Patents
Google+ Social Search Patents
As part of my work on the Google+ launch in 2011, my manager Frances Haugen and I spearheaded original research and development on social search and rankings as well as how to use search as a means of creating interactivity and connections among users. That work was eventually migrated into a series of patents and assigned to Google.
- "Adjusting a ranking of search results" (US8825644B1, granted 2014-09-02)
- "Presenting search results" (US8892591B1, granted 2014-11-18)
- "Suggesting interaction among members of a social network" (US9489458B1, granted 2016-11-08)
- Generating search results for people (US9244985B1, granted 2016-01-26)
- Suggesting participation in an online social group (US8977641B1, granted 2015-03-10)
- Suggesting a tag to promote a discussion topic (US9514198B1, granted 2016-12-06)
- Determining content of interest based on social network interactions and information (US9904703B1, granted 2018-02-27)