Patents by Inventor Michael Steven Vernal

Michael Steven Vernal 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).

  • Personalizing A Web Page Outside Of A Social Networking System With Recommendations for Content From The Social Networking System
    Publication number: 20120239745
    Abstract: A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ray C. He, Spencer G. Ahrens, Yofay Kari Lee, Chaitanya Mishra, Austin Daniel Haugen, Xin Liu, Michael Steven Vernal
  • Personalizing a web page outside of a social networking system with content from the social networking system
    Patent number: 8250145
    Abstract: A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ray C. He, Spencer G. Ahrens, Yofay Kari Lee, Chaitanya Mishra, Austin Daniel Haugen, Xin Liu, Michael Steven Vernal
  • SERVER-ASSISTED AND PEER-TO-PEER SYNCHRONIZATION
    Publication number: 20120210020
    Abstract: Systems and methods for synchronizing data between endpoints using elements of centralized and decentralized synchronization systems and communication topologies are disclosed. Such systems and methods may in some cases synchronize some subset of data with a centralized endpoint while another subset of data is synchronized in a decentralized fashion directly with other endpoints. Such systems and methods may include a variety of cooperative functionality to assist in the synchronization of data between endpoints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akash J. Sagar, George P. Moromisato, Richard Yiu-Sai Chung, Raymond E. Ozzie, Jack E. Ozzie, David Richard Reed, Michael Steven Vernal, Vladimir Dmitri Fedorov, Muthukaruppan Annamalai
  • Server-assisted and peer-to-peer synchronization
    Patent number: 8239479
    Abstract: Systems and methods for synchronizing data between endpoints using elements of centralized and decentralized synchronization systems and communication topologies are disclosed. Such systems and methods may in some cases synchronize some subset of data with a centralized endpoint while another subset of data is synchronized in a decentralized fashion directly with other endpoints. Such systems and methods may include a variety of cooperative functionality to assist in the synchronization of data between endpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Akash J. Sagar, George P. Moromisato, Richard Yiu-Sai Chung, Raymond E. Ozzie, Jack E. Ozzie, David Richard Reed, Michael Steven Vernal, Vladimir Dmitri Fedorov, Muthukaruppan Annamalai
  • SOCIAL GRAPH THAT INCLUDES WEB PAGES OUTSIDE OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20110265011
    Abstract: A social networking system includes a mechanism for incorporating nodes in the social graph, where the nodes are associated with a web page. Each web page includes one or more tags, which contain meta-information for defining the node in the social networking system, such as the type of the node. The social networking system retrieves the tags from the markup language document and stores their information in connection with the node for the web page. The web page may be outside of the social networking system's domain and may be operated by an entity other than the social networking operator; thus, third parties can define, create, and maintain nodes that are then used by the social networking system. Users may then interact with the nodes on websites outside of the social networking system, and these interactions are tracked by and reflected back within the social networking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Bret Steven Taylor, Michael Steven Vernal, Gerald Richard Cain, Mark William Kinsey
  • Personalizing a Web Page Outside of a Social Networking System with Content from the Social Networking System
    Publication number: 20110264736
    Abstract: A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ray C. He, Spencer G. Ahrens, Yofay Kari Lee, Chaitanya Mishra, Austin Daniel Haugen, Xin Liu, Michael Steven Vernal
  • Utilizing abstract descriptions to generate, exchange, and configure service and client runtimes
    Patent number: 7950023
    Abstract: The present invention extends utilizing abstract descriptions to generate, exchange, and configure service and client runtimes. A computer system parses compiled code and potentially optional configuration information for implementing a service and converts the compiled code and any configuration information into an abstract service description. The abstract service description can then be converted into code document object model and service configuration information or exported as metadata. A corresponding service runtime can be initiated by calling a service initializer included in the abstract service description. The code document object model and configuration information and/or metadata can be transferred to another computer system. The other computer system can utilize the code document object model and configuration information and/or import the metadata to facilitate initialization of a compatible channel for communicating with the service runtime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jesus Ruiz Scougall, Ryan Thomas Sturgell, Michael Jon Marucheck, Alex DeJarnett, Stephen T. Swartz, Michael Steven Vernal, Eric K. Zinda, Stephen J. Millet, David A. Wortendyke
  • SINGLE LOGIN PROCEDURE FOR ACCESSING SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION ACROSS MULTIPLE EXTERNAL SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20110023101
    Abstract: A social networking system contains information describing users of the social network and various connections among the users. A user can access multiple external systems that communicate with the social networking system to access information about the users of the social networking system. Login status of the user account on the social networking system is maintained. If the login status of the user account on the social networking system indicates that the user is not logged in, the user is required to provide authentication information. If the login status of the user account indicates that the user is logged in, social network information is provided to the user via an external system, subject to the privacy settings of users of the social networking system. If the user logs out from an external system, the user is also logged out from the social networking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Michael Steven Vernal, Wei Zhu, James M. Leszczenski, Joshua E. Elman, David Brookes Morin, Charles Duplain Cheever, Ruchi Sanghvi
  • DYNAMIC ENFORCEMENT OF PRIVACY SETTINGS BY A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM ON INFORMATION SHARED WITH AN EXTERNAL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20110023129
    Abstract: An external system (such as a website) that interacts with users communicates with a social networking system to access information about the users, who may also be users of the social networking system. If a privacy setting is changed in the social networking system, and the change applies to information that has been shared with an external system, the change is enforced at the external system. For example, the external system may be notified that the information is invalid and must be deleted, or the external system may periodically request the information so that changes to the privacy settings are eventually experienced at the external systems. When an external system again needs the information, whether expired naturally or actively invalidated by the social network, the external system sends a new request for the information, which is subject to the (possibly revised) privacy settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Michael Steven Vernal, Wei Zhu, James M. Leszczenski, Joshua E. Elman, David Brookes Morin, Charles Duplain Cheever, Ruchi Sanghvi
  • MARKUP LANGUAGE FOR INCORPORATING SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM INFORMATION BY AN EXTERNAL WEBSITE
    Publication number: 20110022657
    Abstract: A social networking system contains information describing information about users of the social networking system and about various connections among the users. When a user of the social networking system accesses an external website, the external website may send the user a web page containing markup language with instructions to retrieve information associated with a user from a social networking system. The client device processes the annotations and sends a request for social information related to the user to a social networking system, subject perhaps to privacy settings in the social networking system. The user's browser uses the information obtained from the social networking system in response to the request to render the markup language document for display on the user's computer system. This process allows the external website to use information from the social networking system to enhance the user's experience on the external website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Wei Zhu, David Brookes Morin, James M. Leszczenski, Michael Steven Vernal, Joshua E. Elman, Luke Jonathan Shepard
  • LEVERAGING A SOCIAL GRAPH FROM A SOCIAL NETWORK FOR SOCIAL CONTEXT IN OTHER SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20100132049
    Abstract: A social network contains information describing information about members of the social network and about various connections among the members. An external system that interacts with users (such as a website) communicates with the social network to access information about the members of the social network. In particular, the external system may determine whether a user is a member of the social network and then obtain information about the member and the member's connections within the social network. This allows an external system to use information from the social network to enhance a user's experience on the external system, while enforcing each member's privacy settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Steven Vernal, Wei Zhu, James M. Leszczenski, Joshua E. Elman, David Brookes Morin, Charles Duplain Cheever, Ruchi Sanghvi, Julie Zhuo, Luke Jonathan Shepard
  • REMOTE STORAGE SERVICE API
    Publication number: 20090241134
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to provide an application programming interface to access data stored in a remote storage service. The data may be of any type, and is stored in core objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephen T. Garrity, Michael Steven Vernal, Aakash D. Kambuj, Vladimir Dmitri Fedorov, Ryan C. Bergauer
  • Mechanism for preserving session state when using an access-limited buffer
    Patent number: 7565395
    Abstract: Preserving session state correlation in a distributed computing environment in which a service module instance receives messages from a general input buffer. The general input buffer is not accessed by a service module instance once the service module instance is determined to be recycled. After the service module instance receives a session initiation message through the general input buffer, a session-oriented input buffer is associated with the service module instance. Any subsequent session messages are then received by the service module via the session-oriented input buffer. Even if the service module instance was determined to be recycled mid-session, the service module instance would still operate to process all of the remaining session messages from the session input buffer, thereby preserving session continuity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Lance E. Olson, Mauro Ottaviani, Anastasios Kasiolas, Michael Steven Vernal, Michael T. Dice, Alfred M. Lee, IV
  • Interface infrastructure for creating and interacting with web services
    Patent number: 7512957
    Abstract: A web services namespace pertains to an infrastructure for enabling creation of a wide variety of applications. The infrastructure provides a foundation for building message-based applications of various scale and complexity. The infrastructure or framework provides APIs for basic messaging, secure messaging, reliable messaging and transacted messaging. In some embodiments, the associated APIs are factored into a hierarchy of namespaces in a manner that balances utility, usability, extensibility and versionability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shy Cohen, Geary L. Eppley, Douglas M. Purdy, James E. Johnson, Stephen J. Millet, Stephen T. Swartz, Vijay K. Gajjala, Aaron Abraham Stern, Alexander Martin DeJarnatt, Alfred M. Lee, IV, Anand Rjagopalan, Anastasios Kasiolas, Chaitanya D. Upadhyay, Christopher G. Kaler, Craig Andrew Critchley, David Edwin Levin, David Owen Driver, David Wortendyke, Douglas A. Walter, Elliot Lee Waingold, Erik Bo Christensen, Erin P. Honeycutt, Eugene Shvets, Evgeny Osovetsky, Giovanni M. Della-Libera, Jesus Ruiz-Scougall, John David Doty, Jonathan T. Wheeler, Kapil Gupta, Kenneth David Wolf, Krishnan Srinivasan, Lance E. Olson, Matthew Thomas Tavis, Mauro Ottaviani, Max Attar Feingold, Michael James Coulson, Michael Jon Marucheck, Michael Steven Vernal, Michael Thomas Dice, Mohamed-Hany Essam Ramadan, Mohammad Makarechian, Natasha Harish Jethanandani, Richard Dievendorff, Richard Douglas Hill, Ryan Thomas Sturgell, Saurab Nog, Scott Christopher Seely, Serge Sverdlov, Siddhartha Puri, Sowmyanarayanan K. Srinivasan, Stefan Batres, Stefan Harrington Pharies, Tirunelveli Vishwanath, Tomasz Janczuk, Uday S. Hegde, Umesh Madan, Vaithialingam B. Balayogan, Vipul Arunkant Modi, Yaniv Pessach, Yasser Shohoud
  • SERVER-ASSISTED AND PEER-TO-PEER SYNCHRONIZATION
    Publication number: 20080317068
    Abstract: Systems and methods for synchronizing data between endpoints using elements of centralized and decentralized synchronization systems and communication topologies are disclosed. Such systems and methods may in some cases synchronize some subset of data with a centralized endpoint while another subset of data is synchronized in a decentralized fashion directly with other endpoints. Such systems and methods may include a variety of cooperative functionality to assist in the synchronization of data between endpoints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akash J. Sagar, George P. Moromisato, Richard Yiu-Sai Chung, Raymond E. Ozzie, Jack E. Ozzie, David Richard Reed, Michael Steven Vernal, Vladimir Dmitri Fedorov, Muthukaruppan Annamalai