Patents by Inventor Justin B. Voskuhl

Justin B. Voskuhl 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).

  • Inferring household income for users of a social networking system
    Patent number: 8600797
    Abstract: Information about a set of users of a social networking system is obtained to develop a predictive model of income distribution for all users of the social networking system. This predictive model is based on selected attributes about the users (e.g., declared/profile information, user historical information, and/or social information). Users of the social networking system are mapped to a specific income bracket based on statistical correlations derived from the predictive model. Advertisements are targeted to users based on income bracket. The system may use a machine learning algorithm to analyze conversion rates of targeted advertising to retrain the predictive model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin B Voskuhl, Ramesh Vyaghrapuri
  • Inferring household income for users of a social networking system
    Patent number: 8583471
    Abstract: Information about a set of users of a social networking system is obtained to develop a predictive model of income distribution for all users of the social networking system. This predictive model is based on selected attributes about the users (e.g., declared/profile information, user historical information, and/or social information). Users of the social networking system are mapped to a specific income bracket based on statistical correlations derived from the predictive model. Advertisements are targeted to users based on income bracket. The system may use a machine learning algorithm to analyze conversion rates of targeted advertising to retrain the predictive model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin B. Voskuhl, Ramesh Vyaghrapuri
  • Integrated electronic mail and instant messaging application
    Patent number: 7487214
    Abstract: An application providing a common interface allowing access and login to a electronic mail system and instant messaging system. The application allows responding to an email using an instant message, replying to an instant message using an email, sending and receiving both email and instant messages from one application, sending email attachments instantly, and displaying presence information for the user, user email contacts and user messenger contacts. Alerts are provided for both emails and instant messages received. The inbox views can automatically be refreshed when a user receives new email. An interface is provided to convert multiple email contacts into messenger contacts. The system can be used with both local messenger clients and browser based IM clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Imran I. Qureshi, Jason C. Fluegel, Charles Reeves Little, Mikhail Birman, Justin B. Voskuhl