Patents by Inventor Trevor Ford

Trevor Ford 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: 20220081904
    Abstract: A floor includes structural floor joist that includes a flange and tabs punched out of the flange (forming holes in the flange). Flooring material of the floor that extrudes through at least one of the holes is bonded to some of the tabs and the flange of the structural floor joist, forming a bonded composite assembly of the structural floor joist and the forming material, that has a centroid that is located in or near the forming material, placing some of the forming material in compression and placing at least 90% of the structural floor joist in tension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: HI-TECH TILT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, INC.
    Inventors: Jose Medina, Kenneth Valls, John Valle, Abdiel Guajardo, Gary Chatham, Trevor Ford
  • Patent number: 10708217
    Abstract: An online system enables content providers to efficiently create and publish sponsored content in multiple phases. Each phase of the content creation is represented by a draft of the content. Multiple drafts of the content are stored in a repository of the online system for optimizing content delivery and publication, such as quick identification of conflicts in a draft based on analysis of draft fragments of the draft. Objects associated with the sponsored content are stored in an object model, including a key-value table. The connections amongst the various draft segments of a draft are stored in a hierarchy structure, e.g., a tree structure. Each user associated with a draft has a role, such as an owner or a collaborator, where all of the roles can contribute to the draft. The online system efficiently publishes the drafts of the sponsored content and presents the sponsored content to its target users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Kundan Kumar, Trevor Ford, Yiqiang Mao, Liangxiao Zhu, Marcin Przysucha
  • Patent number: 10237227
    Abstract: An online system enables content providers to efficiently create and publish sponsored content in multiple phases. Each phase of the content creation is represented by a draft of the content. Multiple drafts of the content are stored in a repository of the online system for optimizing content delivery and publication, such as quick identification of conflicts in a draft based on analysis of draft fragments of the draft. Objects associated with the sponsored content are stored in an object model, including a key-value table. The connections amongst the various draft segments of a draft are stored in a hierarchy structure, e.g., a tree structure. Each user associated with a draft has a role, such as an owner or a collaborator, where all of the roles can contribute to the draft. The online system efficiently publishes the drafts of the sponsored content and presents the sponsored content to its target users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Kundan Kumar, Trevor Ford, Yiqiang Mao, Liangxiao Zhu, Marcin Przysucha
  • Publication number: 20180158099
    Abstract: An online system generates a custom audience based on user engagement with distributed content items. The online system monitors and stores user engagement with content items. A content provider submits to the online system a request to generate a new custom audience and selects audience parameters and user engagement types, such as users who watched a specified amount or percentage of a video, users who interacted with an online system page associated with the content provider, or users who clicked through online system content to a page associated with the content provider. Responsive to the request, the online system retrieves the corresponding user engagement data and applies the audience parameters to generate the custom audience and present it to the content provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Trevor Ford, Divakar D. Balasubramanian, Jason Jiawei Liao, Ahmad Mamdouh Abdou, Omar Mocheer Mohamed Helmy Guenena, Erkang You
  • Publication number: 20180063066
    Abstract: An online system enables content providers to efficiently create and publish sponsored content in multiple phases. Each phase of the content creation is represented by a draft of the content. Multiple drafts of the content are stored in a repository of the online system for optimizing content delivery and publication, such as quick identification of conflicts in a draft based on analysis of draft fragments of the draft. Objects associated with the sponsored content are stored in an object model, including a key-value table. The connections amongst the various draft segments of a draft are stored in a hierarchy structure, e.g., a tree structure. Each user associated with a draft has a role, such as an owner or a collaborator, where all of the roles can contribute to the draft. The online system efficiently publishes the drafts of the sponsored content and presents the sponsored content to its target users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Kundan Kumar, Trevor Ford, Yiqiang Mao, Liangxiao Zhu, Marcin Przysucha
  • Patent number: 6110313
    Abstract: A method is provided for forming a curve or curves in a thin solid surface material such as an acrylic sheet material. The method includes taking a sheet of solid surface material of a thickness within the range of 1.4 mm to 5.9 mm and placing the sheet in or on an apparatus which includes a heating station a platen or platens and a vacuuming station including a sandwich mold. The heating platens are set at a predetermined temperature within the range 80.degree. C. to 200.degree. C. and the solid surface material to be formed is brought into contact with or at least near the heating platens so that heat emanating from said platen/s is distributed substantially uniformly across at least one surface of the solid surface material. The heating of the solid surface material is for a predetermined time within the range of 5 seconds-10.0 minutes according to the temperature selected from the temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Norford Industries Pty Limited
    Inventor: Trevor Ford