Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Terrace

Jeffrey Terrace 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).

  • Mechanism for supporting user content feeds
    Patent number: 8554944
    Abstract: In one embodiment, for each one of one or more content producers, access a content-producing rate at which the content producer produces one or more items of content; and for each one of one or more content consumers, access a content-consuming rate at which the content consumer consumes one or more items of content. For each one of a plurality of consumer-producer pairs, wherein the consumer-producer pair comprises one of the content consumers and one of the content producers, and the content consumer follows the content producer, select between a push strategy and a pull strategy for delivering one or more items of content from the content producer to the content consumer based on the content-consuming rate of the content consumer and the content-producing rate of the content producer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Eli Silberstein, Brian Frank Cooper, Raghunath Ramakrishnan, Jeffrey Terrace
  • MECHANISM FOR SUPPORTING USER CONTENT FEEDS
    Publication number: 20120179782
    Abstract: In one embodiment, for each one of one or more content producers, access a content-producing rate at which the content producer produces one or more items of content; and for each one of one or more content consumers, access a content-consuming rate at which the content consumer consumes one or more items of content. For each one of a plurality of consumer-producer pairs, wherein the consumer-producer pair comprises one of the content consumers and one of the content producers, and the content consumer follows the content producer, select between a push strategy and a pull strategy for delivering one or more items of content from the content producer to the content consumer based on the content-consuming rate of the content consumer and the content-producing rate of the content producer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Eli Silberstein, Brian Frank Cooper, Raghunath Ramakrishnan, Jeffrey Terrace
  • Mechanism for supporting user content feeds
    Patent number: 8156240
    Abstract: In one embodiment, for each one of one or more content producers, access a content-producing rate at which the content producer produces one or more items of content; and for each one of one or more content consumers, access a content-consuming rate at which the content consumer consumes one or more items of content. For each one of a plurality of consumer-producer pairs, wherein the consumer-producer pair comprises one of the content consumers and one of the content producers, and the content consumer follows the content producer, select between a push strategy and a pull strategy for delivering one or more items of content from the content producer to the content consumer based on the content-consuming rate of the content consumer and the content-producing rate of the content producer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Eli Silberstein, Brian Frank Cooper, Raghunath Ramakrishnan, Jeffrey Terrace
  • MECHANISM FOR SUPPORTING USER CONTENT FEEDS
    Publication number: 20110213894
    Abstract: In one embodiment, for each one of one or more content producers, access a content-producing rate at which the content producer produces one or more items of content; and for each one of one or more content consumers, access a content-consuming rate at which the content consumer consumes one or more items of content. For each one of a plurality of consumer-producer pairs, wherein the consumer-producer pair comprises one of the content consumers and one of the content producers, and the content consumer follows the content producer, select between a push strategy and a pull strategy for delivering one or more items of content from the content producer to the content consumer based on the content-consuming rate of the content consumer and the content-producing rate of the content producer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Adam Eli Silberstein, Brian Frank Cooper, Raghunath Ramakrishnan, Jeffrey Terrace