Patents by Inventor Aaron Sittig

Aaron Sittig 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: 12113840
    Abstract: A method for generating an online audio discussion forum. The method includes receiving an indication that a first user is interested in speaking with one or more other users, saving the one or more other users to a first selection list, determining that a second user of the one or more other users is interested in speaking with the first user, and upon and in response to the determination, generating an audio discussion forum including the first user and the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ALPHA EXPLORATION CO.
    Inventors: Aaron Sittig, Molly Nix, Patrick Underwood, Paul Davison, Rohan Seth
  • Publication number: 20240171538
    Abstract: A method for operating a social club within an online discussion forum. The method includes receiving at least one first parameter for the social club, establishing, at a first time, the social club with a configuration based on the at least one first parameter, determining, at a second time, a member count of the social club, comparing the member count to at least one threshold, automatically selecting at least one second parameter for the social club based on a result of the comparison, and updating the configuration of the social club based on the at least one second parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Alpha Exploration Co. d/b/a Clubhouse
    Inventors: Patrick Underwood, Aaron Sittig, Paul Davison, Rohan Seth, Mohammad Almalkawi, Kenny D'Amica
  • Publication number: 20230032642
    Abstract: A method for generating an online audio discussion forum. The method includes receiving an indication that a first user is interested in speaking with one or more other users, saving the one or more other users to a first selection list, determining that a second user of the one or more other users is interested in speaking with the first user, and upon and in response to the determination, generating an audio discussion forum including the first user and the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Aaron Sittig, Molly Nix, Patrick Underwood, Paul Davison, Rohan Seth
  • Patent number: 10984174
    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: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ruchi Sanghvi, Andrew G. Bosworth, Chris Cox, Aaron Sittig, Chris Hughes, Katie Geminder, Daniel Corson
  • Patent number: 10908765
    Abstract: The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Drew W. Hamlin, William Joseph Flynn, III, Burak Guzel, Samuel Lessin, Paul M. McDonald, Stefan Parker, Aaron Sittig, Arun Vijayvergiya, Zizhuang Yang, Mark E. Zuckerberg
  • Patent number: 10614084
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a user, an indication of the user accessing a query field associated with a profile interface of a first entity, accessing a relational database to identify one or more second entities related to the first entity, generating one or more suggested queries based on the first entity, each suggested query comprising a name string of the first entity and one or more second name strings of one or more of the identified second entities, respectively, and sending, to the client system, responsive to the user accessing the query field, instructions for displaying one or more of the suggested queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Yofay Kari Lee, Keith L. Peiris, William R. Maschmeyer, Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen, Aaron Sittig, Craig S. Campbell
  • Patent number: 10579711
    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: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ruchi Sanghvi, Andrew G. Bosworth, Chris Cox, Aaron Sittig, Chris Hughes, Katie Geminder, Daniel Corson
  • Patent number: 10379703
    Abstract: A social networking service presents information about the social network using multiple feeds in a user interface and provides mechanisms for filtering the content. A content feed includes the most recent content generated by the user's connections, and a highlights feed displays content based on importance and relevance. A user may add content to the social networking service through a composer interface. A user may also filter either or both of the content feed and the highlights feed using a filtering interface, which allows selective filtering of the feeds using one or more different types of filters, including as filtering by the source of the content, friends or networks, and/or content type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Arieh Steinberg, Mark Tonkelowitz, Peter Deng, Adam Mosseri, Adam Hupp, Aaron Sittig, Mark Zuckerberg
  • Patent number: 10325323
    Abstract: A social graph may be modeled as a collection of claims. Each claim is associated with an author, an audience, and an assertion about a fact. Probabilistic information may be collected from various sources for a claim, enabling a social networking system to evaluate a truthfulness of the assertion made in the claim. User-declared profile information may be evaluated as claims. A user, entity, or application may make claims about any assertions made in the social networking system. Reputation scores may be determined for users based on evaluations of their historical assertions. Claims may be evaluated for truthfulness using a probabilistic prediction model using heuristics analysis, regression analysis, and machine learning methods. A claims-based profile of users may be provided to viewers based on the contexts in which the claims were made. Viewers may view claims made about users, such as the users' biographical information, contact information, expertise, and interests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Lessin, Michael Hudack, Aaron Sittig, Daniel Klatzko Gibson, Benjamin E. Hiller, Thomas Andrew Watson, Wei Zhong Yeh
  • Patent number: 10296536
    Abstract: A method for tagging digital media is described. The method includes selecting a digital media and selecting region within the digital media. The method may further include associating a person or entity with the selected region and sending a notification of the association the person or entity or a different person or entity. The method may further include sending advertising with the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Zuckerberg, Aaron Sittig, Scott Marlette
  • Patent number: 10296159
    Abstract: The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Drew W. Hamlin, William Joseph Flynn, III, Burak Guzel, Samuel Lessin, Paul M. McDonald, Stefan Parker, Aaron Sittig, Arun Vijayvergiya, Zizhuang Yang, Mark E. Zuckerberg
  • Patent number: 10261970
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for social mapping is provided. Data about a plurality of social network members is received. A first member of the plurality of social network members is allowed to identify a second member of the plurality of social network members with whom the first member wishes to establish a relationship. The data is then sent to the second member about the first member based on the identification. Input from the second member is received in response to the data. The relationship between the first member and the second member is confirmed based on the input in order to map the first member to the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Aaron Sittig
  • Publication number: 20180247380
    Abstract: A social graph may be modeled as a collection of claims. Each claim is associated with an author, an audience, and an assertion about a fact. Probabilistic information may be collected from various sources for a claim, enabling a social networking system to evaluate a truthfulness of the assertion made in the claim. User-declared profile information may be evaluated as claims. A user, entity, or application may make claims about any assertions made in the social networking system. Reputation scores may be determined for users based on evaluations of their historical assertions. Claims may be evaluated for truthfulness using a probabilistic prediction model using heuristics analysis, regression analysis, and machine learning methods. A claims-based profile of users may be provided to viewers based on the contexts in which the claims were made. Viewers may view claims made about users, such as the users' biographical information, contact information, expertise, and interests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Samuel Lessin, Michael Richter, Aaron Sittig
  • Publication number: 20180232378
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a user, an indication of the user accessing a query field associated with a profile interface of a first entity, accessing a relational database to identify one or more second entities related to the first entity, generating one or more suggested queries based on the first entity, each suggested query comprising a name string of the first entity and one or more second name strings of one or more of the identified second entities, respectively, and sending, to the client system, responsive to the user accessing the query field, instructions for displaying one or more of the suggested queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Yofay Kari Lee, Keith L. Peiris, William R. Maschmeyer, Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen, Aaron Sittig, Craig S. Campbell
  • Patent number: 9978106
    Abstract: A social graph may be modeled as a collection of claims. Each claim is associated with an author, an audience, and an assertion about a fact. Probabilistic information may be collected from various sources for a claim, enabling a social networking system to evaluate a truthfulness of the assertion made in the claim. User-declared profile information may be evaluated as claims. A user, entity, or application may make claims about any assertions made in the social networking system. Reputation scores may be determined for users based on evaluations of their historical assertions. Claims may be evaluated for truthfulness using a probabilistic prediction model using heuristics analysis, regression analysis, and machine learning methods. A claims-based profile of users may be provided to viewers based on the contexts in which the claims were made. Viewers may view claims made about users, such as the users' biographical information, contact information, expertise, and interests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Lessin, Michael Richter, Aaron Sittig
  • Patent number: 9965544
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for generating a social timeline is provided. A plurality of data items associated with at least one relationship between users associated with a social network is received, each data item having an associated time. The data items are ordered according to the at least one relationship. A social timeline is generated according to the ordered data items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Sittig, Mark E. Zuckerberg
  • Patent number: 9959318
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, identifying a nodes corresponding to a page currently accessed by a first user, generating one or more structured queries, where each structured query comprises a reference to the identified node and one or more edges that are connected to the identified node, and transmitting one or more of the structured queries to the first user for display on the page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Yofay Kari Lee, Keith L. Peiris, William R. Maschmeyer, Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen, Aaron Sittig, Craig S. Campbell
  • 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: 9646027
    Abstract: A method for tagging digital media is described. The method includes selecting a digital media and selecting region within the digital media. The method may further include associating a person or entity with the selected region and sending a notification of the association the person or entity or a different person or entity. The method may further include sending advertising with the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Zuckerberg, Aaron Sittig, Scott Marlette
  • Publication number: 20160314192
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for generating a social timeline is provided. A plurality of data items associated with at least one relationship between users associated with a social network is received, each data item having an associated time. The data items are ordered according to the at least one relationship. A social timeline is generated according to the ordered data items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Aaron Sittig, Mark E. Zuckerberg