Patents by Inventor David M. Byttow

David M. Byttow 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).

  • Patent number: 10560461
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for managing electronic messages of users in a social network. One method includes an operation for receiving attributes of a profile of a person with a person account that has started following an entity with an entity account, in the social network. Further, the person is added to one or more groups in the entity account based on the attributes. Each of the groups is associated with defined properties for adding persons to each group. Furthermore, messages, created by the entity and addressed to the one or more groups, are distributed to a stream of the person account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Pavan Desikan, Jean-Christophe E. Lilot, Dennis Troper, Gregory M. Marra, Abhishek Sethi, David M. Byttow
  • Patent number: 9646267
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for managing the visibility of relationships within a social network. One method includes an operation for enabling a person to establish a first follow relationship from the person to an entity in the social network. However, the entity is disabled to establish a second follow relationship from the entity to the person until the first follow relationship from the person to the entity is established. Further, the establishment of the first follow relationship with a limited visibility is detected, and the establishment of the second follow relationship is also detected. The method further includes an operation for disabling a user in the social network to obtain visibility of the second follow relationship if the first follow relationship is invisible to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Christophe E. Lilot, Nishant A. Thakkar, Pavan Desikan, David M. Byttow
  • Patent number: 9536232
    Abstract: Method, systems, and apparatus for receiving the email message from a sender device; identifying, using data processing apparatus of a payment service system, a sender email address, a service email address, and one or more recipient email addresses from the email message; identifying, for the sender email address, a sender financial account associated with the payment service system and, for each of the one or more recipient email addresses, a respective recipient financial account associated with the payment service system; identifying a payment amount from a subject or body of the email message; submitting a request to transfer, using the payment service system, the payment amount from the respective sender financial account to the respective recipient financial account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SQUARE, INC.
    Inventors: Jack Dorsey, Robert Andersen, Bob Lee, Brian Grassadonia, David M. Byttow, Austin Broyles
  • Patent number: 9462004
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for managing electronic messages of users in a social network. One method includes an operation for receiving attributes of a profile of a person with a person account that has started following an entity with an entity account, in the social network. Further, the person is added to one or more groups in the entity account based on the attributes. Each of the groups is associated with defined properties for adding persons to each group. Furthermore, messages, created by the entity and addressed to the one or more groups, are distributed to a stream of the person account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Pavan Desikan, Jean-Christophe E. Lilot, Dennis Troper, Gregory M. Marra, Abhishek Sethi, David M. Byttow
  • Patent number: 9275421
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for information retrieval. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search input including one or more search terms; determining whether the search input includes a particular token; in response to determining that the search input includes the particular token, determining whether the one or more search terms are associated with a particular social page; in response to determining that the one or more search terms are associated with the particular social page, providing the particular social page without providing search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan C. Horling, David M. Byttow, Pavan K. Desikan, Pavani Diwanji, Ronald Ho, Sagar Kamdar, Sara Su, Vivek P. Gundotra
  • Publication number: 20140279436
    Abstract: Method, systems, and apparatus for receiving the email message from a sender device; identifying, using data processing apparatus of a payment service system, a sender email address, a service email address, and one or more recipient email addresses from the email message; identifying, for the sender email address, a sender financial account associated with the payment service system and, for each of the one or more recipient email addresses, a respective recipient financial account associated with the payment service system; identifying a payment amount from a subject or body of the email message; submitting a request to transfer, using the payment service system, the payment amount from the respective sender financial account to the respective recipient financial account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Dorsey, Robert Andersen, Bob Lee, Brian Grassadonia, David M. Byttow, Austin Broyles
  • Patent number: 8606703
    Abstract: Method, systems, and apparatus for receiving the email message from a sender device; identifying, using data processing apparatus of a payment service system, a sender email address, a service email address, and one or more recipient email addresses from the email message; identifying, for the sender email address, a sender financial account associated with the payment service system and, for each of the one or more recipient email addresses, a respective recipient financial account associated with the payment service system; identifying a payment amount from a subject or body of the email message; submitting a request to transfer, using the payment service system, the payment amount from the respective sender financial account to the respective recipient financial account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Dorsey, Robert Andersen, Bob Lee, Brian Grassadonia, David M. Byttow, Austin Broyles
  • Publication number: 20130117301
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for information retrieval. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search input including one or more search terms; determining whether the search input includes a particular token; in response to determining that the search input includes the particular token, determining whether the one or more search terms are associated with a particular social page; in response to determining that the one or more search terms are associated with the particular social page, providing the particular social page without providing search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Inventors: Bryan C. Horling, David M. Byttow, Pavan K. Desikan, Pavani Diwanji, Ronald Ho, Sagar Kamdar, Sara Su, Vic P. Gundotra