Patents by Inventor Fred Zhao

Fred Zhao 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).

  • Privacy model for shared collections of content on a social networking system
    Patent number: 10609085
    Abstract: A social networking system user creates an album including a shared collection of content (a “shared album”) and associates a privacy model with the shared album. The privacy model specifies additional users of the social networking system authorized to access content items in the shared album and specifies types of actions users authorized to access content items in the shared album are permitted to perform to content items in the shared album. Notifications describing actions associated with content items in a shared album may be presented to users authorized to access the shared album. The social networking system may prompt a user to create a shared album containing based on actions performed by the user or performed by connected to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Andrew Kanter, Robert Michael Baldwin, Paul Francois Carduner, Sai Wo Li, Paul Tarjan, Fred Zhao
  • Privacy model for shared collections of content on a social networking system
    Patent number: 9514331
    Abstract: A social networking system user creates an album including a shared collection of content (a “shared album”) and associates a privacy model with the shared album. The privacy model specifies additional users of the social networking system authorized to access content items in the shared album and specifies types of actions users authorized to access content items in the shared album are permitted to perform to content items in the shared album. Notifications describing actions associated with content items in a shared album may be presented to users authorized to access the shared album. The social networking system may prompt a user to create a shared album containing based on actions performed by the user or performed by connected to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Andrew Kanter, Robert Michael Baldwin, Paul Francois Carduner, Sai Wo Li, Paul Tarjan, Fred Zhao
  • GEODESIC SKETCHING ON CURVED SURFACES
    Publication number: 20160275206
    Abstract: Methods for performing geodesic edits and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving a CAD model including at least a three-dimensional (3D) surface. The method includes receiving an edit of a first geodesic feature from a user and in response to the edit, performing a hierarchy-based update to the CAD model, including performing a corresponding edit to at least one other feature of the CAD model based on the edit to the first geodesic feature to produce an updated CAD model. The method includes storing the updated CAD model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: GEODESIC SKETCHING ON CURVED SURFACES
    Inventors: Feng Yu, Derek England, Eric Mawby, Yong Feng (Fred) Zhao, Haipeng Mao
  • PRIVACY MODEL FOR SHARED COLLECTIONS OF CONTENT ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150013016
    Abstract: A social networking system user creates an album including a shared collection of content (a “shared album”) and associates a privacy model with the shared album. The privacy model specifies additional users of the social networking system authorized to access content items in the shared album and specifies types of actions users authorized to access content items in the shared album are permitted to perform to content items in the shared album. Notifications describing actions associated with content items in a shared album may be presented to users authorized to access the shared album. The social networking system may prompt a user to create a shared album containing based on actions performed by the user or performed by connected to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Andrew Kanter, Robert Michael Baldwin, Paul Francois Carduner, Sai Wo Li, Paul Tarjan, Fred Zhao