Patents by Inventor Richard Kenneth Zadorozny

Richard Kenneth Zadorozny 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).

  • Publication number: 20160350953
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure include an electronic communication system that applies a content enhancement to a digital content item and sends an electronic communication containing an enhanced digital content item. Specifically, the electronic communication system can detect enhancement selection information related to the electronic communication and, based on the enhancement selection information, suggest one or more context specific content enhancements. For example, the electronic communication system can analyze enhancement selection information related to features of a digital content item, characteristics of a user, information from a social graph, and/or other information to suggest one or more content enhancements to the digital content item, apply the one or more content enhancements to the digital content item, and send an enhanced digital content item to a recipient in an electronic communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Andrea Mittelstaedt, Richard Kenneth Zadorozny, Evan Cooperman Litvak, Willie Arthur Franklin
  • Publication number: 20160134718
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first notification through a real-time push service. The first notification includes a subset of user-facing information of an object having one or more states, the subset being determined at a first point in time. A second notification is received through the real-time push service. The second notification is an update to the user-facing information of the object, and the update may be a subset of user-facing information determined at a second point in time after the first point in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Richard Kenneth Zadorozny, Mohit Talwar, Lev Popov, Rose Yao
  • Patent number: 9319473
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending to a mobile client computing device a first notification through a real-time push service, the first notification including content and being associated with a stateful object; the method also includes, in response to a state change of the stateful object, sending to the mobile client computing device a second notification through the real-time push service, the second notification including an update to the content based on the state change of the stateful object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Kenneth Zadorozny, Mohit Talwar, Lev Popov, Rose Yao
  • Publication number: 20150058144
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving a message in response to detection of a token by a presence reader; transmitting a request to access an account associated with an external network in response to receiving the message; establishing access to the account in response to authentication of the request by a server in the external network; and debiting value from a funding source associated with the account after establishing access to the account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Richard Kenneth Zadorozny, Niket Biswas
  • Patent number: 8909706
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a gaming kiosk may be granted federated access to social networking information of a user, initiated upon activation of a physical access token. A user may initiate a workflow, by activating a physical token, that establishes a federated access session between a gaming kiosk and a social networking system to allow the gaming kiosk to augment the user's experience with social networking information and to publish gaming information to the social networking system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Richard Kenneth Zadorozny, Niket Biswas
  • Publication number: 20140172973
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending to a mobile client computing device a first notification through a real-time push service, the first notification including content and being associated with a stateful object; the method also includes, in response to a state change of the stateful object, sending to the mobile client computing device a second notification through the real-time push service, the second notification including an update to the content based on the state change of the stateful object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventors: Richard Kenneth Zadorozny, Mohit Talwar, Lev Popov, Rose Yao
  • Publication number: 20130185354
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a gaming kiosk may be granted federated access to social networking information of a user, initiated upon activation of a physical access token. A user may initiate a workflow, by activating a physical token, that establishes a federated access session between a gaming kiosk and a social networking system to allow the gaming kiosk to augment the user's experience with social networking information and to publish gaming information to the social networking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventors: Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Richard Kenneth Zadorozny, Niket Biswas