Patents by Inventor David A. Harries

David A. Harries 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).

  • Periodic ambient waveform analysis for enhanced social functions
    Patent number: 9275647
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embody software that is operable when executed to receive an audio waveform fingerprint and a client-determined location from a client device. The received audio waveform fingerprint may be compared to a database of stored audio waveform fingerprints, each stored audio waveform fingerprint associated with an object in an object database. One or more matching audio waveform fingerprints may be found from a comparison set of audio waveform fingerprints obtained from the audio waveform fingerprint database. Location information associated with a location of the client device may be determined, and the location information may be sent to the client device. The client device may be operable to update the client-determined location based at least in part on the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, David Harry Garcia
  • Controlling Notification Based on Power Expense and Social Factors
    Publication number: 20160057097
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer system determines a wireless transmit cost for each of one or more outgoing messages for a first user, and transmits to the first user's mobile device at least one of the one or more outgoing messages based on the mobile device's power state and respective wireless transmit costs of the one or more outgoing messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: David Harry Garcia, Michael John McKenzie Toksvig
  • Controlling notification based on power expense and social factors
    Patent number: 9270633
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer system determines a wireless transmit cost for each of one or more outgoing messages for a first user, and transmits to the first user's mobile device at least one of the one or more outgoing messages based on the mobile device's power state and respective wireless transmit costs of the one or more outgoing messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: David Harry Garcia, Michael John McKenzie Toksvig
  • Dynamic tagging recommendation
    Patent number: 9264392
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system automatically tags one or more social contacts of a first user to a photo of the first user by ranking the social contacts based on spatial and temporal proximity to the first user, and in response to the first user's selection of one or more top ranked social contacts, associating the selected social contacts to the photo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: David Harry Garcia
  • Managing notifications pushed to user devices
    Patent number: 9237201
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a first computing device determines a communication to be pushed to a second computing device associated with a user. The first computing device determines whether one or more conditions are satisfied for refraining from pushing the communication to the second computing device. The one or more conditions are based at least in part on the relevance of the communication to the user and one or more activities of the user. If the one or more conditions are satisfied, then the first computing device refrains from sending the communication to the second computing device. If the one or more conditions are not satisfied, then the first computing device sends information to push the communication to the second computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, David Harry Garcia
  • SHARING TELEVISION AND VIDEO PROGRAMMING THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORKING
    Publication number: 20160007096
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system determine information associated with a product displayed on a display device and access a database of known products. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system determine, by comparing the database of known products with the determined information associated with the product, an identity of the product displayed on the display device. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system provide one or more instructions to display media content related to the identified product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Gregory Joseph Badros, David Harry Garcia, Mark Heynen, Brian Krausz, Cameron Alexander Marlow, Michael John McKenzie Toksvig, Erick Tseng
  • Call-termination-triggered social interface
    Patent number: 9218627
    Abstract: Methods and systems directed to a call-termination triggered social interface that leverages information associated with an incoming phone number for display to a user of a mobile device post-call and permits the user to conveniently issue commands to the mobile device or social networking system to take specific actions for the number or entity associated with the number on the social network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, David Harry Garcia, Paul Tarjan
  • COMPUTER-VISION CONTENT DETECTION FOR SPONSORED STORIES
    Publication number: 20150365487
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system may receive sponsor specifications from a sponsor designating one or more concepts, monitor a plurality of activity streams for upload by users of matching multimedia objects, determine a geographic location associated with each matching multimedia object, receive a request from the sponsor associated with a specific geographic area, and send to a client device associated with the sponsor in response to the request information identifying the geographic locations associated with the respective matching multimedia objects that are within the specific geographic area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Justin Mitchell, Samuel Odio, David Harry Garcia
  • ELASTOMER COMPOSITION COMPRISING POLYOLEFIN ELASTOMERS
    Publication number: 20150353719
    Abstract: Disclosed is an elastomer composition comprising polyolefin elastomer material which exhibits improved hysteresis properties, said elastomer composition having the following properties: (1) an average integrated enthalpy sum of no greater than 17 J/g according to the Thermal Analysis Method defined herein; (2) an average integrated enthalpy ratio of from 0.6 to 300 according to the Thermal Analysis Method defined herein; (3) an unload stress at 75% strain of above 0.8 MPa according to the Hysteresis Test defined herein; and (4) a load stress/unload stress ratio at 75% strain of 1 to 2.6 according to the Hysteresis Test defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Urmish Popatlal DALAL, Ray Dennis DRIA, David Harry MELIK, Keith Richard COBURN
  • LAMINATE COMPRISING POLYOLEFIN ELASTIC FILM LAYER
    Publication number: 20150352819
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laminate comprising at least one polyolefin elastic film layer and at least one substrate layer; the polyolefin elastic film having the following properties: (1) an average integrated enthalpy sum of no greater than 17 J/g, preferably between about 5-17 J/g, according to the Thermal Analysis Method defined herein; (2) an average integrated enthalpy ratio of from 0.6 to 300, preferably 0.8 to 300, still preferably 1.0 to 300, according to the Thermal Analysis Method defined herein; and (3) an unload stress at 75% strain of above 0.8 MPa according to the Hysteresis Test defined herein; and wherein the laminate has a normalized load force/normalized unload force ratio at 75% strain of 1 to 2.6 according to the Hysteresis Test defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Urmish Popatlal DALAL, Ray Dennis Dria, David Harry Melik, Keith Richard Coburn
  • DATA TRANSMISSION BETWEEN DEVICES BASED ON BANDWIDTH AVAILABILITY
    Publication number: 20150350104
    Abstract: In one embodiment, in response to data to be transmitted to or from an electronic device, the electronic device determines whether the electronic device currently has a first network connection with a sufficiently high bandwidth. If the electronic device currently does not have a first network connection with a sufficiently high bandwidth, then the electronic device estimates a future time when the electronic device is likely to have a second network connection with a sufficiently high bandwidth, and schedules transmission of the data at the future time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Shaheen Ashok Gandhi, David Scott Reiss, David Harry Garcia
  • Sharing television and video programming through social networking
    Patent number: 9201904
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a social networking system identifies a user viewing video content on a first display device, identifies the video content being viewed on the first display device by the user, and determines a second display device associated with the identified user. The social networking system sends one or more instructions to the determined second display device to display one or more chat messages associated with the identified video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ime Archibong, Gregory Joseph Badros, Colin Cameron Brennan Campbell, David Harry Garcia, Mark Heynen, Brian Krausz, Cameron Alexander Marlow, Erick Tseng, Yong Kean Wong
  • Location Aware Shared Spaces
    Publication number: 20150341369
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system maintains a data store of shared space, wherein each shared space comprises one or more content objects, a location, and one or more privacy settings. The geo-social networking system allows a user read-access to a shared space based on privacy settings associated with the shared space. The geo-social networking system allows a user write-access to a shared space if the user is at the location associated with the shared space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Andrew Garrod Bosworth, David Harry Garcia, Kenneth M. Lau
  • RAID DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20150339072
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a storage device utilizing laptop storage drives and rackmount server adapted to use the same. The storage device includes a body and drive software. The drive and internal portions of the body are adapted to form contact fits. The software of the storage device provides an electronic interface that permits operations of advantageous RAID configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: DHK STORAGE, LLC
    Inventor: David Harry Klein
  • Location aware deals
    Patent number: 9195989
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a request is received from a first user to create a location-triggered benefit that may be redeemed by a second user at a vendor and associated with a condition. The first user is not the vendor, and the condition may require that the second user go to a particular location. A record of the location-triggered benefit may be created in a database. Information may be received that the second user has satisfied the condition, and in response, the second user may be allowed to redeem the location-triggered benefit at the vendor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Garrod Bosworth, David Harry Garcia, Kenneth M. Lau
  • Data transmission between devices based on bandwidth availability
    Patent number: 9185048
    Abstract: In one embodiment, in response to data to be transmitted to or from an electronic device, the electronic device determines whether the electronic device currently has a first network connection with a sufficiently high bandwidth. If the electronic device currently does not have a first network connection with a sufficiently high bandwidth, then the electronic device estimates a future time when the electronic device is likely to have a second network connection with a sufficiently high bandwidth, and schedules transmission of the data at the future time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Shaheen Ashok Gandhi, David Scott Reiss, David Harry Garcia
  • Sharing Television and Video Programming Through Social Networking
    Publication number: 20150319502
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system determine a first media device of a first user of a social-networking system and determine a second media device of a second user of the social-networking system. The one or more computer systems access a social graph of the social-networking system, update the social graph based on the determined first and second media devices, and stream media from the first media device to the second media device using the updated social graph. The social graph includes nodes and edges connecting the nodes, the nodes including user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system and concept nodes that are each associated with a particular media device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: David Harry Garcia, Brian Krausz, Erick Tseng
  • Sharing television and video programming through social networking
    Patent number: 9171017
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system determine information associated with a product displayed on a display device and access a database of known products. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system determine, by comparing the database of known products with the determined information associated with the product, an identity of the product displayed on the display device. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system provide one or more instructions to display media content related to the identified product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Joseph Badros, David Harry Garcia, Mark Heynen, Brian Krausz, Cameron Alexander Marlow, Michael John McKenzie Toksvig, Erick Tseng
  • Facial Recognition Using Social Networking Information
    Publication number: 20150286856
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, one or more images associated with a primary user are received. The image(s) may comprise single images, a series of related images, or video frames. In each image, one or more faces are detected and/or tracked. For each face, a set of one or more candidates are selected who may be identified with the face. The primary user has a computed measure of affinity for candidates in the set through a social network, or the candidate in the set is otherwise known to the primary user. A facial recognition score is calculated for each candidate. A subset of candidates is selected, wherein each candidate in the subset has a facial recognition score above a predetermined threshold. A candidate score is calculated for each candidate based on the facial recognition score and the computed measure of affinity. A winning candidate is selected based on the candidate scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: David Harry Garcia, Luke St. Clair, Jenny Yuen
  • ENHANCED PREDICTIVE INPUT UTILIZING A TYPEAHEAD PROCESS
    Publication number: 20150261742
    Abstract: Particular embodiments may retrieve information associated with one or more nodes of a social graph from one or more data stores. A node may comprise a user node or a concept node. Each node may be connected by edges to other nodes of a social graph. A first user may be associated with a first user node of the social graph. Particular embodiments may detect that the first user is entering an input term. Predictive typeahead results may be provided as the first user enters the input term. The predictive typeahead results may be based on the input term. Each predictive typeahead result may include at least one image. Each predictive typeahead result may correspond to at least one node of the social graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Shaheen Ashok Gandhi, Jasper Reid Hauser, Luke St. Clair, David Harry Garcia, Jenny Yuen