Patents by Inventor Jonathon E. Toon

Jonathon E. Toon 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).

  • Eliciting user sharing of content
    Patent number: 10140373
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes inferring an intent of the target user to post to a social-networking system based on one or more information items. One or more information items may be assembled that are relevant to one or more of the information items from which the intent to post was inferred. A prompt to post may be sent to the target user comprising one or more of the assembled information items. One or more indications of one or more reactions of the target user may be received from a client system of the target user. The one or more reactions of the target user may be used in both inferring a future intent to post on the part of future target users and assembling information items for future target users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathon E. Toon, David Shein, Aaron Samuel Filner, Devin Naquin, Sundhar Ram Srinivasan
  • Eliciting User Sharing of Content
    Publication number: 20150294222
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes inferring an intent of the target user to post to a social-networking system based on one or more information items. One or more information items may be assembled that are relevant to one or more of the information items from which the intent to post was inferred. A prompt to post may be sent to the target user comprising one or more of the assembled information items. One or more indications of one or more reactions of the target user may be received from a client system of the target user. The one or more reactions of the target user may be used in both inferring a future intent to post on the part of future target users and assembling information items for future target users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Jonathon E. Toon, David Shein, Aaron Samuel Filner, Devin Naquin, Sundhar Ram Srinivasan