Patents by Inventor Adrien THOMAS

Adrien THOMAS 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: 11969325
    Abstract: An absorbent article is disclosed. The article includes a topsheet formed of a section of formed nonwoven web material having an ordered arrangement of zones, each zone comprising one or more attenuated regions adjacent to one or more built-up regions, wherein the attenuated regions have a first average basis weight and the built-up regions have a second average basis weight, wherein the first average basis weight is less than the second average basis weight, the difference in basis weights corresponding to disposition of the filaments according to the ordered arrangement. The attenuated region(s) may be included within a configuration of one or more channel portions on the topsheet. Alternatively or in combination, the attenuated region(s) may be included within a hinge portion extending along a wing portion of the topsheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Arman Ashraf, Kelyn Anne Arora, Misael Omar Aviles, Lennie CruzMurphy, Antonius Lambertus DeBeer, Adrien Grenier, John Lee Hammons, Emma Lynn Sartini, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Publication number: 20240082070
    Abstract: A nonwoven fabric. The nonwoven fabric can include a first surface and a second surface and a visually discernible pattern of three-dimensional features on one of the first or second surface. Each of the three-dimensional features can define a microzone comprising a first region and a second region. The first and second regions can have a difference in values for an intensive property, and wherein in at least one of the microzones the first region exhibits a Contact Angle of greater than 90 degrees, as measured by the Contact Angle Test Method detailed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Arman Ashraf, Paul Thomas Weisman, Adrien Grenier, Martin Ian James, Stefano Michele Sinigaglia
  • Patent number: 11727018
    Abstract: A social networking system provides a user with a feed of content items associated with other users connected to the user via the social networking system. Additionally, the social networking system identifies additional content items for presentation to the user and generates an additional feed including the additional content items. The additional content items may be determined by identifying content items having various characteristics and scoring the content items based on the characteristics. Content items having at least a threshold score are identified as additional content items. Examples of characteristics of content items include users providing content items to the social networking system, locations associated with social networking system users, and interaction with content items by social networking system users. In some embodiments, the additional feed modifies presentation of the additional content items based on their associated scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrien Thomas Friggeri, Japinder Singh, Thomas Frederick Dimson, Gregor Hochmuth
  • Patent number: 10698907
    Abstract: A social networking system provides a user with a feed of content items associated with other users connected to the user via the social networking system. Additionally, the social networking system identifies additional content items for presentation to the user and generates an additional feed including the additional content items. The additional content items may be determined by identifying content items having various characteristics and scoring the content items based on the characteristics. Content items having at least a threshold score are identified as additional content items. Examples of characteristics of content items include users providing content items to the social networking system, locations associated with social networking system users, and interaction with content items by social networking system users. In some embodiments, the additional feed modifies presentation of the additional content items based on their associated scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrien Thomas Friggeri, Japinder Sing, Thomas Frederick Dimson, Gregory Hochmuth
  • Patent number: 10521732
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can obtain a plurality of content items that are available to be presented in a content feed of a first user, wherein each content item has a corresponding lifespan that indicates when the content item expires and is no longer available for presentation. A content feed having at least a first content item from the plurality of content items can be provided to a computing device of the first user. A determination can be made that at least one second user has provided feedback for the first content item, the feedback indicating an up-vote or a down-vote of the first content item. The lifespan of the first content item can be adjusted based at least in part on the feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrien Thomas Friggeri, Brady John Brayley Voss, James Glessal Pearce, Spencer G. Ahrens, Ismail Onur Filiz, Paul Alexander Dow, James Dylan Karraker
  • Publication number: 20190012697
    Abstract: A client relationship management (CRM) application can generate a ranked list of client engagement tools by computing a rank score for available client engagement tools and determining an order among the available client engagement tools based on the rank scores. The CRM application can use one or more trained prediction models and business rules to compute a prediction for success for client engagement tools. For example, the CRM application can use three prediction models, one predicting user selection of a client engagement tool from a list of available client engagement tools; one predicting a user's adopting the recommendation in a client engagement tool; and one predicting a client approving a client engagement tool recommendation. The predictions for success can be combined with estimated benefit values for the client engagement tool to compute the client engagement tool rank score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Akash Nemani, David Patrick Rohan, Sean Jude Taylor, Anna Ginzburg-Kaplan, Adrien Thomas Friggeri
  • Patent number: 10152544
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a method of detecting and analyzing virally propagating subject matter in a social networking system. The method includes processing user activities in the social networking system through a relevancy filter to identify a subset of user activities that are relevant to a viral propagation study. The social networking system can construct, in response to selecting a user activity as a graph exploration seed, a user activity cascade by exploring the social graph in the social networking system, starting from a social network node corresponding to the user activity. The user activity cascade can comprise social network nodes found during the graph exploration. The social networking system can determine that the user activity cascade is virally propagating based at least upon a total size of the user activity cascade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrien Thomas Friggeri, Bogdan State, Lada Ariana Adamic, Erich James Owens
  • Patent number: 10091900
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an implantable medical device is disclosed. The device includes a sealed housing enclosing an electronic circuitry, a plurality of feedthrough conductors, each conductor of the plurality of feedthrough conductors includes a proximal end part connected to the enclosed electronic circuitry and a distal end part available external to the housing. The device further includes a plurality of spatially separated feedthrough connectors configured to provide terminal connections, away from the plurality of feedthrough conductors, for a plurality of electrical wires. Each connector of the plurality of spatially separated feedthrough connectors includes a first end section adapted to be connected with the distal end part of a feedthrough conductor of the plurality of feedthrough conductors and a second end section adapted to be connected with one of the plurality of electrical wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: OTICON MEDICAL A/S
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Clair, Hervé Ibanez, Frederic Bessoule, Adrien Thomas
  • Publication number: 20170185912
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can obtain a plurality of content items that are available to be presented in a content feed of a first user, wherein each content item has a corresponding lifespan that indicates when the content item expires and is no longer available for presentation. A content feed having at least a first content item from the plurality of content items can be provided to a computing device of the first user. A determination can be made that at least one second user has provided feedback for the first content item, the feedback indicating an up-vote or a down-vote of the first content item. The lifespan of the first content item can be adjusted based at least in part on the feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Adrien Thomas Friggeri, Brady John Brayley Voss, James Glessal Pearce, Spencer G. Ahrens, Ismail Onur Filiz, Paul Alexander Dow, James Dylan Karraker
  • Patent number: 9569501
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing N electronic media-content items and a plurality of media-content templates, where each of the media-content templates includes a pre-determined number of surface areas for a pre-determined number of media-content items. The method includes scoring, based on one or more features, for each of one or more of the media-content templates, the placement of X of the electronic media-content items in the media-content template, where X equals the lesser of N and the pre-determined number of surface areas of the media-content template. The method includes selecting one of the media-content templates with a highest score and providing the X electronic media-content items in the selected media-content template for display to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Serge Benjamin Chedeau, Adrien Thomas Friggeri
  • Publication number: 20170006724
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an implantable medical device is disclosed. The device includes a sealed housing enclosing an electronic circuitry, a plurality of feedthrough conductors, each conductor of the plurality of feedthrough conductors includes a proximal end part connected to the enclosed electronic circuitry and a distal end part available external to the housing. The device further includes a plurality of spatially separated feedthrough connectors configured to provide terminal connections, away from the plurality of feedthrough conductors, for a plurality of electrical wires. Each connector of the plurality of spatially separated feedthrough connectors includes a first end section adapted to be connected with the distal end part of a feedthrough conductor of the plurality of feedthrough conductors and a second end section adapted to be connected with one of the plurality of electrical wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: Oticon Medical A/S
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves CLAIR, Hervé IBANEZ, Frederic BESSOULE, Adrien THOMAS
  • Patent number: 9380128
    Abstract: A social networking system generates an augmented user profile for a user. The augmented user profile includes information from user profiles maintained by additional social networking systems that correspond to the user of the social networking system. For example, user profiles maintained by additional social networking systems having a threshold similarity to a user profile maintained by the social networking system are identified, and characteristics of the user in the identified user profiles are included in the augmented user profile along with characteristics from the user profile maintained by the social networking system. Characteristics of the user from the augmented user profile are used to identify content, such as advertisements, for presentation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Andrew Kanter, Benjamin Peter Davenport, Adrien Thomas Friggeri
  • Publication number: 20150347411
    Abstract: A social networking system provides a user with a feed of content items associated with other users connected to the user via the social networking system. Additionally, the social networking system identifies additional content items for presentation to the user and generates an additional feed including the additional content items. The additional content items may be determined by identifying content items having various characteristics and scoring the content items based on the characteristics. Content items having at least a threshold score are identified as additional content items. Examples of characteristics of content items include users providing content items to the social networking system, locations associated with social networking system users, and interaction with content items by social networking system users. In some embodiments, the additional feed modifies presentation of the additional content items based on their associated scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrien Thomas Friggeri, Japinder Sing, Thomas Frederick Dimson, Gregory Hochmuth
  • Publication number: 20150180913
    Abstract: A social networking system generates an augmented user profile for a user. The augmented user profile includes information from user profiles maintained by additional social networking systems that correspond to the user of the social networking system. For example, user profiles maintained by additional social networking systems having a threshold similarity to a user profile maintained by the social networking system are identified, and characteristics of the user in the identified user profiles are included in the augmented user profile along with characteristics from the user profile maintained by the social networking system. Characteristics of the user from the augmented user profile are used to identify content, such as advertisements, for presentation to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Jeffrey Andrew Kanter, Benjamin Peter Davenport, Adrien Thomas Friggeri
  • Publication number: 20150019545
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing N electronic media-content items and a plurality of media-content templates, where each of the media-content templates includes a pre-determined number of surface areas for a pre-determined number of media-content items. The method includes scoring, based on one or more features, for each of one or more of the media-content templates, the placement of X of the electronic media-content items in the media-content template, where X equals the lesser of N and the pre-determined number of surface areas of the media-content template. The method includes selecting one of the media-content templates with a highest score and providing the X electronic media-content items in the selected media-content template for display to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Christopher Serge Benjamin Chedeau, Adrien Thomas Friggeri