Patents by Inventor Michael Steven Vernal
Michael Steven Vernal 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: 8793593Abstract: A social networking system includes a mechanism for integrating user actions on objects outside of the social networking system in the social graph. For example, streaming music on external systems may be integrated into the user experience on the social networking system. Third-party developers, in addition to administrators of the social networking system, may define objects and actions that enable integration of external music sources to be played and controlled using the social networking system while also providing socially relevant information to other users of the social networking system. Actions and objects recorded from these external user interactions are structured to enable aggregation and structured querying, which enables data visualizations of the information discoverable on the social graph. In this way, interesting information about users' actions outside of the domain of the social networking system may be shared and compared with other users on the social networking system.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen, Carl Philip Sjogreen, Vladimir Fedorov, Casey Maloney Rosales Muller, Austin Daniel Haugen, Edward Kenneth O'Neil, Naitik Shah, Paul Tarjan, Michael Steven Vernal, Arthur George Rudolph
-
Patent number: 8763152Abstract: A social networking system contains information describing users of the social network and various connections among the users. A user can access multiple external systems that communicate with the social networking system to access information about the users of the social networking system. Login status of the user account on the social networking system is maintained. If the login status of the user account on the social networking system indicates that the user is not logged in, the user is required to provide authentication information. If the login status of the user account indicates that the user is logged in, social network information is provided to the user via an external system, subject to the privacy settings of users of the social networking system. If the user logs out from an external system, the user is also logged out from the social networking system.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Facebook Inc.Inventors: Michael Steven Vernal, Wei Zhu, James M. Leszczenski, Joshua E. Elman, David Brookes Morin, Charles Duplain Cheever, Ruchi Sanghvi
-
Patent number: 8752186Abstract: An external system (such as a website) that interacts with users communicates with a social networking system to access information about the users, who may also be users of the social networking system. If a privacy setting is changed in the social networking system, and the change applies to information that has been shared with an external system, the change is enforced at the external system. For example, the external system may be notified that the information is invalid and must be deleted, or the external system may periodically request the information so that changes to the privacy settings are eventually experienced at the external systems. When an external system again needs the information, whether expired naturally or actively invalidated by the social network, the external system sends a new request for the information, which is subject to the (possibly revised) privacy settings.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Michael Steven Vernal, Wei Zhu, James M. Leszczenski, Joshua E. Elman, David Brookes Morin, Charles Duplain Cheever, Ruchi Sanghvi
-
Patent number: 8667064Abstract: A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ray C. He, Spencer G. Ahrens, Yofay Kari Lee, Chaitanya Mishra, Austin Daniel Haugen, Xin Liu, Michael Steven Vernal
-
Publication number: 20140019551Abstract: A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: Facebook, Inc., a Delaware corporationInventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ray C. He, Spencer Ahrens, Yofay Kari Lee, Chaitanya Mishra, Austin Daniel Haugen, Xin Liu, Michael Steven Vernal
-
Publication number: 20130346502Abstract: A social networking system contains information describing information about users of the social networking system and about various connections among the users. When a user of the social networking system accesses an external website, the external website may send the user a web page containing markup language with instructions to retrieve information associated with a user from a social networking system. The client device processes the annotations and sends a request for social information related to the user to a social networking system, subject perhaps to privacy settings in the social networking system. The user's browser uses the information obtained from the social networking system in response to the request to render the markup language document for display on the user's computer system. This process allows the external website to use information from the social networking system to enhance the user's experience on the external website.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Wei Zhu, David Brookes Morin, James M. Leszczenski, Michael Steven Vernal, Joshua E. Elman, Luke Jonathan Shepard
-
Patent number: 8583738Abstract: A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2012Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ray C. He, Spencer Ahrens, Yofay Kari Lee, Chaitanya Mishra, Austin Daniel Haugen, Xin Liu, Michael Steven Vernal
-
Patent number: 8572174Abstract: A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2012Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ray C. He, Spencer Ahrens, Yofay Kari Lee, Chaitanya Mishra, Austin Daniel Haugen, Xin Liu, Michael Steven Vernal
-
Patent number: 8549072Abstract: A social networking system contains information describing information about users of the social networking system and about various connections among the users. When a user of the social networking system accesses an external website, the external website may send the user a web page containing markup language with instructions to retrieve information associated with a user from a social networking system. The client device processes the annotations and sends a request for social information related to the user to a social networking system, subject perhaps to privacy settings in the social networking system. The user's browser uses the information obtained from the social networking system in response to the request to render the markup language document for display on the user's computer system. This process allows the external website to use information from the social networking system to enhance the user's experience on the external website.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Wei Zhu, David Brookes Morin, James M. Leszczenski, Michael Steven Vernal, Joshua E. Elman, Luke Jonathan Shepard
-
Patent number: 8533357Abstract: A mechanism for sending structured data using a corresponding byte stream. Upon accessing structured data such as a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) envelope, a byte stream is generated. The byte stream includes bytes that represent the structured data, as well as a collection of bytes that represents properties about the byte stream such as, for example, a mode of communication. The byte stream may then be passed to a communication module (e.g., a TCP or Named Pipes module) capable of receiving and transmitting the byte stream.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2004Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Kenneth D. Wolf, Michael Steven Vernal, Christopher G. Kaler, Elliot Lee Waingold, Erik Bo Christensen, Jeffrey C. Schlimmer, Martin James Gudgin, Siddhartha Puri
-
Publication number: 20130073983Abstract: A social networking system includes a mechanism for integrating user actions on objects outside of the social networking system in the social graph. For example, streaming music on external systems may be integrated into the user experience on the social networking system. Third-party developers, in addition to administrators of the social networking system, may define objects and actions that enable integration of external music sources to be played and controlled using the social networking system while also providing socially relevant information to other users of the social networking system. Actions and objects recorded from these external user interactions are structured to enable aggregation and structured querying, which enables data visualizations of the information discoverable on the social graph. In this way, interesting information about users' actions outside of the domain of the social networking system may be shared and compared with other users on the social networking system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Inventors: Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen, Carl Philip Sjogreen, Vladimir Fedorov, Casey Maloney Rosales Muller, Austin Daniel Haugen, Edward Kenneth O'Neil, Naitik Shah, Paul Tarjan, Michael Steven Vernal, Authur Geogre Rudolph
-
Publication number: 20130073979Abstract: A social networking system includes a mechanism for integrating user actions on objects outside of the social networking system in the social graph. External system operators include widgets that, when executed by user devices, record user interactions that correspond to a defined structure of actions and objects. Third party operators utilize a tool provided by the social networking system to define the structure of actions and objects. External actions are recorded by the social networking system for publishing to the social graph.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Inventors: Brynn Shepherd, Carl Philip Sjogreen, Vladimir Fedorov, Naitik Shah, Edward Kenneth O'Neil, Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen, Paul Tarjan, Michael Steven Vernal, Arthur George Rudolph
-
Publication number: 20130073632Abstract: A social networking system includes a mechanism for integrating user actions on objects outside of the social networking system in the social graph. External system operators include widgets that, when executed by user devices, record user interactions that correspond to a defined structure of actions and objects. Third party operators utilize a tool provided by the social networking system to define the structure of actions and objects. External actions are recorded by the social networking system for publishing to the social graph.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Inventors: Vladimir Fedorov, Naitik Shah, Edward Kenneth O'Neil, Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen, Paul Tarjan, Michael Steven Vernal, Carl Philip Sjogreen
-
Patent number: 8386587Abstract: Systems and methods for synchronizing data between endpoints using elements of centralized and decentralized synchronization systems and communication topologies are disclosed. Such systems and methods may in some cases synchronize some subset of data with a centralized endpoint while another subset of data is synchronized in a decentralized fashion directly with other endpoints. Such systems and methods may include a variety of cooperative functionality to assist in the synchronization of data between endpoints.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Akash J. Sagar, George P. Moromisato, Richard Yiu-Sai Chung, Raymond E. Ozzie, Jack E. Ozzie, David Richard Reed, Michael Steven Vernal, Vladimir Dmitri Fedorov, Muthukaruppan Annamalai
-
Publication number: 20130014284Abstract: A social network contains information describing information about members of the social network and about various connections among the members. An external system that interacts with users (such as a website) communicates with the social network to access information about the members of the social network. In particular, the external system may determine whether a user is a member of the social network and then obtain information about the member and the member's connections within the social network. This allows an external system to use information from the social network to enhance a user's experience on the external system, while enforcing each member's privacy settings.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Inventors: Michael Steven Vernal, Wei Zhu, James M. Leszczenski, Joshua E. Elman, David Brookes Morin, Charles Duplain Cheever, Ruchi Sanghvi, Julie Zhuo, Luke Jonathan Shepard
-
Publication number: 20120284615Abstract: A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ray C. He, Spencer G. Ahrens, Yofay Kari Lee, Chaitanya Mishra, Austin Daniel Haugen, Xin Liu, Michael Steven Vernal
-
Publication number: 20120284614Abstract: A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ray C. He, Spencer Ahrens, Yofay Kari Lee, Chaitanya Mishra, Austin Daniel Haugen, Xin Liu, Michael Steven Vernal
-
Publication number: 20120278394Abstract: A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ray C. He, Spencer G. Ahrens, Yofay Kari Lee, Chaitanya Mishra, Austin Daniel Haugen, Xin Liu, Michael Steven Vernal
-
Patent number: 8296354Abstract: The present invention extends to using Simple Object Access Protocol (“SOAP”) to exchange typed objects, such as, for example, parameters for invoking methods. A computer system accesses typed object parameters corresponding to a typed object. The typed object is annotated with one or more message contract attributes of a message contract model defining a mapping between typed object parameters and corresponding SOAP elements. The computer system utilizes the message contract attributes to map the typed object parameters into a SOAP element and inserts the SOAP element into a SOAP envelope. A receiving computer system accessing the SOAP element and utilizes the message contract attributes to map the SOAP element back into the typed object parameters.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2004Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Erik Bo Christensen, Vaithiakingam B. Balayoghan, Michael James Coulson, Ryan Thomas Sturgell, Natasha Harish Jethanandani, Michael Jon Marucheck, Douglas M. Purdy, Kenneth David Wolf, Michael Steven Vernal, Stefan Harrington Pharies, David Wortendyke
-
Patent number: 8280959Abstract: A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ray C. He, Spencer Ahrens, Yofay Kari Lee, Chaitanya Mishra, Austin Daniel Haugen, Xin Liu, Michael Steven Vernal