Patents by Inventor Jonathan Kenn Lewis

Jonathan Kenn Lewis 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).

  • Establishing connections between accounts maintained by an online system and third party accounts maintained by third party systems
    Patent number: 9900321
    Abstract: Online system users interact with one or more third party systems, with the online system maintaining an account for each of its users and each third party system maintaining a third party account for each of its users. The online system compares information in a user's account to accessible information in third party accounts and establishes connections between the user's account and o third party accounts based on the comparisons. A connection between the user's account and a third party account includes a confidence level indicating a likelihood of the third party account being associated with the user of the online system corresponding to the account. A third party system may request information from the online system about a user specifying a threshold confidence level, allowing the online system to return information from third party accounts having connections to the user's account with at least the threshold confidence level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Li Zhou, Loren William Abrams, Yi Huang, Stephane Taine, Jonathan Kenn Lewis
  • ESTABLISHING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ACCOUNTS MAINTAINED BY AN ONLINE SYSTEM AND THIRD PARTY ACCOUNTS MAINTAINED BY THIRD PARTY SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20170078304
    Abstract: Online system users interact with one or more third party systems, with the online system maintaining an account for each of its users and each third party system maintaining a third party account for each of its users. The online system compares information in a user's account to accessible information in third party accounts and establishes connections between the user's account and o third party accounts based on the comparisons. A connection between the user's account and a third party account includes a confidence level indicating a likelihood of the third party account being associated with the user of the online system corresponding to the account. A third party system may request information from the online system about a user specifying a threshold confidence level, allowing the online system to return information from third party accounts having connections to the user's account with at least the threshold confidence level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Li Zhou, Loren William Abrams, Yi Huang, Stephan Taine, Jonathan Kenn Lewis