Patents by Inventor Scott Andrew Thomson

Scott Andrew Thomson 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).

  • Methods and systems for accessing relevant content
    Patent number: 10798139
    Abstract: A server system sends links to content categories for display on a user device associated with a user. Each content category corresponds to a subset of content items. When a link to one of the content categories is selected, the corresponding subset of the content items is sent for display on the user device. The system selects a group of content items according to determined relevance scores for the user based on one or more relevance criteria and sends links to the content items in the group for display on the user device in a first order according to the relevance scores. The system adjusts the relevance scores of some content items in the group according to user feedback and resends links to the content items in the group for display on the user device in a second order according to the adjusted relevance scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Guilherme Carlos De Napoli Ferreira, Christopher Wayne Masterson, Scott Andrew Thomson, Jon Yee Chiang
  • Methods and Systems for Accessing Relevant Content
    Publication number: 20180332086
    Abstract: A server system sends links to content categories for display on a user device associated with a user. Each content category corresponds to a subset of content items. When a link to one of the content categories is selected, the corresponding subset of the content items is sent for display on the user device. The system selects a group of content items according to determined relevance scores for the user based on one or more relevance criteria and sends links to the content items in the group for display on the user device in a first order according to the relevance scores. The system adjusts the relevance scores of some content items in the group according to user feedback and resends links to the content items in the group for display on the user device in a second order according to the adjusted relevance scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Guilherme Carlos De Napoli Ferreira, Christopher Wayne Masterson, Scott Andrew Thomson, Jon Yee Chiang
  • Methods and systems for accessing relevant content
    Patent number: 10033776
    Abstract: A server system receives a first request for access to content items from a user device associated with a user. In response to the first request, links to a plurality of content categories are sent for display on the user device. The content categories include a plurality of content items. Furthermore, a first group of content items determined to be relevant to the user is identified in accordance with one or more relevance criteria. The first group of content items includes a first subset of the plurality of content items. In response to the first request, links to the first group of content items are sent for display on the user device in addition to the plurality of content categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Guilherme Carlos De Napoli Ferreira, Christopher Wayne Masterson, Scott Andrew Thomson, Jon Yee Chiang
  • Identifying and providing physical social actions to a social networking system
    Patent number: 9621602
    Abstract: Physical social actions are conveniently detected, characterized, and provided to a social networking system. This improves the user experience of the social networking system by more thoroughly recording the social actions of users occurring outside a social graph. This has the effect of extending an open social graph, which typically refers to social actions taken outside the social networking system but within a computer network, to physical social actions. By providing characterized physical social actions to the social networking system, the open social graph is extended to include physical social actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Cameron Ryan, Jialiya Huang, Paul Henry Booth, Jonathan Andrew McKay, Seungwhan Moon, Margaret-Ann Julia Seger, Amon Daran Millner, Peter Xiu Deng, Christopher John Marra, Scott Andrew Thomson, Gregory Matthew Marra
  • Methods and Systems for Accessing Relevant Content
    Publication number: 20160179808
    Abstract: A server system receives a first request for access to content items from a user device associated with a user. In response to the first request, links to a plurality of content categories are sent for display on the user device. The content categories include a plurality of content items. Furthermore, a first group of content items determined to be relevant to the user is identified in accordance with one or more relevance criteria. The first group of content items includes a first subset of the plurality of content items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Guilherme Carlos De Napoli Ferreira, Christopher Wayne Masterson, Scott Andrew Thomson, Jon Yee Chiang
  • Indentifying and Providing Physical Social Actions to a Social Networking System
    Publication number: 20140149514
    Abstract: Physical social actions are conveniently detected, characterized, and provided to a social networking system. This improves the user experience of the social networking system by more thoroughly recording the social actions of users occurring outside a social graph. This has the effect of extending an open social graph, which typically refers to social actions taken outside the social networking system but within a computer network, to physical social actions. By providing characterized physical social actions to the social networking system, the open social graph is extended to include physical social actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Cameron Ryan, Jialiya Huang, Paul Henry Booth, Jonathan Andrew McKay, Seungwhan Moon, Margaret-Ann Julia Seger, Amon Daran Millner, Peter Xiu Deng, Christopher John Marra, Scott Andrew Thomson, Gregory Matthew Mara