Patents by Inventor Danielle Rothermel

Danielle Rothermel 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).

  • Location-based place determination using online social networks
    Patent number: 10271173
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending information associated with multiple candidate place-entities to a user, receiving a selection of one candidate place-entity by the user, and updating the rating of the selected candidate place-entity on an online social network. In particular, the sending is based on calculated probabilities the candidate place-entities are associated with a particular geographic location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Kalis, Justin Moore, Jan Kodovsky, Aaron Bryan Adcock, Danielle Rothermel, Zhong Wang
  • Location-based place determination using online social networks
    Patent number: 10003922
    Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more computing devices of an online social network, receives, from a mobile-client system, geographic-location information associated with the mobile-client system. The one or more computing devices identify multiple candidate place-entities associated with the online social network that correspond to the geographic-location information, where each candidate place-entity is associated with a particular geographic location. The method also includes determining, for each candidate place-entity, a confidence score based on the geographic-location information associated with the mobile-client system, where the confidence score represents a probability that the first user is located at the candidate place-entity. A location-probability distribution associated with the candidate place-entity can also be used to calculate the confidence score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Kalis, Justin Moore, Jan Kodovsky, Aaron Bryan Adcock, Danielle Rothermel, Zhong Wang
  • Location-Based Place Determination Using Online Social Networks
    Publication number: 20170156033
    Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more computing devices of an online social network, receives, from a mobile-client system, geographic-location information associated with the mobile-client system. The one or more computing devices identify multiple candidate place-entities associated with the online social network that correspond to the geographic-location information, where each candidate place-entity is associated with a particular geographic location. The method also includes determining, for each candidate place-entity, a confidence score based on the geographic-location information associated with the mobile-client system, where the confidence score represents a probability that the first user is located at the candidate place-entity. A location-probability distribution associated with the candidate place-entity can also be used to calculate the confidence score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Jan Kalis, Justin Moore, Jan Kodovsky, Aaron Bryan Adcock, Danielle Rothermel, Zhong Wang
  • Location-based place determination using online social networks
    Patent number: 9602965
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, by one or more computing devices of an online social network, receiving, from a mobile-client system of a first user of the online social network, geographic-location information associated with the mobile-client system. The method further includes identifying multiple candidate place-entities associated with the online social network that correspond to the geographic-location information, where each candidate place-entity is associated with a particular geographic location. The method also includes determining, for each candidate place-entity, a confidence score based on the geographic-location information associated with the mobile-client system and a location-probability distribution associated with the candidate place-entity, where the confidence score represents a probability that the first user is located at the candidate place-entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Kalis, Justin Moore, Jan Kodovsky, Aaron Bryan Adcock, Danielle Rothermel, Zhong Wang