Patents by Inventor Adam Ankenmann

Adam Ankenmann 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).

  • Displaying temporary profile content items on communication networks
    Patent number: 10366090
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing, from a data store of the communication network, user information associated with a first user of the communication network, identifying one or more entities associated with the communication network that are relevant to the first user based on the user information, and retrieving, for each identified entity, one or more content frames associated with the entity. The method includes ranking the one or more content frames based on the user information. The method also includes sending, to a client device of the first user, one or more of the content frames for display to the first user in ranked order, wherein each content frame is selectable by the first user to display the selected content frame in association with a particular content item for a specified period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Aigerim Shorman, Ben Chen, Jeremy Samuel Friedland, Alan Thomas Clark, Ryan Michael Houx, Xiao Yang Xie, Xiaoyi Zhang, Rahul Rajagopalan, Adam Ankenmann, Mitchell Sadao Fukumoto, Noah Bradley Blecher, Adam Shih, Jing Chen, David Martin Kaye, Crystal Rhan-Tsor Chen
  • Displaying Temporary Profile Content Items on Communication Networks
    Publication number: 20170286423
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing, from a data store of the communication network, user information associated with a first user of the communication network, identifying one or more entities associated with the communication network that are relevant to the first user based on the user information, and retrieving, for each identified entity, one or more content frames associated with the entity. The method includes ranking the one or more content frames based on the user information. The method also includes sending, to a client device of the first user, one or more of the content frames for display to the first user in ranked order, wherein each content frame is selectable by the first user to display the selected content frame in association with a particular content item for a specified period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Aigerim Shorman, Ben Chen, Jeremy Samuel Friedland, Alan Thomas Clark, Ryan Michael Houx, Xiao Yang Xie, Xiaoyi Zhang, Rahul Rajagopalan, Adam Ankenmann, Mitchell Sadao Fukumoto, Noah Bradley Blecher, Adam Shih, Jing Chen, David Martin Kaye, Crystal Rhan-Tsor Chen