Patents by Inventor Ross David Bayer

Ross David Bayer 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: 10586215
    Abstract: Social networking system users may create events where a group of other users invited to the event meet at a specified time and location. While an inviting user initially specifies the group of users to invite to the event, the social networking system suggests additional users to invite to the event. The social networking system suggests additional users based on a prediction that the users would attend the event if invited. Various factors may be used to make the prediction, such as an affinity between the inviting user and the other users, the availability of the other users at the time of the event and/or the proximity of the other users to the location of the event. Invitations to the suggested additional users may be automatically sent or sent to a set of the additional users selected by the inviting user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivas P. Narayanan, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Daniel Jeng-Ping Hui, Ross David Bayer
  • Publication number: 20190108495
    Abstract: Social networking system users may create events where a group of other users invited to the event meet at a specified time and location. While an inviting user initially specifies the group of users to invite to the event, the social networking system suggests additional users to invite to the event. The social networking system suggests additional users based on a prediction that the users would attend the event if invited. Various factors may be used to make the prediction, such as an affinity between the inviting user and the other users, the availability of the other users at the time of the event and/or the proximity of the other users to the location of the event. Invitations to the suggested additional users may be automatically sent or sent to a set of the additional users selected by the inviting user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Srinivas P. Narayanan, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Daniel Jeng-Ping Hui, Ross David Bayer
  • Patent number: 10157371
    Abstract: Social networking system users may create events where a group of other users invited to the event meet at a specified time and location. While an inviting user initially specifies the group of users to invite to the event, the social networking system suggests additional users to invite to the event. The social networking system suggests additional users based on a prediction that the users would attend the event if invited. Various factors may be used to make the prediction, such as an affinity between the inviting user and the other users, the availability of the other users at the time of the event and/or the proximity of the other users to the location of the event. Invitations to the suggested additional users may be automatically sent or sent to a set of the additional users selected by the inviting user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivas P. Narayanan, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Daniel Hui, Ross David Bayer
  • Patent number: 10115179
    Abstract: A map interface presents a geographic map with markers identifying geographic locations associated with content items. When the geographic distance between two or more content items is less than a threshold distance, multiple content items are grouped to create an aggregated content item. Based on the geographic locations associated with the grouped content items, a geographic location is associated with the aggregated content item. A single marker identifies the geographic location for the aggregated content item on the geographic map. When a user viewing the map interface accesses the single marker, content selected from the content items combined to generated the aggregated content item is presented as well as the geographic location associated with the aggregated content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Andrew Watson, Jonathan McCord, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Ross David Bayer
  • Patent number: 9929994
    Abstract: A messaging system that organizes and presents messages to users of the messaging system. The messaging system includes a mailbox module that receives messages and generates conversation threads from the messages. Messages received from different electronic message channels may be aggregated into a common conversation thread. The conversation threads are also organized in a message interface and then presented to a user of the messaging system. The messaging system may include a social networking system that stores social information about users, which can be used to organize the conversation threads. Other features include a multi mode message interface, and a method for adding contextual information to messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Drew W. Hamlin, Daniel Hsiao, Mark E. Zuckerberg, Andrew G. Bosworth, Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Ross David Bayer
  • Patent number: 9836721
    Abstract: A social networking system that provides a system allowing users of the social networking system to define future plans, whereby users of the social networking system who view the plan are permitted to add themselves to the plan independent of whether they were explicitly specified as attendees of the plan. The social networking system is capable of auto-filling some missing plan details through inference. The social networking system is also capable of merging similar plans together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Alexander Shaffer, Ross David Bayer, Thomas Andrew Watson, Srinivas P. Narayanan, Devin James Naquin
  • Patent number: 9800529
    Abstract: A messaging system that organizes and presents messages to users of the messaging system. The messaging system includes a mailbox module that receives messages and generates conversation threads from the messages. Messages received from different electronic message channels may be aggregated into a common conversation thread. The conversation threads are also organized in a message interface and then presented to a user of the messaging system. The messaging system may include a social networking system that stores social information about users, which can be used to organize the conversation threads. Other features include a multi mode message interface, and a method for adding contextual information to messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Prashant Malik, Jiakai Liu, Andrew G. Bosworth, Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Drew W. Hamlin, Daniel Hsiao, Kenneth M. Lau, Ross David Bayer, Mark E. Zuckerberg
  • Patent number: 9766783
    Abstract: A map interface presents a geographic map with markers identifying geographic locations associated with content items. When the geographic distance between two or more content items is less than a threshold distance, multiple content items are grouped to create an aggregated content item. Based on the geographic locations associated with the grouped content items, a geographic location is associated with the aggregated content item. A single marker identifies the geographic location for the aggregated content item on the geographic map. When a user viewing the map interface accesses the single marker, content selected from the content items combined to generated the aggregated content item is presented as well as the geographic location associated with the aggregated content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Andrew Watson, Jonathan McCord, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Ross David Bayer
  • Patent number: 9691128
    Abstract: A map interface presents a geographic map with markers identifying geographic locations associated with content items. When the geographic distance between two or more content items is less than a threshold distance, multiple content items are grouped to create an aggregated content item. Based on the geographic locations associated with the grouped content items, a geographic location is associated with the aggregated content item. A single marker identifies the geographic location for the aggregated content item on the geographic map. When a user viewing the map interface accesses the single marker, content selected from the content items combined to generated the aggregated content item is presented as well as the geographic location associated with the aggregated content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Andrew Watson, Jonathan McCord, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Ross David Bayer
  • Publication number: 20170124529
    Abstract: Social networking system users may create events where a group of other users invited to the event meet at a specified time and location. While an inviting user initially specifies the group of users to invite to the event, the social networking system suggests additional users to invite to the event. The social networking system suggests additional users based on a prediction that the users would attend the event if invited. Various factors may be used to make the prediction, such as an affinity between the inviting user and the other users, the availability of the other users at the time of the event and/or the proximity of the other users to the location of the event. Invitations to the suggested additional users may be automatically sent or sent to a set of the additional users selected by the inviting user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Srinivas P. Narayanan, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Daniel Hui, Ross David Bayer
  • Patent number: 9621500
    Abstract: A messaging system facilitates communication between users through various messaging channels. The messaging system supports multiple communication channels and includes a messaging module that automatically selects one or more of the messaging channels for delivering a message to a recipient of the message using, for example, a set of policy rules or a trained model. The messaging module may also provide, in a user interface for sending and receiving messages, a visual indication of the selected messaging channel to the sender of the message to provide the user with transparency about how the message will be delivered. Additionally, the message may be delivered via multiple messaging channels, where the messaging module may rescind messages from some of the messaging channels upon receiving a reply from the recipient of the message or other confirmation that the recipient has seen the message via one of the communication channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Hsiao, Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Mark E. Zuckerberg, Kenneth M. Lau, Ross David Bayer, Zheng Zhang, Benjamin Peter Davenport, Peter Xiu Deng, Ben Hamilton, Lucy Congyun Zhang, Jonathan David Perlow
  • Patent number: 9576325
    Abstract: Social networking system users may create events where a group of other users invited to the event meet at a specified time and location. While an inviting user initially specifies the group of users to invite to the event, the social networking system suggests additional users to invite to the event. The social networking system suggests additional users based on a prediction that the users would attend the event if invited. Various factors may be used to make the prediction, such as an affinity between the inviting user and the other users, the availability of the other users at the time of the event and/or the proximity of the other users to the location of the event. Invitations to the suggested additional users may be automatically sent or sent to a set of the additional users selected by the inviting user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivas P. Narayanan, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Daniel Jeng-Ping Hui, Ross David Bayer
  • Publication number: 20170010768
    Abstract: A map interface presents a geographic map with markers identifying geographic locations associated with content items. When the geographic distance between two or more content items is less than a threshold distance, multiple content items are grouped to create an aggregated content item. Based on the geographic locations associated with the grouped content items, a geographic location is associated with the aggregated content item. A single marker identifies the geographic location for the aggregated content item on the geographic map. When a user viewing the map interface accesses the single marker, content selected from the content items combined to generated the aggregated content item is presented as well as the geographic location associated with the aggregated content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas Andrew Watson, Jonathan McCord, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Ross David Bayer
  • Patent number: 9369983
    Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more computing devices receive, from one or more mobile devices respectively associated with one or more users, one or more sets of data, wherein each set of data comprises: a user identifier indicating to which user the set of data corresponds; a location where the corresponding user was at; and a time when the corresponding user was at the location. The computing devices store the one or more sets of data; and extract one or more statistics from the one or more sets of data that represent behavioral pattern of at least one of the one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, David Harry Garcia, Ross David Bayer, Nicholas Felton, Justin Alexander Shaffer
  • Publication number: 20160080304
    Abstract: A messaging system that organizes and presents messages to users of the messaging system. The messaging system includes a mailbox module that receives messages and generates conversation threads from the messages. Messages received from different electronic message channels may be aggregated into a common conversation thread. The conversation threads are also organized in a message interface and then presented to a user of the messaging system. The messaging system may include a social networking system that stores social information about users, which can be used to organize the conversation threads. Other features include a multi mode message interface, and a method for adding contextual information to messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Drew W. Hamlin, Daniel Hsiao, Mark E. Zuckerberg, Andrew G. Bosworth, Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Ross David Bayer
  • Publication number: 20160044142
    Abstract: A messaging system facilitates communication between users through various messaging channels. The messaging system supports multiple communication channels and includes a messaging module that automatically selects one or more of the messaging channels for delivering a message to a recipient of the message using, for example, a set of policy rules or a trained model. The messaging module may also provide, in a user interface for sending and receiving messages, a visual indication of the selected messaging channel to the sender of the message to provide the user with transparency about how the message will be delivered. Additionally, the message may be delivered via multiple messaging channels, where the messaging module may rescind messages from some of the messaging channels upon receiving a reply from the recipient of the message or other confirmation that the recipient has seen the message via one of the communication channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Hsiao, Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Mark E. Zuckerberg, Kenneth M. Lau, Ross David Bayer, Zheng Zhang, Benjamin Peter Davenport, Peter Xiu Deng, Ben Gertzfield, Lucy Congyun Zhang, Jonathan David Perlow
  • Patent number: 9219704
    Abstract: A messaging system that organizes and presents messages to users of the messaging system. The messaging system includes a mailbox module that receives messages and generates conversation threads from the messages. Messages received from different electronic message channels may be aggregated into a common conversation thread. The conversation threads are also organized in a message interface and then presented to a user of the messaging system. The messaging system may include a social networking system that stores social information about users, which can be used to organize the conversation threads. Other features include a multi mode message interface, and a method for adding contextual information to messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Drew W. Hamlin, Daniel Hsiao, Mark E. Zuckerberg, Andrew G. Bosworth, Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Ross David Bayer
  • Patent number: 9203796
    Abstract: A messaging system facilitates communication between users through various messaging channels. The messaging system supports multiple communication channels and includes a messaging module that automatically selects one or more of the messaging channels for delivering a message to a recipient of the message using, for example, a set of policy rules or a trained model. The messaging module may also provide, in a user interface for sending and receiving messages, a visual indication of the selected messaging channel to the sender of the message to provide the user with transparency about how the message will be delivered. Additionally, the message may be delivered via multiple messaging channels, where the messaging module may rescind messages from some of the messaging channels upon receiving a reply from the recipient of the message or other confirmation that the recipient has seen the message via one of the communication channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Hsiao, Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Mark E. Zuckerberg, Kenneth M. Lau, Ross David Bayer, Zheng Zhang, Benjamin Peter Davenport, Peter Xiu Deng, Ben Gertzfield, Lucy Congyun Zhang, Jonathan David Perlow
  • Publication number: 20150011241
    Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more computing devices receive, from one or more mobile devices respectively associated with one or more users, one or more sets of data, wherein each set of data comprises: a user identifier indicating to which user the set of data corresponds; a location where the corresponding user was at; and a time when the corresponding user was at the location. The computing devices store the one or more sets of data; and extract one or more statistics from the one or more sets of data that represent behavioral pattern of at least one of the one or more users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, David Harry Garcia, Ross David Bayer, Nicholas Felton, Justin Alexander Shaffer
  • Patent number: 8880093
    Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more computing devices receive, from one or more mobile devices respectively associated with one or more users, one or more sets of data, wherein each set of data comprises: a user identifier indicating to which user the set of data corresponds; a location where the corresponding user was at; and a time when the corresponding user was at the location. The computing devices store the one or more sets of data; and extract one or more statistics from the one or more sets of data that represent behavioral pattern of at least one of the one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, David Harry Garcia, Ross David Bayer, Nicholas Felton, Justin Alexander Shaffer