Patents by Inventor Owen H. Coutts

Owen H. Coutts 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: 10939381
    Abstract: An online system receives an advertisement (“ad”) request identifying an objective for presenting the ad request. The objective specifies a type of interaction with the presented ad request. A threshold battery level is associated with the type of interaction in the ad request that specifies a minimum battery level of a client device to complete the type of interaction. When selecting content for presentation to a user, the online system obtains a battery level of a client device associated with the user and compares the obtained battery level to the threshold battery level. Based on the comparison, the online system determines if to present the ad request to the user. For example, the comparison may prevent presentation of the ad request or penalize a value associated with the ad request if the obtained battery level does not satisfy the threshold battery level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Calvin Patrick Grunewald, Greg Schechter, Owen H. Coutts
  • Patent number: 10321408
    Abstract: An online system receives an advertisement (“ad”) request identifying an objective for presenting the ad request. The objective specifies a type of interaction with the presented ad request. A threshold battery level is associated with the type of interaction in the ad request that specifies a minimum battery level of a client device to complete the type of interaction. When selecting content for presentation to a user, the online system obtains a battery level of a client device associated with the user and compares the obtained battery level to the threshold battery level. Based on the comparison, the online system determines if to present the ad request to the user. For example, the comparison may prevent presentation of the ad request or penalize a value associated with the ad request if the obtained battery level does not satisfy the threshold battery level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Calvin Patrick Grunewald, Greg Schechter, Owen H. Coutts
  • Publication number: 20180174197
    Abstract: A content item maintained by an online system has a creative presenting content including a product from an application associated with a third party system. When the online system identifies an opportunity to present the content item to the user, the online system selects a product associated with the third party system based on content from one or more third party systems accessed by the user. The online system includes the content item with the creative including content from the application including the selected product in one or more selection processes. If the content item with the creative including content from the application including the selected product is presented to the user and the online system receives an indication the application was installed on a client device, the online system provides instructions to the client device to present content associated with the selected product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Tao Cui Baecklund, Mina Maher Shawky Abouseif, Robert Morgan Banks, Jinghao Yan, Owen H. Coutts, Jehan Damji
  • Publication number: 20160249296
    Abstract: An online system receives an advertisement (“ad”) request identifying an objective for presenting the ad request. The objective specifies a type of interaction with the presented ad request. A threshold battery level is associated with the type of interaction in the ad request that specifies a minimum battery level of a client device to complete the type of interaction. When selecting content for presentation to a user, the online system obtains a battery level of a client device associated with the user and compares the obtained battery level to the threshold battery level. Based on the comparison, the online system determines if to present the ad request to the user. For example, the comparison may prevent presentation of the ad request or penalize a value associated with the ad request if the obtained battery level does not satisfy the threshold battery level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Calvin Patrick Grunewald, Greg Schechter, Owen H. Coutts