Patents by Inventor Hisham R. Harik

Hisham R. Harik 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).

  • Soft matching user identifiers
    Patent number: 9154575
    Abstract: Particular embodiments may receive one or more data items associated with a first user of a social-networking system. The one or more data items being related to an entity. One or more data stores may store a social graph of the social-networking system. The social graph may comprise a plurality of nodes and plurality of edges between nodes. The nodes may comprise user nodes corresponding to users of the social-networking system and concept nodes corresponding to concepts. Particular embodiments may identify one or more nodes of the social graph that likely match the entity and associate at least one of the data items to at least one of the identified nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Hisham R. Harik, Kiranjit S. Sidhu, Hao Xu, Javier Olivan Lopez
  • Soft Matching User Identifiers
    Publication number: 20140067931
    Abstract: Particular embodiments may receive one or more data items associated with a first user of a social-networking system. The one or more data items being related to an entity. One or more data stores may store a social graph of the social-networking system. The social graph may comprise a plurality of nodes and plurality of edges between nodes. The nodes may comprise user nodes corresponding to users of the social-networking system and concept nodes corresponding to concepts. Particular embodiments may identify one or more nodes of the social graph that likely match the entity and associate at least one of the data items to at least one of the identified nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Hisham R. Harik, Kiranjit S. Sidhu, Hao Xu, Javier Olivan Lopez