Jeffrey S Kanter

US Patent:

20130139048, May 30, 2013

Filed:

Nov 30, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/308215

Inventors:

Rohit Dhawan - San Francisco CA, US
Yuankai Ge - Palo Alto CA, US
Jeffrey Andrew Kanter - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

715234

Abstract:

Posts are ranked for display on a page in a social network environment based on interaction and user score signals associated with the post and a viewing user. The signals for each of the posts are scored, and a ranking score for each post is determined. The posts are ranked in an order for display based on the ranking score and displayed for the viewing user on the page. Posts submitted by other users who have established connections with the viewing user are also filtered for display in a social box on the page.

US Patent:

20130144948, Jun 6, 2013

Filed:

Dec 6, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/312912

Inventors:

Thomas Giovanni Carriero - Menlo Park CA, US
Jeffrey Andrew Kanter - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709204

Abstract:

Pages are created in a social network for a topic of interest and are organized and connected to each other based on related topics or categories. Relationships between parent pages and child pages are created based on the same or related topic of interest. Pages in the same category can also be connected. Information is shared among related pages in the social network.

US Patent:

20130151613, Jun 13, 2013

Filed:

Dec 13, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/325036

Inventors:

Rohit Dhawan - San Francisco CA, US
Jeffrey Andrew Kanter - San Francisco CA, US
Thomas Giovanni Carriero - Menlo Park CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709204

Abstract:

A social networking system provides tips to users about non-user entities within the social networking system. Tips include short questions, comments, reviews and non-user entities include businesses, products, bands, songs etc. Tips are provided by users of the social networking system, wherein the tips are displayed to other users of if the other users meet privacy criteria associated with the tips. Additionally, tips are ranked based on the likelihood that a user will view or read the tip. Tips with the greatest likelihood are ranked higher than those with a lower likelihood. Selected tips with a high likelihood to be viewed are displayed to a viewing user on the topic page or within the user's news feed story.

US Patent:

20130138735, May 30, 2013

Filed:

Nov 30, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/308469

Inventors:

Jeffrey Andrew Kanter - San Francisco CA, US
Mitu Singh - San Carlos CA, US
Daniel Gregory Muriello - Palo Alto CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709204

Abstract:

Users of social networking system are provided with user interface elements permitting the user to post comments on pages within the social networking system. Pages may be provided for any non-user entity, including for example, pages for businesses, products, concepts, etc. Embodiments provided herein permit page moderators to ban certain content from being displayed on a page. For example, the social networking system may receive a list of proscribed content and block comments containing the proscribed content by reducing the distribution of those comments to other viewing users. However, the social networking system may display the blocked content to the commenting user such that the commenting user is not made aware that his or her comment was blocked, thereby providing fewer incentives to the commenting user to spam the page or attempt to circumvent the social networking system filters.

US Patent:

20160283061, Sep 29, 2016

Filed:

Jun 6, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/173952

Inventors:

- Menlo Park CA, US
Jeffrey Andrew Kanter - San Francisco CA, US
Russell Eric Heddleston - San Francisco CA, US
David Ferguson - El Dorado Hills CA, US
Thomas Giovanni Carriero - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 3/0482
H04L 29/08
H04L 12/58
G06F 3/0484

Abstract:

A social networking system displays information about a user via a timeline included in a profile page. Narrative data about a user stored in a social networking system, including data about the user and social network activities related to the user is accessed. Timeline units summarizing information about the user are generated from the narrative data. When a viewing user requests a profile page, timeline units are displayed based information related to the viewing user and interactions with the profile page by other users connected to the viewing user. Users that administer the profile page are presented with additional information when viewing the profile page, allowing the administering users to modify appearance of the timeline or to identify actions for an administering user to take to increase interaction with the profile page.

US Patent:

20150261760, Sep 17, 2015

Filed:

May 27, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/722987

Inventors:

- Menlo Park CA, US
Jeffrey Andrew Kanter - San Francisco CA, US
Thomas Giovanni Carriero - Menlo Park CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
H04L 29/08
H04L 29/06

Abstract:

A social networking system provides tips to users about non-user entities within the social networking system. Tips include short questions, comments, reviews and non-user entities include businesses, products, bands, songs etc. Tips are provided by users of the social networking system, wherein the tips are displayed to other users of if the other users meet privacy criteria associated with the tips. Additionally, tips are ranked based on the likelihood that a user will view or read the tip. Tips with the greatest likelihood are ranked higher than those with a lower likelihood. Selected tips with a high likelihood to be viewed are displayed to a viewing user on the topic page or within the user's news feed story.

US Patent:

20140207793, Jul 24, 2014

Filed:

Jan 24, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/749557

Inventors:

- Menlo Park CA, US
Nipun Mathur - Menlo Park CA, US
Jeffrey Andrew Kanter - San Francisco CA, US
Vijaye Raji - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc. - Menlo Park CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707748

Abstract:

A social networking system presents suggestions to a user of a social networking system to use or install one or more applications accessible in the system. The social networking system offers suggestions by ranking candidate applications for a particular user and selecting applications to recommend based on the rankings. Advertisers associated with some applications may bid to boost the rankings of an application, making it more likely to appear for a given user.

US Patent:

20140156749, Jun 5, 2014

Filed:

Dec 5, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/705586

Inventors:

Jeffrey Andrew Kanter - San Francisco CA, US
Jack William Lindamood - Mountain View CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709204

Abstract:

A social networking system generates a region-specific brand page for presentation to a requesting a brand paged based on location information associated with the user. The region-specific brand page includes data about the brand and aggregated data about users' actions associated with the brand in the social networking system and is presented in a format determined in part by the location information associated with the user. Additionally, the region-specific brand page may include data describing interactions with the brand by users connected to the user viewing the brand page, even if the connected users are associated with location information associated with a different geographic region than the user.