Patents by Inventor Dwight Ewing Crow

Dwight Ewing Crow 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: 11100520
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to the generation and presentation of merchant insights to a brick-and-mortar merchant. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to detecting and identifying users visiting a merchant's retail location, determining product preferences of the identified users that relate to the merchant, and providing merchant insights to the merchant based on the determined product preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Patent number: 10861056
    Abstract: An online system provides a virtual world including a plurality of locations spatially distributed throughout the virtual world. The online system receives sponsorship requests for generating locations in the virtual world associated with one or more advertisers. A sponsorship request identifies a position in the virtual world for presenting the location and a bid amount specifying an amount of compensation to the online system for presenting the location at the position in the virtual world. When an opportunity to present a location at a position in the virtual world to a user is identified, the online system selects a location from the received sponsorship request for presentation at the position based at least in part on the bid amounts of the sponsorship requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventor: Dwight Ewing Crow
  • Patent number: 10505997
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for improving a user experience related to interacting with content using multiple client devices and/or mediums. For example, a persistent activity system can receive activity data for a user from a client device. The persistent activity system can generate state information based on the received activity data. Further, the persistent activity system can provide the state information to another client device and/or medium to enable the user to seamlessly resume the user's activity on the other client device and/or medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Publication number: 20190220878
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to the generation and presentation of merchant insights to a brick-and-mortar merchant. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to detecting and identifying users visiting a merchant's retail location, determining product preferences of the identified users that relate to the merchant, and providing merchant insights to the merchant based on the determined product preferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Patent number: 10339592
    Abstract: An online system generates a virtual world including objects, representations of users, and locations for presentation to online system users. The virtual world includes a virtual store including a plurality of objects for presentation to a user. To generate the virtual store, the online system retrieves information associated with the user and selects objects for inclusion in the virtual store based on the retrieved information. For example, the online system selects objects in which the user has expressed an interest or objects in which other users connected to the user have expressed an interest. The information associated with the user may also be used to determine positions of the selected object relative to each other or relative to a position of the user in the virtual store. After selecting and positioning the objects, the online system communicates the virtual store to a client device for presentation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Dwight Ewing Crow
  • Patent number: 10242374
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to the generation and presentation of merchant insights to a brick-and-mortar merchant. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to detecting and identifying users visiting a merchant's retail location, determining product preferences of the identified users that relate to the merchant, and providing merchant insights to the merchant based on the determined product preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Patent number: 10192403
    Abstract: An online system provides objects for presentation to a user via a virtual world, each object having an organic appearance for display. The online system receives sponsorship requests for sponsoring appearances of one or more objects in the virtual world. A sponsorship request includes information describing a sponsored appearance of an object and a bid amount identifying compensation to the online system for using the sponsored appearance. When presenting an object to a user via the virtual world, the online system selects an appearance for the object from the object's organic appearance and one or more sponsored appearances based on characteristics of the user and bid amounts in the sponsorship requests including the sponsored appearances. The online system then presents the object to a user via the virtual world using the selected appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Dwight Ewing Crow
  • Publication number: 20170323525
    Abstract: An online system provides objects for presentation to a user via a virtual world, each object having an organic appearance for display. The online system receives sponsorship requests for sponsoring appearances of one or more objects in the virtual world. A sponsorship request includes information describing a sponsored appearance of an object and a bid amount identifying compensation to the online system for using the sponsored appearance. When presenting an object to a user via the virtual world, the online system selects an appearance for the object from the object's organic appearance and one or more sponsored appearances based on characteristics of the user and bid amounts in the sponsorship requests including the sponsored appearances. The online system then presents the object to a user via the virtual world using the selected appearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Dwight Ewing Crow
  • Patent number: 9786125
    Abstract: An online system provides objects for presentation to a user via a virtual world, each object having an organic appearance for display. The online system receives sponsorship requests for sponsoring appearances of one or more objects in the virtual world. A sponsorship request includes information describing a sponsored appearance of an object and a bid amount identifying compensation to the online system for using the sponsored appearance. When presenting an object to a user via the virtual world, the online system selects an appearance for the object from the object's organic appearance and one or more sponsored appearances based on characteristics of the user and bid amounts in the sponsorship requests including the sponsored appearances. The online system then presents the object to a user via the virtual world using the selected appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Dwight Ewing Crow
  • Publication number: 20160371768
    Abstract: An online system generates a virtual world including objects, representations of users, and locations for presentation to online system users. The virtual world includes a virtual store including a plurality of objects for presentation to a user. To generate the virtual store, the online system retrieves information associated with the user and selects objects for inclusion in the virtual store based on the retrieved information. For example, the online system selects objects in which the user has expressed an interest or objects in which other users connected to the user have expressed an interest. The information associated with the user may also be used to determine positions of the selected object relative to each other or relative to a position of the user in the virtual store. After selecting and positioning the objects, the online system communicates the virtual store to a client device for presentation to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventor: Dwight Ewing Crow
  • Publication number: 20160371744
    Abstract: An online system provides a virtual world including a plurality of locations spatially distributed throughout the virtual world. The online system receives sponsorship requests for generating locations in the virtual world associated with one or more advertisers. A sponsorship request identifies a position in the virtual world for presenting the location and a bid amount specifying an amount of compensation to the online system for presenting the location at the position in the virtual world. When an opportunity to present a location at a position in the virtual world to a user is identified, the online system selects a location from the received sponsorship request for presentation at the position based at least in part on the bid amounts of the sponsorship requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventor: Dwight Ewing Crow
  • Publication number: 20160371929
    Abstract: An online system provides objects for presentation to a user via a virtual world, each object having an organic appearance for display. The online system receives sponsorship requests for sponsoring appearances of one or more objects in the virtual world. A sponsorship request includes information describing a sponsored appearance of an object and a bid amount identifying compensation to the online system for using the sponsored appearance. When presenting an object to a user via the virtual world, the online system selects an appearance for the object from the object's organic appearance and one or more sponsored appearances based on characteristics of the user and bid amounts in the sponsorship requests including the sponsored appearances. The online system then presents the object to a user via the virtual world using the selected appearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventor: Dwight Ewing Crow
  • Publication number: 20160171535
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in part, to systems and methods that provide for identifying a purchase by a user and remarketing a product to the user. In particular, a system can analyze a portion of a social networking communication from a user and determine that the social networking communication references a purchase of a product by the user. The system can further identify a projected usage interval associated with the purchase and provide remarketing content to the user based on the purchase and in accordance with the usage interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Publication number: 20160171534
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in part, to a system for inferring user interest in new products based on a history of product purchases. In particular, an interest inference system can monitor a plurality of purchases by users and identify product attributes and user attributes from information associated with the purchases. The interest inference system can further determine correlations between product attributes and user attributes. Based on the correlations, the interest inference system can identify users that are likely to be interested in a new product even if no past marketing data is available for the new product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Publication number: 20160173540
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for improving a user experience related to interacting with content using multiple client devices and/or mediums. For example, a persistent activity system can receive activity data for a user from a client device. The persistent activity system can generate state information based on the received activity data. Further, the persistent activity system can provide the state information to another client device and/or medium to enable the user to seamlessly resume the user's activity on the other client device and/or medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Publication number: 20160162913
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to the generation and presentation of merchant insights to a brick-and-mortar merchant. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to detecting and identifying users visiting a merchant's retail location, determining product preferences of the identified users that relate to the merchant, and providing merchant insights to the merchant based on the determined product preferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Publication number: 20160162935
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in part, to systems and methods that provide for effectively remarketing a product to a user based on a customized consumption interval. In particular, a system can maintain a social networking profile associated with a user that includes personal information associated with the user. The system can further identify a purchase of a product and generate a customized consumption interval for the product based on the personal information associated with the user. Using the customized consumption interval, the system can more efficiently remarket a product to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow
  • Publication number: 20160117740
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in part, to an advertisement system that provides for the remarketing of products to a user within a social networking system. More specifically, the advertisement system can analyze a user's social networking profile, which can include information derived from user activity related to third-party content, to identify the user's interest in and/or association with a product previously marketed to the user. Using the user's social networking profile, the advertisement system can create a customized advertisement for the user for a product previously, marketed to the user and serve the customized advertisement to the user within the social networking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan