Patents by Inventor Debashish Paul

Debashish Paul 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).

  • Patent number: 10796385
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes displaying a feed of an online social network on a client computing device of a user, the feed comprising a plurality of media items; receiving a first indication the user is viewing a first media item, wherein the first media item is located at a first location in the feed; sending a first sponsored content item for playing at the first location; receiving a second indication the user is transitioning from the first location to a second location in the feed; and pausing the first sponsored content item from playing in response to receiving the second indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: 10757054
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating and maintaining digital privacy controls may include (1) providing a composition-creation interface that enables a user to create a social media composition, (2) additionally providing a privacy-settings interface that enables the user to select an audience for the social media composition, (3) displaying, within the privacy-settings interface, a slider element that may be used to select a size of the audience, where sliding the slider element in a first direction decreases a size of the audience and sliding the slider element in a second direction increases the size of the audience, and (4) configuring the size of the audience based on a position of the slider element. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: 10748006
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving an input indicating that a picture is to be taken using a camera on an electronic device. The method may next include taking the picture with the camera, and storing the associated picture data. Next, the method may include accessing the picture data to recognize the persons in the picture based on facial features associated with those persons. Still further, the method may include creating a group for the recognized persons, where the group is associated with the picture taken by the camera, and generating a collaborative group storyline for the created group that allows members of the group to add stories to the collaborative group storyline. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: 10701121
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending, to a social-networking system, information to initiate a live-broadcast session for distribution of a media stream using the social-networking system. The method also includes capturing an incoming media stream in association with the live-broadcast session, generating an outgoing media stream based on the incoming media stream, and sending the outgoing media stream to the social-networking system. The method also includes providing information to display a user interface associated with the live-broadcast session, where the user interface includes a visual representation associated with the outgoing media stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: 10645460
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes retrieving, from one or more data stores, a script including multiple text strings, where the script is associated with a user of a social-networking system. The method also includes capturing an incoming media stream including audio data corresponding to vocal expression by the user, where the media stream is transmitted to the social-networking system for broadcast and identifying, using a speech recognition process, one or more words in the vocal expression corresponding to a text string of the script. The method also includes providing the corresponding text string for display in conjunction with a subsequent text string of the script.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: 10617949
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for sharing content and allowing users to react using storyline-based feedback may include (1) posting a digital story for consumption by one or more specified users, (2) providing, within the posted digital story, an electronic feedback prompt that enables a user to initiate different types of feedback, each of which electronically portrays a reaction to the digital story, (3) receiving, from the electronic feedback prompt, a user selection of a selectable element corresponding to a certain type of digital feedback, and (4) in response to receiving the user selection, initiating a digital creation process to create the certain type of digital feedback. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: 10623917
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating digital shared story compositions may include (1) receiving, via an instance of a social media application running on a user's computing device, (i) a first user input initiating the creation of a shared story configured to include a collection of individual story compositions from different contributors and (ii) a second user input selecting one or more members of a social media platform associated with the social media application as contributors to the shared story, (2) creating the shared story with the selected members as contributors, and (3) adding, to the shared story, a digital story composition created by an additional user who was selected as a contributor via the second user input. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: 10623831
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating and maintaining digital story progress bars may include (1) creating an archive that stores a user's story-compositions once the story-compositions have been posted to the user's digital story, (2) presenting, within an archive interface, a thumbnail of an archived story-composition being stored in the archive, (3) receiving user input selecting the thumbnail, and (4) in response to receiving the user input, displaying the archived story-composition in a full-story mode. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: 10602237
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an ephemeral digital story channel may include (1) maintaining a primary story channel for a user of a social networking platform in which the user may post digital story compositions, (2) determining that a particular time period coincides with a life event of the user, (3) maintaining, during the time period, an additional story channel for the life event in which the user and the user's contacts may post digital story compositions, such that the social networking platform is maintaining both the primary story channel and the additional story channel during the time period, and (4) discontinuing, after the time period, the additional story channel while continuing to maintain the primary story channel. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: 10489979
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can provide a virtual content item relating to a virtual three-dimensional space. An object within the virtual content item can be determined. One or more content items to provide within the virtual content item in association with the object can be determined. A three-dimensional position of the one or more content items within the virtual three-dimensional space of the virtual content item can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Debashish Paul, Charles Matthew Sutton
  • Publication number: 20190342242
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for interacting with portions of digital video within a social networking system. For example, systems and methods described herein enable a user to select a portion of a digital video and share or like just the portion of the digital video, rather than the entire digital video. The present disclosure is also directed toward systems and methods for identifying viral portions of a digital video within a social networking system. For example, systems and methods described herein analyze social networking activity related to portions of a particular digital video to identify one or more viral portions of the digital video. In response to identifying one or more viral portions, systems and methods provide an indication of, or otherwise share, the one or more viral portions during playback of the digital video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: 10425694
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending, to a social-networking system, a request to access a live-broadcast session associated with a broadcasting user of the social-networking system. The live-broadcast session includes a media stream, where the media stream is available in a video format or an audio format. The method also includes determining a format for the media stream based at least in part on availability of the media stream in the video format or the audio format and a network connectivity status associated with the client system. The method further includes receiving the media stream in the determined format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: 10425579
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by an application running on a client system of a first user, one of a plurality of cameras of the client system being used to capture an image. The plurality of cameras may include a front camera and a back camera of the client system. The application may detect one or more of the first user and one or more second users using the determined camera. The application may determine whether one or more image-capturing criteria are satisfied. If the one or more image-capturing criteria are satisfied, the application may capture the image using the determined camera. Otherwise, the application may provide feedback to one or more of the first user and the one or more second users to perform one or more actions in order to comply with the image-capturing criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: 10354694
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can identify an object included in a video content item. A content item associated with the object can be determined during playback of the video content item, wherein the content item is one or more of: a two-dimensional content item or a three-dimensional content item. An indicator associated with the content item can be provided in the video content item. The content item can be provided in response to a selection of the indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Debashish Paul, Charles Matthew Sutton
  • Patent number: D883993
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: D883994
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: D884719
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: D890198
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: D894921
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: D894926
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul