Patents by Inventor Jason Fotinatos

Jason Fotinatos 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).

  • Suggesting tags on online social networks
    Patent number: 10467282
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing one or more content objects associated with a first user of an online social network; generating a set of tag candidates by extracting one or more n-grams from the content objects, wherein each tag candidate comprises one or more text strings or ideograms from the extracted n-grams; calculating, for each tag candidate of the set of tag candidates, a quality-score for the tag candidate based on an affinity coefficient between the first user and a respective content object from which the n-grams or ideograms comprising the tag candidate were extracted; and sending, to a client system for display, one or more of the tag candidates as suggested tags for the first user, wherein each suggested tag has a quality-score greater than a threshold quality-score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Aigerim Shorman, Jiawen Connie Yang, Eric Andrew Shrewsberry, Wei Zhong Yeh, Jason Fotinatos, Dustin S. Ho, Jack Murray, Jeffrey Lin, Alisha S. Outridge
  • Suggesting Tags on Online Social Networks
    Publication number: 20170177589
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing one or more content objects associated with a first user of an online social network; generating a set of tag candidates by extracting one or more n-grams from the content objects, wherein each tag candidate comprises one or more text strings or ideograms from the extracted n-grams; calculating, for each tag candidate of the set of tag candidates, a quality-score for the tag candidate based on an affinity coefficient between the first user and a respective content object from which the n-grams or ideograms comprising the tag candidate were extracted; and sending, to a client system for display, one or more of the tag candidates as suggested tags for the first user, wherein each suggested tag has a quality-score greater than a threshold quality-score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Aigerim Shorman, Jiawen Connie Yang, Eric Andrew Shrewsberry, Wei Zhong Yeh, Jason Fotinatos, Dustin S. Ho, Jack Murray, Jeffrey Lin, Alisha S. Outridge