Patents by Inventor Peter Deng

Peter Deng 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: 9047584
    Abstract: Members of a social networking system group are provided multiple interfaces to communicate within the group. A first communication interface allows a user to upload a first content item; in response to this, the first content item is transmitted via a first communication channel to online members of the group. A second communication interface allows a user to upload a second content item; in response to this, the second content item is transmitted via a second communication channel to online and offline members of the group. Transmission via a first communication channel may comprise sending an instant message containing the first content item. Transmission via a second communication channel may comprise displaying the second content item on a group message board. Both interfaces may be contained within the group's web page or may be contained within another web page within the social networking system or outside of it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Michael Baldwin, Daniel Sunil Chai, Elliot Michael Lynde, Andrew G. Bosworth, Oswald Soleio Cuervo, Peter Deng
  • Patent number: 8997006
    Abstract: An external system (e.g., a website) is associated with an event and includes an interface that allows users to interact with streams of content associated with a social networking system. The interface allows a user to provide posts about the event via the interface, where the posts are displayed in the interface and also in a social networking interface on social networking system in connection with the user and other users associated with that user. The user can view, via the interface on the external system, posts from all users that are provided via the interface (e.g., everyone watching the event), thereby increasing the likelihood that the posts are relevant to the event. The user can also view, via the interface, posts from users associated with the user via the social networking system (e.g., friends of the user), regardless of where those are posted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Scott Whitnah, Peter Deng, Arieh Steinberg, Lior Abraham
  • 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: 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
  • Patent number: 8887066
    Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods for calendaring are provided. Exemplary systems include a natural language receiving component configured to receive a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, a calendar generation engine configured to create a calendar entry based on the natural language entry, a social network database configured for accessing and querying by the calendar generation engine, a privacy component configured to receive a privacy setting indicating a person who is approved to view the calendar entry, and a display module configured to display the calendar entry on a calendar. Exemplary methods include receiving a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, creating a calendar entry, and displaying the calendar entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Deng, Scott Marlette, Marcel Laverdet, Mark Zuckerberg
  • Publication number: 20140244661
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication of a location of a mobile-client system of a user, determining an intent of the user based on the location of the user, generating one or more suggested queries based on the determined intent of the user; and transmitting a notification to the mobile-client system of the user that includes one or more of the suggested queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Keith L. Peiris, Peter Deng
  • Publication number: 20130205225
    Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods for calendaring are provided. Exemplary systems include a natural language receiving component configured to receive a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, a calendar generation engine configured to create a calendar entry based on the natural language entry, a social network database configured for accessing and querying by the calendar generation engine, a privacy component configured to receive a privacy setting indicating a person who is approved to view the calendar entry, and a display module configured to display the calendar entry on a calendar. Exemplary methods include receiving a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, creating a calendar entry, and displaying the calendar entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Peter Deng, Scott Marlette, Marcel Laverdet, Mark Zuckerberg
  • Publication number: 20130198655
    Abstract: An external system (e.g., a website) is associated with an event and includes an interface that allows users to interact with streams of content associated with a social networking system. The interface allows a user to provide posts about the event via the interface, where the posts are displayed in the interface and also in a social networking interface on social networking system in connection with the user and other users associated with that user. The user can view, via the interface on the external system, posts from all users that are provided via the interface (e.g., everyone watching the event), thereby increasing the likelihood that the posts are relevant to the event. The user can also view, via the interface, posts from users associated with the user via the social networking system (e.g., friends of the user), regardless of where those are posted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas Scott Whitnah, Peter Deng, Arieh Steinberg, Lior Abraham
  • Publication number: 20130014031
    Abstract: An external system (e.g., a website) is associated with an event and includes an interface that allows users to interact with streams of content associated with a social networking system. The interface allows a user to provide posts about the event via the interface, where the posts are displayed in the interface and also in a social networking interface on social networking system in connection with the user and other users associated with that user. The user can view, via the interface on the external system, posts from all users that are provided via the interface (e.g., everyone watching the event), thereby increasing the likelihood that the posts are relevant to the event. The user can also view, via the interface, posts from users associated with the user via the social networking system (e.g., friends of the user), regardless of where those are posted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas Scott Whitnah, Peter Deng, Arieh Steinberg, Lior Abraham
  • Publication number: 20120166535
    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 28, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Peter Deng, William Joseph Flynn, III, Josh Wiseman, Mark E. Zuckerberg, Matthew Cahill
  • Publication number: 20120144280
    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: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Peter Deng, William Joseph Flynn, III, Josh Wiseman, Matthew Cahill, Mark E. Zuckerberg
  • Publication number: 20120144316
    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: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Peter Deng, William Joseph Flynn, III, Josh Wiseman, Matthew Cahill, Philip Sanghoon Rha, Martin Smith
  • Publication number: 20120102415
    Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods for calendaring are provided. Exemplary systems include a natural language receiving component configured to receive a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, a calendar generation engine configured to create a calendar entry based on the natural language entry, a social network database configured for accessing and querying by the calendar generation engine, a privacy component configured to receive a privacy setting indicating a person who is approved to view the calendar entry, and a display module configured to display the calendar entry on a calendar. Exemplary methods include receiving a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, creating a calendar entry, and displaying the calendar entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: Peter Deng, Scott Marlette, Marcel Laverdet, Mark Zuckerberg
  • Publication number: 20120072855
    Abstract: Members of a social networking system group are provided multiple interfaces to communicate within the group. A first communication interface allows a user to upload a first content item; in response to this, the first content item is transmitted via a first communication channel to online members of the group. A second communication interface allows a user to upload a second content item; in response to this, the second content item is transmitted via a second communication channel to online and offline members of the group. Transmission via a first communication channel may comprise sending an instant message containing the first content item. Transmission via a second communication channel may comprise displaying the second content item on a group message board. Both interfaces may be contained within the group's web page or may be contained within another web page within the social networking system or outside of it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventors: Robert Michael Baldwin, Daniel Sunil Chai, Elliot Michael Lynde, Andrew G. Bosworth, Soleio Cuervo, Peter Deng
  • Publication number: 20110154223
    Abstract: An external system (e.g., a website) is associated with an event and includes an interface that allows users to interact with streams of content associated with a social networking system. The interface allows a user to provide posts about the event via the interface, where the posts are displayed in the interface and also in a social networking interface on social networking system in connection with the user and other users associated with that user. The user can view, via the interface on the external system, posts from all users that are provided via the interface (e.g., everyone watching the event), thereby increasing the likelihood that the posts are relevant to the event. The user can also view, via the interface, posts from users associated with the user via the social networking system (e.g., friends of the user), regardless of where those are posted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Thomas Scott Whitnah, Peter Deng, Arieh Steinberg, Lior Abraham
  • Publication number: 20110004831
    Abstract: A social networking service presents information about the social network using multiple feeds in a user interface and provides mechanisms for filtering the content. A content feed includes the most recent content generated by the user's connections, and a highlights feed displays content based on importance and relevance. A user may add content to the social networking service through a composer interface. A user may also filter either or both of the content feed and the highlights feed using a filtering interface, which allows selective filtering of the feeds using one or more different types of filters, including as filtering by the source of the content, friends or networks, and/or content type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventors: Arieh Steinberg, Mark Tonkelowitz, Peter Deng, Atlam Mosseri, Adam Hupp, Aaron Sittig, Mark Zuckerberg
  • Patent number: 7675435
    Abstract: Keyboard entries by users are tracked and filtered to reduce ambiguity in translating the entries to characters and predicting text based on the entries in a multiple keyboard environment. Key tables such as an equivalence table mapping characters to a base character value, a digit mapping table mapping characters to a digit between 0 and 9 are used to determine possible matches in text prediction. A letter accumulator UI is employed along with a number accumulator UI to provide users feedback on tracked letters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ray Sun, Timothy M. Thairu, Kelly Gachet, Juan Jose Mejia, Timothy L. Bui, Peter Deng, Aaron Filner
  • Publication number: 20080068226
    Abstract: Keyboard entries by users are tracked and filtered to reduce ambiguity in translating the entries to characters and predicting text based on the entries in a multiple keyboard environment. Key tables such as an equivalence table mapping characters to a base character value, a digit mapping table mapping characters to a digit between 0 and 9 are used to determine possible matches in text prediction. A letter accumulator UI is employed along with a number accumulator UI to provide users feedback on tracked letters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ray Sun, Timothy M. Thairu, Kelly Gachet, Juan Jose Mejia, Timothy L. Bui, Peter Deng, Aaron Filner
  • Patent number: 4394538
    Abstract: An apparatus for receiving spoken input training words and for subsequently recognizing a spoken input command word. For each training word, and for the command word, there is stored a time dependent array and a cumulative feature non-time-dependent vector. The command word array is compared, member-by-member, with each training word array. Also, the command word vector is compared, feature-by-feature, with each training word vector. The results of both comparisons are used for selecting the training word which most closely matches the command word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1983
    Assignee: Threshold Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ben Warren, George M. White, Rick Parfitt, Peter Deng
  • Patent number: D671551
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Deng, William Joseph Flynn, III, Josh Wiseman, Matthew Cahill