Twitter Assigned Patent

Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,599,656) developed by Sharma, Aneesh, San Francisco, CA, and Jiang, Jerry, Lafayette, CA, for a “indexing and data storage for realtime and contemporaneous content suggestions.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present invention relates generally to messaging platforms, and relates more particularly to data storage such that random sampling can be accomplished in real-time in messaging platforms. Aspects of the present invention include storing a bipartite graph with associations of two node types. The graph can be stored as a power law graph. The graph can be used to provide real-time content recommendations in a messaging platform. The content recommendations can be provided using random sampling of the node types stored in the graph.”

The patent application was filed on March 6, 2017 (15/451,390).