Patents by Inventor Loren Alfred Cheng

Loren Alfred Cheng 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: 11461856
    Abstract: A social networking system obtains financial transaction activity for its users and allows its users to obtain reports of their spending compared to various benchmarks. The benchmarks may be for various demographic groups, networks to which the user belongs, groups of users connected to a user, or any other suitable grouping of users. The social networking system may also forecast a user's spending on a category based on the spending of other users who have similar spending profiles in other categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Loren Alfred Cheng, Edward Zagat
  • Patent number: 11048381
    Abstract: When a user sees a content item presented by a social networking system, the user may select an option to save the content item. The saved content item may be reinserted in a newsfeed presented to the user, integrated into collections, archived, used for notifications to the user, or otherwise subsequently presented to the user. A plug-in may be used to save content items accessed through websites external to the social networking system. As privacy settings associated with a saved content item are modified, the modified privacy settings are applied to the saved content item, which may prevent the user saving the content item from subsequently viewing the saved content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jane Leibrock, Loren Alfred Cheng, Matthew Brown, Jessica Gronski, Marc Horowitz, William Jacobs, Zhengzheng Pan, Xiao Ou Wang, Joshua Van Dyke Watzman, Luke Woods, Rachel Margaret Wong
  • Patent number: 10303330
    Abstract: When a user sees a content item presented by a social networking system, the user may select an option to save the content item. The saved content item may be reinserted in a newsfeed presented to the user, integrated into collections, archived, used for notifications to the user, or otherwise subsequently presented to the user. A plug-in may be used to save content items accessed through websites external to the social networking system. As privacy settings associated with a saved content item are modified, the modified privacy settings are applied to the saved content item, which may prevent the user saving the content item from subsequently viewing the saved content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jane Leibrock, Loren Alfred Cheng, Matthew Brown, Jessica Gronski, Marc Horowitz, William Jacobs, Zhengzheng Pan, Xiao Ou Wang, Joshua Van Dyke Watzman, Luke Woods, Rachel Margaret Wong
  • Patent number: 9959546
    Abstract: A social networking system associates a financial account identified by a user with a user profile maintained by the social networking system for the user. The social networking system may compensate the user for associating the financial account with the user profile by crediting the identified financial account by an amount. The credit may be applied to subsequent purchases by the user at a vendor identified by the user. To simplify vendor selection, the social networking system may suggest one or more candidate pages associated with vendors to the user. Information in a transaction history of the financial account and in the user profile may be used to identify the candidate pages, allowing the user to select a vendor with which the user has previously transacted by selecting a candidate page associated with the vendor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Loren Alfred Cheng, Edward Zagat
  • Publication number: 20160283067
    Abstract: When a user sees a content item presented by a social networking system, the user may select an option to save the content item. The saved content item may be reinserted in a newsfeed presented to the user, integrated into collections, archived, used for notifications to the user, or otherwise subsequently presented to the user. A plug-in may be used to save content items accessed through websites external to the social networking system. As privacy settings associated with a saved content item are modified, the modified privacy settings are applied to the saved content item, which may prevent the user saving the content item from subsequently viewing the saved content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Jane Leibrock, Loren Alfred Cheng, Matthew Brown, Jessica Gronski, Marc Horowitz, William Jacobs, Zhengzheng Pan, Xiao Ou Wang, Joshua Van Dyke Watzman, Luke Woods, Rachel Margaret Wong
  • Patent number: 9396502
    Abstract: When a user sees a content item presented by a social networking system, the user may select an option to save the content item. The saved content item may be reinserted in a newsfeed presented to the user, integrated into collections, archived, used for notifications to the user, or otherwise subsequently presented to the user. A plug-in may be used to save content items accessed through websites external to the social networking system. As privacy settings associated with a saved content item are modified, the modified privacy settings are applied to the saved content item, which may prevent the user saving the content item from subsequently viewing the saved content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jane Leibrock, Loren Alfred Cheng, Matthew Brown, Jessica Gronski, Marc Horowitz, William Jacobs, Zhengzheng Pan, Xiao Ou Wang, Joshua Van Dyke Watzman, Luke Woods, Rachel Margaret Wong
  • Publication number: 20140207609
    Abstract: A social networking system associates a wish list with a user's profile on the system. Additional users connected to the user may add products to the user to the user's wish list. The user is notified of products added to its wish list, allowing the user to approve or reject addition of the products to its wish list. Allowing other users to add products to a user's wish list creates a dialog between users around the added products. Users may also comment on products presented via a wish list page, allowing conversations to be created between users about various products on a user's wish list, enabling further conversation between users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Amanda Earhart, Loren Alfred Cheng
  • Publication number: 20140208232
    Abstract: When a user sees a content item presented by a social networking system, the user may select an option to save the content item. The saved content item may be reinserted in a newsfeed presented to the user, integrated into collections, archived, used for notifications to the user, or otherwise subsequently presented to the user. A plug-in may be used to save content items accessed through websites external to the social networking system. As privacy settings associated with a saved content item are modified, the modified privacy settings are applied to the saved content item, which may prevent the user saving the content item from subsequently viewing the saved content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventors: Jane Leibrock, Loren Alfred Cheng, Matthew Brown, Jessica Gronski, Marc Horowitz, William Jacobs, Zhengzheng Pan, Xiao Ou, Joshua Van Dyke Watzman, Luke Woods, Rachel Margaret Wong
  • Publication number: 20140207547
    Abstract: A social networking system associates a financial account identified by a user with a user profile maintained by the social networking system for the user. The social networking system may compensate the user for associating the financial account with the user profile by crediting the identified financial account by an amount. The credit may be applied to subsequent purchases by the user at a vendor identified by the user. To simplify vendor selection, the social networking system may suggest one or more candidate pages associated with vendors to the user. Information in a transaction history of the financial account and in the user profile may be used to identify the candidate pages, allowing the user to select a vendor with which the user has previously transacted by selecting a candidate page associated with the vendor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventors: Loren Alfred Cheng, Edward Zagat
  • Publication number: 20130262212
    Abstract: A social networking systems associates users of the system with a social punch card, credits the social punch card with punches based on actions performed by the users, and provides rewards to the users when the target number of punches for the social punch card is reached. A social punch card includes a definition of an action that will credit a punch to the social punch card, a target number of punches for completing the punch card, and a reward to be provided for reaching the target number of punches. Each of the users associated with a social punch card are connected with at least one other user associated with the social punch card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Dmitry Shevelenko, Loren Alfred Cheng, Yegnashankar Parasuram, Christopher Triolo, Reshma Khilnani, Edward Zagat
  • Patent number: 8543647
    Abstract: A social networking system is configured to generate node graphs to handle specific types of customer incident reports. The node graphs comprise data structures that include nodes connected in acyclic graphs. Each node includes a node handler and optionally a user interface widget. Activating a node graph causes a subset of the nodes in the node graph to execute their node handlers. The executing node handlers generate a customer incident resolution that may include information gathering, manual review, and communications to users and third-party systems. Generation of the customer incident resolution through the node graphs allows the social networking system to handle customer incidents consistently, efficiently, and in a scalable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Loren Alfred Cheng, Pratap Venkataram Prabhu, Jesse Michael Munitz-Alessio, Vladimir Gregory Korshin, Shoeb Altaf Omar
  • Publication number: 20130212175
    Abstract: A social networking system is configured to generate node graphs to handle specific types of customer incident reports. The node graphs comprise data structures that include nodes connected in acyclic graphs. Each node includes a node handler and optionally a user interface widget. Activating a node graph causes a subset of the nodes in the node graph to execute their node handlers. The executing node handlers generate a customer incident resolution that may include information gathering, manual review, and communications to users and third-party systems. Generation of the customer incident resolution through the node graphs allows the social networking system to handle customer incidents consistently, efficiently, and in a scalable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventors: Loren Alfred Cheng, Pratap Venkataram Prabhu, Jesse Michael Munitz-Alessio, Vladimir Gregory Korshin, Shoeb Altaf Omar