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).
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Patent number: 10560461Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 3, 2016Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Pavan Desikan, Jean-Christophe E. Lilot, Dennis Troper, Gregory M. Marra, Abhishek Sethi, David M. Byttow
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Patent number: 9646267Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jean-Christophe E. Lilot, Nishant A. Thakkar, Pavan Desikan, David M. Byttow
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Patent number: 9536232Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: SQUARE, INC.Inventors: Jack Dorsey, Robert Andersen, Bob Lee, Brian Grassadonia, David M. Byttow, Austin Broyles
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Patent number: 9462004Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Pavan Desikan, Jean-Christophe E. Lilot, Dennis Troper, Gregory M. Marra, Abhishek Sethi, David M. Byttow
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Patent number: 9275421Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Bryan C. Horling, David M. Byttow, Pavan K. Desikan, Pavani Diwanji, Ronald Ho, Sagar Kamdar, Sara Su, Vivek P. Gundotra
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Publication number: 20140279436Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Square, Inc.Inventors: Jack Dorsey, Robert Andersen, Bob Lee, Brian Grassadonia, David M. Byttow, Austin Broyles
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Patent number: 8606703Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Square, Inc.Inventors: Jack Dorsey, Robert Andersen, Bob Lee, Brian Grassadonia, David M. Byttow, Austin Broyles
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Publication number: 20130117301Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Inventors: Bryan C. Horling, David M. Byttow, Pavan K. Desikan, Pavani Diwanji, Ronald Ho, Sagar Kamdar, Sara Su, Vic P. Gundotra