Patents by Inventor Brynn Shepherd

Brynn Shepherd 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).

  • Tool for creating structured objects and actions on a social networking system
    Patent number: 9032290
    Abstract: A social networking system includes a mechanism for integrating user actions on objects outside of the social networking system in the social graph. External system operators include widgets that, when executed by user devices, record user interactions that correspond to a defined structure of actions and objects. Third party operators utilize a tool provided by the social networking system to define the structure of actions and objects. External actions are recorded by the social networking system for publishing to the social graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Brynn Shepherd, Carl Philip Sjogreen, Vladimir Fedorov, Naitik Shah, Edward Kenneth O'Neil, Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen, Paul Tarjan, Michael Steven Vernal, Arthur George Rudolph
  • Dynamic sentence formation from structured objects and actions in a social networking system
    Patent number: 8909515
    Abstract: A social networking system includes a mechanism for integrating user actions on objects outside of the social networking system in the social graph. External system operators include widgets that, when executed by user devices, record user interactions that correspond to a defined structure of actions and objects. Third party operators utilize a tool provided by the social networking system to define the structure of actions and objects, verb tenses of action types, and noun forms object types. External actions are recorded by the social networking system for publishing to the social graph in dynamically generated sentences formed using the structure of the actions and objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Kenneth O'Neil, Vladimir Fedorov, Paul Tarjan, Brynn Shepherd, Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen, Michael Steven Vernal, Carl Philip Sjogreen
  • DYNAMIC SENTENCE FORMATION FROM STRUCTURED OBJECTS AND ACTIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130073280
    Abstract: A social networking system includes a mechanism for integrating user actions on objects outside of the social networking system in the social graph. External system operators include widgets that, when executed by user devices, record user interactions that correspond to a defined structure of actions and objects. Third party operators utilize a tool provided by the social networking system to define the structure of actions and objects, verb tenses of action types, and noun forms object types. External actions are recorded by the social networking system for publishing to the social graph in dynamically generated sentences formed using the structure of the actions and objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventors: Edward Kenneth O'Neil, Vladimir Fedorov, Paul Tarjan, Brynn Shepherd, Lars Elistrup Rasmussen, Michael Steven Vermal, Carl Philip Sjogreen
  • TOOL FOR CREATING STRUCTURED OBJECTS AND ACTIONS ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130073979
    Abstract: A social networking system includes a mechanism for integrating user actions on objects outside of the social networking system in the social graph. External system operators include widgets that, when executed by user devices, record user interactions that correspond to a defined structure of actions and objects. Third party operators utilize a tool provided by the social networking system to define the structure of actions and objects. External actions are recorded by the social networking system for publishing to the social graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventors: Brynn Shepherd, Carl Philip Sjogreen, Vladimir Fedorov, Naitik Shah, Edward Kenneth O'Neil, Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen, Paul Tarjan, Michael Steven Vernal, Arthur George Rudolph