Patents by Inventor Xiao Ou Wang

Xiao Ou Wang 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: 9479347
    Abstract: A social networking system aggregates two or more stories having at least one common characteristic to create an aggregated story unit. Each story describes an action performed on an object over the social networking system or external to the social networking system. The aggregated story unit includes one or more input elements allowing a viewing user to interact with the aggregate story unit as a whole or with individual stories in the aggregated story unit. The input elements included in the aggregated story unit may be based on the types of the actions or of the objects described by stories in the aggregated story unit and on one or more input policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert William Cathcart, Mark Tonkelowitz, Xiao Ou Wang
  • Publication number: 20160283067
    Abstract: When a user sees a content item presented by a social networking system, the user may select an option to save the content item. The saved content item may be reinserted in a newsfeed presented to the user, integrated into collections, archived, used for notifications to the user, or otherwise subsequently presented to the user. A plug-in may be used to save content items accessed through websites external to the social networking system. As privacy settings associated with a saved content item are modified, the modified privacy settings are applied to the saved content item, which may prevent the user saving the content item from subsequently viewing the saved content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Jane Leibrock, Loren Alfred Cheng, Matthew Brown, Jessica Gronski, Marc Horowitz, William Jacobs, Zhengzheng Pan, Xiao Ou Wang, Joshua Van Dyke Watzman, Luke Woods, Rachel Margaret Wong
  • Patent number: 9396502
    Abstract: When a user sees a content item presented by a social networking system, the user may select an option to save the content item. The saved content item may be reinserted in a newsfeed presented to the user, integrated into collections, archived, used for notifications to the user, or otherwise subsequently presented to the user. A plug-in may be used to save content items accessed through websites external to the social networking system. As privacy settings associated with a saved content item are modified, the modified privacy settings are applied to the saved content item, which may prevent the user saving the content item from subsequently viewing the saved content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jane Leibrock, Loren Alfred Cheng, Matthew Brown, Jessica Gronski, Marc Horowitz, William Jacobs, Zhengzheng Pan, Xiao Ou Wang, Joshua Van Dyke Watzman, Luke Woods, Rachel Margaret Wong
  • Publication number: 20160196584
    Abstract: Techniques for context sensitive overlays, comprising a social networking application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicant: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Salem Franklin, Xiao Ou Wang
  • Publication number: 20160196052
    Abstract: Techniques for context sensitive overlays, comprising a social networking application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Salem Franklin, Xiao Ou Wang
  • Publication number: 20160191261
    Abstract: A social networking system aggregates two or more stories having at least one common characteristic to create an aggregated story unit. Each story describes an action performed on an object over the social networking system or external to the social networking system. The aggregated story unit includes one or more input elements allowing a viewing user to interact with the aggregate story unit as a whole or with individual stories in the aggregated story unit. The input elements included in the aggregated story unit may be based on the types of the actions or of the objects described by stories in the aggregated story unit and on one or more input policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Robert William Cathcart, Mark Tonkelowitz, Xiao Ou Wang
  • Publication number: 20160180316
    Abstract: Techniques to automatically predict and configure payment transaction are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a prediction component operative to receive context information for a user and predict a user interest in a payment transaction based on the context information, a user interface component operative to offer to initiate the payment transaction to the user based on the predicted user interest in the payment transaction and receive a user confirmation of the user interest in the payment transaction, and a payment component operative to initiate the payment transaction in response to the received user confirmation. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Xiao Ou Wang, Sean Anthony Heywood, Stephen Moore Davis, Robert Franklin Daniel, Akash Gaurav Gupta
  • Publication number: 20160164988
    Abstract: In a social networking system, photographs and photographic sets are recommended to a user based upon information gathered from the user's social networking profile, as well as information gathered from the social networking profile of the user's friends, and the general pattern of usage by the user of various elements of the social network. In one embodiment, information entered into the social networking profile of the user is used to recommend additional photos and sets of photos. In one embodiment, user preferences indicated by the user via elements of the social network are considered in recommending photos or photo sets. In one embodiment, the general usage pattern of the social network is considered when recommending additional photos and sets of photos to the user. In one embodiment, profile information, usage information, or the indicated preferences of the user's friends are used to recommend additional photos and photo sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Emily Grewal, Joe Binney, Xiao Ou Wang
  • Publication number: 20140207860
    Abstract: A social networking system generates stories based on actions taken by entities of the social networking system. The system applies a set of rules to the stories to categorize each story and displays the news feed as multiple sections, each displaying a category of generated stories. A story may be categorized according to its content and/or the user associated with the story. In addition to stories about a user's direct connections, stories may be generated by the user's soft connections. Supplemental content may be generated based on a section of the newsfeed currently being accessed and displayed in a related content unit adjacent to a news feed section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao Ou Wang, Chris Struhar, William Robert Cathcart, Robyn David Morris, Laney Kuenzel