Patents by Inventor William K. Tiu, Jr.

William K. Tiu, Jr. 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).

  • Feeding updates to landing pages of users of an online social network from external sources
    Patent number: 8037093
    Abstract: Updates to landing pages of users in an online social network are fed from external sources so that content maintained by any one user can be consolidated in a single location regardless of where the changes are made to the content. When an update event occurs, users of the online social network are notified according to various criteria that they have set. With this feature, users can browse through content of other users efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: William K. Tiu, Jr., Kent Lindstrom, Ross Ainsley MacKinnon
  • Post-to-Profile Control
    Publication number: 20110246569
    Abstract: Multimedia content is featured on user pages of an online social network using embed codes that are generated using a configuration file associated with the source ID for the multimedia content and a content ID for the multimedia content. The configuration file, the source ID and the content ID are stored locally by the online social network so that any changes to the embed codes can be made by changing the configuration file associated with the source and regenerating the embed codes. By managing multimedia content in this manner, greater control can be exercised by the online social network over the multimedia content that are featured on its user pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: William K. Tiu, JR., Jeffrey J. Roberto
  • MULTIMEDIA AGGREGATION IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK
    Publication number: 20100162375
    Abstract: Multimedia content is featured on user pages of an online social network using embed codes that are generated using a configuration file associated with the source ID for the multimedia content and a content ID for the multimedia content. The configuration file, the source ID and the content ID are stored locally by the online social network so that any changes to the embed codes can be made by changing the configuration file associated with the source and regenerating the embed codes. By managing multimedia content in this manner, greater control can be exercised by the online social network over the multimedia content that are featured on its user pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Friendster Inc.
    Inventors: William K. TIU, JR., Jeffrey J. Roberto
  • Multimedia aggregation in an online social network
    Patent number: 7680882
    Abstract: Multimedia content is featured on user pages of an online social network using embed codes that are generated using a configuration file associated with the source ID for the multimedia content and a content ID for the multimedia content. The configuration file, the source ID and the content ID are stored locally by the online social network so that any changes to the embed codes can be made by changing the configuration file associated with the source and regenerating the embed codes. By managing multimedia content in this manner, greater control can be exercised by the online social network over the multimedia content that are featured on its user pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Friendster, Inc.
    Inventors: William K. Tiu, Jr., Jeffrey J. Roberto