Patents by Inventor Daniel Mark Ben-David

Daniel Mark Ben-David 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).

  • Publication number: 20190043147
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for determining, by one or more computer devices, metadata of a social network indicating whether a user of a social network requires assistance to mitigate self-injury risk to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Daniel Gregory Muriello, Daniel Mark Ben-David, Jennifer L. Guadagno, Vanessa Callison-Burch, Swithin Ray Tauro
  • Patent number: 10104529
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting that a first set of users associated with an emergency event have posted content related to the emergency event on an online social network. The method may also include sending a safety-check prompt to each of one or more users in the first set. The method may also include determining a current-prompting probability based on one or more engagement metrics of the one or more users in the first set. The method may also include sending, in response to determining that the current-prompting probability is above a threshold probability, the safety-check prompt to each of a second set of users. The second set of users may have more users than the first set of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook. Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Michael Cottle, Daniel Mark Ben-David, Katherine Anne Woo, Michael McIntyre, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20180091963
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting that a first set of users associated with an emergency event have posted content related to the emergency event on an online social network. The method may also include sending a safety-check prompt to each of one or more users in the first set. The method may also include determining a current-prompting probability based on one or more engagement metrics of the one or more users in the first set. The method may also include sending, in response to determining that the current-prompting probability is above a threshold probability, the safety-check prompt to each of a second set of users. The second set of users may have more users than the first set of users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Michael Cottle, Daniel Mark Ben-David, Katherine Anne Woo, Michael McIntyre, JR.
  • Patent number: 9848313
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying an emergency event; determining that a threshold percentage of users who are associated with the emergency event have posted content related to the emergency event to an online social network; sending, in response to the determination, a safety-check prompt to each of a first set of users; determining a current-prompting probability based on one or more engagement metrics of the safety-check prompt by the first set of users; and sending, in response to determining that the current-prompting probability is above a first threshold probability, the safety-check prompt to each of a second set of users, wherein the second set of users comprises more users than the first set of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Michael Cottle, Daniel Mark Ben-David, Katherine Anne Woo, Michael McIntyre, Jr.