Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface
Granted: July 11, 2017
Patent Number:
D791822
Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface
Granted: July 11, 2017
Patent Number:
D791785
Inferred salary distribution for schools
Granted: July 4, 2017
Patent Number:
9697498
Systems, methods and a machine-readable media are described herein for a salary range engine to identify at least one attribute of a first member profile from a plurality of member profiles of a social networking service. The salary range engine correlates the at least one attribute with respect to at least a portion of trained salary data in a trained salary data repository. The salary range engine infers a target salary range based on a correlation between the at least one attribute of…
Skills ontology creation
Granted: July 4, 2017
Patent Number:
9697472
Disclosed in some examples are systems, methods, and machine readable mediums which allow for the automatic creation of a skills hierarchy. The skills hierarchy comprises an organization of a standardized list of skills into a hierarchy that describes category relationships between the skills in the hierarchy. The category relationships may include no relationships, parent relationships, and child relationships. A skill may be considered a parent of another skill if the parent skill…
Auto update utility for digital address books
Granted: July 4, 2017
Patent Number:
9697289
An Internet-based system capable of automatically maintaining contact-related information in any computer software application or digital device which stores or manages contact-related information. More particularly, the system allows users to automatically enter and maintain contact-related information in a digital address book or similar application or device with minimal or no manual entry of the contact-related information by the user. The system also allows contacts of the user to…
Segmentation of professional network update data
Granted: July 4, 2017
Patent Number:
9697285
Users belonging to a particular category at a networking site are monitored by a system and according to a method for their selection of articles from a networking update stream. The characteristics of the users, including the categories they belong to, are received as metadata corresponding to the each respective article. Periodically an article database is queried according to the category and a selected time period to determine the number of users that have chosen to follow the…
Mobile device pairing
Granted: June 27, 2017
Patent Number:
9692869
Tools (systems, apparatuses, methodologies, computer program products, etc.) for pairing electronic devices including touchscreen-enabled electronic devices, and for facilitating communication between paired electronic devices.
Determining logical groups without using personal information
Granted: June 27, 2017
Patent Number:
9691108
Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, logical relationship information describing logical relationships among a plurality of user devices is accessed. Scores for each of a plurality of possible groups are generated based at least partially on the logical relationship information and information about a first user device, but the scores not being based on any personally identifiable information about the first user of the first user…
Portion of a display with a graphical user interface
Granted: June 20, 2017
Patent Number:
D789972
Online address book with multi-use input bar and profile bookmarking
Granted: June 20, 2017
Patent Number:
9686328
An online address book is configured to include a multi-user input bar to receive search terms intended to match contacts existing in a user's contact list. If a search term does not match any entry in the current contact list the search is extended by the multi-user input bar to include further candidate contacts. Candidate contacts are acquired through social profiles available from a set of networking sites linked-to over the Internet. A candidate contact that does match the search…
Method and system for still image capture from video footage
Granted: June 13, 2017
Patent Number:
9681087
A method of providing one or more snapshots extracted from video footage includes displaying a first image in a first display area. The first image is associated with a first capture time. The method also includes displaying a first plurality of preview images in a second display area. The first plurality of preview images are associated with times prior to the first capture time. The method further includes displaying a second plurality of preview images in a third display area. The…
User interfaces for providing updated contact information
Granted: June 13, 2017
Patent Number:
9679058
An Internet-based system capable of automatically maintaining contact-related information in any computer software application or digital device which stores or manages contact-related information. More particularly, the system allows users to automatically enter and maintain contact-related information in a digital address book or similar application or device (such as a wireless phone or PDA) with minimal or no manual entry of the contact-related information by the user. The system…
Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface
Granted: June 13, 2017
Patent Number:
D789403
Portion of a display with a graphical user interface
Granted: June 13, 2017
Patent Number:
D789390
Techniques for ascribing social attributes to content
Granted: June 6, 2017
Patent Number:
9674136
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…
Automated management of a distributed computing system
Granted: June 6, 2017
Patent Number:
9674031
A system, method and computer program product are provided for managing a distributed computing system that features multiple hosts executing a distributed application. On each host a collector process collects application-level and/or system-level metrics and reports them to a data repository. A controller executes actor processes that compare the metrics, and/or trends in the metrics, to predetermined thresholds. If a threshold is met or passed, the corresponding actor or the…
Translating queries into graph queries using primitives
Granted: June 6, 2017
Patent Number:
9672247
In order to facilitate the requesting of desired information from a graph database that stores a graph, a system may translate an initial query into a query that can be executed against the graph database. In particular, using primitives, the system may translate a query associated with a type of database (such as a relational database) into the query. The graph may include nodes, edges between the nodes, and predicates to represent and store data with index-free adjacency. Moreover, the…
Leveraging annotation bias to improve annotations
Granted: May 30, 2017
Patent Number:
9665551
In order to leverage annotation bias in batch annotations, obtained via crowdsourcing, on a set of comments on user posts in a social network, a system may select a subset of the comments for annotation based on how informative expected annotations for the comments in the subset are for the one or more classifiers and probabilities of occurrence of the expected annotations based on a predetermined annotation probability distribution. Note that the classifier may predict how likely the…
Providing social context to calendar events
Granted: May 30, 2017
Patent Number:
9667678
A daily connection facility is available to the user either through a webpage or by e-mail in the form of a synopsis of connection identifiers between the user and their contacts. The web-based version presents connection information in the form of an agenda view, an engage view, and a reminder view. Each view type is selectable by corresponding tab on the webpage. The daily connected e-mail presents an agenda of meetings and events by location, title, and time. The daily connected…
System and method for recommending actions on a social network
Granted: May 30, 2017
Patent Number:
9665584
A device, system, and method may include an electronic data storage configured to store social network data related to use of the social network by users. A processor, coupled to the electronic data storage, may be configured to determine a recommended action that a member of the social network may take to increase a likelihood of at least one of the uses of the social network to access a social network content item related to the member and determine an estimated statistical change in a…
