Patents by Inventor Jerod Wanner

Jerod Wanner 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).

  • Compound animation showing user interactions
    Patent number: 11537273
    Abstract: An online system presents a content item to users and receives selections of reaction icons from the users. The online system generates a background animation with the selected reaction icons and a foreground animation to be layered on top of the background animation. The online system sends the background and foreground animations to a client device to be cached. Further, the online system presents the content item to a viewing user associated with the client device and receives a selection of a reaction icon from the viewing user. The online system selects a subset of the users based on the viewing user's affinity to the users, retrieves images of the selected users, and send the images to the client device. The client device customizes the background and foreground animations based on the images and the viewing user's reaction icon to generate a compound animation for display to the viewing user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Benson Walton, Zachary W. Stubenvoll, Julia Harter Toffey, Skyler Bock, Silvia Chyou, Jordan Richard Honnette, Wei-Sheng Su, Jerod Wanner, Stefan Casey Parker, Renyu Liu, Rajat Bhardwaj
  • Systems and methods for dynamic digital animation
    Patent number: 11295504
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive render instructions for rendering an animation. The animation comprises a plurality of layers, each layer comprising one or more layer properties, and a first dynamic property to be defined at runtime prior to rendering the animation. The first dynamic property is mapped to a first set of layer properties of the one or more layer properties. A first dynamic property value is received for the first dynamic property. The first set of layer properties are defined based on the first dynamic property value. The animation is rendered on a computing device based on the render instructions and the first dynamic property value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Alexander Allen, Jr., Michael O'Brien, Nicholas J. Kwiatek, Alexander Zats, Jerod Wanner, Emily Dubinsky Gasca, Eduardo de Mello Maia, Christopher Slowik, Renyu Liu, Rajesh Janakiraman, David Graham McDermott
  • Compound animation in content items
    Patent number: 11094100
    Abstract: An online system presents a content item to users and receives selections of reaction icons from the users. The online system generates a background animation with the selected reaction icons and a foreground animation to be layered on top of the background animation. The online system sends the background and foreground animations to a client device to be cached. Further, the online system presents the content item to a viewing user associated with the client device and receives a selection of a reaction icon from the viewing user. The online system selects a subset of the users based on the viewing user's affinity to the users, retrieves images of the selected users, and send the images to the client device. The client device customizes the background and foreground animations based on the images and the viewing user's reaction icon to generate a compound animation for display to the viewing user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Benson Walton, Zachary W. Stubenvoll, Julia Harter Toffey, Skyler Bock, Silvia Chyou, Jordan Richard Honnette, Wei-Sheng Su, Jerod Wanner, Stefan Casey Parker, Renyu Liu, Rajat Bhardwaj
  • Compound animation showing user interactions
    Patent number: 10891030
    Abstract: An online system presents a content item to users and receives selections of reaction icons from the users. The online system generates a background animation with the selected reaction icons and a foreground animation to be layered on top of the background animation. The online system sends the background and foreground animations to a client device to be cached. Further, the online system presents the content item to a viewing user associated with the client device and receives a selection of a reaction icon from the viewing user. The online system selects a subset of the users based on the viewing user's affinity to the users, retrieves images of the selected users, and send the images to the client device. The client device customizes the background and foreground animations based on the images and the viewing user's reaction icon to generate a compound animation for display to the viewing user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Benson Walton, Zachary W. Stubenvoll, Julia Harter Toffey, Skyler Bock, Silvia Chyou, Jordan Richard Honnette, Wei-Sheng Su, Jerod Wanner, Stefan Parker, Renyu Liu, Rajat Bhardwaj
  • Compound animation in content items
    Patent number: 10803648
    Abstract: An online system presents a content item to users and receives selections of reaction icons from the users. The online system generates a background animation with the selected reaction icons and a foreground animation to be layered on top of the background animation. The online system sends the background and foreground animations to a client device to be cached. Further, the online system presents the content item to a viewing user associated with the client device and receives a selection of a reaction icon from the viewing user. The online system selects a subset of the users based on the viewing user's affinity to the users, retrieves images of the selected users, and send the images to the client device. The client device customizes the background and foreground animations based on the images and the viewing user's reaction icon to generate a compound animation for display to the viewing user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Benson Walton, Zachary W. Stubenvoll, Julia Harter Toffey, Skyler Bock, Silvia Chyou, Jordan Richard Honnette, Wei-Sheng Su, Jerod Wanner, Stefan Parker, Renyu Liu, Rajat Bhardwaj
  • Display panel of a programmed computer system with a graphical user interface
    Patent number: D881921
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Angela Chu, Yann Corlay, Jordan Richard Honnette, Jerod Wanner, Zachary W. Stubenvoll, Scott James Trattner, Robert Benson Walton
  • Display panel of a programmed computer system with a graphical user interface
    Patent number: D881922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Angela Chu, Yann Corlay, Jordan Richard Honnette, Jerod Wanner, Zachary W. Stubenvoll, Scott James Trattner, Robert Benson Walton
  • Display panel of a programmed computer system with a graphical user interface
    Patent number: D881923
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Angela Chu, Yann Corlay, Jordan Richard Honnette, Jerod Wanner, Zachary W. Stubenvoll, Scott James Trattner, Robert Benson Walton
  • Display screen or portion thereof with an animated graphical user interface
    Patent number: D981449
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Alireza Jajarmikhayat, Richard Harrington, Teemu Suviala, Marian Ming Chiao Cheung, Zachary W. Stubenvoll, Samantha Kelsey Halle, Andrew Alexander Stirk, Jerod Wanner