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Generating multi-language social network user profiles by translation

Granted: August 29, 2017
Patent Number: 9747281
Techniques are provided to allow users of a social network to have multilingual profiles (or profiles in second languages that are different than the users' native, or original, profile languages). In one technique, a translation model is applied to one or more data items (in a first language) in a user's profile to generate translated data items in a second language. The translated data items are displayed to the user (or an online social “friend” of the user) and the user is…

Display screen with a graphical user interface

Granted: August 22, 2017
Patent Number: D795280

Mobile device pairing

Granted: August 15, 2017
Patent Number: 9736291
Systems and methods for pairing electronic devices are provided. In an example embodiment, first motion capture data corresponding to a physical user motion is received from a first device. Second motion capture data corresponding to the physical user motion is received from a second device. Features are extracted from the first motion capture data and the second motion capture data. An association between the first device and the second device is determined based on a comparison of the…

Visualization of the reach of a post by a member of an on-line social networking system

Granted: August 15, 2017
Patent Number: 9736042
A system for visualizing the reach of a post by a member of an on-line social networking system may be designed to increase awareness of the members, as to which degree their posted updates are noticed and reacted to by other members. When a member creates a post, either through the on-line social networking website itself or through an application programming interface (API) that allows to include a share user interface (UI) control on a third web party site, the system monitors events…

Personalized search based on searcher interest

Granted: August 15, 2017
Patent Number: 9734210
A system and method for personalized search based on searcher interest may include obtaining a search term from a member of a social network at a user device via the network interface. An initial result may be generated based on the search term, including a first group of content items from a social network and stored in a content database, the content items including member profiles of members of the social network. Each of the content items of the first group may be ranked based on…

Suggested keywords

Granted: August 8, 2017
Patent Number: 9727654
A method and system to suggest keywords to a social network member is described. A suggested keywords system, in one example embodiment, examines phrases that appear in profiles maintained by the on-line social networking system that are similar to the target profile and identifies those words and phrases that are most prominent in these profiles, utilizing discriminative strength values. These most prominent words and phrases may be presented to the target member as suggested keywords…

Minimizing latency due to garbage collection in a distributed system

Granted: August 8, 2017
Patent Number: 9727457
Techniques are provided for minimizing latency due to garbage collection in a distributed system. Time data is stored at a computing device. The time data indicates when each of multiple computing nodes (e.g., servers) in the distributed system might be performing (or is scheduled to perform) a garbage collection operation. The computing device receives a first request and, in response, determines, based on the time data, one or more computing nodes to process a second (e.g., related)…

Facet-based filtering of social network update data

Granted: August 1, 2017
Patent Number: 9721310
A network update interface is presented to a user on a network to display network updates from other users of a mutual social-networking site. The network updates shared by the other users are gathered in a stream and supplied to a facet-filtering system including a network update interface. The user controls the display of certain network update items according to facet-filter characteristics enabled in facet-filter selection panels in the network update interface. The facet-filter…

Authenticating a cookie with distinctive signals

Granted: August 1, 2017
Patent Number: 9722998
A system, method, and apparatus are provided for using distinctive signals associated with an electronic device to authenticate or validate a cookie or other identifier issued to the device from a website or other source. When the device receives content (e.g., a web page) from the source, it also receives code for collecting the signals, which is executed when the content is rendered. The device transmits the signals to the source or other specified destination, where they may be…

Associating private annotations with public profiles

Granted: August 1, 2017
Patent Number: 9722959
A method of storing data items included in an email message for access by a user in conjunction with an accessing by the user of a profile of a member of the social-networking system is disclosed. An email message from an additional user of a social-networking system is received by the user of the social-networking system. A data item included in the email message is identified upon which a correspondence between the data item included in the email message and a profile of a member of…

Identifying entities based on free text in member records

Granted: August 1, 2017
Patent Number: 9721307
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system for identifying entities (such as companies) that are associated with members of an online social network. During operation, the system obtains text strings from member records in the online social network, wherein each text string is an identifier for an entity that is associated with a member. The system also obtains connection information specifying connections among members of the online social network, and possibly location information…

Hierarchical system-capability testing

Granted: August 1, 2017
Patent Number: 9720817
In order to perform system-capability testing, an application in an application layer may provide predefined system capabilities and/or requirements of or associated with the application to a communication plugin in a data-link layer, such as availability of communication via a network and/or a latency of the network less than a predefined value. In response, the communication plugin may determine feedback information that specifies whether the predefined system capabilities are…

Annotation probability distribution based on a factor graph

Granted: July 25, 2017
Patent Number: 9715486
In order to address annotation bias in batch annotations, obtained via crowdsourcing, on a set of comments on user posts in a social network, a system determines an annotation probability distribution based on a factor-graph model of the batch annotations. In particular, during operation the system computes the factor-graph model that represents relationships between feature vectors that represent the comments and the annotations for the comments. Note that, for a given batch of k…

Method and system for semantic search against a document collection

Granted: July 18, 2017
Patent Number: 9710518
Disclosed in one example is a method for searching. In some examples, the method includes receiving an unstructured search query, parsing the unstructured search query into a plurality of structured search attributes using a search term attribute dictionary, performing a search of a structured database based upon the plurality of structured search attributes to identify a plurality of search results, populating a plurality of form fields of a search form with the plurality of structured…

Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface

Granted: July 11, 2017
Patent Number: D791785

Communication systems and methods

Granted: July 11, 2017
Patent Number: 9705829
Example communication systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method receives a message from a message server. The method identifies constituent data contained in the message and accesses supplemental information associated with the message based on the constituent data. The message is modified to include at least one of a portion of the supplemental information and a reference to the supplemental information. The modified message is then communicated to a client…