Patents by Inventor Matthew Vincent Sain
Matthew Vincent Sain 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).
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Patent number: 10917485Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user of an online social network, a request for a user-list, generating a structured query corresponding to the user-list, where the structured query is selected from a plurality of structured queries, and identifying one or more second users of the online social network that match the structured query and have a social connection or non-social connection with the first user. The social connection between the first user and the second user being based on social interactions on the online social network. The non-social connection between the first user and the second user being based on non-social interactions on a third-party application on the client system and being accessed by the online social network from the third-party application. The method includes sending, to the client system, instructions for displaying the user-list to the first user.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Wharton Lessin, Robert M. Baldwin, Jeffrey Huang, Timothy A. Stanke, Caitlin Rothrock Winner, Matthew Vincent Sain
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Patent number: 10592558Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system associated with a first user, a request to access a user-card interface. The method includes generating, in response to the request, multiple user-cards, each user-card being associated with a pre-selected query. Each user-card includes references to second users matching the pre-selected query associated with the user-card. The method includes calculating a user-card score for each user-card. The user-card score represents a relevance of the pre-selected query to the first user and a relevance of the second users referenced in the user-card to the first user. The relevance of each second user referenced in the user-card is based on an affinity coefficient of the first user with respect to the second user. The method includes sending, to the client system, instructions for presenting the user-card interface with user-cards in ranked order based on the user-card score associated with each user-card.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Wharton Lessin, Robert M. Baldwin, Jeffrey Huang, Timothy A. Stanke, Caitlin Rothrock Winner, Matthew Vincent Sain
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Publication number: 20190306261Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user of an online social network, a request for a user-list, generating a structured query corresponding to the user-list, where the structured query is selected from a plurality of structured queries, and identifying one or more second users of the online social network that match the structured query and have a social connection or non-social connection with the first user. The social connection between the first user and the second user being based on social interactions on the online social network. The non-social connection between the first user and the second user being based on non-social interactions on a third-party application on the client system and being accessed by the online social network from the third-party application. The method includes sending, to the client system, instructions for displaying the user-list to the first user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: Samuel Wharton Lessin, Robert M. Baldwin, Jeffrey Huang, Timothy A. Stanke, Caitlin Rothrock Winner, Matthew Vincent Sain
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Patent number: 10334064Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user of an online social network, a request for a user-list including one or more second users of the online social network. The method includes calculating, for each of the second users, a contact-score between the first user and the second user based on social interactions and non-social interactions between the users. The social interactions are interactions on the online social network visible to the first user based on privacy settings associated with the second user and the respective social interaction. The non-social interactions are interactions on a third-party application accessed by the online social network, shared based on a privacy setting associated with the third-party application. The method includes generating the user-list with references to second users having a contact-score above a threshold contact-score. The method includes providing instructions for displaying the user-list.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Wharton Lessin, Robert M. Baldwin, Jeffrey Huang, Timothy A. Stanke, Caitlin Rothrock Winner, Matthew Vincent Sain
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Publication number: 20180054494Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user of an online social network, a request for a user-list including one or more second users of the online social network. The method includes calculating, for each of the second users, a contact-score between the first user and the second user based on social interactions and non-social interactions between the users. The social interactions are interactions on the online social network visible to the first user based on privacy settings associated with the second user and the respective social interaction. The non-social interactions are interactions on a third-party application accessed by the online social network, shared based on a privacy setting associated with the third-party application. The method includes generating the user-list with references to second users having a contact-score above a threshold contact-score. The method includes providing instructions for displaying the user-list.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Samuel Wharton Lessin, Robert M. Baldwin, Jeffrey Huang, Timothy A. Stanke, Caitlin Rothrock Winner, Matthew Vincent Sain
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Publication number: 20180004861Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system associated with a first user, a request to access a user-card interface. The method includes generating, in response to the request, multiple user-cards, each user-card being associated with a pre-selected query. Each user-card includes references to second users matching the pre-selected query associated with the user-card. The method includes calculating a user-card score for each user-card. The user-card score represents a relevance of the pre-selected query to the first user and a relevance of the second users referenced in the user-card to the first user. The relevance of each second user referenced in the user-card is based on an affinity coefficient of the first user with respect to the second user. The method includes sending, to the client system, instructions for presenting the user-card interface with user-cards in ranked order based on the user-card score associated with each user-card.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Samuel Wharton Lessin, Robert M. Baldwin, Jeffrey Huang, Timothy A. Stanke, Caitlin Rothrock Winner, Matthew Vincent Sain
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Patent number: 9798832Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph including a number of nodes and a number of edges connecting the nodes. Each of the edges between two of the nodes represent a single degree of separation between them. The nodes include a first node corresponding to a first user associated with an online social network and a number of second nodes that each correspond to a concept or a second user associated with the online social network. The method also includes generating a number of user-cards in response to a request by the first user for a list of second users. Each user-card is associated with a structured query referencing nodes or edges of the social graph. Each user-card contains references to a number of second users corresponding to one or more second nodes that match the structured query associated with the user-card.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Wharton Lessin, Robert M. Baldwin, Jeffrey Huang, Timothy A. Stanke, Caitlin Rothrock Winner, Matthew Vincent Sain
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Patent number: 9794359Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph including a number of nodes and a number of edges connecting the nodes. Each of the edges between two of the nodes represent a single degree of separation between them. The nodes include a first node corresponding to a first user associated with an online social network and a number of second nodes that each correspond to a concept or a second user associated with the online social network. The method also includes generating a user-list containing references to a number of second users. A contact-score for each second user may be calculated based on interactions between the first user and second user on the online social network, or interactions not on the online social network but accessed by the online social network. A user-list is generated containing references to second users with contact-scores above a threshold contact-score.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Wharton Lessin, Robert M. Baldwin, Jeffrey Huang, Timothy A. Stanke, Caitlin Rothrock Winner, Matthew Vincent Sain
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Publication number: 20150134659Abstract: A social networking system allows users to create collections including objects associated with products, services, games, videos, books or other similar items. An object is associated with a type and one or more actions are associated with the type to identify actions capable of being performed on the object. When an object is presented to a user, the type of the object is compared to types of objects capable of being included in a collection. If the type of the object is capable of being included in a collection, one or more collections associated with actions associated with the type of the object are identified. Information describing the identified collections is generated and presented to the user. By selecting information identifying a collection, the user includes the object in the collection corresponding to the selected information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Kyle Philip Meyer, Rose Bihui Yao, Matthew Vincent Sain, Christopher Alexander Gist