Patents by Inventor Jonathan SHOTTAN

Jonathan SHOTTAN 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).

  • Patent number: 11100520
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to the generation and presentation of merchant insights to a brick-and-mortar merchant. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to detecting and identifying users visiting a merchant's retail location, determining product preferences of the identified users that relate to the merchant, and providing merchant insights to the merchant based on the determined product preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Patent number: 10505997
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for improving a user experience related to interacting with content using multiple client devices and/or mediums. For example, a persistent activity system can receive activity data for a user from a client device. The persistent activity system can generate state information based on the received activity data. Further, the persistent activity system can provide the state information to another client device and/or medium to enable the user to seamlessly resume the user's activity on the other client device and/or medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Publication number: 20190220878
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to the generation and presentation of merchant insights to a brick-and-mortar merchant. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to detecting and identifying users visiting a merchant's retail location, determining product preferences of the identified users that relate to the merchant, and providing merchant insights to the merchant based on the determined product preferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Patent number: 10242374
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to the generation and presentation of merchant insights to a brick-and-mortar merchant. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to detecting and identifying users visiting a merchant's retail location, determining product preferences of the identified users that relate to the merchant, and providing merchant insights to the merchant based on the determined product preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Patent number: 10217139
    Abstract: A system for creating and using a universal tag to gather consumer data from a web site for the purposes of targeted advertising is provided. The universal tag system has two main subsystems. The first subsystem is a configuration system that is used to define the consumer data to be collected from the website and to define taxonomy and transformation rules to be applied to the collected consumer data. The second subsystem is a runtime system that runs a universal tag client-side script, which is triggered when a consumer lands on a webpage of the website, for collecting the defined consumer data. The runtime system then applies the transformation rules to the collected data and updates a user profile corresponding to the consumer with the transformed data. As well, the runtime system applies the taxonomy rules to the collected data and categorizes the consumer for the purposes of subsequent targeted advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Amobee, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Shottan, Vishal Shah, Doug Smith, Ozan Turgut
  • Patent number: 10156965
    Abstract: A system for creating and using a universal tag to gather consumer data from a web site for the purposes of targeted advertising is provided. The universal tag system has two main subsystems. The first subsystem is a configuration system that is used to define the consumer data to be collected from the website and to define taxonomy and transformation rules to be applied to the collected consumer data. The second subsystem is a runtime system that runs a universal tag client-side script, which is triggered when a consumer lands on a webpage of the website, for collecting the defined consumer data. The runtime system then applies the transformation rules to the collected data and updates a user profile corresponding to the consumer with the transformed data. As well, the runtime system applies the taxonomy rules to the collected data and categorizes the consumer for the purposes of subsequent targeted advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Amobee, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Shottan, Vishal Shah, Kevinjeet Gill
  • Patent number: 9858600
    Abstract: A system for creating and using a universal tag to gather consumer data from a website for the purposes of targeted advertising is provided. The universal tag system has two main subsystems. The first subsystem is a configuration system that is used to define the consumer data to be collected from the website and to define taxonomy and transformation rules to be applied to the collected consumer data. The second subsystem is a runtime system that runs a universal tag client-side script, which is triggered when a consumer lands on a webpage of the website, for collecting the defined consumer data. The runtime system then applies the transformation rules to the collected data and updates a user profile corresponding to the consumer with the transformed data. As well, the runtime system applies the taxonomy rules to the collected data and categorizes the consumer for the purposes of subsequent targeted advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Turn Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Shottan, Vishal Shah, Kunal Deshpande, Doug Smith, Tri Pham
  • Publication number: 20170046029
    Abstract: A system for creating and using a universal tag to gather consumer data from a web site for the purposes of targeted advertising is provided. The universal tag system has two main subsystems. The first subsystem is a configuration system that is used to define the consumer data to be collected from the website and to define taxonomy and transformation rules to be applied to the collected consumer data. The second subsystem is a runtime system that runs a universal tag client-side script, which is triggered when a consumer lands on a webpage of the website, for collecting the defined consumer data. The runtime system then applies the transformation rules to the collected data and updates a user profile corresponding to the consumer with the transformed data. As well, the runtime system applies the taxonomy rules to the collected data and categorizes the consumer for the purposes of subsequent targeted advertising.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Turn Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Shottan, Vishal Shah, Kevinjeet Gill
  • Publication number: 20170039600
    Abstract: A system for creating and using a universal tag to gather consumer data from a web site for the purposes of targeted advertising is provided. The universal tag system has two main subsystems. The first subsystem is a configuration system that is used to define the consumer data to be collected from the website and to define taxonomy and transformation rules to be applied to the collected consumer data. The second subsystem is a runtime system that runs a universal tag client-side script, which is triggered when a consumer lands on a webpage of the website, for collecting the defined consumer data. The runtime system then applies the transformation rules to the collected data and updates a user profile corresponding to the consumer with the transformed data. As well, the runtime system applies the taxonomy rules to the collected data and categorizes the consumer for the purposes of subsequent targeted advertising.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: Turn Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Shottan, Vishal Shah, Doug Smith, Ozan Turgut
  • Publication number: 20160173540
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for improving a user experience related to interacting with content using multiple client devices and/or mediums. For example, a persistent activity system can receive activity data for a user from a client device. The persistent activity system can generate state information based on the received activity data. Further, the persistent activity system can provide the state information to another client device and/or medium to enable the user to seamlessly resume the user's activity on the other client device and/or medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Publication number: 20160171535
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in part, to systems and methods that provide for identifying a purchase by a user and remarketing a product to the user. In particular, a system can analyze a portion of a social networking communication from a user and determine that the social networking communication references a purchase of a product by the user. The system can further identify a projected usage interval associated with the purchase and provide remarketing content to the user based on the purchase and in accordance with the usage interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Publication number: 20160171534
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in part, to a system for inferring user interest in new products based on a history of product purchases. In particular, an interest inference system can monitor a plurality of purchases by users and identify product attributes and user attributes from information associated with the purchases. The interest inference system can further determine correlations between product attributes and user attributes. Based on the correlations, the interest inference system can identify users that are likely to be interested in a new product even if no past marketing data is available for the new product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Publication number: 20160162913
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to the generation and presentation of merchant insights to a brick-and-mortar merchant. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to detecting and identifying users visiting a merchant's retail location, determining product preferences of the identified users that relate to the merchant, and providing merchant insights to the merchant based on the determined product preferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Publication number: 20160140609
    Abstract: A social networking system receives a selection of user characteristics defining a benchmark audience and a target audience, and generates audience metrics that compare the audiences across a set of user characteristics. These user characteristics include demographics, interests, purchasing activity, and actions on the social networking system. The audience metrics are provided to an advertiser who may select additional user characteristics to refine the benchmark or target audiences. The audience metrics may include an affinity score that compares the audience metrics for a particular type of interaction, and may normalize the frequency of interactions relative to interactions of the audience as a whole. Advertisers may use the defined audiences to establish targeting criteria for an advertisement, and may use existing targeting criteria to seed the selection of an audience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Deniz Demir, Michael Desmond Pinkowish, Liang He, Yingsheng Gao, Islam Farid Hamed AbdelRahman, Alexandra Louise Krakaris, Ajoy Joseph Frank, Reid Steven Gershbein, Srikant Ramakrishna Ayyar, Guven Burc Arpat, Michael Lee Develin, Michael Nicholas Hudack, Maxim Sokolov, Wenrui Zhao, Jonathan Shottan, Aaron Ted Glemann, Ksenia Timonina
  • Publication number: 20160140620
    Abstract: A social networking system receives a selection of user characteristics defining a benchmark audience and a target audience, and generates audience metrics that compare the audiences across a set of user characteristics. These user characteristics include demographics, interests, purchasing activity, and actions on the social networking system. The audience metrics are provided to an advertiser who may select additional user characteristics to refine the benchmark or target audiences. The audience metrics may include an affinity score that compares the audience metrics for a particular type of interaction, and may normalize the frequency of interactions relative to interactions of the audience as a whole. Advertisers may use the defined audiences to establish targeting criteria for an advertisement, and may use existing targeting criteria to seed the selection of an audience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Desmond Pinkowish, Deniz Demir, Alexandra Louise Krakaris, Liang He, Yingsheng Gao, Islam Farid Hamed AbdelRahman, Ajoy Joseph Frank, Reid Steven Gershbein, Srikant Ramakrishna Ayyar, Guven Burc Arpat, Michael Lee Develin, Michael Nicholas Hudack, Maxim Sokolov, Jonathan Shottan, Wenrui Zhao
  • Publication number: 20160117740
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in part, to an advertisement system that provides for the remarketing of products to a user within a social networking system. More specifically, the advertisement system can analyze a user's social networking profile, which can include information derived from user activity related to third-party content, to identify the user's interest in and/or association with a product previously marketed to the user. Using the user's social networking profile, the advertisement system can create a customized advertisement for the user for a product previously, marketed to the user and serve the customized advertisement to the user within the social networking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Publication number: 20150227977
    Abstract: An online system receives one or more business rules associated with a third party system that associates online system users with an audience group based on characteristics of the user. When an online system user interacts with content provided by the third party system via a client device, contextual information describing the interaction is communicated from the client device to the online system. By applying one or more business rules to the contextual information, the online system associates the user with one or more audience groups. The online system determines that the user is eligible to be presented with the advertisement based at least in part on the one or more audience groups associated with the user and the one or more of the audience groups specified by the advertiser associated with the advertisement. And if eligible, the online system provides the advertisement to the client device for presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Jonathan Shottan, Mathew Varghese, Yi Huang, Peng Fan
  • Publication number: 20140279045
    Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for audience ID synchronization in a data management platform. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a first redirect traffic from a first domain during a first browser session, in response to a web browser loading an embedded web object on a web page of the first domain; identifying a consumer user by searching through a cookie cache of the web browser to determine whether an unity identifier has been assigned in the cookie cache by the data management platform; in response to determining no unity identifier has been assigned to the consumer user, generating a cookie containing a new unity identifier and dropping the cookie in the cookie cache of the web browser; and synchronizing identifiers for the consumer user with a partner platform by updating a matching table of the identifiers with either the identified unity identifier or the new unity identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: Jonathan SHOTTAN
  • Publication number: 20140282036
    Abstract: A system for creating and using a universal tag to gather consumer data from a website for the purposes of targeted advertising is provided. The universal tag system has two main subsystems. The first subsystem is a configuration system that is used to define the consumer data to be collected from the website and to define taxonomy and transformation rules to be applied to the collected consumer data. The second subsystem is a runtime system that runs a universal tag client-side script, which is triggered when a consumer lands on a webpage of the website, for collecting the defined consumer data. The runtime system then applies the transformation rules to the collected data and updates a user profile corresponding to the consumer with the transformed data. As well, the runtime system applies the taxonomy rules to the collected data and categorizes the consumer for the purposes of subsequent targeted advertising.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Jonathan SHOTTAN, Vishal SHAH, Kevinjeet GILL
  • Publication number: 20140278748
    Abstract: A system for creating and using a universal tag to gather consumer data from a website for the purposes of targeted advertising is provided. The universal tag system has two main subsystems. The first subsystem is a configuration system that is used to define the consumer data to be collected from the website and to define taxonomy and transformation rules to be applied to the collected consumer data. The second subsystem is a runtime system that runs a universal tag client-side script, which is triggered when a consumer lands on a webpage of the website, for collecting the defined consumer data. The runtime system then applies the transformation rules to the collected data and updates a user profile corresponding to the consumer with the transformed data. As well, the runtime system applies the taxonomy rules to the collected data and categorizes the consumer for the purposes of subsequent targeted advertising.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Jonathan SHOTTAN, Vishal SHAH, Kunal DESHPANDE, Doug SMITH, Tri PHAM