Patents by Inventor Christopher Kennedy Casey Allen

Christopher Kennedy Casey Allen 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: 10489473
    Abstract: A digital magazine server receives user interactions with content items presented to users via various digital magazines. The digital magazine server retrieves interactions associated with a content item that are also associated with multiple digital magazines. From the retrieved interactions, the digital magazine server generates information describing global interactions with a content item that are associated with multiple digital magazines. The digital magazine server may filter interactions with the content item that are associated with different digital magazines based on characteristics of the interactions and the information describing global interactions with the content item generated based on the filtered interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Kennedy Casey Allen, Troy Brant, Jason Culverhouse, Christen Duong, Guy Hawkins, Douglas Lee
  • Patent number: 10298528
    Abstract: A digital magazine server receives user comments on content items of a digital magazine and generates comment threads. A comment thread has one or more user comments associated with a content item and at least one topic. A topic thread on a selected topic includes one or more comment threads related to the selected topic. To select comment threads for a topic thread based on the selected topic, the digital magazine server determines the relevance of the topic of each comment thread to the topic of the topic thread and determines the quality of the comment thread based on a plurality of quality factors such as number of comments and timestamps of the comments in a comment thread. The digital magazine server aggregates the comment threads based on at least one of topic relevance determination and thread quality determination and selects comment threads based on the aggregation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Chi, H L Peter Shu, Colin Brian DuRant, Christopher Kennedy Casey Allen
  • Publication number: 20180357323
    Abstract: A digital magazine server receives user interactions with content items presented to users via various digital magazines. The digital magazine server retrieves interactions associated with a content item that are also associated with multiple digital magazines. From the retrieved interactions, the digital magazine server generates information describing global interactions with a content item that are associated with multiple digital magazines. The digital magazine server may filter interactions with the content item that are associated with different digital magazines based on characteristics of the interactions and the information describing global interactions with the content item generated based on the filtered interactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher Kennedy Casey Allen, Troy Brant, Jason Culverhouse, Christen Duong, Guy Hawkins, Douglas Lee
  • Publication number: 20170220580
    Abstract: A digital magazine server receives user comments on content items of a digital magazine and generates comment threads. A comment thread has one or more user comments associated with a content item and at least one topic. A topic thread on a selected topic includes one or more comment threads related to the selected topic. To select comment threads for a topic thread based on the selected topic, the digital magazine server determines the relevance of the topic of each comment thread to the topic of the topic thread and determines the quality of the comment thread based on a plurality of quality factors such as number of comments and timestamps of the comments in a comment thread. The digital magazine server aggregates the comment threads based on at least one of topic relevance determination and thread quality determination and selects comment threads based on the aggregation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Sang Chi, H L Peter Shu, Colin Brian DuRant, Christopher Kennedy Casey Allen