Patents by Inventor Corinna Hinke

Corinna Hinke 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 information associated with a profile owner in a social network system
    Patent number: 9471682
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to providing information associated with a profile owner to a target user in a social network system. In one implementation, a method includes receiving profile data associated with a profile owner. The method also includes receiving contact data associated with the profile owner, where the profile data and the contact data are provided by different users. The method also includes generating one or more views, where the one or more views include an interleaved view, and where the profile data and the contact data are displayed in an interleaved manner in a same section of the interleaved view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bryant Fong, Kobi Reiter, Nashant Atul Thakkar, Sean Edward Purcell, Corinna Hinke
  • Contact list integrated with social network
    Patent number: 8954864
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer readable media for integrating a contact list with a social network are disclosed. Some implementations can include displaying a user interface that permits a user to add a profile linked to a contact to one or more selected groups of the social network. The user interface can then be updated to display the groups of the social network to which the profile has been added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Nishant Atul Thakkar, Kobi Reiter, Sean Edward Purcell, Matthew Frederick Hillman, Corinna Hinke