Patents by Inventor Danah Boyd

Danah Boyd 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: 10331744
    Abstract: Techniques that may be used for detecting a primary content (e.g., a web page) that the user is viewing and presenting one or more pieces of supplemental content (e.g., social media data) together with the primary content. The supplemental content presented to the user together with the primary content may be content that is matched to the primary content and therefore detected to be relevant to the user. Detection of primary content and matching to supplemental content may be carried out based on a comparison of entities related to the primary and supplemental content. In some embodiments, an analysis of the primary content for entities may include ordering entities according to significance in the primary content and selecting top entities for comparison. Also, in some embodiments, multiple pieces of supplemental content may be displayed to a user categorized based on entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Danah Boyd, Gilad Lotan, Paul Oka, Emre Mehmet Kiciman, Chun-Kai Wang
  • Publication number: 20120330932
    Abstract: Techniques that may be used for detecting a primary content (e.g., a web page) that the user is viewing and presenting one or more pieces of supplemental content (e.g., social media data) together with the primary content. The supplemental content presented to the user together with the primary content may be content that is matched to the primary content and therefore detected to be relevant to the user. Detection of primary content and matching to supplemental content may be carried out based on a comparison of entities related to the primary and supplemental content. In some embodiments, an analysis of the primary content for entities may include ordering entities according to significance in the primary content and selecting top entities for comparison. Also, in some embodiments, multiple pieces of supplemental content may be displayed to a user categorized based on entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: danah boyd, Gilad Lotan, Paul Oka, Emre Mehmet Kiciman, Chun-Kai Wang
  • Publication number: 20110302152
    Abstract: Techniques that may be used for detecting a primary content (e.g., a web page) that the user is viewing and presenting one or more pieces of supplemental content (e.g., social media data) together with the primary content. The supplemental content presented to the user together with the primary content may be content that is matched to the primary content and therefore detected to be relevant to the user. Detection of primary content and matching to supplemental content may be carried out based on a comparison of entities related to the primary and supplemental content. In some embodiments, an analysis of the primary content for entities may include ordering entities according to significance in the primary content and selecting top entities for comparison. Also, in some embodiments, multiple pieces of supplemental content may be displayed to a user categorized based on entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: danah boyd, Gilad Lotan, Paul Oka, Emre Mehmet Kiciman, Chun-Kai Wang
  • Publication number: 20040201751
    Abstract: A digital camera includes a memory to store image data of a captured image representing a scene in the physical world, and an encryption module configured to digitally sign the image data prior to storage using a private key of an asymmetric key pair and to obtain metadata associated with the image data. The digital camera is communicatively coupled to a digital photography subsystem. The host-based subsystem includes a decryption module to accept image data and metadata from the digital camera and to verify the digital signature of the image data to determine authenticity of the captured image represented by the image data using a public key of the asymmetric key pair, and a viewer module to display the image data when the decryption module indicates the image data is authentic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2002
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Genevieve Bell, Timothy L. Brooke, Danah Boyd, Bradford H. Needham