Patents by Inventor E. Nair Flores

E. Nair Flores 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: 10296547
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a method by a social-networking system comprises receiving, from a client device, a search query from a first user of an online social network, determining, by the social-networking system, one or more network resources that match the search query, accessing a data store of social-graph information to determine one or more second users of the online social network having an association with the first user that have interacted with any of the matching network resources within a particular period of time, ranking the network resources based on a degree of relevance associated with each of the network resources with respect to the search query, and sending, to the client device in response to the search query, one or more search results corresponding to one or more of the matching network resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Judd Richter, Matthew William Kelly, Austin Haugen, E. Nair Flores
  • Publication number: 20160188736
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a method by a social-networking system comprises receiving, from a client device, a search query from a first user of an online social network, determining, by the social-networking system, one or more network resources that match the search query, accessing a data store of social-graph information to determine one or more second users of the online social network having an association with the first user that have interacted with any of the matching network resources within a particular period of time, ranking the network resources based on a degree of relevance associated with each of the network resources with respect to the search query, and sending, to the client device in response to the search query, one or more search results corresponding to one or more of the matching network resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Judd Richter, Matthew William Kelly, Austin Haugen, E. Nair Flores
  • Patent number: 9342605
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a method comprising, accessing, at a client device, a set of search results in a structured document loaded into a client application, wherein the search results correspond to a search query of a first user, accessing a data store of social graph information to determine if one or more second users having an association with the first user have accessed any of the search results, and visually distinguishing, at the client device, in a user interface of the client application each of the one or more search results that have been accessed by one or more second users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Judd Richter, Matthew William Kelly, Austin Haugen, E. Nair Flores
  • Publication number: 20120317109
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a method comprising, accessing, at a client device, a set of search results in a structured document loaded into a client application, wherein the search results correspond to a search query of a first user, accessing a data store of social graph information to determine if one or more second users having an association with the first user have accessed any of the search results, and visually distinguishing, at the client device, in a user interface of the client application each of the one or more search results that have been accessed by one or more second users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventors: Michael Judd Richter, Matthew William Kelly, Austin Haugen, E. Nair Flores