Patents by Inventor Anthony Alfaro

Anthony Alfaro 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: 8605094
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed which include receiving an indication of a first future date from a user, determining that one or more friends of the user in a social network are associated with one or more future locations including a second future date that matches the first future date, displaying a geographic map including a friend representation corresponding to each of the one or more future locations where the one or more friend of the user are going to be physically present, the friend representation including a number of friends of the user that are physically present at the respective future location on the first future date, receiving, from the user, an indication at one of the friend representations, and displaying a list including at least one of one or more friends associated with the future location and one or more events associated with the future location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Ribbon Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Alfaro, Austen Boyd, Robert Palmer
  • Patent number: 8589808
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed which include gathering future location information of one or more friends of a user, receiving from a computing device, an indication of a second future date, displaying the future locations that are associated with a first future date that matches the second future date, receiving, at the computing device from the user, a selection of one of the future locations displayed, displaying one or more friends of the user associated with the selected future location, determining that a digital connection does not exist between the first friend and the second friend in a social network, providing an indication on the computing device showing that the digital connection does not exist, receiving an indication from the user to initiate contact between the first friend and the second friend, and providing a first notification to the first friend and the second friend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Ribbon Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Alfaro, Austen Boyd, Robert Palmer
  • Patent number: 8584051
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed which include displaying a circular slider on a mobile device, the circular slider displaying a current date, displaying a geographic map relative to the circular slider on the mobile device, receiving from a user of the mobile device, at a location on the circular slider, a touch gesture indicating a circular motion; in response to the touch gesture indication of the circular motion being received, changing the current date on the circular slider to a future date for each predetermined amount of circular motion received, and displaying on the geographic map on the mobile device, a representation corresponding to each of one or more future locations indicating that one or more friends of the user are going to be physically present at on the respective future location on the future date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Ribbon Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Alfaro, Austen Boyd, Robert Palmer
  • Patent number: 8554875
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed which include receiving, from a user operating a user interface on a computing device, an indication of a first future date; identifying one or more friends of the user, for each of the one or more friends, gathering future trip information from the social network, determining based on the gathered trip information, whether each of the one or more friends are going to be physically present at the future locations on one of the second future dates that matches the first future date, displaying a geographic map on the user interface including displaying a friend representation corresponding to each of the respective future locations where one or more friends are going to be physically present on the first future date, and dynamically updating the friend representations respectively on the geographic map based on a third future date received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Ribbon Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Alfaro, Austen Boyd, Robert Palmer