Patents by Inventor Timothy Cameron Ryan

Timothy Cameron Ryan 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).

  • 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
  • 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