Patents by Inventor Alexander Steven Rice

Alexander Steven Rice 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).

  • Providing user confidence information to third-party systems
    Patent number: 8943604
    Abstract: An online services system includes a mechanism for providing user confidence information to an external data consumer, and for determining user contribution quality. Using stored information about user actions and interactions, user confidence is evaluated for one or more parameters associated with the validity of the user's account and/or quality of the user's contributions to the online services system. Confidence values are assigned to each parameter, and the values are exposed to external data consumers. Using stored information, user actions and interactions are correlated with contribution quality to produce a metric indicative of user contribution quality. Users with low quality parameter metrics may have their contributions shown to a smaller audience or have a lower prominence in a news feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Gregory Muriello, Jacob Andrew Brill, Siddharth Kar, Alexander Steven Rice, Ryan McGeehan
  • Providing User Confidence Information to Third-Party Systems
    Publication number: 20130247212
    Abstract: An online services system includes a mechanism for providing user confidence information to an external data consumer, and for determining user contribution quality. Using stored information about user actions and interactions, user confidence is evaluated for one or more parameters associated with the validity of the user's account and/or quality of the user's contributions to the online services system. Confidence values are assigned to each parameter, and the values are exposed to external data consumers. Using stored information, user actions and interactions are correlated with contribution quality to produce a metric indicative of user contribution quality. Users with low quality parameter metrics may have their contributions shown to a smaller audience or have a lower prominence in a news feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Gregory Muriello, Jacob Andrew Brill, Siddharth Kar, Alexander Steven Rice, Ryan McGeehan
  • Providing user confidence information to third-party systems
    Patent number: 8402548
    Abstract: An online services system includes a mechanism for providing user confidence information to an external data consumer, and for determining user contribution quality. Using stored information about user actions and interactions, user confidence is evaluated for one or more parameters associated with the validity of the user's account and/or quality of the user's contributions to the online services system. Confidence values are assigned to each parameter, and the values are exposed to external data consumers. Using stored information, user actions and interactions are correlated with contribution quality to produce a metric indicative of user contribution quality. Users with low quality parameter metrics may have their contributions shown to a smaller audience or have a lower prominence in a news feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Gregory Muriello, Jacob Andrew Brill, Siddharth Kar, Alexander Steven Rice, Ryan McGeehan