Patents Assigned to Facebook, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9946772
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user, a text query inputted by the first user, generating a plurality of structured queries based on the text query, each structured query comprising references to one or more objects associated with the online social network, generating one or more search results corresponding to at least one of the structure queries, and sending, to the client system responsive to receiving the text query, one or more of the structured queries for display, at least one of the structured queries being displayed with a preview of one or more of the search results corresponding to the structured query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Yigal Dan Rubinstein, Sue Yee Young, Joshua Keith Duck, Sadi Khan, William R. Maschmeyer, Yuval Kesten, Keith L. Peiris, Kathryn Hymes
  • Patent number: 9946926
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can calculate raw scores for a plurality of media items based on a classifier model and a target concept. The plurality of media items are ranked based on the raw scores. A review set of the plurality of media items is determined, the review set comprising a subset of the plurality of media items. Each of the media items of the review set is associated with a content depiction determination. A normalized score formula is calculated based on the raw scores and the content depiction determinations for the media items of the review set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikhil Johri, Balamanohar Paluri, Lubomir Bourdev
  • Patent number: 9947031
    Abstract: A content access management system receives an access determination requested identifying an access rule and a requesting user. The access rule may be created in advance by the content owner at the content access management system. The access rule may allow access to content objects based on the requesting user's biographic information, geographic information, affiliation information, payment information, or any other user characteristic. The user information may be entered by the requesting user at a social networking system interface for purposes unrelated to the content object or content owner. The content access management system retrieves the identified access rule and retrieves requesting user information based on the access rule. An access determination is made based on the retrieved access rule and requesting user information, and is transmitted to the content owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Lincoln W. Hochberg, Vishu Gupta
  • Patent number: 9949409
    Abstract: Modular network switches and other computer systems are described herein. A modular network switch can include a latching device for installing and removing computer modules (e.g., line cards) from an associated cabinet or enclosure. The network switch can also include interconnected computer modules (e.g., line cards, fabric cards, control modules, etc.) that include circuit boards oriented parallel to the flow of cooling air through the cabinet in the absence of a backplane or midplane oriented perpendicular to the air flow. The absence of such backplanes and/or midplanes provides a more direct air flow path through the cabinet, thereby enabling a more efficient flow of cooling air and lower operating temperatures. Additionally, the network switch can include an orthogonal arrangement of data planes, control planes, and/or power planes that can be efficiently interconnected to increase operational speed and further facilitate the flow of cooling air through the computer cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Schmidtke, Zhiping Yao, Che Kin Leung, Xu Wang
  • Patent number: 9948735
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a mobile device determines sensor signals from one or more sensors of the mobile device, the sensor signals indicating motion that is associated with activities of a user of the mobile device. The mobile device determines activity types that correspond to at least a portion of the determined sensor signals. The mobile device determines activity periods of the user, each activity period corresponding to a period of time for one of the determined activity types. The mobile device then performs a heuristics-type analysis based on the length of time for each activity period and the corresponding activity types to determine whether two or more activity periods should be combined into a single activity period. The determined activity types are displayed on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Juho Pennanen, Aapo Kyrölä
  • Patent number: 9948361
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses for selecting beamforming parameters based on selected micro-routes are disclosed. One method includes characterizing at least one wireless link between a first node and a second node of a wireless network, including identifying a plurality of micro-routes between the first node and the second node, selecting a micro-route from the plurality of micro-routes for each of a plurality of antenna arrays of at least one of the first node or the second node, yielding a plurality of selected micro-routes, selecting beam forming parameters for each of the plurality of antenna arrays based on the plurality of selected micro-routes, and communicating at least one stream between the first node and the second node through the plurality of selected micro-routes of the plurality of antenna arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Sanjai Kohli
  • Patent number: 9948645
    Abstract: Techniques for call-based user verification are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and a storage component. The apparatus may further comprise a session component, an identification (ID) component, a mapping component, and a verification component. The session component may be operative on the processor circuit and configured to receive session data from a client device and store the session data in the storage component. The ID component may be operative on the processor circuit and configured to request ID data from a server, receive ID data from the server, and send the ID data to the client device. The mapping component may be operative on the processor circuit and configured to map the session data with the ID data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Bradley Edward Hettervik, Surendra Gadodia, Xiao Liang, Antony T. Fu, Molly Jane Fowler
  • Patent number: 9948408
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for calibrating an antenna array are disclosed. One method includes selecting an antenna element of a first antenna subarray and an antenna element of a second antenna subarray, transmitting the signal through the at least one antenna element of the first subarray having a first selected phase, transmitting the signal through the at least one antenna element of the second subarray having a second selected phase, and characterizing a relative phase offset between the antenna element of the first antenna subarray and the antenna element of the second antenna subarray, including adjusting the first selected phase or the second selected phase, and monitoring a receive signal received at a calibration antenna that includes the transmitted signal of the at least one antenna element of the first antenna subarray and the transmitted signal of the at least one antenna element of second antenna subarray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Krishna Srikanth Gomadam, William Charles Fujimoto, Djordje Tujkovic, Sanjai Kohli
  • Patent number: 9948653
    Abstract: Technology for policies with reduced associated costs is disclosed. A policy may include an ordered rule set. When evaluated, the highest priority rule in the order that does not skip may control the policy outcome. Rules within a policy may have associated costs, such as data fetch and evaluation costs. In some contexts, it may be less important to evaluate every rule than to evaluate the policy quickly. Reduced policies that have one or more rules removed or that skip evaluation of some rules may be created for these contexts. When a rule of a policy is skipped, it may result in a possibility of a false allow or false deny. In some cases, rules may be duplicative. Removal or skipping of duplicative rules does not increase the possibility of a false allow or false deny. By using reduced policies in identified contexts, policy evaluation costs may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Maria S. Pimenova, Wendy Weihuan Mu, Dwayne Lloyd Reeves, Kendall Blair Hopkins
  • Patent number: 9947098
    Abstract: A solution for generating a 3D representation of an object in a scene is provided. A depth map representation of the object is combined with a reflectivity map representation of the object to generate the 3D representation of the object. The 3D representation of the object provides more complete and accurate information of the object. An image of the object is illuminated by structured light and is captured. Pattern features rendered in the captured image of the object are analyzed to derive a depth map representation and a reflectivity map representation of the illuminated object. The depth map representation provides depth information while the reflectivity map representation provides surface information (e.g., reflectivity) of the illuminated object. The 3D representation of the object can be enhanced with additional illumination projected onto the object and additional images of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitay Romano, Nadav Grossinger
  • Patent number: 9948590
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a mailbox server is operable to receive, from a client, a message to be delivered to an endpoint; store the message in a mailbox associated with the user; access a set of policies for the client or the endpoint; determine a delivery channel for the message based on the policies; and transmit the message to the endpoint through the delivery channel. In particular embodiments, the mailbox server may transmit SMS messages via a special bind with a recipient's SMSC, or via a carrier short code. In particular embodiments, the mailbox server may transmit the message as an email or via an internal messaging system over a packet data connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohit Talwar, Miladin Pavlicic, Siddharth Murlidhar, Rose Yao, Jason Sobel
  • Patent number: 9940402
    Abstract: A social networking system facilitates a user's creation of a group of other users from among the user's connections in the user's social network. The created groups may be used, for example, to publish information to certain user-defined groups or to define privacy settings or other access rights to the user's content according to such user-defined groups. When a user adds connections to a group, the social networking system determines suggested connections that have not been added to the group, based on a similarity of the suggested connections with one or more of the connections who have been added to the group. These suggested connections are then presented to the user to facilitate the creation of the group. Both positive and negative feedback may be used to generate a useful set of suggestions, which may be updated as the user further defines the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas M. Lento, Scott Alex Smith, David Edward Braginsky
  • Patent number: 9940308
    Abstract: To display a news feed in a social network environment, a social networking system generates news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment. The social networking system may also attach an informational link associated with at least one of the activities to at least one of the news items, limit access to the news items to a predetermined set of viewers, and assign an order to the news items. The news items may be displayed in the assigned order to at least one viewing user of the predetermined set of viewers, and the number of news items displayed may be dynamically limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ruchi Sanghvi, Andrew G. Bosworth, Chris Cox, Aaron Sittig, Chris Hughes, Katie Geminder, Daniel Corson
  • Patent number: 9942516
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for optimizing video conferences. For instance, systems and methods described herein optimize both the transmission and display of one or more video conference data streams. Systems and methods described herein optimize the transmission and display of one or more video conference data streams by identifying a context associated with the one or more video conference data streams and optimizing the one or more video conference data streams based on the identified context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventor: Oliver Pell
  • Patent number: 9942220
    Abstract: User login information submitted as part of an attempt to log into a computer system is evaluated for unauthorized or illegitimate use based on indicators of suspicious behavior. Example indicators of suspicious behavior include whether the login information is known to have been compromised, whether the login attempt originates from a network source or a physical source that has previously originated an attempt to log in using login information known to have been compromised, and whether multiple login attempts using the login information from multiple users has originated from the source. A suspicion index can be calculated based on the presence of the indicators of suspicious behavior. The system can require enhanced authentication based on the measurement of suspicious behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrei Bajenov, Jonathan H. Frank, Matthew Knight Jones, Alok Menghrajani, Christopher William Palow, Allan Stewart
  • Patent number: 9940605
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a server providing an on-line service identifies a change associated with a mobile computing device of a user of the on-line service, the on-line service being accessible to the user through a website hosted by the system; the server also in response to the change and without manual user input from the user, modifies aspects of web pages of the website that are associated with use of the on-line service by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Luke St. Clair
  • Patent number: 9934217
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a string of symbols by a computing device. The string is divided into one or more string components each including at least one of the symbols, and each string component is associated with at least one string-position identifier. The string components and their respective associated string-position identifiers are stored for the string of symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Sriram Sankar
  • Patent number: 9934610
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for downloading graphics assets of a software application in a form in which they are rendered as needed on a computing device based on its characteristics and then stored therein for later use. A computer-implemented method includes determining whether a requested graphics asset is stored in a storage of a computing device, retrieving the graphics asset from the storage when the graphics asset is stored in the storage, rendering the graphics asset when the graphics asset is not stored in the storage, and visually presenting the graphics asset on a display of the computing device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan Gomba
  • Patent number: 9934403
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a storage and privacy system stores and manages information associated with users and ensures and enforces access-control rules specified for the stored information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Carlton Johnson, Stephen Charles Heise, Yiding Jia
  • Patent number: D815070
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Baback Elmieh, Alexandre Jais, Rex Wenters Crossen, Steve Sangik Lee, Achille Biteau, Victoria Slaker, Clara Stefanov Wagner, Zoltan Laszlo, Arturo Meuniot