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Twitter Patents
Twitter is a global communications platform that allows people to create, distribute and discover content 140 characters at a time. The company generates the majority of its revenues from third party advertising through Promoted Tweets, Promoted Accounts and Promoted Trends.
Twitter Patents by Type- Twitter Patents Granted: Twitter patents that have been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
- Twitter Patent Applications: Twitter patent applications that are pending before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10841257Abstract: In general, techniques are described to determine engagement scores representative of a level of engagement in a digital domain for a particular sub-category within the common category of entities on a social media platform. In accordance with these techniques, a computing system is configured to receive, from one or more client devices, messages composed by one or more users of the one or more client devices. Each of the messages includes a respective identifier, and each respective identifier is associated with a common category of entities. The computing system is further configured to determine, based on the messages, an engagement score that represents a level of engagement for a particular sub-category within the common category of entities. The computing system is further configured to output, for display at a display device operatively connected to the computing system, a visual representation of the engagement score.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventor: Andrew Bragdon
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Publication number: 20200342493Abstract: A technique for tracking conversion of an online offer includes tracking online and/or offline transactions. A customer accepts an offer provided by a merchant and submits his or her account information so that he or she may receive a reward for satisfying criteria associated with the offer. Transactions of the merchant are then monitored at the payment processor level to determine whether the customer satisfies the purchase criteria. Therefore, online and offline conversion can both be tracked. Further, the merchant is able to determine the overall effectiveness of advertising campaigns by analyzing the number of offers that are both accepted and satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: Twitter,Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey WINNER, Geraud Boyer, Amit Kumar, Eckart Walther
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Patent number: 10817501Abstract: Embodiments are provided for managing shared states of objects associated with a distributed database. According to certain aspects, a reactor machine interfaces with a coordination service that is in communication with the distributed database to coordinate the shared states of the objects. The coordination service notifies the reactor machine when a shared state of an object has changed and, in response, the reactor machine determines a desired state of the object by executing a reactor function. The reactor machine provides the desired state of the object to the coordination service, and the coordination service updates the shared state of the object to reflect the desired state of the object. Accordingly, the logic of the reactor machine is de-coupled from the complexities of the coordination service.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Peter Schuller, Sumeet Lahorani, Stuart Hood
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Patent number: 10817334Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for data stream processing. One method performed by a stream manager in a group of containers including streaming processes and stream managers includes receiving a first data streaming object of the data streaming objects from a first component in the group of containers; determining whether to process the first data streaming object; in response to determining to process the first data streaming object processing the first data streaming object and routing the first data streaming object; and in response to determining not to process the first data streaming object, routing the first data streaming object.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Cong Wang, Maosong Fu, Karthik Ramasamy
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Patent number: 10818320Abstract: In one general aspect, a method can include receiving a video loop portion included in a video file and receiving an audio loop portion included in an audio file. The method can include analyzing at least a portion of the audio file based on a musical characteristic and identifying a plurality of segment locations within the audio file based on the analyzing where the plurality of segment locations define a plurality of audio segments of the audio file. The method can also include modifying the video loop portion based on one of the plurality of segment locations in the audio file.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Richard J. Plom, Jason J. Mante, Ryan Swigart, Mikhail Kaplinskiy
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Patent number: 10810236Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for indexing data in information retrieval systems. In one aspect, a system includes computer readable storage media, where the non-transitory computer readable storage media include postings lists for a term, where each posting list includes postings blocks, position blocks, and metadata blocks. Each postings block includes document identifiers and respective indications of frequency of the term in each document. Each position block includes position indications for the term in the documents of a corresponding postings block. Each metadata block includes an indication of the size of the document identifiers in the associated postings block, an indication of the size of the indications of frequency of terms in the associated postings block, an indication of a number of postings in the associated postings block, and an indication of position information for postings in the associated postings block.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Yan Zhao, Paul Burstein, Yi Zhuang, Michael Busch
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Patent number: 10805236Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for delivering event content. One of the methods includes initiating, for one or more client devices, a subscription to a topic; receiving an event relevant to a topic; determining a number of channel servers that correspond to the topic, wherein each channel server is associated with one or more client devices; determining that the number of channel servers that correspond to the topic is greater than a threshold number of channel servers; writing the received event from the event processor to an event fan-out queue, in response to the determination that the number of channel servers that correspond to the topic is greater than the threshold number of channel servers; reading the received event from the event fan-out queue; and sending the received event to the one or more client devices associated with each respective channel server.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Jie Jin, Dustin Norlander
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Patent number: 10803386Abstract: Systems and methods for determining items in a target domain to recommend to a user whom has not previously interacted with items in the target domain is described. The method comprises generating an auxiliary domain user embedding based on user affinities for each of a plurality of items in an auxiliary domain and embeddings for each of the plurality of items in the auxiliary domain, providing the auxiliary domain user embedding as input to a neural network configured to output a target domain user embedding, predicting target domain user affinities for items in the target domain based, at least in part, on a similarity measure between the target domain user embedding and an embedding for at least one item in the target domain, and determining a set of items in the target domain to recommend to the user based, at least in part, on the predicted target domain user affinities.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventor: Daniel Shiebler
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Patent number: 10805252Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for recommending electronic messages in a message sharing system. Users can post messages to the message sharing system. These messages from posting users are received by the system and sent to receiving users that have subscribed to the posting users. The receiving users interact with the messages in various ways, such as by sharing the messages with other users. Interaction information is received for each of the electronic messages. The interaction information includes an indication of the number of interactions with the electronic message by receiving users. A score is determined for each electronic message based on the interaction information. Electronic messages are selected for being recommended to a user or a group of users based on the scores. The recommendations are then sent to the users, enabling users to better focus their attention on messages that are likely to be interesting.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Abdur Chowdhury, Ashish Goel, Ram Ravichandran
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Patent number: 10803492Abstract: A real-time messaging platform and method are disclosed which can be used to promote content in the messaging platform. In one embodiment, the promotion system is disclosed which performs initial candidate selection so as to narrow down the set of candidate promotions before applying more expensive processing. The candidate selection takes advantage of the connection graph information associated with accounts in the messaging platform to identify targeted accounts. In another embodiment, the promotion system uses a prediction model to predict a user's engagement with the promotion and utilizes the prediction to assist in ranking the candidate promotions. Promotions can be assigned metrics based, for example, on a weighted combination of user engagement rates, decayed with time to reflect an intuition that recent interactions by one or more users with the promotion will have a greater impact than older interactions with the promotion.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Utkarsh Srivastava, Ashish Goel, Srinivasan Rajgopal, Anamitra Banerji
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Patent number: 10795900Abstract: A messaging system provides recommendations of content that account holders of the messaging system might be interested in engaging with. In order to determine what to recommend, the messaging system generates a model of account holder engagement behavior organized by type of engagement. The model parameters are trained on differences between expected engagement behavior based on past data and actual engagement behavior, and include a set of common factor matrices that are trained using data from more than on engagement type. As a consequence, engagement behavior of other account holders with respect to other types of engagements different than the one sought to be recommended serves as a partial basis for determining what engagements of the sought-after type are recommended.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Venumadhav Satuluri, Sebastian Schelter, Reza Bosagh Zadeh
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Patent number: 10795660Abstract: A software developer tool allows for live code updates (LCU) while an application is running using an execution platform. The LCU update service operates by preemptively, automatically rewriting bytecode to introduce a layer of indirection that swaps out the code of a running application to make it easy to dynamically update whenever the code is changed. The indirection includes both new “representation” classes (and constituent fields and methods), and also replacing constructs that are hard-coded into the bytecode with more flexible constructs such as representation object maps and a dynamic global class table. All manner of code modifications are handled including adding, removing and modifying fields and methods of classes, and changing the class hierarchy. This includes arbitrary code changes, ensuring that when a developer changes a class, all objects of or related to that class are instantly updated.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventor: Sameer Sundresh
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Patent number: 10791079Abstract: Embodiments are provided for reducing unwanted messages or spam within a real-time social networking service. According to certain aspects, a synchronous analysis module may operate in coordination with an asynchronous analysis module. Each of the synchronous analysis module and the asynchronous analysis module analyzes an incoming message from a user account to determine whether the incoming message has characteristics of spam, whereby the synchronous analysis is at a lower latency than the asynchronous analysis. The asynchronous analysis is afforded the ability to identify certain spam characteristics that the synchronous analysis may identify during its lower latency analysis.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Raghav Jeyaraman, Arjun Maheswaran, Erdong Chen
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Patent number: 10785183Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing content on a social messaging platform. One of the methods includes providing a plurality of messages of a social messaging platform to a user device, the plurality of messages being part of a conversation; receiving a request associated with one of the plurality of messages, the request including an indication to repost a collection of messages; providing a selection user interface, the selection user interface including the plurality of messages and a respective selection indicator for each message; receiving a user selection of two or more messages; responsive to the user selection, generating a message composition interface, the message composition interface including a representation of the selected messages; and in response to user input, posting the representation of the selected messages as part of a new message of the user on the platform.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Mengqi Zhao, Marius-Andrei Danila, Tianhai Hu, Jan Castor, Jonathan Reis
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Patent number: 10785451Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating avatars based on physical sensor measurements. One of the methods includes receiving, by a second user device from a video streaming platform system during a video streaming session between a first user device and the second user device, an updated physical sensor measurement of the first user device. An updated graphical representation of an avatar selected by a first user of the first user device is generated by the second user device based on the updated physical sensor measurement of the first user device. The updated graphical representation of the avatar is presented by the second user device on a display device of the second user device during a video streaming session between the first user device and the second user device.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventor: Tyler Hansen
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Patent number: 10769661Abstract: A real-time messaging platform allows advertiser accounts to pay to insert candidate messages into the message streams requested by account holders. To accommodate multiple advertisers, the messaging platform controls an auction process that determines which candidate messages are selected for inclusion in a requested account holder's message stream. Selection is based on a bid for the candidate message, the message stream that is requested, and a variety of other factors that vary depending upon the implementation. The process for selection of candidate messages generally includes the following steps, though any given step may be omitted or combined into another step in a different implementation: targeting, filtering, prediction, ranking, and selection.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Parag Agrawal, Mike Jahr, Yue Lu, Feng Zhuge, Qicheng Ma, Utkarsh Srivastava
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Patent number: 10771572Abstract: A method for determining a circle of trust (CoT) includes receiving a request for the CoT, generating the CoT for the context account by: identifying a primary graph with nodes based on at least one action within a social network for the context account. The method further includes performing random walks through the nodes of the primary graph, each of the random walks including two steps, ranking each of the nodes based on an amount of the random walks that end on each of the nodes, with the CoT including a number of the highest ranking plurality of nodes, filtering content items using the CoT to identify a subset of relevant items, and providing the subset for display on a client device.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Pankaj Gupta, Aneesh Sharma, Ashish Goel
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Patent number: 10769677Abstract: A real-time messaging platform allows advertiser accounts to pay to insert candidate messages into the message streams requested by account holders. To accommodate multiple advertisers, the messaging platform controls an auction process that determines which candidate messages are selected for inclusion in a requested account holder's message stream. Selection is based on a bid for the candidate message, the message stream that is requested, and a variety of other factors that vary depending upon the implementation. The process for selection of candidate messages generally includes the following steps, though any given step may be omitted or combined into another step in a different implementation: targeting, filtering, prediction, ranking, and selection.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Parag Agrawal, Utkarsh Srivastava, Kumar Chellapilla, Qicheng Ma
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Patent number: 10763667Abstract: A multi-source power supply for supplying power that includes a first rectifier configured to convert a first AC power signal from a first source to a first DC power signal, a second rectifier configured to convert a second AC power signal from a second source to a second DC power signal and a common bus operatively connected to the first rectifier and the second rectifier and configured to combine a the DC power signals into a combined DC power signal, where the common bus distributes the combined DC power signal to at least one server.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Rose, Paul Thies, Jennifer Fraser
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Patent number: 10754492Abstract: A method for displaying content in a computing device including a display, the method including: displaying content in a viewable area of the display; detecting, by the display, an input associated with the content; and shifting, in response to the input, at least a portion of the content of the viewable area to display a non-modal view, where the non-modal view and the shifted content are concurrently available for user interaction after shifting the portion of the content.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Loren Brichter, Leland Rechis
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Patent number: 10754634Abstract: A system and method including: receiving an initial application package including at least one binary file of an application; generating an application token, wherein the application token is operable to identify a context; and assembling a customized application package including the initial application package and the application token, wherein: the customized application package and the initial application package share a common hash value according to a predefined hashing algorithm, and the application can be configured based on the application token.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Andrea S. Falcone, Peter W. Hopkins, Sanford W. Phillips
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Patent number: 10750115Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for capturing video on a mobile device. In an example mobile device, an activation action puts the device in a state in which it captures a loop of video of predefined length and uses that as a prefix to a video recorded in response to a record video action.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Richard Plom, Reed Martin
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Patent number: 10747805Abstract: Techniques of the disclosure are directed to a computing device creating and outputting, for display at client devices accessing a social media platform, targeted content. The computing device may receive candidate messages composed by users of a group of client devices, where the candidate messages each include a reference to the requisite product, brand, or market. If a candidate message has a determined interest score that satisfies a threshold interest score, the computing device includes the candidate message into a group of brand messages. The computing device may then send the targeted message to be output for display at another group of client devices, where the targeted message includes both an original portion and a carousel portion. The carousel portion includes a group of transitional windows, where each transitional window includes one of the brand messages from the group of brand messages.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventor: Andrew Bragdon
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Patent number: 10748172Abstract: According to an implementation, a system includes a social media messaging platform configured to exchange messages, over a network, among a plurality of computing devices. The exchange of messages is based on a connection graph stored on the messaging platform. The social media messaging platform includes a registration manager configured to register an account for an entity to boost a social media presence of the entity on the social media messaging platform, and a social media presence booster having a machine-learning relevance engine configured to programmatically match the entity's content with relevant entities. The social media presence booster is configured to automatically and programmatically boost the entity's content to the relevant entities, and increase, over time, a number of connections in the connection graph between the account and other accounts on the social media messaging platform in response to the boosted content.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Wook Jin Chung, Kiryl Lashuk, Kelly Huffman
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Patent number: 10735358Abstract: A system and message for message selection and presentation, including: receiving a request for content, wherein the request is associated with a context account of a messaging platform; identifying a set of unviewed messages associated with the context account; identifying grouping criteria for grouping content based on messages; applying, by a computer processor, the grouping criteria to the unviewed messages to generate a content group, wherein the content group is associated with a subset of the unviewed messages; and providing at least a portion of the content group in response to the request.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Michael Davidson, Joshua Brewer, David DeSandro, Erin Nolan, Geoffrey Brown
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Patent number: 10728310Abstract: Time-based media is distributed and promoted in a social networking environment. Accounts of a social networking system author social media content items (SMCIs) from which a social networking system infers relevance of content to users of those accounts. Content distributors submit time-based media content to the social networking system, which creates distributor SMCIs containing the time-based media content. Accounts are identified to receive distributor SMCIs based on SMCIs previously authored by those accounts as well as identifying information and the subject of the SMCI. Content promoters may add promotional material to distributor SMCIs, which the social networking service sends to additional accounts.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Glenn Brown, Mike Park, Jé Carr
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Patent number: 10721499Abstract: In some implementations, a system may include an interactive video broadcasting service, implemented on a server, configured to enable a plurality of source devices to broadcast live feed video streams, over a network, to a plurality of viewing devices. The interactive video broadcasting service includes a multi-perspective video sharing engine configured to determine that at least two of the live feed video streams relate to a same event. The multi-perspective video sharing engine provides a multi-perspective display, over the network, to at least one of the plurality of viewing devices in which the multi-perspective display concurrently streams the live feed video streams determined as related to the same event.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Wayne Chang, Suyash Sonwalkar
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Patent number: 10721205Abstract: A messaging platform forms an interactive message with one or more components and broadcasts the interactive message to client devices associated with accounts. The interactive message has a plurality of states that update based on event data received from a content source. While the event is in progress, the messaging platform receives event data relating to the event and transitions to an updated state based on the received event data. When the interactive message transitions to the updated state, the messaging platform updates the interactive message broadcast to the client devices. The interactive message may include interactive components that accounts may use to perform various interactions with the event, the content source, or each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: James Leslie Skinner, James R. Buckhouse
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Patent number: 10701394Abstract: A method includes selecting a plurality of low-resolution frames associated with a video, performing a first motion estimation between a first frame and a second frame, performing a second motion estimation between a third frame and the second frame, generating a high-resolution frame representing the second frame based on the first motion estimation, the second motion estimation and the second frame using a sub-pixel convolutional neural network.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Jose Caballero, Christian Ledig, Andrew Aitken, Alfredo Alejandro Acosta Diaz, Lucas Theis, Ferenc Huszar, Johannes Totz, Zehan Wang, Wenzhe Shi
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Patent number: 10698401Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) carries a camera, sends data from the camera, and receives commands. The UAV is connected to a messaging platform. Pictures or video clips received from the UAV are selected and placed in messages broadcast by an account associated with the UAV. Video footage from the camera is live-streamed in a card-type message. Account holders of the messaging platform may control the UAV with commands embedded in messages and directed towards an account associated with the UAV. Controllable elements of the UAV include UAV location, camera orientation, camera subject, UAV-mounted lighting, a UAV-mounted display, a UAV-mounted projector, UAV-mounted speakers, and a detachable payload. UAV control may be determined through democratic means. Some UAV functionality may be triggered through aggregated engagements on the messaging platform. The UAV may include a display screen and/or a microphone to provide for telepresence or interview functionality.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Ya-Ting Wang, Wayne Robins
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Patent number: 10701175Abstract: 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 message, making a second determining that the first platform message is associated with the first topic using the plurality of topics and at least a portion of the additional information, wherein the first topic is an initial classification of the first platform message, generating a recommendation for at least one account based on the second determination, and providing the recommendation to at least one account.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventor: Alek Kolcz
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Patent number: 10691513Abstract: A distributed message queue is disclosed which facilitates queue consumer discovery across multiple areas while providing for area preference.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: TWITTER, INC.Inventor: Joseph Jeremy Lauer
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Patent number: 10692114Abstract: A real-time messaging platform allows advertiser accounts to pay to insert candidate messages into the message streams requested by account holders. To accommodate multiple advertisers, the messaging platform controls an auction process that determines which candidate messages are selected for inclusion in a requested account holder's message stream. Selection is based on a bid for the candidate message, the message stream that is requested, and a variety of other factors that vary depending upon the implementation. The process for selection of candidate messages generally includes the following steps, though any given step may be omitted or combined into another step in a different implementation: targeting, filtering, prediction, ranking, and selection.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Reid Andersen, James Neufeld, Ashish Goel, Michael Jahr, Utkarsh Srivastava, Sandeep Pandey
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Patent number: 10686898Abstract: 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 the client in response to the request.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Stephen G. Phillips, Michael Doherty
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Patent number: 10686748Abstract: An example system for device-independent point to multipoint communication is configured to receive a message addressed to one or more destination users, the message type being, for example, Short Message Service (SMS), Instant Messaging (IM), E-mail, web form input, or Application Program Interface (API) function call. The system also is configured to determine information about the destination users, the information comprising preferred devices and interfaces for receiving messages, the information further including message receiving preferences. The system applies rules to the message based on destination user information to determine the message endpoints, the message endpoints being, for example, Short Message Service (SMS), Instant Messaging (IM), E-mail, web page output, or Application Program Interface (API) function call. The system translates the message based on the destination user information and message endpoints and transmits the message to each endpoint of the message.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: TWITTER, INC.Inventors: Jack Dorsey, Christopher Isaac Stone
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Patent number: 10681161Abstract: A system and method for trend detection in a messaging platform. A trend detection model is selected and a time series having a plurality of instances of social data is received, wherein the instances of social data share a countable parameter. A count is made of occurrences of countable parameters in each instance of social data assigned to that bin and a trend detected based at least in part on the trend detection model and on the count for each bin.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Scott Hendrickson, Jeffrey Aaron Kolb, Joshua Montague, Brian Lehman
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Patent number: 10672040Abstract: In general, embodiments of the invention relate to servicing fill request using ad networks and demand-side partners.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2015Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventor: Benjamin Henry Yolken
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Patent number: 10672011Abstract: The present invention provides techniques for use in association with online advertising, relating to use of serving thresholds, associated with predicted click through rates, and delivery policies, associated with advertising inventory serving and distribution. An offline-trained machine learning-based model may be utilized in advertising serving decision-making in connection with serving opportunities. However, serving thresholds and delivery policies, for use in association with the model in serving decision-making, may be adjusted online, such as in real-time or near real-time, based on information obtained online affecting factors such as predicted click through rates and advertising inventory distribution.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventor: Qing Zhang
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Patent number: 10657556Abstract: In some examples, a computing device includes at least one processor and at least one module, operable by the at least one processor to receive, from a client device of a user, a request for one or more advertisements to display at the client device with a set of messages. The set of messages is associated with the user in a social network messaging service. The at least one module may be further operable to determine a probability that the user will select a candidate advertisement using a machine learning model based on point-wise learning and pair-wise learning. The at least one module may be further operable to determine, based on the probability that the user will select the candidate advertisement, a candidate score for the candidate advertisement, determine that the candidate score satisfies a threshold, and send, for display at the client device, the candidate advertisement.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Yue Lu, Parag Agrawal, Cheng Li, Sandeep Pandey, Michael Jahr, Jeremy Ginsberg
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Patent number: 10657187Abstract: A system for real-time search, including: a set of partitions, each including a set of segments, each segment corresponding to a time slice of messages posted to the messaging platform, and a real-time search engine configured to receive a search term in parallel with other partitions in the set of partitions, and search at least one of the set of segments in reverse chronological order of the corresponding time slice to identify document identifiers of messages containing the search term; and a search fanout module configured to: receive a search query including the search term; send the search term to each of the set of partitions for parallel searching; and return, in response to the search query, at least one of the identified document identifiers of messages containing the search term.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Michael Busch, Samuel Luckenbill, Brian Larson, Patrick J. Lok, Krishna Gade, Francesco G. Callari, Ugo Di Girolamo
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Patent number: 10652302Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventor: Nolan Daniel O'Brien
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Patent number: 10650408Abstract: A real-time messaging platform allows advertiser accounts to pay to insert candidate messages into the message streams requested by account holders. To accommodate multiple advertisers, the messaging platform controls an auction process that determines which candidate messages are selected for inclusion in a requested account holder's message stream. Selection is based on a bid for the candidate message, the message stream that is requested, and a variety of other factors that vary depending upon the implementation. The process for selection of candidate messages generally includes the following steps, though any given step may be omitted or combined into another step in a different implementation: targeting, filtering, prediction, ranking, and selection.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Reid Andersen, Parag Agrawal, Ashish Goel, Utkarsh Srivastava
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Patent number: D886144Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint Davies
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Patent number: D886145Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint Davies
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Patent number: D886146Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint Davies
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