Google Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Dean Kenneth Jackson

Daniel Victor Klein

James F Geist, Jr

John Stephen Ketchpaw

Dan Barak

Francislav Petrov Penov

Matteo Visentin

John Richard Kochmar

Tyler J Potter

Kenji Droullard

Hiral Mehta

Florian Raphael David Laplantif

Tyler JC Potter

Systems and methods for customizing video include providing a portion of video to an electronic display and identifying a character or personality in the portion of video. A request to perform an action regarding the portion of video may be detected and the action may be associated with the identified character or personality. The action may be performed on a second portion of video in response to the character or personality being identified in the second portion of video.

Methods, systems, and media for causing an alert to be presented

To monitor and report road quality, a server device is configured to receive, from a plurality of vehicles, respective reports, each of the reports indicating a geographic road location of a vehicle and a road quality indication for the geographic location; update, using the reports, a table correlating geographic road locations and road quality indications; determine average road quality indicia for a geographic road location, based on the road quality indications in the table; and in response to a query from a communication device, provide the communication device with an information update based on at least the average road quality indicia.

Systems and methods for monitoring and reporting road quality

A system and method for determining a geographic location of a client device to determine whether to provide content to a user of the client device is disclosed. The system determines, based on a geographic location of the client device, whether to present the video item to the user of the client device for consumption by determining whether an address of the client device is of a first type; responsive to determining that the address of the client device is of the first type: determining a blackout rule for the video item; determining whether to restrict access to the video item based at least in part on the geographic location of the client device and the blackout rule; in response to determining that the access to the video item is to be restricted, generating graphical data notifying the user of the client device that the video item is restricted.

Content restriction system

A method in a communication device equipped with an electronic circuit includes obtaining a geographic location of a vehicle in which the communication device operates; monitoring at least one sensor signal that corresponds to road quality; determining a road quality indication of the geographic location based on the at least one sensor signal; transmitting the geographic location and the road quality indication to a server; and determining, using an information received from the server, whether the road quality indication differs from an average road quality indicia for the geographic location.

The present disclosure is directed towards systems and method for determining whether a scannable code displayed on a client device has been scanned. In particular, the systems and methods described herein involve activating one or more on-board sensors of the client device to capture output signals. Based on the output signals, the systems and methods include identifying discrete signals that indicate whether the scannable code has been scanned by a scanning device. Further, based on an analysis of the identified discrete signals, the systems and methods include determining whether the scannable code has been scanned by the scanning device.

Detecting a scan using on-device sensors

A system and method for restricting access to content is disclosed. The system comprises a communication module, a rules module, a geolocation module, and a blackout module. The communication module receives a request for content and location data describing the geographic location of a client. The request includes content data identifying the content. The rules module determines a blackout rule for the content based at least in part on the content data. The geolocation module determines the geographic location of the client based at least in part on the location data. The blackout module determines whether to restrict access to the content based at least in part on the geographic location of the client and the blackout rule.

The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for providing third-party content to users of a social networking system. For example, the disclosed systems and methods receive content associated with an offer from a third party for presentation to a user, display the content associated with the offer in a graphical user interface including a feed of social networking content associated with the user, and detecting an interaction of the user with the displayed content associated with the offer. In response to the interaction of the user, the systems and methods navigate to a website associated with the third party and display a graphical element associated with the offer overlaying a portion of the website.

User consumption of third-party offer content through a social networking system

The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for identifying offers in networking system post. For example, systems and methods described herein identify one or more offer indicators in a networking system post and calculate a confidence score representing a level of confidence that the unstructured networking system post includes a merchant offer. In response to calculating a confidence score above a threshold value, systems and methods described herein prompt the composer of the unstructured post to convert the post into a structured offer. Upon converting the unstructured post into a structured offer, systems and methods described herein intelligently distribute the structured offer for use by networking system users.

Analyzing and converting unstructured networking system communications

In one embodiment, a method includes sending notifications to one or more users of a social-networking system. Information may be received regarding actions taken by the users of the social-networking system. The information may include parameters associated with each of the actions taken by the users. The method further includes determining correlations between the parameters and the users, and sending notifications to the users of the social-networking system based on the determined correlations.

Notifications based on user activity on third-party websites

A latency analysis system determines a latency period, such as a wait time, at a user destination. To determine the latency period, the latency analysis system receives location history from multiple user devices. With the location histories, the latency analysis system identifies points-of-interest that users have visited and determines the amount of time the user devices were at a point-of-interest. For example, the latency analysis system determines when a user device entered and exited a point-of-interest. Based on the elapsed time between entry and exit, the latency analysis system determines how long the user device was inside the point-of-interest. By averaging elapsed times for multiple user devices, the latency analysis system determines a latency period for the point-of-interest. The latency analysis system then uses the latency period to provide latency-based recommendations to a user. For example, the latency analysis system may determine a shopping route for a user.

Point-of-interest latency prediction using mobile device location history

Implementations of the disclosure describe inferring social groups through patterns of communication. A method of the disclosure includes ascertaining, by a processing device, a proposed group of contacts from contacts of the user based on a correlation in geographic locations of communications between the user and the proposed group of contacts and a correlation in a type of medium of the communications, providing a recommendation that the user create a new list of contacts associated with the user from the proposed group of contacts, and responsive to the user indicating acceptance of the recommendation, creating the new list of contacts associated with the user from the proposed group.

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Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Dean Kenneth Jackson