Patents by Inventor Andrew Watson

Andrew Watson 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: 10115179
    Abstract: A map interface presents a geographic map with markers identifying geographic locations associated with content items. When the geographic distance between two or more content items is less than a threshold distance, multiple content items are grouped to create an aggregated content item. Based on the geographic locations associated with the grouped content items, a geographic location is associated with the aggregated content item. A single marker identifies the geographic location for the aggregated content item on the geographic map. When a user viewing the map interface accesses the single marker, content selected from the content items combined to generated the aggregated content item is presented as well as the geographic location associated with the aggregated content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Andrew Watson, Jonathan McCord, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Ross David Bayer
  • Patent number: 10104423
    Abstract: Systems and methods here may be used to communicate wirelessly with a wireless user device, communicate with a media service provider by a network, communicate with a media equipment player, receive from the wireless user device, a request to access a media service by the media service provider, access media available by the media service provider and communicate the availability of the media to the wireless user device, and mirror playing of the media from the media service provider by the media equipment player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Ruckus Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Ted Andrew Watson, Matthew Fitzgerald, Yogesh Ranade
  • Publication number: 20180041031
    Abstract: The invention concerns a switching system (6) for activating and deactivating of an electrical appliance (100) comprising a remote switch control device (9) that comprises a first terminal (90) electrically connected to a first power line (8), a second terminal (91) electrically connected to a second power line (7), and a third terminal (92) connectable to an electrical 5 terminal of the electrical appliance. The remote switch control device (9) is configured to modify the electrical connection between the first and the third terminal (90, 92) in response to a detection of an attenuation of an electrical parameter between the first and second terminals (90,91) caused by a electromechanical switch (1) configured to be manually actionable by 10 a user. The invention further concerns the remote switch control device (9) and a method for installing a switching system using the remote switch control device (9) and the electromechanical switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Fabrizio LO CONTE, Laurent FABRE, Andrew WATSON
  • Patent number: 9836721
    Abstract: A social networking system that provides a system allowing users of the social networking system to define future plans, whereby users of the social networking system who view the plan are permitted to add themselves to the plan independent of whether they were explicitly specified as attendees of the plan. The social networking system is capable of auto-filling some missing plan details through inference. The social networking system is also capable of merging similar plans together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Alexander Shaffer, Ross David Bayer, Thomas Andrew Watson, Srinivas P. Narayanan, Devin James Naquin
  • Patent number: 9773284
    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: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Huang, Samuel Lessin, Thomas Andrew Watson, Mark E. Zuckerberg
  • Patent number: 9769195
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for efficiently allocating resources for behavioral analysis may include (1) determining a file type of a first file subject to behavioral analysis, (2) loading the first file within an environment for behavioral analysis to observe at least one behavior within the environment attributable to the first file, (3) observing a malicious behavior within the environment and attributing the malicious behavior to the first file, (4) determining a timing of the malicious behavior after loading the first file within the environment, and (5) limiting an amount of time dedicated to analyzing a second file within the environment based at least in part on the timing of the malicious behavior after loading the first file within the environment and due to the second file being of the same file type as the first file. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew Watson
  • Patent number: 9766783
    Abstract: A map interface presents a geographic map with markers identifying geographic locations associated with content items. When the geographic distance between two or more content items is less than a threshold distance, multiple content items are grouped to create an aggregated content item. Based on the geographic locations associated with the grouped content items, a geographic location is associated with the aggregated content item. A single marker identifies the geographic location for the aggregated content item on the geographic map. When a user viewing the map interface accesses the single marker, content selected from the content items combined to generated the aggregated content item is presented as well as the geographic location associated with the aggregated content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Andrew Watson, Jonathan McCord, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Ross David Bayer
  • Publication number: 20170226695
    Abstract: This disclosure pertains to the use of black liquors from kraft pulp mills as a source of catalysts for the thermochemical conversion of organic matter feedstocks to bio oils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: William Neil ROWLANDS, Leonard James James HUMPHREYS, Robert William Clayton THEW, James Allan SPANKIE, Victor Charles ULOTH, Paul Andrew WATSON, Martin William PUDLAS
  • Patent number: 9703956
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for categorizing virtual-machine-aware applications for further analysis may include (1) identifying a plurality of virtual-machine-aware applications, where each of the plurality of virtual-machine-aware applications exhibits different behavior when the virtual-machine-aware application detects that the virtual-machine-aware application is executing in a physical computing environment rather than in a virtual computing environment, (2) identifying a plurality of non-virtual-machine-aware applications that do not exhibit different behavior when executed in the physical computing environment rather than in the virtual computing environment, (3) determining at least one characteristic that differentiates the virtual-machine-aware applications from the non-virtual-machine-aware applications, (4) analyzing an uncategorized application to determine whether the uncategorized application includes the characteristic, and (5) preventing the uncategorized application from evadi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Watson, Abubakar Wawda
  • Patent number: 9698868
    Abstract: This invention focuses on a power line communication (PLC) device that is particularly suitable for Home automation systems and for solar panel systems. The device comprises a modem, a power supply to power said modem from an AC power line and a coupling device to communicate via the power line. The coupling circuit comprises a serial LC filter (C1, L1) and a shunt element (42). The shunt element (42) comprises a rectifier (21) that is connected to the power supply. The present invention provides a novel synergy between the coupling device and the power supply of the modem. The invention provides a power line communication device that is more compact and less expensive than conventional PLC devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: eSMART Technologies SA
    Inventors: Laurent Fabre, Lo Conte Fabrizio, Andrew Watson
  • Patent number: 9692773
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for identifying detection-evasion behaviors of files undergoing malware analyzes may include (1) monitoring, by a plurality of monitor components related to an automated execution environment, a file that is undergoing a malware analysis in the automated execution environment, (2) detecting a suspicious discrepancy among the monitor components with respect to computing activity observed in connection with the malware analysis by (A) identifying a monitor component that has observed the computing activity in connection with the malware analysis and (B) identifying another monitor component that has not observed the computing activity in connection with the malware analysis, and then (3) determining, based at least in part on the suspicious discrepancy, that the file demonstrates a detection-evasion behavior that led to the other monitor component not observing the computing activity in connection with the malware analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Watson, Abubakar Wawda
  • Patent number: 9691128
    Abstract: A map interface presents a geographic map with markers identifying geographic locations associated with content items. When the geographic distance between two or more content items is less than a threshold distance, multiple content items are grouped to create an aggregated content item. Based on the geographic locations associated with the grouped content items, a geographic location is associated with the aggregated content item. A single marker identifies the geographic location for the aggregated content item on the geographic map. When a user viewing the map interface accesses the single marker, content selected from the content items combined to generated the aggregated content item is presented as well as the geographic location associated with the aggregated content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Andrew Watson, Jonathan McCord, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Ross David Bayer
  • Publication number: 20170010768
    Abstract: A map interface presents a geographic map with markers identifying geographic locations associated with content items. When the geographic distance between two or more content items is less than a threshold distance, multiple content items are grouped to create an aggregated content item. Based on the geographic locations associated with the grouped content items, a geographic location is associated with the aggregated content item. A single marker identifies the geographic location for the aggregated content item on the geographic map. When a user viewing the map interface accesses the single marker, content selected from the content items combined to generated the aggregated content item is presented as well as the geographic location associated with the aggregated content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas Andrew Watson, Jonathan McCord, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Ross David Bayer
  • Patent number: 9479531
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for accelerating malware analyzes in automated execution environments may include (1) monitoring a file that is undergoing a malware analysis in an automated execution environment, (2) while monitoring the file, detecting one or more behaviors exhibited by the file during the malware analysis in the automated execution environment, (3) determining, during the malware analysis, that the file exceeds a threshold level of suspicion based at least in part on the behaviors exhibited by the file, and then in response to determining that the file exceeds the threshold level of suspicion, (4) initiating a security action prior to reaching a scheduled completion of the malware analysis. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew Watson
  • Publication number: 20160289670
    Abstract: The invention provides barcode libraries and methods of making and using them including obtaining a plurality of nucleic acid constructs in which each construct comprises a unique N-mer and a functional N-mer and segregating the constructs into a fluid compartments such that each compartment contains one or more copies of a unique construct. The invention further provides methods for digital PCR and for use of barcode libraries in digital PCR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Samuels, Jeffrey Charles Olson, Andrew Watson, Keith Brown, Darren R. Link
  • Publication number: 20160286265
    Abstract: Systems and methods here may be used to communicate wirelessly with a wireless user device, communicate with a media service provider by a network, communicate with a media equipment player, receive from the wireless user device, a request to access a media service by the media service provider, access media available by the media service provider and communicate the availability of the media to the wireless user device, and mirror playing of the media from the media service provider by the media equipment player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Ted Andrew WATSON, Matthew FITZGERALD
  • Publication number: 20160201125
    Abstract: The invention provides barcode libraries and methods of making and using them including obtaining a plurality of nucleic acid constructs in which each construct comprises a unique N-mer and a functional N-mer and segregating the constructs into a fluid compartments such that each compartment contains one or more copies of a unique construct. The invention further provides methods for digital PCR and for use of barcode libraries in digital PCR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michael L. Samuels, Jeffrey Charles Olson, Andrew Watson, Keith Brown, Darren R. Link
  • Patent number: 9366632
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to droplet based digital PCR and methods for analyzing a target nucleic acid using the same. In certain embodiments, methods of the invention involve forming sample droplets containing, on average, a single target nucleic acid, amplifying the target in the droplets, excluding droplets containing amplicon from the target and amplicon from a variant of the target, and analyzing target amplicons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Raindance Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren R. Link, Qun Zhong, Andrew Watson
  • Publication number: 20160161398
    Abstract: Devices, systems, kits, and methods for detecting and/or identifying a plurality of spectrally labeled bodies well-suited for performing multiplexed assays. By spectrally labeling the beads with materials which generate identifiable spectra, a plurality of beads may be identified within the fluid. Reading of the beads is facilitated by restraining the beads in arrays, and/or using a focused laser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Stephen Empedocles, Andrew WATSON, Jian Jin
  • Publication number: 20160156384
    Abstract: This invention focuses on a power line communication (PLC) device that is particularly suitable for Home automation systems and for solar panel systems. The device comprises a modem, a power supply to power said modem from an AC power line and a coupling device to communicate via the power line. The coupling circuit comprises a serial LC filter (C1, L1) and a shunt element (42). The shunt element (42) comprises a rectifier (21) that is connected to the power supply. The present invention provides a novel synergy between the coupling device and the power supply of the modem. The invention provides a power line communication device that is more compact and less expensive than conventional PLC devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: eSMART Technologies SA
    Inventors: Laurent FABRE, Lo Conte FABRIZIO, Andrew WATSON