Patents Assigned to Facebook, Inc.
  • Systems and methods to develop training set of data based on resume corpus
    Patent number: 10748118
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to acquire a resume corpus. The resume corpus is processed to generate resume tokens. A machine learning model is trained based on the resume tokens. The machine learning model is applied to recommend a job classification based on evaluation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Miaoqing Fang
  • Determining whether a site supports a supercell base station
    Patent number: 10750373
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for a site survey tool are disclosed. One site survey tool includes an elevated platform comprising a directionally adjustable beam-forming antenna, and operates to adjust an elevation (z coordinate) of the adjustable beam-forming antenna, a ground unit that operates to adjust to a plurality of locations (x and y coordinates). The elevated platform and the ground unit operate to determine an angular spread boundary of a supercell base station, determine a power azimuth angular spectrum threshold needed in order for the supercell base station to support adaptive sectorization, estimate a power azimuth angular spectrum of a site, and determine that the site supports the supercell base station if the estimated power azimuth angular spectrum of the site is less than the power azimuth angular spectrum threshold at the angular spread boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Pratheep Bondalapati, Abhishek Tiwari, Francesco Marsili, Qi Tang
  • Application logging adapters
    Patent number: 10747590
    Abstract: Embodiments for managing, serving, and applying logging adapters for applications are described. An administrator for an application can establish mappings between the application and adapters that handle log events from the application. When the application executes, it can get these mappings and use them to obtain the corresponding adapters. The adapters can have a configuration function and a logging function. The configuration function can be executed once per-execution of the application to establish a global state for the logging function of that adapter. The configuration function can receive configuration data provided with the mappings. Thereafter, as the application generates log events, they can be passed to the logging functions of the mapped adapters, which execute to perform logging such as analytics functions, on the events, whether locally or by sending the events to third parties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonjo Twist
  • Haptic communication using interference of haptic outputs on skin
    Patent number: 10748448
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to enhancing haptic communication by using two or more cutaneous actuators to create constructive or destructive interference patterns on the receiving user's skin. The actuator signals for the two or more cutaneous actuators are shaped and generated so that the two or more cutaneous actuators cause vibrations on the receiving user's patch of skin to increase or decrease. In this way, various enhancement to haptic communication can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Knott, Robert Turcott, Ali Israr
  • Haptic message delivery
    Patent number: 10742585
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining if notifications to be sent to user would benefit from being delivered by haptic stimulation under a current context. This determination may be made by accessing historical notification data of how the user previously responded to notifications in a similar context, and ranking conversion scores for each of one or more haptic-enabled delivery channels, wherein a conversion score indicates a probability of the user interacting with the notification. The most appropriate haptic message-delivery channel is selected based on the scores and historical data, and the notification is sent accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Raskar, Nafissa Yakubova, Ahmad Byagowi, Marie K. Herring
  • System and method for modification of an animation effect during continuous run
    Patent number: 10740943
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure presents a technique for enabling user modification of an animation effect, while the animation effect is being rendered. The technique includes generating an editor user interface, wherein the editor user interface that includes an editor module that includes an editor model and an engine model. In the technique the editor model includes an editor value corresponding to a bindable property. In addition, the engine model comprises an engine value corresponding to the bindable property. The technique also includes receiving user input corresponding to a modification of the editor value. The technique further includes modifying the editor value based on the user input. In addition, the technique includes synchronizing the modified editor value with the engine value and modifying an animation effect based on the synchronized engine value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Pedro Veras Bezerra de Silva, Andrey Staroseltsev, Tingyong Liu, Shady Hassan Sayed Hassen Aly, Alexander Nicholas Rozanski
  • Modifying advertising policies enforced by an online system based on likelihood of user interaction with content items
    Patent number: 10740800
    Abstract: An online system presents advertisements and content items to its users in a feed of content items (e.g., a newsfeed). The online system enforces one or more advertising policies regulating insertion of advertisements into the feed. For example, an advertising policy specifies a minimum distance between advertisements in the feed. Based on a likelihood of the user interacting with an advertisement, the online system may modify one or more of the advertising policies to increase a likelihood of the advertisement being included in the feed. For example, an advertising policy is modified if the user has at least a threshold likelihood of interacting with the advertisement. To modify an advertising policy, the online system may ignore the advertising policy when selecting content for the feed or may modify conditions limiting inclusion of advertisements in the feed specified by the advertising policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Yi Tang
  • Pivoting search results on online social networks
    Patent number: 10740412
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query inputted at a client device. The method includes searching a local cache of the client device to identify one or more objects stored in the local cache that match the search query, each object being associated with the online social network. The method includes generated, at the client device, a local search-results page including one or more local search results corresponding to one or more of the identified objects, respectively, and one or more search pivot elements corresponding to one or more object-types, respectively. Each local search result may be retrieved from the cache of the client device for display responsive to receiving the search query. Each search pivot element may be activatable to send the search query to the online social network and retrieve from the online social network one or more remote search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashwin Bhat, Rousseau Newaz Kazi, Taylor Dancy Rogalski, Christine Morck Rode
  • Systems and methods for sharing content
    Patent number: 10742587
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide a messaging interface, the messaging interface including one or more options for accessing at least one unified message thread, wherein both ephemeral messages and non-ephemeral messages are exchanged between a group of users through the unified message thread. A determination can be made that a user operating the computing device has accessed the unified message thread. Content relating to the unified message thread can be provided for display through the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Lanka Peiris, Tomasz Zawada, Justin David Aguilar, Ayca Cakmakli, Ian McIntyre Silber, Jiajun Wang, Maria Ioveva
  • Predicting user interactions with objects associated with advertisements on an online system
    Patent number: 10740790
    Abstract: Based on prior interactions associated with a user, an online system predicts an amount of interaction by the user with an object associated with an advertisement. Using the predicted amount of user interaction, the online system determines an expected value of presenting the advertisement to the user. The advertisement is ranked among other advertisements based on the expected values associated with the advertisements, and one or more advertisements are selected for presentation to the user based on the ranking. An advertisement may also specify a threshold amount of interaction with an associated object as targeting criteria, so the predicted amount of interaction with the object associated with the advertisement may determine if a user is eligible to be presented with the advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Eitan Shay, Stuart Michael Bowers, Richard Bill Sim, Jun Yang
  • Systems and methods for event tracking using time-windowed counters
    Patent number: 10740419
    Abstract: Some embodiments include tracking events and classifying assets within a computer system. A time series of occurrences of an event type associated with at least one asset is generated. A first signal value and a second signal value is determined based on the time series. The at least one asset can be classified based on comparison of the first signal value and the second signal value. The time series can be based on at least one time window including time intervals. Counters to determine a number of occurrences of an event type can be associated with the time intervals. Each of the counters can be incremented upon occurrence of the event type associated with the at least one asset during an associated time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Bhalchandra Suresh Agashe, Gil Shklarski, Christopher Alexander Stein, Nickolay Vladimirov Tchervenski
  • Systems and methods for processing information about entities based on resource analysis
    Patent number: 10740416
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can analyze an online resource based on logic stored in an online resource browsing component. Data associated with an entity can be acquired, from the online resource, based on the logic stored in the online resource browsing component. A connection between the online resource browsing component and an entity database can be established. A search that utilizes the data associated with the entity can be enabled to be performed at the entity database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian James Pemble, Mohan Gummalam
  • Proximity-based messaging protocol
    Patent number: 10743234
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a sender node associated with a mesh network, a request to send a message to one or more recipient nodes, the wireless mesh network comprising a plurality of nodes, detecting a triggering condition associated with the wireless mesh network, predicting a routing path from the sender node to each of the one or more recipient nodes via the wireless mesh network through one or more relay nodes of the plurality of nodes based on proximity information and network information associated with the mesh network, and sending the message to the one or more recipient nodes via the one or more relay nodes of the wireless mesh network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Sai Sri Sathya, Ramesh Raskar, Mayank Raj, Pritesh Sankhe
  • Generating answers to questions using information posted by users on online social networks
    Patent number: 10740375
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes A method comprising, by one or more computing devices of an online social network, receiving, from a client system of a first user of the online social network, a post that is parsed to identify a query, identifying one or more topics and one or more query-domains matching the query, searching an answers-index to identify one or more query-answer sets responsive to the query and matching at least one of the identified topics and at least one of the identified domains, searching, for each entity identified in each query-answer set, a posts-index to identify one or more comments corresponding to the identified entity, calculating a score for each comment based on social signals associated with the comment, and sending, to the client system of the first user, a suggested-answers page including references to each comment having a score greater than a threshold score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Arpit Suresh Jain
  • Systems and methods for providing narratives associated with images
    Patent number: 10739959
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to provide images having associated narratives for presentation to a user. A selection by the user of a first image having an associated narrative from the images having associated narratives is received. The narrative associated with the first image is provided for presentation to the user in response to receipt of the selection of the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Spânu, Brady John Brayley Voss, Christophe Marcel Rene Tauziet, Michael F. Tedesco, Martin Králik, James Dylan Karraker, Michael Arthur Sayman, Joel Tyler Goguen
  • User clustering in a latent space for identifying user interest in a content item
    Patent number: 10740825
    Abstract: An online system targets users with a candidate content item. The online system generates a user embedding for each of a plurality of users by identifying content items interacted with by the user, identifying one or more keywords within the content items, identifying word embeddings for each of the identified keywords, and generating the user embedding with the word embeddings. The online system clusters the user embeddings while generating a cluster embedding for each cluster. The online system generates a targeting embedding for the candidate content item. Then the online system generates a score for each cluster based on a comparison of the targeting embedding with each cluster embedding. From the generated scores, the online system ranks and selects some clusters for presentation of the candidate content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ying Zhang, Yang Yang
  • Query-composition platforms on online social networks
    Patent number: 10740368
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a first set of objects, identifying one or more configuration files based on attributes of the first set of objects and attribute types specified by the configuration files, receiving from a user an input of a query constraint corresponding to one of the identified configuration files, identifying a second set of objects matching the first query constraint, and sending to the user search results corresponding to the second set of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher William Dentel, Lowell Bander
  • Recommending objects to a user of a social networking system based on implicit interactions between the user and the recommended objects
    Patent number: 10742756
    Abstract: The social networking system monitors implicit interactions between a user and objects of the social networking system with which the user has not established a connection. Based on the implicit interactions between the user and an object, the social networking system identifies a soft connection between the user and the object. The social networking system may then identify soft connections to include in a candidate list of soft connections to recommend to the user. The social networking system may also extract signals from the set of candidate list of soft connections, and may use the extracted signals to rank the soft connections in the list of candidate soft connections. The social networking system may then recommend soft connections to the user based on the rank associated with the soft connections in the candidate list of soft connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: James Wah Hou Wong, Ashish Kumar Yadav, Jinyi Yao, Bradley Ray Green
  • Modifying advertisement bids using predicted advertisement performance
    Patent number: 10740789
    Abstract: An advertising system provides advertisements to client devices. To select advertisements, the advertising system identifies previously selected advertisements to determine which presentations of the advertisement are still in-flight and have not yet resulted in conversion event. The advertising system predicts total advertising spend based on the in-flight advertisements, and adjusts a paced bid for the advertisement by determining whether the estimated total advertising spend, reflecting predicted in-flight advertisements, is above or below an expected spending to reach a budget for the advertising campaign, which may increase or decrease the paced bid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: David Paul Capel, Harsh Doshi, Benjamin Casey Roberts
  • Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface
    Patent number: D892862
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Joyce Hsu, Charles Matthew Sutton, Cliff Warren