Patents by Inventor Kelly B. Winters

Kelly B. Winters 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).

  • Managing privacy settings for content on online social networks
    Patent number: 10659299
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication of a trigger action associated with a first user and with respect to a particular entity, sending to the first user a content-update interface for updating privacy settings associated with multiple content objects associated with the first user or the particular entity, receiving, from the first user via the content-update interface, settings updates for the content objects, and applying the settings updates to the privacy settings associated with the content objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Kelly B. Winters, Brian Jay Thomas, Daniel Gregory Muriello, Emily Grace Albert
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING, SELECTING, PRESENTING, AND EXECUTING CALLS TO ACTION
    Publication number: 20160180400
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can acquire information associated with a user who is accessing a page within a social networking system. The page can be associated with a page entity. At least one call to action can be selected, out of a set of calls to action, based at least in part on the information associated with the user. The at least one call to action can be associated with the page entity. The at least one call to action can be presented to the user via the page within the social networking system. A user interaction performed with respect to the at least one call to action can be detected. An operation associated with the at least one call to action can be executed. The operation can correspond to one of a plurality of operations executable for the at least one call to action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: David Shein, Dong Guo, Lacie Rhodes, Kelly B. Winters, Tony Hsien-yu Liu, Jing Zou, Eyal Michael Sharon
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING, SELECTING, PRESENTING, AND EXECUTING CALLS TO ACTION
    Publication number: 20160179343
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can acquire information associated with a user who is accessing a page within a social networking system. The page can be associated with a page entity. At least one call to action can be selected, out of a set of calls to action, based at least in part on the information associated with the user. The at least one call to action can be associated with the page entity. The at least one call to action can be presented to the user via the page within the social networking system. A user interaction performed with respect to the at least one call to action can be detected. An operation associated with the at least one call to action can be executed. The operation can correspond to one of a plurality of operations executable for the at least one call to action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: David Shein, Dong Guo, Lacie Rhodes, Kelly B. Winters, Tony Hsien-yu Liu, Jing Zou, Eyal Michael Sharon