Rose Yao, Lincoln Hochberg, Brian Jay Thomas, Naitik H. Shah, Arthur G. Rudolph
  • SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR RELATIONSHIP MAPPING
    Publication number: 20160191656
    Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems for relationship mapping are detailed. In some embodiments, a post by a first user includes a relationship term associated with a second user. Depending upon privacy policy settings, a link to the second user's profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas Dante Nardone, Brian Jay Thomas, Zizhuang Yang