Patents by Inventor Matthew Cahill

Matthew Cahill 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).

  • Publication number: 20160127485
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing geolocation data indicating a current geolocation of a client device of a user; identifying one or more categories of interest to the user based at least in part on social information of the user; identifying one or more objects based at least in part on the current geolocation; and determining one or more recommendations for the user based at least in part on a calculated interest value of each identified object. The calculated interest value is based at least in part on the identified categories of interest to the user. The method also includes providing the recommendations for transmission to the client device. The recommendations include one or more of the identified objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Erick Tseng, Matthew Cahill, Neel Ishwar Murarka, Charles Jolley
  • Patent number: 9189125
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method comprises associating a document with a document log; receiving, from a first client computer, a first section of the document; determining a first change in the document in the first section; generating a first message that includes the first change; storing the first message; sending, to each client computer of one or more client computers, the first message, which when received by the client computer, causes the client computer to update the document stored on the client computer with the first change and to present the first change to a user in a user interface associated with the document log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Quip, Inc.
    Inventors: Bret Taylor, Kevin Gibbs, Jonathan Mcalister, Casey Maloney Rosales Muller, Patrick Linehan, Matthew Cahill, Mihai Paparita
  • Publication number: 20150319590
    Abstract: A method and/or system allows a user of a social networking service to publish a content item tagged with location information for sharing with other users of the social networking service. The user publishing the content item performs operations on the originating device to generate the content item. The originating communication device attaches the location information to the content item, and transmits the content item to a social networking system. The social networking system may provide various location-based services based on the content item tagged with the location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Eyal M. Sharon, Jed Stremel, Olumakinde A. Adeagbo, Wayne Sean Chang, Joseph Hewitt, Matthew Cahill
  • Patent number: 9119027
    Abstract: A method and/or system allows a user of a social networking service to publish a content item tagged with location information for sharing with other users of the social networking service. The user publishing the content item performs operations on the originating device to generate the content item. The originating communication device attaches the location information to the content item, and transmits the content item to a social networking system. The social networking system may provide various location-based services based on the content item tagged with the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Eyal M. Sharon, Jed Stremel, Olumakinde A. Adeagbo, Wayne Chang, Joseph Hewitt, Matthew Cahill
  • Patent number: 9092826
    Abstract: A social networking system provides a short, unbiased biographical summary for a user of the social networking system. The short biography includes a few relevant biographical information items selected from the user's profile and is displayed on the profile page. The short biography may be displayed with a set of photographs also selected from the profile for their relevance. Relevance may be based on various information including temporal relevance and relevance to the viewing user. Display of the short biography allows a viewer to easily find current biographical information about the user in an abbreviated format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Deng, William Joseph Flynn, III, Josh Wiseman, Matthew Cahill, Mark E. Zuckerberg
  • Patent number: 9092078
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing device displays a graphical parameter-control element in a graphical user interface indicating a range and a position value of a controllable parameter of an application of the computing device. The computing device may detect a touch event on a touchpad of the computing device. The computing device may determine that the touch event is a scrolling event, and scroll the position value along the range based on a direction of the scrolling event, and adjust the position value by a relative amount within the range mapping to a relative distance of the scrolling event along the touchpad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Matthew Cahill
  • Publication number: 20150100899
    Abstract: A user profile for a user of a social networking system may include experiences, such as work, educational, travel, and interests. The social networking system provides a profile page for a user's user profile that allows users to compliment the user on the experience. If a user wants to compliment another user on an experience not present on that user's user profile, the user can add the experience along with the compliment. Complimenting users on their experiences allows a reputation ranking to be created based on compliments received in a particular domain, which are searchable by user of the social networking system. The compliments may be used by the social networking system to build a domain-based reputation ranking of users of a social networking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Peter Xiu Deng, William Joseph Flynn, III, Josh Wiseman, Mark E. Zuckerberg, Matthew Cahill
  • Patent number: 8978893
    Abstract: A user profile for a user of a social networking system may include experiences, such as work, educational, travel, and interests. The social networking system provides a profile page for a user's user profile that allows users to compliment the user on the experience. If a user wants to compliment another user on an experience not present on that user's user profile, the user can add the experience along with the compliment. Complimenting users on their experiences allows a reputation ranking to be created based on compliments received in a particular domain, which are searchable by user of the social networking system. The compliments may be used by the social networking system to build a domain-based reputation ranking of users of a social networking system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Deng, William Joseph Flynn, III, Josh Wiseman, Mark E. Zuckerberg, Matthew Cahill
  • Patent number: 8976142
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a touch event on a back-mounted touchpad of a computing device during display of a current user interface of an application executing on the computing device. The application includes a navigation hierarchy with a home user-interface layer, multiple sub user-interface layers, and multiple user-interface branches. The method includes determining a particular sub user-interface layer and user-interface branch that the current user interface corresponds to and determining a type of the touch event. When the type of the touch event is an upward touch event and there is a next sub user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface, the method navigates to the next user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Matthew Cahill
  • Patent number: 8910052
    Abstract: A user profile for a user of a social networking system may include experiences, such as work, educational, travel, and interests. The social networking system provides a profile page for a user's user profile that allows the user to tag other users as being involved in or otherwise associated with the user's experiences. Once another user is tagged in an experience, a corresponding tag is added to the tagged user's user profile, and that experience is added as well if not already included in the profile. Tagging users in experiences allows a viewer to see connections between experiences of users of the social networking system and promotes more detailed user profiles that contain experiences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Deng, William Joseph Flynn, III, Josh Wiseman, Matthew Cahill, Philip Sanghoon Rha, Martin Smith
  • Publication number: 20140357568
    Abstract: A method of increasing muscle mass and strength in mammals by orally administering a therapeutically effective amount of phosphatidic acid. The phosphatidic acid is preferably administered as a plurality of doses per day with at least one dose being administered during the anabolic window following exercise. Preferably, the method further includes the cotemporaneous administration of a therapeutically effective amount of creatine, optionally as phosphatidylcreatine. In addition or in the alternative, the method further includes the cotemporaneous administration of a therapeutically effective amount of leucine, optionally as phosphatidylleucine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Robert Clarke, Matthew Cahill, Brian Sweet
  • Publication number: 20140333568
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a touch event on a back-mounted touchpad of a computing device during display of a current user interface of an application executing on the computing device. The application includes a navigation hierarchy with a home user-interface layer, multiple sub user-interface layers, and multiple user-interface branches. The method includes determining a particular sub user-interface layer and user-interface branch that the current user interface corresponds to and determining a type of the touch event. When the type of the touch event is an upward touch event and there is a next sub user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface, the method navigates to the next user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Matthew Cahill
  • Publication number: 20140327639
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing device displays a graphical parameter-control element in a graphical user interface indicating a range and a position value of a controllable parameter of an application of the computing device. The computing device may detect a touch event on a touchpad of the computing device. The computing device may determine that the touch event is a scrolling event, and scroll the position value along the range based on a direction of the scrolling event, and adjust the position value by a relative amount within the range mapping to a relative distance of the scrolling event along the touchpad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Matthew Cahill
  • Patent number: 8866786
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a touch event on a side-mounted touchpad of a computing device during display of a current user interface of an application executing on the computing device. The application includes a navigation hierarchy with a home user-interface layer, multiple sub user-interface layers, and multiple user-interface branches. The method includes determining a particular sub user-interface layer and user-interface branch that the current user interface corresponds to and determining a type of the touch event. When the type of the touch event is a forward touch event and there is a next sub user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface, the method navigates to the next user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Matthew Cahill
  • Patent number: 8869024
    Abstract: The functionality of a browser application is enhanced using a browser plug-in, which enables the browser application to access portions of a file system not otherwise accessible to the browser application. The enhanced functionality provided by the browser plug-in is used in one example by an image uploading web application. The browser application may also start a task in the background, such as a task for uploading several images, and then monitor the progress of the task even when the browser application navigates away from the page that initiated the task. The browser application may use a local web server running on the client device to perform tasks, including the rendering of images and monitoring progress of long running tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Cahill, Christopher W. Putnam, Daniel Reed Weatherford
  • Publication number: 20140282078
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method comprises associating a document with a document log; receiving, from a first client computer, a first section of the document; determining a first change in the document in the first section; generating a first message that includes the first change; storing the first message; sending, to each client computer of one or more client computers, the first message, which when received by the client computer, causes the client computer to update the document stored on the client computer with the first change and to present the first change to a user in a user interface associated with the document log.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Quip, Inc.
    Inventors: BRET TAYLOR, KEVIN GIBBS, JONATHAN MCALISTER, CASEY MALONEY ROSALES MALONEY ROSALES MULLER, PATRICK LINEHAN, MATTHEW CAHILL, MIHAI PAPARITA
  • Patent number: 8830191
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a user of a mobile device adjusts a controllable parameter of an application hosted by the mobile device by using touch inputs to the mobile device's side-mounted touchpad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Matthew Cahill
  • Patent number: 8782748
    Abstract: Embodiments provide application and/or resource access control features of an online computing environment, but are not so limited. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method provides access control features for an online application environment based in part on the use of a number of directory service instances isolated from direct customer access and deployed in a defined datacenter architecture. In one embodiment, a computing environment uses web-based access control features and a number of directory service instances having organizational units and corresponding mappings to maintain a support infrastructure as part of providing features of online application services to customers. Other embodiments are included and available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Marcin Olszewski, Jonathan Luk, Alexander I. Hopmann, Fabricio Chalub Barbosa do Rosario, David Paul Harris Gorbet, Jason Matthew Cahill
  • Patent number: D710876
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Cahill, Mark E. Zuckerberg
  • Patent number: D723583
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Cahill, Mark E. Zuckerberg