Patents by Inventor David Henry Garcia

David Henry Garcia 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).

  • Call-termination-triggered social interface
    Patent number: 9729706
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving identifier-information from a device of a first user, wherein the identifier-information is associated with a source of an incoming communication; accessing a social graph including nodes and edges, where the nodes include a first node corresponding to the first user, and second nodes corresponding to second users; determining whether one or more reporting users, corresponding to second nodes within a specified degree of separation from the first node, have flagged the source of the incoming communication as a spam source; and sending, to the first user, a spam-notification object that includes information identifying one or more of the reporting users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, David Henry Garcia, Paul Tarjan
  • CALL-TERMINATION-TRIGGERED SOCIAL INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20160286040
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving identifier-information from a device of a first user, wherein the identifier-information is associated with a source of an incoming communication; accessing a social graph including nodes and edges, where the nodes include a first node corresponding to the first user, and second nodes corresponding to second users; determining whether one or more reporting users, corresponding to second nodes within a specified degree of separation from the first node, have flagged the source of the incoming communication as a spam source; and sending, to the first user, a spam-notification object that includes information identifying one or more of the reporting users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, David Henry Garcia, Paul Tarjan