Patents by Inventor Hans Brough

Hans Brough 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).

  • Presenting content items relevant to a group of users
    Patent number: 10025476
    Abstract: In a method of ranking or filtering new content items for presentation to members of a group of users of a social-networking service, content items that are candidates for presentation to the members are received. A user of the social-networking service is enabled to serve as a curator of the candidates, with the enabling including enabling the user to scroll through subsets of the candidates in a carousel user interface to indicate an opinion of the user with respect to an importance to the group of each of one or more candidates. One or more of the candidates are presented to the members of the group based on the opinion of the user with respect to the candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Barker, Ian McCarthy, Hans Brough, James Richards, John Kristian, Jason Powers, Julie Meridian
  • PRESENTING CONTENT ITEMS RELEVANT TO A GROUP OF USERS
    Publication number: 20150082200
    Abstract: In a method of ranking or filtering new content items for presentation to members of a group of users of a social-networking service, content items that are candidates for presentation to the members are received. A user of the social-networking service is enabled to serve as a curator of the candidates, with the enabling including enabling the user to scroll through subsets of the candidates in a carousel user interface to indicate an opinion of the user with respect to an importance to the group of each of one or more candidates. One or more of the candidates are presented to the members of the group based on the opinion of the user with respect to the candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: Linkedln Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Barker, Ian McCarthy, Hans Brough, James Richards, John Kristian, Jason Powers, Julie Meridian
  • Techniques for presenting content items to members of a group
    Patent number: 8732590
    Abstract: In a method of ranking or filtering new content items for presentation to members of a group of users of a social-networking service, content items that are candidates for presentation to the members are received. A user of the social-networking service is enabled to serve as a curator of the candidates, with the enabling including enabling the user to scroll through subsets of the candidates in a carousel user interface to indicate an opinion of the user with respect to an importance to the group of each of one or more candidates. One or more of the candidates are presented to the members of the group based on the opinion of the user with respect to the candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Barker, Ian McCarthy, Hans Brough, James Richards, John Kristian, Jason Powers, Julie Meridian
  • CAROUSEL OF THE NEW
    Publication number: 20120066618
    Abstract: In a method of ranking or filtering new content items for presentation to members of a group of users of a social-networking service, content items that are candidates for presentation to the members are received. A user of the social-networking service is enabled to serve as a curator of the candidates, with the enabling including enabling the user to scroll through subsets of the candidates in a carousel user interface to indicate an opinion of the user with respect to an importance to the group of each of one or more candidates. One or more of the candidates are presented to the members of the group based on the opinion of the user with respect to the candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: Linkedln Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Barker, Ian McCarthy, Hans Brough, James Richards, John Kristian, Jason Powers, Julie Meridian