User interface for simultaneous display of video stream of different angles of same event from different users
Granted: April 5, 2016
Patent Number:
9306998
Example systems and methods of content sharing via social networking are presented. In one example, availability of a first user device to provide media content over a communication network is detected. A second user device is identified via an association of the first user device with the second user device that is specified in a social network. An acceptance by the second user device to receive the media content from the first user device is determined. In response to the acceptance,…
Score and suggestion generation for a job seeker where the score includes an estimated duration until the job seeker receives a job offer
Granted: April 5, 2016
Patent Number:
9305287
Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for generating a feasibility score for a job search and for generating a suggestion for enhancing the score. In one method, one or more computing devices receive, over a network, a data object that is associated with a user who is engaged in a search for employment. The data object includes a résumé of the user and a requirement that is associated with the search. The computers calculate, based on the data object, a score that…
Methods and apparatus for targeting communications using social network metrics
Granted: April 5, 2016
Patent Number:
9305062
A method for a computer system includes receiving a first user communication, determining a first group of users, determining a target number of users, determining whether the first group of users includes the target number of users, and if not, providing the communication to the first group of users, determining a hierarchal mapping of groups of users in response to user memberships, determining a second group of users from the hierarchal mapping, determining a plurality of social…
Managing presentation of online content
Granted: March 29, 2016
Patent Number:
9298934
A method and apparatus for selectively publishing user-provided content items to other users is provided. In some instances, the content items are excluded from being rendered to a user according to one or more blocks that block the user from viewing content items provided by certain members. Managing blocks and excluding content is more efficiently achieved through the implementation of a Bloom filter that contains the blocked pairs of users. The Bloom filter can, using few computing…
Sharing multimedia content
Granted: March 15, 2016
Patent Number:
9288171
Systems and methods providing users with a rich web experience are disclosed. In one embodiment, a client and at least one server are in communication using a dual communication link. In another embodiment, a markup language based instant messaging application is disclosed. The instant messaging application may include group instant messaging. The instant messaging application may also provide group member persistence and message persistence at the server. In another embodiment, a card…
Independent targeted sponsored content management system and method
Granted: March 15, 2016
Patent Number:
9286621
A system may include a database configured with individual partitions, one of the partitions corresponding to a sponsored content campaign of a social network. The system may further include multiple servers each communicatively coupled to the database, and each configured to implement a campaign having a campaign termination criterion. Each of the servers may include a processor configured to track sponsored content event data received from a user device based on the campaign and…
Smooth playing of video
Granted: March 1, 2016
Patent Number:
9275685
A computer-implemented method, including detecting an event associated with an image displayed on a display device within a software application, loading a media player into the software application behind the image, where the media player is configured to play a media file associated with the image, and causing a representation of a frame of the media file to be displayed within the media player instead of the image.
Phrase-based data classification system
Granted: February 23, 2016
Patent Number:
9268766
A method of classifying data is disclosed. Text data items are received. A set of classes into which the text data items are to be classified is received. A phrase-based classifier to classify the text data items into the set of classes is selected. The phrase-based classifier is applied to classify the text data items into the classes. Here, the applying includes creating a controlled vocabulary pertaining to classifying the text data items into the set of classes, building phrases…
Content response prediction
Granted: February 16, 2016
Patent Number:
9262716
Techniques for predicting a user response to content are provided. In example embodiments, one or more feature vectors are assembled into an assembled feature vector. A particular one of the feature vectors not being available is determined. In response to determining that the particular one of the feature vectors is not available, the particular feature vector is ignored based on an importance value associated with the particular feature vector. A substitute value associated with the…
Automatic scheduling of content delivery
Granted: February 16, 2016
Patent Number:
9264513
A content delivery system coupled to a computer network can provide large volumes of content to large numbers of recipients. The content is collected into digests and individual articles to be sent in email via an email channel established by the content delivery system to the recipients through the computer network. Content producers submit content for aggregation into various email deliveries and submit initial scheduling information. The scheduling information may specify target…
Method and apparatus for transferring WDM signals between different wavelength division multiplexed optical communications systems in an optically transparent manner
Granted: February 9, 2016
Patent Number:
9258628
In a WDM optical communication system that includes a plurality of nodes interconnected by communication links, a node is provided which includes an optical coupling arrangement having at least one input port for receiving a WDM signal and a plurality of output ports for selectively receiving one or more wavelength components of the WDM optical signal. The optical coupling arrangement is adaptable to reconfigure its operational state to (i) selectively direct any one of the wavelength…
Guided edit optimization
Granted: February 2, 2016
Patent Number:
9253226
Techniques for optimizing a guided edit process for editing a member profile page are described. According to various embodiments, profile edit task information associated with a member of an online social network service is accessed, the profile edit task information identifying one or more candidate profile edit tasks to be performed to update a member profile page of the member. Thereafter, if it is determined that the member recently completed a difficult profile edit task, a…
Inferred identity
Granted: February 2, 2016
Patent Number:
9251470
Techniques for modifying search results associated with a search request based on a determination that a member profile attribute is inaccurate are described. According to various embodiments, an existing member profile attribute included in a member profile page of a particular member of an online social network service is identified. Member profile data and behavioral log data associated with a plurality of members of the online social network service is then accessed. Prediction…
Searching for information within social networks
Granted: February 2, 2016
Patent Number:
9251217
Systems and methods for searching for information within social networks are described. In some examples embodiments, a search assist system receives a query, such as a partial query, identifies two or more categories of data that include information satisfying the query, ranks the identified categories of data based on various selection criteria, and presents suggested search terms based on the rankings.
Methods and systems for recommending a context based on content interaction
Granted: January 26, 2016
Patent Number:
9247015
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for recommending a context to a user of a social network service, based on detecting an interaction with some item of web content. With some embodiments, after detecting an interaction with a web document, a topic to which the web document is related is determined. A context, such as an online or offline forum, known to be associated with the topic is then identified. Finally, the identified context is presented to the user as a…
Guided browsing experience
Granted: January 26, 2016
Patent Number:
9244522
Methods and systems of providing a guided navigation experience are described. According to various embodiments, a first type of use case may be determined for a first use of a website by a user. The first type of use case may be determined amongst a plurality of types of use cases. A first navigation recommendation may be determined based on the determined first type of use case. The first navigation recommendation may comprise a recommendation for the user to navigate to a first…
Indicating a content preference
Granted: January 12, 2016
Patent Number:
9235333
Recording a user's preference for content is disclosed. A first indication that a user has a first preference for the content is received. In response to receiving the first indication, the content is associated with the first preference. A second indication that the user has a second preference for the content is received. In response to receiving the second indication, the content is additional associated with the second preference.
Techniques for ascribing social attributes to content
Granted: January 5, 2016
Patent Number:
9229900
Techniques for ascribing social attributes to content items and for selecting content to display in a content feed are described. According to various embodiments, accessing one or more content items accessible via a network are accessed, each of the content items having received one or more social activity signals. Thereafter, members of an online social network service that submitted the social activity signals may be identified. Member profile data identifying member profile…
Techniques for populating a content stream on a mobile device
Granted: December 29, 2015
Patent Number:
9225522
Techniques for populating a content stream of a mobile application are described. A content request for content to be presented in a personalized activity or content stream of a member of a social networking service is communicated from a mobile computing device to a content server. The content request includes a member identifier, location information indicating the current location of the member, and/or an activity status identifier indicating an inferred physical activity state of the…
Detecting and alerting performance degradation during features ramp-up
Granted: December 29, 2015
Patent Number:
9225625
Computerized techniques are described for detecting performance degradation during features ramp up. A first version of web content is sent to first client devices. The first version of the web content lacks a particular feature. First performance data that indicates performance of each first client device with respect to processing the web content is received. A second version of the web content is sent to second client devices. The second version of the web content has the particular…
