Patents by Inventor Daniel Aaron Shaffer

Daniel Aaron Shaffer 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 social presence information for content items
    Patent number: 9721012
    Abstract: A system and machine-implemented method for displaying social presence information associated with content, the method including identifying content being provided for display, determining an entity associated with the content, determining one or more social presence scores for the content based on social activity at one or more pages belonging to the entity at one or more social networking services, the social presence score being determined based on one or more indications of the quantity or quality of the social activity, determining, based on at least one score of the one or more social presence scores, whether the content should be annotated with social presence information regarding the social activity and providing the content and social presence information for display if it is determined that the content should be annotated with social presence information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Chuan Jiang, Shreyas Doshi, Dani Suleman, Varouj Armen Chitilian, Daniel Aaron Shaffer, Lakshmi Kumar Dabbiru