Patents by Inventor Edward Zagat

Edward Zagat 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: 11677842
    Abstract: Techniques for providing an enhanced user profile to provide relevant information to a user requesting to view a user profile associated with another user. In an example, a first user submits a request to view a user profile associated with a second user. In response to receiving the request, the communication platform identifies one or more communication objects (e.g., communication channels, direct messaging instances, messages, threads, etc.) and/or one or more applications (third-party applications, first party applications, etc.) associated with the second user and/or the first user. The communication platform causes a display of indicator(s) associated with the communication object(s) and/or application(s) in association with the user profile, such as to enable efficient access to the associated communication object(s) and/or application(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Zagat, Neville Bowers, Maxwell Hayman
  • Publication number: 20220382820
    Abstract: Techniques for providing an enhanced user profile to provide relevant information to a user requesting to view a user profile associated with another user. In an example, a first user submits a request to view a user profile associated with a second user. In response to receiving the request, the communication platform identifies one or more communication objects (e.g., communication channels, direct messaging instances, messages, threads, etc.) and/or one or more applications (third-party applications, first party applications, etc.) associated with the second user and/or the first user. The communication platform causes a display of indicator(s) associated with the communication object(s) and/or application(s) in association with the user profile, such as to enable efficient access to the associated communication object(s) and/or application(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Edward Zagat, Neville Bowers, Maxwell Hayman
  • Patent number: 11461856
    Abstract: A social networking system obtains financial transaction activity for its users and allows its users to obtain reports of their spending compared to various benchmarks. The benchmarks may be for various demographic groups, networks to which the user belongs, groups of users connected to a user, or any other suitable grouping of users. The social networking system may also forecast a user's spending on a category based on the spending of other users who have similar spending profiles in other categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Loren Alfred Cheng, Edward Zagat
  • Patent number: 11451639
    Abstract: Techniques for providing an enhanced user profile to provide relevant information to a user requesting to view a user profile associated with another user. In an example, a first user submits a request to view a user profile associated with a second user. In response to receiving the request, the communication platform identifies one or more communication objects (e.g., communication channels, direct messaging instances, messages, threads, etc.) and/or one or more applications (third-party applications, first party applications, etc.) associated with the second user and/or the first user. The communication platform causes a display of indicator(s) associated with the communication object(s) and/or application(s) in association with the user profile, such as to enable efficient access to the associated communication object(s) and/or application(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Zagat, Neville Bowers, Maxwell Hayman, Michael Brevoort
  • Patent number: 10453152
    Abstract: A social networking system obtains financial transaction activity for its users and allows its users to obtain reports of their spending compared to various benchmarks. The benchmarks may be for various demographic groups, networks to which the user belongs, groups of users connected to a user, or any other suitable grouping of users. The social networking system may also forecast a user's spending on a category based on the spending of other users who have similar spending profiles in other categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Loren Cheng, Edward Zagat
  • Patent number: 9959546
    Abstract: A social networking system associates a financial account identified by a user with a user profile maintained by the social networking system for the user. The social networking system may compensate the user for associating the financial account with the user profile by crediting the identified financial account by an amount. The credit may be applied to subsequent purchases by the user at a vendor identified by the user. To simplify vendor selection, the social networking system may suggest one or more candidate pages associated with vendors to the user. Information in a transaction history of the financial account and in the user profile may be used to identify the candidate pages, allowing the user to select a vendor with which the user has previously transacted by selecting a candidate page associated with the vendor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Loren Alfred Cheng, Edward Zagat
  • Publication number: 20140222636
    Abstract: A social networking system obtains financial transaction activity for its users and allows its users to obtain reports of their spending compared to various benchmarks. The benchmarks may be for various demographic groups, networks to which the user belongs, groups of users connected to a user, or any other suitable grouping of users. The social networking system may also forecast a user's spending on a category based on the spending of other users who have similar spending profiles in other categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Loren Cheng, Edward Zagat
  • Publication number: 20140207547
    Abstract: A social networking system associates a financial account identified by a user with a user profile maintained by the social networking system for the user. The social networking system may compensate the user for associating the financial account with the user profile by crediting the identified financial account by an amount. The credit may be applied to subsequent purchases by the user at a vendor identified by the user. To simplify vendor selection, the social networking system may suggest one or more candidate pages associated with vendors to the user. Information in a transaction history of the financial account and in the user profile may be used to identify the candidate pages, allowing the user to select a vendor with which the user has previously transacted by selecting a candidate page associated with the vendor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventors: Loren Alfred Cheng, Edward Zagat
  • Publication number: 20130262212
    Abstract: A social networking systems associates users of the system with a social punch card, credits the social punch card with punches based on actions performed by the users, and provides rewards to the users when the target number of punches for the social punch card is reached. A social punch card includes a definition of an action that will credit a punch to the social punch card, a target number of punches for completing the punch card, and a reward to be provided for reaching the target number of punches. Each of the users associated with a social punch card are connected with at least one other user associated with the social punch card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Dmitry Shevelenko, Loren Alfred Cheng, Yegnashankar Parasuram, Christopher Triolo, Reshma Khilnani, Edward Zagat