Reconciliation of disjoint user identifier spaces
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11449888
Two different user spaces can be mapped to each other based on one or more categories of information that are common to both. The mapping is based on hash values generated by applying the same hash function to the same information of the categories of information that identifies users in each user space.
Conversational targeted content
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11443348
Techniques of the disclosure are directed to sending and receiving messages that allow for content providers to interact with potential recipients and customers. An information distribution system may receive a first message from a content provider via a first client device that includes targeted content, such as a string of characters, an image, a video, and/or some other form of media. The targeted content may also include tags, such as hashtags, which identify or otherwise associate a…
Fast loading and display of image previews
Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11438399
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing images in the form of tiny previews in messages of a message stream sent to user devices in an online social messaging platform.
Selection and presentation of unviewed messages
Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11436234
A method for message selection, including: receiving a request for unviewed messages, the request identifying a context account, ranking the set of unviewed messages according to ranking criteria, where the ranking criteria is used to rank each of the set of unviewed messages based on an engagement history between the context account and an authoring account of the unviewed messages; generating, based on ranking the set of unviewed messages, a result set identifying a subset of the set…
Method and system for maintaining storage device failure tolerance in a composable infrastructure
Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11436113
Systems (e.g. data centers) having composable infrastructure, in which computing devices (e.g., servers) access disk drives organized into storage groups over a network or other communications mechanism, devices for implementing such systems, methods for configuring and operating such systems, and a computer readable medium which stores (in non-transitory fashion) code for performing any embodiment of the inventive method or steps thereof. Typically, the storage groups are determined…
Evaluation infrastructure for testing real-time content search
Granted: May 10, 2022
Patent Number:
11327879
Systems and methods provide an experimentation system, or testing engine, for a real-time search infrastructure. An example method includes generating a snapshot of a production search environment and performing testing of a signal or index change in the snapshot. The change can be specified as parameters passed to the system. The method may include estimating an impact of the change based on the testing and determining, based on the estimate, whether the impact is positive. Responsive…
Live video classification and preview selection
Granted: May 3, 2022
Patent Number:
11323753
Systems and methods select and provide video snippets in a matrix interface. Example methods include obtaining a portion of a live video stream, assigning the portion to a class, determining that the portion is preview-eligible, and generating a snippet of the live video stream using the portion. Other example methods include determining, using a trained video classifier, a set of live broadcasts that have at least one portion that is classified as preview-eligible, calculating, for each…
Display screen with graphical user interface for a social media application
Granted: April 26, 2022
Patent Number:
D949889
Client software back off
Granted: April 26, 2022
Patent Number:
11316952
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for limiting load on host servers that implement a social messaging platform. An example user device sends, to a platform comprising a plurality of host servers, a first request. The request is directed to a first endpoint. The user device receives, in response to the first request, a first error that indicates that the first request was not processed. The user device determines a back off…
Music discovery using messages of a messaging platform
Granted: April 26, 2022
Patent Number:
11316940
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for identifying music-related data based on message data from a messaging platform. The method includes: obtaining a request from a client; identifying context data associated with the request; identifying message data from the messaging platform based on the context data; selecting, based on the context data and the message data from the messaging platform, music-related data for inclusion in a result set; and providing the result set to…
Method and system for topic disambiguation and classification
Granted: April 19, 2022
Patent Number:
11310338
A method for generating recommendations involves selecting a first platform message, making a first determination that the first platform message is potentially associated with a plurality of topics including a first topic and a second topic, obtaining additional information associated with the first platform message including at least one of information about an account that authored the first platform message and information about third party accounts engaging with the first platform…
System and method for determining relevance of social content
Granted: April 19, 2022
Patent Number:
11310324
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a computing device, information associated with an entity from one or more social media sites. One or more attributes for the information associated with the entity is identified. A relevance profile associated with the one or more attributes is generated. A plurality of posts from the one or more social media sites is identified, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of posts includes at least a portion of…
Checkerboard artifact free sub-pixel convolution
Granted: April 19, 2022
Patent Number:
11308361
An example system includes a processor and a memory. The system performs sub-pixel convolution that is free of checkerboard artifacts. In one example implementation, the system may execute a method that includes initializing one or more parameters of a sub-kernel of a kernel and copying the one or more parameters of the sub-kernel to other sub-kernels of the kernel. The method may further include performing convolution of an input image with the sub-kernels of the kernel and generating a…
Display screen with graphical user interface for live broadcasting
Granted: April 19, 2022
Patent Number:
D949181
Display screen with graphical user interface for video conferencing
Granted: April 19, 2022
Patent Number:
D949163
Authentication mechanism
Granted: April 12, 2022
Patent Number:
11303623
A system and method including: receiving an authorization request originating from an authorization module of an application executing on a client device, where the authorization request includes an identifier identifying the client device; causing transmission, based on the identifier, of a verification message to the client device, where the verification message includes a verification code; receiving a confirmation of the verification code from the authorization module of the…
Determining most relevant accounts in a conversation
Granted: April 12, 2022
Patent Number:
11301115
A computing device can receive at least a first post in association with a first account, a second post in association with the first account, the second post being associated with the first post, a third post in association with a second account, the third post being associated with the first post, a fourth post in association with the second account, the fourth post being associated with the first post, and a fifth post in association with a third account, the fifth post being…
Display panel portion with an animated computer icon
Granted: April 5, 2022
Patent Number:
D947865
File system modification
Granted: April 5, 2022
Patent Number:
11295018
A system and method for message analysis, including: receiving, by a control service, a first modification request to modify a file system of a computing device, wherein the computing device is operating in a read-only state; identifying, by the control service, a request parameter associated with the first modification request; determining, by the control service, that the request parameter satisfies a permission criteria to perform the first modification request; provisioning, by the…
Display screen with graphical user interface for moments in a social media application
Granted: April 5, 2022
Patent Number:
D947875
