Patents by Inventor Joseph Paul Betz
Joseph Paul Betz 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).
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Patent number: 11086942Abstract: Users belonging to a particular category at a networking site are monitored by a system and according to a method for their selection of articles from a networking update stream. The characteristics of the users, including the categories they belong to, are received as metadata corresponding to the each respective article. Periodically an article database is queried according to the category and a selected time period to determine the number of users that have chosen to follow the industry and that have initiated selection actions towards articles in the database. Articles from the query are ranked according to their popularity among users having interest in the same industry category and are presented to a viewing user at the networking site.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Allen J. Blue, Jonathan Redfern, Paul Taylor Ogilvie, Joseph Paul Betz
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Publication number: 20170351760Abstract: Users belonging to a particular category at a networking site are monitored by a system and according to a method for their selection of articles from a networking update stream. The characteristics of the users, including the categories they belong to, are received as metadata corresponding to the each respective article. Periodically an article database is queried according to the category and a selected time period to determine the number of users that have chosen to follow the industry and that have initiated selection actions towards articles in the database. Articles from the query are ranked according to their popularity among users having interest in the same industry category and are presented to a viewing user at the networking site.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2017Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: Allen J. Blue, Joff Redfern, Paul Taylor Ogilvie, Joseph Paul Betz
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Patent number: 9805127Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for clustering individual items of web content, and then utilizing activity and profile data to both select clusters of content items for presentation to a user, and determining how the selected clusters of content items are presented to the user of an online social network service. With some embodiments, the activity data are derived by monitoring and detection interactions with the individual items of web content by an individual user, or other users with whom the individual user is related, as established via, and defined by, the social network service.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: LinkedIn CorporationInventors: Jennifer Granito Ruffner, Eishay Smith, Joseph Paul Betz, Ian McCarthy
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Patent number: 9697285Abstract: Users belonging to a particular category at a networking site are monitored by a system and according to a method for their selection of articles from a networking update stream. The characteristics of the users, including the categories they belong to, are received as metadata corresponding to the each respective article. Periodically an article database is queried according to the category and a selected time period to determine the number of users that have chosen to follow the industry and that have initiated selection actions towards articles in the database. Articles from the query are ranked according to their popularity among users having interest in the same industry category and are presented to a viewing user at the networking site.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: LinkedIn CorporationInventors: Allen Blue, Joff Redfern, Paul Taylor Ogilvie, Joseph Paul Betz
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Patent number: 9213760Abstract: A system can optionally include a social network database configured to store social network information records related to a user of the social network, wherein the social network database is configured to classify an individual information record according to the user of the social network and at least one of an application that generated the individual information record and an object of the individual information record. The system can further include a processor configured to identify ones of the information records as classified in the social network database based on at least one of the user and the at least one of the application and the object and transmit data indicative of a common characteristic of the ones of the information records to the social network.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: LinkedIn CorporationInventors: Joseph Paul Betz, Brian Guarraci
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Publication number: 20150149453Abstract: Users belonging to a particular category at a networking site are monitored by a system and according to a method for their selection of articles from a networking update stream. The characteristics of the users, including the categories they belong to, are received as metadata corresponding to the each respective article. Periodically an article database is queried according to the category and a selected time period to determine the number of users that have chosen to follow the industry and that have initiated selection actions towards articles in the database. Articles from the query are ranked according to their popularity among users having interest in the same industry category and are presented to a viewing user at the networking site.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2015Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventors: Allen Blue, Joff Redfern, Paul Taylor Ogilvie, Joseph Paul Betz
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Publication number: 20150088877Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for clustering individual items of web content, and then utilizing activity and profile data to both select clusters of content items for presentation to a user, and determining how the selected clusters of content items are presented to the user of an online social network service. With some embodiments, the activity data are derived by monitoring and detection interactions with the individual items of web content by an individual user, or other users with whom the individual user is related, as established via, and defined by, the social network service.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Jennifer Granito Ruffner, Eishay Smith, Joseph Paul Betz, Ian McCarthy
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Patent number: 8949239Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for clustering individual items of web content, and then utilizing activity and profile data to both select clusters of content items for presentation to a user, and determining how the selected clusters of content items are presented to the user of an online social network service. With some embodiments, the activity data are derived by monitoring and detection interactions with the individual items of web content by an individual user, or other users with whom the individual user is related, as established via, and defined by, the social network service.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2011Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: LinkedIn CorporationInventors: Jennifer Granito Ruffner, Eishay Smith, Joseph Paul Betz, Ian McCarthy
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Publication number: 20140149856Abstract: A system can optionally include a social network database configured to store social network information records, each information record including at least two of: an actor, a verb, an object, and an attributed entity. The system can further include a processor configured to generate a summary of one of the information records based the on at least two of the actor, the verb, the object, and the attributed entity of the information record, display on a developer user interface a rendering screen configured to format a display model based on a developer input, the display model including a summary field configured to display the summary, and transmit to a user device an interface screen based on the summary and the model.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Linkedln CorporationInventors: Chris Fong, Joseph Paul Betz, Brian Guarraci
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Publication number: 20140149206Abstract: A system may include a unified content platform configured to obtain an unsponsored content group from unsponsored content group sources, each unsponsored content group having at least one unsponsored content element, wherein the unsponsored content groups are obtained based on a relevance of at least some unsponsored content elements to a characteristic of a user. The system may further include a sponsored content platform configured to generate a master content group based on the unsponsored content groups and a sponsored content group, the sponsored content group having at least one sponsored content element and an associated bid, wherein the master content group is obtained based on the relevance of the at least some unsponsored content elements and a relevance of the sponsored content element to the characteristic of the user and the associated bid.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: LINKEDIN CORPORATIONInventors: Sanjay Sureshchandra Dubey, Joseph Paul Betz
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Publication number: 20140149448Abstract: A system can optionally include a social network database configured to store social network information records related to a user of the social network, wherein the social network database is configured to classify an individual information record according to the user of the social network and at least one of an application that generated the individual information record and an object of the individual information record. The system can further include a processor configured to identify ones of the information records as classified in the social network database based on at least one of the user and the at least one of the application and the object and transmit data indicative of a common characteristic of the ones of the information records to the social network.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: LINKEDIN CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Paul Betz, Brian Guarraci
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Publication number: 20120197881Abstract: Users belonging to a particular category at a networking site are monitored by a system and according to a method for their selection of articles from a networking update stream. The characteristics of the users, including the categories they belong to, are received as metadata corresponding to the each respective article. Periodically an article database is queried according to the category and a selected time period to determine the number of users that have chosen to follow the industry and that have initiated selection actions towards articles in the database. Articles from the query are ranked according to their popularity among users having interest in the same industry category and are presented to a viewing user at the networking site.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2011Publication date: August 2, 2012Inventors: Allen Blue, Joff Redfern, Paul Taylor Ogilvie, Joseph Paul Betz
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Publication number: 20120191715Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for clustering individual items of web content, and then utilizing activity and profile data to both select clusters of content items for presentation to a user, and determining how the selected clusters of content items are presented to the user of an online social network service. With some embodiments, the activity data are derived by monitoring and detection interactions with the individual items of web content by an individual user, or other users with whom the individual user is related, as established via, and defined by, the social network service.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2011Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: LINKEDIN CORPORATIONInventors: Jennifer Granito Ruffner, Eishay Smith, Joseph Paul Betz, Ian McCarthy