Patents by Inventor Niket Biswas

Niket Biswas 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: 10046240
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving a message in response to detection of a token by a presence reader; transmitting a request to access an account associated with an external network in response to receiving the message; establishing access to the account in response to authentication of the request by a server in the external network; and debiting value from a funding source associated with the account after establishing access to the account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Richard Kenneth Zadorozny, Niket Biswas
  • Patent number: 9769103
    Abstract: An online system provides a user with access to applications associated with third parry systems via the online system and generates an identifier that identifies the user to a third party system without providing the third party system with information personally identifying the user. Using an identifier that identifies an additional user to the third party system, an online system user may invite the additional user to use an application associated with the third party system without installing the application on the additional user's client device. When the user invites the additional user to use the application, the online system sends the third party system associated with the application the identifier identifying the additional user to the third party system. If the additional user accepts the invitation, the online system or third party system provides application content to the additional user via a frame on the additional user's client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Vishu Gupta, Niket Biswas
  • Patent number: 9589279
    Abstract: A social networking system user interacts with a terminal associated with a brand, such as kiosk included in a retail location associated with the brand. The terminal provides authorization information to a user device that identifies the terminal and the brand associated with the terminal. Information identifying the user and the authorization information is communicated to the social networking system, which retrieves interactions between the user and objects associated with the brand in the social networking system. The retrieved interactions are communicated to the terminal, which generates content describing the user's interactions with the objects and presents the generated content to the user. A description of the user interaction and/or of the generated content may be communicated to the social networking system for distribution to additional users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Niket Biswas, Giselle Schmitz, Timothy Belonax
  • Publication number: 20160380957
    Abstract: An online system provides a user with access to applications associated with third parry systems via the online system and generates an identifier that identifies the user to a third party system without providing the third party system with information personally identifying the user. Using an identifier that identifies an additional user to the third party system, an online system user may invite the additional user to use an application associated with the third party system without installing the application on the additional user's client device. When the user invites the additional user to use the application, the online system sends the third party system associated with the application the identifier identifying the additional user to the third party system. If the additional user accepts the invitation, the online system or third party system provides application content to the additional user via a frame on the additional user's client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Vishu Gupta, Niket Biswas
  • Publication number: 20150356570
    Abstract: A social networking system provides instructions to third-party application developers for inclusion in applications. When executed, the instructions communicate information from an application to the social networking system describing user interactions with the application. Based on received information describing a user's interaction with an application, the social networking system determines likelihoods of the user performing various types interactions with applications and classifies the user based on the determined likelihoods. A user's interactions with additional applications similar to an application may be used to determine the likelihoods of the user performing different types of interactions with the application. Classifications associated with users may be used as targeting criteria for advertisements, allowing advertisers to target advertisements to users having a threshold likelihood of performing certain types of interactions with an application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Payne Goldsmid, George Lee, Vishu Gupta, Daniel Richard Morris, David Joseph Engelberg, Brendan Marten, Tina Marie Cardaci, Niket Biswas
  • Publication number: 20150058144
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving a message in response to detection of a token by a presence reader; transmitting a request to access an account associated with an external network in response to receiving the message; establishing access to the account in response to authentication of the request by a server in the external network; and debiting value from a funding source associated with the account after establishing access to the account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Richard Kenneth Zadorozny, Niket Biswas
  • Patent number: 8909706
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a gaming kiosk may be granted federated access to social networking information of a user, initiated upon activation of a physical access token. A user may initiate a workflow, by activating a physical token, that establishes a federated access session between a gaming kiosk and a social networking system to allow the gaming kiosk to augment the user's experience with social networking information and to publish gaming information to the social networking system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Richard Kenneth Zadorozny, Niket Biswas
  • Publication number: 20140156417
    Abstract: A social networking system user interacts with a terminal associated with a brand, such as kiosk included in a retail location associated with the brand. The terminal provides authorization information to a user device that identifies the terminal and the brand associated with the terminal. Information identifying the user and the authorization information is communicated to the social networking system, which retrieves interactions between the user and objects associated with the brand in the social networking system. The retrieved interactions are communicated to the terminal, which generates content describing the user's interactions with the objects and presents the generated content to the user. A description of the user interaction and/or of the generated content may be communicated to the social networking system for distribution to additional users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventors: Niket Biswas, Giselle Schmitz, Timothy Belonax
  • Publication number: 20130185354
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a gaming kiosk may be granted federated access to social networking information of a user, initiated upon activation of a physical access token. A user may initiate a workflow, by activating a physical token, that establishes a federated access session between a gaming kiosk and a social networking system to allow the gaming kiosk to augment the user's experience with social networking information and to publish gaming information to the social networking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventors: Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Richard Kenneth Zadorozny, Niket Biswas