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).

  • Publication number: 20170272813
    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: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: David Harry Garcia, Brian Krausz, Erick Tseng
  • Publication number: 20170264510
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining one or more bandwidth constraints on a bandwidth of a communication channel available to a first computing device; determining a plurality of data items to transmit from the first computing device; ranking each data item based at least in part on an affinity between a user and an originator of the data item in a social-networking system; selecting, based at least in part on the ranking of the data items, one or more particular ones of the data items to transmit from the first computing device from the first computing device; and writing the particular ones of the data items to a queue for subsequent transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Eran Tal, Benoit M. Schillings, Michael John McKenzie Toksvig, David Harry Garcia
  • Patent number: 9760312
    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: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: DHK Storage, LLC
    Inventor: David Harry Klein
  • Patent number: 9762956
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a mobile device analyzes frames before and after a particular frame of a real-time video to identify one or more social network objects, and selects one or more frames before and after the particular frame based on social network information for further storage in the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Garrod Bosworth, David Harry Garcia, Oswald Soleio Cuervo
  • Patent number: 9743157
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system determine available media content from one or more content sources and query a social graph of a social-networking system for social content associated with a user of the social-networking system. The social graph includes nodes and edges connecting the nodes. The nodes include user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system determine, using the social content and the available media content, a plurality of social coefficients for the user, determine, based on the determined social coefficients, recommended media content for the user, and provide the recommended media content for display in a programming guide on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ime Archibong, Colin Cameron Brennan Campbell, Robert Daniel, David Harry Garcia, Austin Haugen, Mark Heynen, Brian Krausz, Michael John McKenzie Toksvig, Erick Tseng, Yoon Kean Wong
  • Publication number: 20170230720
    Abstract: In particular embodiments a social networking system captures data associated with video content provided to a first user of a social-networking system, identifies, using the captured data, the video content provided to the first user, and updates a graph of the social-networking system to associate the first user with the identified video content. The graph of the social-networking system has a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes. The nodes of the graph include user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Ime Archibong, Gregory Joseph Badros, Sean Michael Bruich, Robert Daniel, David Harry Garcia, Brian Krausz, Cameron Alexander Marlow, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Michael John McKenzie Toksvig, Erick Tseng, Yoon Kean Wong
  • Publication number: 20170230700
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system determine identities of one or more users in proximity to a display device and query a social graph of the social-networking system for social content associated with the determined identities. The social graph includes nodes and edges connecting the nodes. The nodes include user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system identify, using the social content, recommended media content for the one or more users in proximity to the display device and provide a playlist for display on the display device. The playlist includes the recommended media content for the one or more users in proximity to the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Ime Archibong, Gregory Joseph Badros, Colin Cameron Brennan Campbell, David Harry Garcia, Mark Heynen, Brian Krausz, Cameron Alexander Marlow, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Michael John McKenzie Toksvig, Erick Tseng, Yoon Kean Wong
  • Publication number: 20170228362
    Abstract: Particular embodiments may locally store, at a client device of a first user, information associated with a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges of a social graph received from a social-networking system. The first user may be associated with a first node of the social graph. The client device may detect that the first user is entering an input term. The client device may provide predictive typeahead results as the first user enters the input term. The predictive typeahead results may be based on the input term. Each predictive typeahead result may correspond to one of the nodes of the social graph stored locally on the client device. Each predictive typeahead result may include at least one image associated with the corresponding node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Shaheen Ashok Gandhi, Jasper Reid Hauser, Luke St. Clair, David Harry Garcia, Jenny Yuen
  • Publication number: 20170221158
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to detecting objects in user-uploaded multimedia such as photos and videos, determining the location at which the media was captured, inferring a set of users of a social network who were physically present at the time and place of capture, and pushing remarketing content to the set of inferred users for the detected objects, or alternatively, the competitors of the detected concepts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Justin Mitchell, Samuel Odio, David Harry Garcia
  • Publication number: 20170215653
    Abstract: Shower caddies with vertically and horizontally movable baskets are disclosed. Each basket is independently adjustable by a mechanism including a front plate, a rear plate and a draw fastener, which allows the user to adjust both the vertical and horizontal position of the basket from a single control point for simple and easy operation. The shower caddies may also include a tilt-resisting locking mechanism that resists rotation of the caddies when supporting an uneven load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventor: David Harry Engell
  • Patent number: 9723373
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a social networking system queries a social graph of the social-networking system for social content associated with video content provided to one or more users of the social-networking system and accesses privacy settings associated with each of the one or more users. The privacy settings indicate whether a particular user has authorized the social-networking system to share social content associated with the particular user with one or more third parties. The social networking system provides the social content associated with video content provided to the one or more users to a particular third party if the privacy settings of the one or more users indicate that the one or more users have authorized the social-networking system to share the social content with one or more third parties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Michael Bruich, Colin Cameron Brennan Campbell, Robert Daniel, David Harry Garcia, Brian Krausz, Erich Tseng, Yong Kean Wong
  • Patent number: 9716635
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a first computing device determines a number of data packets available to transmit from the first computing device to a second computing device. The determination is based on an available bandwidth and a payload capacity, and each of the data packets has a payload with the payload capacity. The first computing device determines a plurality of data items to transmit from the first computing device to the second computing device. The first computing device then ranks the data items and selects, based at least in part on the ranking of the data items and the payload capacities of the data packets, one or more particular ones of the data items to transmit from the first computing device to the second computing device in the data packets. The first computing device writes the particular ones of the data items to the payloads of the data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Eran Tal, Benoit M. Schillings, Michael John McKenzie Toksvig, David Harry Garcia
  • Patent number: 9712574
    Abstract: Particular embodiments maintain social-networking information associated with a user, wherein the user is represented by a user node in a social graph. One or more nodes of the social graph may be associated with respective locations. A request for social information related to a location may be received from a computing device. The request may comprise a location of the computing device, an orientation of the computing device, and an identifier for the user. A relevance score may be determined for one or more proximate nodes based on the request, the social-networking information associated with the user, and the location information for the respective proximate node. Each proximate node may be associated with at least one location within a threshold distance from the location of the computing device. Particular embodiments may provide social-networking information associated with at least one of the proximate nodes for display in conjunction with an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Garrod Bosworth, Michael John McKenzie Toksvig, David Harry Garcia
  • Patent number: 9699485
    Abstract: In particular embodiments a social networking system may receive authorization from a first user of a social-networking system to control at least in part one or more functions of a set-top box (STB) of the first user, determine one or more social actions of one or more second users of the social-networking system, determine one or more instructions for the STB of the first user based at least in part on the social actions, and provide the instructions for the STB of the first user. The social-networking system includes a graph having a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Alexander Marlow, David Harry Garcia, Erick Tseng, Brian Krausz
  • Patent number: 9686337
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: David Harry Garcia, Brian Krausz, Erick Tseng
  • Publication number: 20170171338
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing device determines a communication to be sent to a client computing device. The communication could be a push notification or a keep-alive message from a social-networking system, the client computing device being associated with a user of the social-networking system. The computing device determines that a plurality of network connections already exists between the social-networking system and the client computing device, wherein at least one of the network connections is reserved for, and dedicated exclusively to, sending or receiving notifications or keep-alive messages. The computing device sends the communication to the client computing device using the reserved and dedicated network connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, David Harry Garcia
  • Patent number: 9678944
    Abstract: Particular embodiments may store, at a client device, information associated with nodes and edges of a social graph. A node may comprise a user node or a concept node. Each node may be connected by edges to other nodes of the social graph. A first user may be associated with a first user node of the social graph. The client device may receive a character string from the first user, and identify, as the first user inputs the character string, an edge-type based on the character string and one or more edges of the identified edge-type, wherein the edges are locally stored on the client device. The client device may display one or more predictive typeahead results based on the identified edge-type and the identified edges. The predictive typeahead results may correspond to nodes stored locally on the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Shaheen Ashok Gandhi, Jasper Reid Hauser, Luke St. Clair, David Harry Garcia, Jenny Yuen
  • Patent number: 9679336
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes implementing an ad hoc network protocol comprising transmitting, from a first mobile device, one or more neighbor messages that includes a first user identifier corresponding to a first user of the first mobile device, wherein the first user identifier corresponds to a user account of the first user in a social networking system, receiving, at the first mobile device, one or more second neighbor messages from one or more second mobile devices that include second user identifiers corresponding to respective second users of the one or more second mobile devices, wherein the second user identifiers correspond to respective user accounts of one or more second users in the social networking system, and storing, at the first mobile device, information received in the one or more second neighbor messages for access by one or more applications hosted on the first mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, David Harry Garcia, Michael John McKenzie Toksvig
  • Patent number: 9674135
    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 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    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, Yoon Kean Wong
  • Patent number: 9672496
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to detecting objects in user-uploaded multimedia such as photos and videos, determining the location at which the media was captured, inferring a set of users of a social network who were physically present at the time and place of capture, and pushing remarketing content to the set of inferred users for the detected objects, or alternatively, the competitors of the detected concepts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Mitchell, Samuel Odio, David Harry Garcia