Patents by Inventor Heather Allison Schlegel

Heather Allison Schlegel 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).

  • Account linking
    Patent number: 8701014
    Abstract: Linking multiple identities from a single service includes for a user of a single service having multiple identities within the single service, authenticating a primary identity having a first buddy list associated with an account, authenticating a secondary identity having a second buddy list associated with the account, and creating an association between the primary identity and the secondary identity, where the primary identity and the secondary identity simultaneously share a common graphical user interface such that the primary identity interacts with the first buddy list and the secondary identity interacts with the second buddy list using the common graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Heather Allison Schlegel, Barry Appelman, Andrew L. Wick, Alan Keister, Chris Chih-Shen Chung, James A. Odell, Barbara McNally, Michael Robert Enloe, Pei-Lin Wu, Russell William Richards, Alexis Inch, David Cox, Xiaopeng Zhang, Gregory Cypes, David McCormick