Patents by Inventor David Wood Kaufman

David Wood Kaufman 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).

  • Presenting content to an online system user assigned to a stage of a classification scheme and determining a value associated with an advancement of the user to a succeeding stage
    Patent number: 10963921
    Abstract: An online system receives information describing actions performed by individuals and identifies online system users included among these individuals. Based on the actions they have performed, the users are assigned to sequentially ordered stages of a classification scheme associated with a content-providing user of the online system. The online system receives content items associated with different stages from the content-providing user, in which content items associated with a stage may be presented to users assigned to the stage. The online system may determine an expected return value associated with each stage and an expected advancement value associated with advancement of users assigned to each stage to succeeding stages of the classification scheme. The online system also may determine a value associated with a content item based on a comprehensive value received from the content-providing user, the expected advancement value, and a predicted likelihood of user advancement to a succeeding stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Rituraj Kirti, David Wood Kaufman, Aram Grigoryan
  • PRESENTING CONTENT TO AN ONLINE SYSTEM USER ASSIGNED TO A STAGE OF A CLASSIFICATION SCHEME AND DETERMINING A VALUE ASSOCIATED WITH AN ADVANCEMENT OF THE USER TO A SUCCEEDING STAGE
    Publication number: 20190139094
    Abstract: An online system receives information describing actions performed by individuals and identifies online system users included among these individuals. Based on the actions they have performed, the users are assigned to sequentially ordered stages of a classification scheme associated with a content-providing user of the online system. The online system receives content items associated with different stages from the content-providing user, in which content items associated with a stage may be presented to users assigned to the stage. The online system may determine an expected return value associated with each stage and an expected advancement value associated with advancement of users assigned to each stage to succeeding stages of the classification scheme. The online system also may determine a value associated with a content item based on a comprehensive value received from the content-providing user, the expected advancement value, and a predicted likelihood of user advancement to a succeeding stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Rituraj Kirti, David Wood Kaufman, Aram Grigoryan