Patents by Inventor Jeffrey A. Andrews

Jeffrey A. Andrews 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).

  • Publication number: 20200178887
    Abstract: Sleep tracking systems and techniques for monitoring two or more co-sleepers in a single bed are disclosed. Such systems and techniques may incorporate sleeper identification, as well as various non-user-specific aspects. Some implementations may incorporate user-specific or user-tailored alarm functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Juan Ignacio Correa Ramírez, Conor Joseph Heneghan, Lindsey Michelle Sunden, Lin Yang, Lukas Bielskis, Thomas Samuel Elliot, Benjamin B. Perkins, Priya Vijay Sheth, Jose Roberto Melgoza, Nicholas Adrian Myers, Chris H. Sarantos, Andrew Larsen Axley, Jaydip Das, Samuel Barry Tellman, Man-Chi Liu, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher
  • Publication number: 20200173262
    Abstract: A system for use with a connection comprising a terminus opening into an underground vault. The system includes a perturbation detector and a system controller. The perturbation detector is configured to detect values of each of one or more properties and transmit a signal encoding the values to the system controller. The system controller is configured to receive the signal, use at least one of the values to determine whether a fire is occurring or has occurred, and alert a user when the system controller determines that the fire is occurring or has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Glen John Bertini, David C. Busby, Weston Philips Chapin Ford, Jeffrey Andrew Thomas
  • Patent number: 10614467
    Abstract: A social networking system displays information about a user via a timeline included in a profile page. Narrative data about a user stored in a social networking system, including data about the user and social network activities related to the user is accessed. Timeline units summarizing information about the user are generated from the narrative data. When a viewing user requests a profile page, timeline units are displayed based information related to the viewing user and interactions with the profile page by other users connected to the viewing user. Users that administer the profile page are presented with additional information when viewing the profile page, allowing the administering users to modify appearance of the timeline or to identify actions for an administering user to take to increase interaction with the profile page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Blaise Andrew DiPersia, Jeffrey Andrew Kanter, Russell Eric Heddleston, David Ferguson, Thomas Giovanni Carriero
  • Patent number: 10606466
    Abstract: An online system presents a feed of content including content items and one or more scrollable content units to a user of the online system. A scrollable content unit includes an ordered set of content items sharing a common attribute, such as advertisement requests associated with the same advertising campaign or images associated with a common subject. The scrollable content unit is scrollable in a direction that is orthogonal to an orientation of the feed of content, allowing presentation of additional content items from the ordered set when a user navigates through the ordered set. When all content items in the ordered set have been displayed by the scrollable content unit, an interaction with the scrollable content unit by the user presents additional content associated with the ordered set of content items, such as a page associated with the common attribute of content items in the ordered set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Andrew Kanter, Sanchan Sahai Saxena, Mohit Rajani, Andrew Sean Yang
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20190361402
    Abstract: A low-profile band latch mechanism that is configured to connect a wristband to a fitness tracker or other wrist-wearable device is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Patrick James Markan, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Yu Chuan Kang, Stephen Ronald Smilovitz
  • Patent number: 10475085
    Abstract: An online system selects advertisements for inclusion in a scrollable advertisement unit that includes a display area and multiple advertisements, each associated with a position in the scrollable advertisement unit. Positions in the scrollable advertisement unit are ranked based on a measure of predicted performance of an advertisement in each position. Advertisements are ranked based on a probability of being viewed by a user if associated with a particular position in the scrollable advertisement unit and, optionally, on a probability of presenting an advertisement based on characteristics of the advertisement. The position ranking and the advertisement ranking are used to associate advertisements with positions. For example, an advertisement is associated with a position having a location in the position ranking corresponding to the advertisement's position in the advertisement ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Andrew Kanter, David Mason, Yi Tang, Brian Steadman, Chinmay Deepak Karande, Qiao Lian
  • Patent number: 10475134
    Abstract: A social networking system presents suggestions to a user of a social networking system to use or install one or more applications accessible in the system. The social networking system offers suggestions by ranking candidate applications for a particular user and selecting applications to recommend based on the rankings. Advertisers associated with some applications may bid to boost the rankings of an application, making it more likely to appear for a given user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Deborah Liu, Nipun Mathur, Jeffrey Andrew Kanter, Vijaye Raji
  • Patent number: 10455049
    Abstract: An online system presents a feed of content including content items and one or more scrollable content units to a user of the online system. A scrollable content unit includes an ordered set of content items and a display area presenting fewer than all of the content items of the ordered set at a time. The user navigates through the ordered set of content items in the display area by interacting with the scrollable content unit. If the user navigates through fewer than all of the content items in the ordered set, the online system modifies the ordered set. If the scrollable content unit is again provided to the user, the scrollable content unit presents content items based the modified ordered set. For example, the modified ordered set prioritizes presentation of content items from the ordered set that were not previously presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Andrew Kanter, Sanchan Sahai Saxena, Mohit Rajani
  • Patent number: D857011
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Chuan Kang, Derek Jenchia Loh, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher, Patrick James Markan, Stephen Ronald Smilovitz
  • Patent number: D858516
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Chuan Kang, Derek Jenchia Loh, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher, Patrick James Markan, Stephen Ronald Smilovitz
  • Patent number: D858517
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Gerald Kern, Derek Jenchia Loh, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher, Patrick James Markan, Stephen Ronald Smilovitz
  • Patent number: D858518
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Anthony Gerald Kern, Derek Jenchia Loh, Junyong Park, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher, Patrick James Markan, Stephen Ronald Smilovitz
  • Patent number: D861678
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Gerald Kern, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Derek Jenchia Loh, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher, Junyong Park
  • Patent number: D861679
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Anthony Gerald Kern, Derek Jenchia Loh, Bernhard Wildner, Junyong Park, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher, Patrick James Markan, Stephen Ronald Smilovitz, Yu Chuan Kang
  • Patent number: D863296
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Gerald Kern, Derek Jenchia Loh, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher, Patrick James Markan
  • Patent number: D864956
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FITBIT, INC.
    Inventors: Anthony Gerald Kern, Derek Jenchia Loh, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Bernhard Wildner, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher
  • Patent number: D865858
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Inventor: Jeffrey Andrew Whitehead
  • Patent number: D887405
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: FITBIT, INC.
    Inventors: Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Anthony Gerald Kern, Derek Jenchia Loh, Bernhard Wildner, Junyong Park, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher, Patrick James Markan, Stephen Ronald Smilovitz, Yu Chuan Kang
  • Patent number: D878364
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Gerald Kern, Yu Chuan Kang, Derek Jenchia Loh, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher, Patrick James Markan