397 patents
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Utility
Multi-source power supply
31 Aug 20
A multi-source power supply for supplying power that includes a first rectifier configured to convert a first AC power signal from a first source to a first DC power signal, a second rectifier configured to convert a second AC power signal from a second source to a second DC power signal and a common bus operatively connected to the first rectifier and the second rectifier and configured to combine a the DC power signals into a combined DC power signal, where the common bus distributes the combined DC power signal to at least one server.
Jeffrey Rose, Paul Thies, Jennifer Fraser
Filed: 3 Mar 19
Utility
Composing Social Media Messages Referencing Multiple Messages
26 Aug 20
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing content on a social messaging platform.
Mengqi Zhao, Marius-Andrei Danila, Tianhai Hu, Jan Castor, Jonathan Reis
Filed: 21 Feb 19
Utility
Facilitating Cross-platform Content Access
26 Aug 20
A messaging system includes features of gathering information regarding content accessed across multiple applications and/or devices and making that information available to account holders of the messaging system.
Gabor Cselle, Tural Badirkhanli, Kelton Lynn, Michael Ducker, Jeffrey Seibert, JR.
Filed: 26 Jan 20
Utility
User interface based on viewable area of a display
24 Aug 20
A method for displaying content in a computing device including a display, the method including: displaying content in a viewable area of the display; detecting, by the display, an input associated with the content; and shifting, in response to the input, at least a portion of the content of the viewable area to display a non-modal view, where the non-modal view and the shifted content are concurrently available for user interaction after shifting the portion of the content.
Loren Brichter, Leland Rechis
Filed: 6 May 18
Utility
Customized application package with context specific token
24 Aug 20
A system and method including: receiving an initial application package including at least one binary file of an application; generating an application token, wherein the application token is operable to identify a context; and assembling a customized application package including the initial application package and the application token, wherein: the customized application package and the initial application package share a common hash value according to a predefined hashing algorithm, and the application can be configured based on the application token.
Andrea S. Falcone, Peter W. Hopkins, Sanford W. Phillips
Filed: 24 Feb 19
Utility
Trend Detection for Content Targeting Using an Information Distribution System
19 Aug 20
In some examples, a method includes receiving, from one or more client devices, a stream of messages composed by one or more users of the one or more client devices, wherein each of the messages includes a particular hashtag, determining, using a set of metrics that are based at least in part on the messages, a trending score that represents a magnitude of a trend for the particular hashtag, in response to determining that the trending score satisfies a threshold, sending, to a content provider system, a set of demographic data that describes one or more of the users who associated with the particular hashtag, and, in response to receiving, from the content provider system, targeted content that is based at least in part on the particular hashtag and the set of demographic data, sending, for display at the one or more of the one or more client devices, the targeted content.
Dinkar Jain, Mu Lin, David Hotchkiss
Filed: 3 May 20
Utility
Trend Detection in a Messaging Platform
19 Aug 20
A system and method for trend detection in a messaging platform.
Scott Hendrickson, Jeffrey Aaron Kolb, Joshua Montague, Brian Lehman
Filed: 3 May 20
Utility
Content carousel in a social media timeline
17 Aug 20
Techniques of the disclosure are directed to a computing device creating and outputting, for display at client devices accessing a social media platform, targeted content.
Andrew Bragdon
Filed: 21 Jan 18
Utility
Increasing social media presence using machine-learning relevance techniques
17 Aug 20
According to an implementation, a system includes a social media messaging platform configured to exchange messages, over a network, among a plurality of computing devices.
Wook Jin Chung, Kiryl Lashuk, Kelly Huffman
Filed: 2 Mar 17
Utility
Video sugar capture
17 Aug 20
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for capturing video on a mobile device.
Richard Plom, Reed Martin
Filed: 10 Jun 19
Utility
Online Serving Threshold and Delivery Policy Adjustment
12 Aug 20
The present invention provides techniques for use in association with online advertising, relating to use of serving thresholds, associated with predicted click through rates, and delivery policies, associated with advertising inventory serving and distribution.
Qing Zhang
Filed: 26 Apr 20
Utility
Aggregate Features For Machine Learning
12 Aug 20
An example system includes a memory store of aggregate definitions.
Sean Moon, Arvind Thiagarajan, Mike Jahr, Milind Ganjoo, Parag Agrawal
Filed: 28 Apr 20
Design
Display screen with graphical user interface
10 Aug 20
Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint John Davies
Filed: 19 Dec 18
Design
Display screen with graphical user interface
10 Aug 20
Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint John Davies
Filed: 19 Dec 18
Design
Display screen with graphical user interface
10 Aug 20
Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint John Davies
Filed: 19 Dec 18
Utility
Real-time Event Detection on Social Data Streams
5 Aug 20
According to an aspect, a method for event detection on social data streams includes receiving a stream of messages exchanged on a messaging platform, and detecting an event from the stream of messages, which may include detecting a first cluster group of trending entities over a first period of time, detecting a second group of trending entities over a second period of time, and generating a cluster chain by linking the second cluster group with the first cluster group, where the cluster chain represents the detected event over the first and second periods of time.
Mateusz Fedoryszak, Brent Frederick, Vijayendrasastha Rajaram, Changtao Zhong
Filed: 28 Jan 20
Utility
Message selection and presentation in a real-time messaging platform
3 Aug 20
A system and message for message selection and presentation, including: receiving a request for content, wherein the request is associated with a context account of a messaging platform; identifying a set of unviewed messages associated with the context account; identifying grouping criteria for grouping content based on messages; applying, by a computer processor, the grouping criteria to the unviewed messages to generate a content group, wherein the content group is associated with a subset of the unviewed messages; and providing at least a portion of the content group in response to the request.
Michael Davidson, Joshua Brewer, David DeSandro, Erin Nolan, Geoffrey Brown
Filed: 11 Apr 19
Utility
Promoting time-based content through social networking systems
27 Jul 20
Time-based media is distributed and promoted in a social networking environment.
Glenn Brown, Mike Park, Jé Carr
Filed: 5 Feb 17
Utility
Increasing Social Media Presence Using Machine-learning Relevance Techniques
22 Jul 20
According to an implementation, a method for digital information retrieval in a social media platform includes transmitting, over a network, information to render a timeline of social content for a user of a client application.
Wook Jin Chung, Kiryl Lashuk, Kelly Huffman
Filed: 1 Apr 20
Utility
Method and System for Online Conversion Attribution
22 Jul 20
A system for online conversion attribution.
Shariq Rizvi, Ameet Ranadive, Abhishek Shrivastava, Wenchang Zhou, Bill Darrow, Santosh Kancha, Travis Lull, Tom Larson, Yimin Wu, Xiaochuan Qin
Filed: 12 Mar 20