Patents by Inventor Andrew Rothbart

Andrew Rothbart 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).

  • Identifying interactions by social networking system users with identified actions performed outside of the social networking system
    Patent number: 9742854
    Abstract: Third-party systems outside of a social networking system allow a user of the third-party systems that is also a user of the social networking system to perform an action on the third-party system that are communicated to the social-networking system. Additional actions on the third-party system may be associated with the action. These additional actions are communicated to the social networking system, which identifies the action from the third-party system and associates the additional actions with the identified action. The social networking system may notify the user that performed the action of the additional actions. Also, the social networking system may notify additional social networking system users of the action and of additional actions on the third-party system associated with the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Austin Daniel Haugen, Alex Himel, Zachary Ethan Carpen Rait, Andrew Rothbart
  • Node properties in a social-networking system
    Patent number: 9450992
    Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more server computing devices receive, from a client computing device, a request for first information associated with a first node of a graph. The one or more server computing devices determine whether the first node is associated with a cluster of nodes. A cluster of nodes includes one or more concept nodes of the graph that are related to each other. When the first node is associated with a cluster of nodes, the one or more server computing devices access the cluster of nodes that the first node is associated with, obtain second information from one or more of the nodes in the cluster of nodes that the first node is associated with, and provide the second information for rendering by the client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Wahi, Andrew Rothbart, Ming Hua, Rose Yao
  • NODE PROPERTIES IN A SOCIAL-NETWORKING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150113060
    Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more server computing devices receive, from a client computing device, a request for first information associated with a first node of a graph. The one or more server computing devices determine whether the first node is associated with a cluster of nodes. A cluster of nodes includes one or more concept nodes of the graph that are related to each other. When the first node is associated with a cluster of nodes, the one or more server computing devices access the cluster of nodes that the first node is associated with, obtain second information from one or more of the nodes in the cluster of nodes that the first node is associated with, and provide the second information for rendering by the client computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Wahi, Andrew Rothbart, Ming Hua, Rose Yao
  • IDENTIFYING INTERACTIONS BY SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS WITH IDENTIFIED ACTIONS PERFORMED OUTSIDE OF THE SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140222911
    Abstract: Third-party systems outside of a social networking system allow a user of the third-party systems that is also a user of the social networking system to perform an action on the third-party system that are communicated to the social-networking system. Additional actions on the third-party system may be associated with the action. These additional actions are communicated to the social networking system, which identifies the action from the third-party system and associates the additional actions with the identified action. The social networking system may notify the user that performed the action of the additional actions. Also, the social networking system may notify additional social networking system users of the action and of additional actions on the third-party system associated with the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Austin Daniel Haugen, Alex Himel, Zachary Rait, Andrew Rothbart