Patents by Inventor Dylan Nugent

Dylan Nugent 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).

  • Message and attachment deletion
    Patent number: 9811525
    Abstract: The disclosed techniques provide systems and methods for deletion of end-user messages, message threads, attachments, and/or other message information. More specifically, a key-value store residing in computer memory on the storage system is described. Each value in the key-value store is indexed by a key and structured to include multiple column portions associated with multiple column families. In one embodiment, a deletion column family having an associated retention policy for data stored therein is defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruifang Ge, Rahul Narayan Iyer, Jiakai Liu, Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Dylan Nugent, Anshuman Singh, Karthik Ranganathan