Patents by Inventor Joseph Warren Button

Joseph Warren Button 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: 10700930
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may identify, in a geographic region, a number of sites satisfying one or more criteria based at least on geographic data accessed from one or more data sources. The system may generate, for the geographic region, a number of communication network graphs each satisfying one or more network coverage conditions. Each communication network graph may include a number of nodes corresponding to the sites and a number of edges corresponding to communication network connections between the sites. The system may rank the communication network graphs based on one or more performance parameters. The system may select an optimized communication network graph for the geographic region from the communication network graphs based on their respective rankings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Zawadzki, Birce Tezel, John Martin, Paul Parayil Varkey, Vincent Gonguet, Joseph Warren Button
  • Patent number: 10623256
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may identify, in a geographic region, a number of sites satisfying one or more criteria based at least on geographic data accessed from one or more data sources. The system may generate, for the geographic region, a number of communication network graphs each satisfying one or more network coverage conditions. Each communication network graph may include a number of nodes corresponding to the sites and a number of edges corresponding to communication network connections between the sites. The system may rank the communication network graphs based on one or more performance parameters. The system may select an optimized communication network graph for the geographic region from the communication network graphs based on their respective rankings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Zawadzki, Birce Tezel, John Martin, Paul Parayil Varkey, Vincent Gonguet, Joseph Warren Button
  • Publication number: 20200028746
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may identify, in a geographic region, a number of sites satisfying one or more criteria based at least on geographic data accessed from one or more data sources. The system may generate, for the geographic region, a number of communication network graphs each satisfying one or more network coverage conditions. Each communication network graph may include a number of nodes corresponding to the sites and a number of edges corresponding to communication network connections between the sites. The system may rank the communication network graphs based on one or more performance parameters. The system may select an optimized communication network graph for the geographic region from the communication network graphs based on their respective rankings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Erik Zawadzki, Birce Tezel, John Martin, Paul Parayil Varkey, Vincent Gonguet, Joseph Warren Button
  • Patent number: 10425832
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the system accesses geographic data related to a geographic region of interest from one or more data sources. The system identifies multiple mandatory sites in the geographic region of interest from the geographic data. The system generates, by an integer linear program, multiple communication network graphs for the geographic region of interest based at least on the geographic data and multiple network coverage conditions. Each communication network graph comprises multiple nodes corresponding to the mandatory sites and multiple edges corresponding to communication network connections between the mandatory sites. Each communication network graph satisfies one or more network coverage conditions. The system ranks the communication network graphs based on performance parameters associated with the network coverage conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Zawadzki, Birce Tezel, John Martin, Paul Parayil Varkey, Vincent Gonguet, Joseph Warren Button