Patents by Inventor Paul Ashton Jones

Paul Ashton Jones 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).

  • Systems and methods for measuring time spent associated with a social networking system
    Patent number: 10404817
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can obtain a first event stream including one or more events of a first type, where each event of the first type is associated with a timestamp. A second event stream including one or more events of a second type can be obtained, where each event of the second type is associated with a timestamp. The first event stream and the second event stream can be merged to generate information associated with a metric relating to a system, based on the timestamps associated with the one or more events of the first type and the timestamps associated with the one or more events of the second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jordan William Frank, Hongyu Liang, Itamar Rosenn, Aleksander Gorajek, Thomas M. Lento, Fanghua Li, Siyang Chen, Vishwas Badarinath Sharma, Paul Ashton Jones, Zoe Abrams Bayen
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING TIME SPENT ASSOCIATED WITH A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180159944
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can obtain a first event stream including one or more events of a first type, where each event of the first type is associated with a timestamp. A second event stream including one or more events of a second type can be obtained, where each event of the second type is associated with a timestamp. The first event stream and the second event stream can be merged to generate information associated with a metric relating to a system, based on the timestamps associated with the one or more events of the first type and the timestamps associated with the one or more events of the second type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Jordan William Frank, Hongyu Liang, Itamar Rosenn, Aleksander Gorajek, Thomas M. Lento, Fanghua Li, Siyang Chen, Vishwas Badarinath Sharma, Paul Ashton Jones, Zoe Abrams Bayen