Facebook, Inc.

Google Inc.

Nvidia Corporation

Googe Inc.

Nividia Corporation

Matthew Nicholas Papakipos

John Erik Lindholm

David Harry Garcia

David B Kirk

Antoine Labour

Christopher G Demetriou

Michael John McKenzie Toksvig

Lev Timourovich Popov

Rui Bastos

Brian K Grant

John Stephen Montrym

Douglas A Voorhies

Harold Robert Feldman Zatz

Nicholas J Foskett

David Sehr

Simon S Moy

Paolo Enrique Sabella

Kevin Dawallu

Mingjian Yang

Henry Packard Moreton

Eric Joseph Uhrhane

Matthew Joseph Cahill

Erick Tseng

Bennet S Yee

J Bradley Chen

Iain Andrew Russell Proctor

Matthew T Harren

Cory Rudolph Ondrejka

Morgan S McGuire

Shaheen Ashok Gandhi

Evangelos Kokkevis

Yoon Kean Wong

Walter E Donovan

David Braginsky

Paul Tarjan

Shaun Ho

Brandon M Walkin

Daniel Elliott Wexler

Larry I Gritz

Gregory Dardyk

Jonathan Rice

Gregg Tavares

William Y Crutchfield

Iain Andrew Proctor

Steven E Molnar

Mark J Kilgard

Justin Alexander Shaffer

John M Danskin

Brian Krausz

Christian Rouet

Colin Cameron Brennan Campbell

Ross David Bayer

Nicholas Felton

Nathan Daniel Tuck

Robin Green

Phaedra Papakipos

Shiki Okasaka

Jeffrey R Timanus

Noah L Gibbs

Curtis R Priem

Rui Manuel Bastos

Ryan Tabone

Alexander Lev Minkin

Randall Spangler

Mohit Talwar

Michael John Toksvig

Charles Joseph Hughes

Wayne Douglas Young

Anton Valdemar Staaf

Jan Civlin

Myles A Sussman

Chamath M Palihapitiya

Liang Peng

David Scott Reiss

Thomas H Kong

Eglia Nair Flores

Christopher Masone

Steven Gregory Foster, Jr

Paul MacDougal

Harold Robert Feldman Zable

Steven E Moinar

Rul M Bastos

David Henry Garcia

Brandon Marshall Walkin

Michael John Mckenzie Toksvig

David C Sehr

Some embodiments provide a system that executes a web application. During operation, the system loads the web application in a web browser and loads a native code module associated with the web application into a secure runtime environment. Next, the system provides input data associated with the web application to the native code module and processes the input data using the native code module to obtain output data. Finally, the system provides the output data to the web application for use by the web application.

Method and system for executing applications using native code modules

In one embodiment, receiving, at a first computing device associated with a social-networking system and from a second computing device, a first request to verify an identity of a user of the social-networking system; sending, by the first computing device and to a mobile device associated with the user, a second request for information about the user; receiving, at the first computing device and from the mobile device, the information about the user; determining, by the first computing device, a confidence score indicating a probability that the identity of the user is true based on the information about the user received from the mobile device and information available to the social-networking system; and sending, by the first computing device and to the second computing device, the confidence score.

Identity verification and authentication

In one embodiment, the first processors of a mobile device determine an operating condition of the mobile device. These operating conditions are based on a current velocity of the mobile device, and the current time of day. If the operating conditions satisfy an operating criteria for the mobile device, the first processors send a message to second processors of the mobile device, causing one or more of the second processors to wake up from a sleeping state to an active state.

Dynamic duty-cycling of processor of mobile device based on operating condition of mobile device

In one embodiment, a method comprises maintaining a set of connections for the first computing device, intercepting a request from a software application executing on the first computing device to establish a connection with a second computing device, selecting from the set of connections an available connection, and assigning the available connection to the software application for connecting to the second computing device.

Managing notifications pushed to user devices

In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system records location data of a user, generate a set of recommendations based on the user's location data, and present one or more recommendations of the set of recommendations to the user based on the user's current location.

Dynamic recommendation in geo-social networking system

In one embodiment, a method comprises monitoring one or more sensors of a computing device that is in a locked state and is associated with an authorized user of a social-networking system, identifying, based on information associated with the authorized user, content to be downloaded from the social-networking system, and downloading the identified content from the social-networking system, wherein the identified content is stored for display after the computing device is unlocked. The downloading may be in response to determining that an operation to unlock the computing device is imminent, and the content may include commonly-viewed content. The downloading may include downloading one or more notifications from the social-networking system. The downloading may be based on one or more previous habits of the authorized user. The information associated with the authorized user may include information indicating that the authorized user habitually checks one or more sites or feeds.

Initializing camera subsystem for face detection based on sensor inputs

A system that validates a native code module. During operation, the system receives a native code module comprised of untrusted native program code. The system validates the native code module by: (1) determining that code in the native code module does not include any restricted instructions and/or does not access restricted features of a computing device; and (2) determining that the instructions in the native code module are aligned along byte boundaries such that a specified set of byte boundaries always contain a valid instruction and control flow instructions have valid targets. The system allows successfully-validated native code modules to execute, and rejects native code modules that fail validation. By validating the native code module, the system facilitates safely executing the native code module in the secure runtime environment on the computing device, thereby achieving native code performance for untrusted program binaries without significant risk of unwanted side effects.

Method for validating an untrusted native code module

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data, while a mobile electronic device associated with a member of a social-networking system is in a first operation state, from one or more sensors of the mobile electronic device and obtaining characteristic information maintained by the social-networking system, the social-networking system being remote from the mobile electronic device. The method also includes verifying that a current user of the mobile electronic device is the member by comparing the sensor data to the characteristic information. The method also includes, in response to the verifying, transitioning from the first operation state to a second operation state.

Adjusting mobile device state based on user intentions and/or identity

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving identifier-information from a device of a first user, wherein the identifier-information is associated with a source of an incoming communication; accessing a social graph including nodes and edges, where the nodes include a first node corresponding to the first user, and second nodes corresponding to respective second users; determining whether one or more reporting users, corresponding to respective second nodes within a specified degree of separation from the first node, have flagged the source of the incoming communication as a spam source; and sending, to the first user, a spam-notification object that includes information identifying one or more of the reporting users.

Call-termination-triggered social interface

In particular embodiments, one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embody software that is operable when executed to receive an audio waveform fingerprint and a client-determined location from a client device. The received audio waveform fingerprint may be compared to a database of stored audio waveform fingerprints, each stored audio waveform fingerprint associated with an object in an object database. One or more matching audio waveform fingerprints may be found from a comparison set of audio waveform fingerprints obtained from the audio waveform fingerprint database. Location information associated with a location of the client device may be determined, and the location information may be sent to the client device. The client device may be operable to update the client-determined location based at least in part on the location information.

Periodic ambient waveform analysis for enhanced social functions

An online system identifies a conversion of an advertisement when a client device associated with an online system user is within a threshold distance of a physical location associated with the advertisement. The client device sends obfuscated information identifying the user associated with the client device and the location of the client device to an independent third party when the client device is within a threshold distance of the physical location associated with the advertisement. Using information from the client device, the third party requests information from the online system identifying one or more groups including the user. Based on information identifying groups including various online system users, the third party generates information identifying conversions associated with different groups. The online system may determine effectiveness of various advertisements using the information from the third party identifying conversions associated with different groups.

Offline conversion measurement for advertisements presented to users of an online system

In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system determines a user's current location, generate a list of places near the user's current location, rank the list of places based on distance, relevancy and a configurable rule set, and automatically checks in the user at the top ranked place.

Automated location check-in for geo-social networking system

In one embodiment, a method includes implementing an ad hoc network protocol comprising transmitting, from a first mobile device, one or more neighbor messages that includes a first user identifier corresponding to a first user of the first mobile device, wherein the first user identifier corresponds to a user account of the first user in a social networking system, receiving, at the first mobile device, one or more second neighbor messages from one or more second mobile devices that include second user identifiers corresponding to respective second users of the one or more second mobile devices, wherein the second user identifiers correspond to respective user accounts of one or more second users in the social networking system, and storing, at the first mobile device, information received in the one or more second neighbor messages for access by one or more applications hosted on the first mobile device.

Social ad hoc networking protocol and presentation layer

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Matthew Nicholas Papakipos