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Publication number: 20130159442Abstract: An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. An enhancement engine reconfigures the electronic message to the enhanced notification if stored information related to the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is subscribed to receive the enhanced notification. Reconfiguring the electronic message may include reconfiguring the message to provide special handling, routing or presentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2013Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: Facebook, Inc.
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Publication number: 20130159439Abstract: An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. An enhancement engine reconfigures the electronic message to the enhanced notification if stored information related to the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is subscribed to receive the enhanced notification. Reconfiguring the electronic message may include reconfiguring the message to provide special handling, routing or presentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2013Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventor: Facebook, Inc.
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Publication number: 20130117399Abstract: An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. An enhancement engine reconfigures the electronic message to the enhanced notification if stored information related to the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is subscribed to receive the enhanced notification. Reconfiguring the electronic message may include reconfiguring the message to provide special handling, routing or presentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventor: Facebook, Inc.
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Publication number: 20130159441Abstract: An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. An enhancement engine reconfigures the electronic message to the enhanced notification if stored information related to the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is subscribed to receive the enhanced notification. Reconfiguring the electronic message may include reconfiguring the message to provide special handling, routing or presentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2013Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: Facebook, Inc.
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Publication number: 20130159440Abstract: An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. An enhancement engine reconfigures the electronic message to the enhanced notification if stored information related to the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is subscribed to receive the enhanced notification. Reconfiguring the electronic message may include reconfiguring the message to provide special handling, routing or presentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2013Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: Facebook, Inc.
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Publication number: 20130179525Abstract: Displaying electronic information in an instant-messaging application includes accessing a first electronic message providing information describing a first user that has an identifier included in a set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application. A second electronic message providing information describing a second user that has an identifier included in the set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application is accessed. Content contained within the first and second messages is analyzed to determine that at least a portion of content is common to the first and second electronic messages. Based upon the content analysis, an indication that the first and second messages include common content is provided to the user. Alternatively or additionally, an indication that two users are in physical proximity to a geographic location may be provided in response to detecting that the two users are within a threshold distance from the geographic location.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventor: FACEBOOK, INC.
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Publication number: 20130179524Abstract: Displaying electronic information in an instant-messaging application includes accessing a first electronic message providing information describing a first user that has an identifier included in a set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application. A second electronic message providing information describing a second user that has an identifier included in the set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application is accessed. Content contained within the first and second messages is analyzed to determine that at least a portion of content is common to the first and second electronic messages. Based upon the content analysis, an indication that the first and second messages include common content is provided to the user. Alternatively or additionally, an indication that two users are in physical proximity to a geographic location may be provided in response to detecting that the two users are within a threshold distance from the geographic location.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventor: Facebook, Inc.
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Patent number: 8321519Abstract: A document management system monitors proposed recipients for documents and provides recommendations on alterations to the distribution set, such as by adding or removing recipients.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: John Nicholas Gross
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Publication number: 20130080550Abstract: Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data include enabling instant messaging communication between a sender an at least one recipient through an instant messaging host. In addition, voice communication is enabled between the sender and the recipient through the instant messaging host.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventors: Shuwu Wu, James Crawford
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Publication number: 20130073649Abstract: Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data include enabling instant messaging communication between a sender an at least one recipient through an instant messaging host. In addition, voice communication is enabled between the sender and the recipient through the instant messaging host.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventors: Shuwu Wu, James Crawford
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Publication number: 20130073650Abstract: Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data include enabling instant messaging communication between a sender an at least one recipient through an instant messaging host. In addition, voice communication is enabled between the sender and the recipient through the instant messaging host.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventors: Shuwu Wu, James Crawford
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Patent number: 8732255Abstract: In one embodiment, a social networking system automatically create a shared space for posting requests to the social networking system from multiple users based on social, spatial and temporal proximity, and create a news feed corresponding to the shared space.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Odio, Robert Sean Goodlatte, Justin Shaffer
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Patent number: 8301704Abstract: An electronic message management system monitors proposed recipients for electronic messages (such as emails) and provides recommendations on alterations to the distribution set, such as by adding or removing recipients.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2007Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: John Nicholas Gross
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Patent number: 8776222Abstract: A message screening system includes routing to a supervisory recipient an electronic message directed to an intended recipient. The supervisory recipient then is allowed to screen the electronic message by approving or rejecting the electronic message. The electronic message then is forwarded to the intended recipient if the electronic message is approved by the supervisory recipient.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: Larry L. Lu
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Publication number: 20140101275Abstract: In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system automatically tags one or more social contacts of a first user to a photo of the first user by ranking the social contacts based on spatial and temporal proximity to the first user, and in response to the first user's selection of one or more top ranked social contacts, associating the selected social contacts to the photo.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: David Harry Garcia
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Patent number: 8918727Abstract: Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data between users of a communications system by receiving, at an instant messaging host, a video file from a sender and intended for a recipient; authenticating the video file; and sending the video file to the intended recipient.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Noel Enete, Wayne Packard, Harry W. Morris
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Patent number: 9363213Abstract: A system and method supporting instant messaging which removes many of the problems and harriers to the use of instant messaging through the use of universally unique identifiers to web pages for instant messaging sessions, with recipients invited to the instant messaging session via email.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventors: Keith Bernstein, Alan Chung
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Patent number: 8433762Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems for generating a nickname dictionary that includes associations between names of users and candidate nicknames based on statistical analysis of user communications observed at a network communications facility, such as a social network system, an email provider and the like.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Facebook Inc.Inventors: Gideon Wald, Wenjie Fu, Yanxin Shi, Hong Yan
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Patent number: 8959164Abstract: Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data between users of a communication system by delivering an e-mail message from a sender to at least one recipient and indicating the online state of at least one of the sender and any other recipient of the e-mail message upon opening of the e-mail message by the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2012Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: Barry Appelman
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Patent number: 9083666Abstract: A message screening system includes routing to a supervisory recipient an electronic message directed to an intended recipient. The supervisory recipient then is allowed to screen the electronic message by approving or rejecting the electronic message. The electronic message then is forwarded to the intended recipient if the electronic message is approved by the supervisory recipient.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventor: Larry L. Lu