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20100204046 | Processes for the Control of Undesired Vegetation - Improved agricultural processes for the controlled cultivation of crops are disclosed. In one aspect, crops of different types, namely that is to say crops grown from seeds, plants or cultivars having resistance to two (or more) different classes of herbicides, are treated to control undesired vegetative growth using a single class of herbicides. | 08-12-2010 |
20120021911 | Plant Treatment Compositions and Methods for Their Use - Plant treatment compositions comprising metal alginate salts and at least one amine compound are useful in the treatment of plants, particularly food crops. The metal alginate salts are found to be highly effective in the absence of herbicides, fungicides and pesticides. | 01-26-2012 |
20130172184 | Plant Treatment Compositions and Methods for their Use - Plant treatment compositions comprising metal alginate salts and further containing at least one amine compound (sometimes also herein referred to as the “first amine compound”), and additionally includes at least a pH buffer composition comprising a second amine compound (sometimes also herein referred to as the “second amine compound”), which compositions useful in the treatment of plants, particularly food crops. In certain embodiments, the plant treatment compositions are highly effective even wherein the content of metallic copper present is 500 ppm or even less in the plant treatment composition used to treat plants or crops. The plant treatment compositions are found to be highly effective even in the absence of herbicides, fungicides and pesticides. | 07-04-2013 |
20140213544 | Plant Treatment Compositions and Methods for Their Use - Plant treatment compositions comprising metal alginate salts and at least one amine compound are useful in the treatment of plants, particularly food crops. The metal alginate salts are found to be highly effective in the absence of herbicides, fungicides and pesticides. | 07-31-2014 |
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20120331049 | INFERRING TOPICS FROM SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM COMMUNICATIONS USING SOCIAL CONTEXT - A social networking system determines the meaning of an anchor term used in a communication received from a communicating user. Candidate nodes are identified in the dictionary based on the anchor term, where each candidate node represents a possible meaning of the anchor term. The context of the anchor term is determined, and a score is determined for each candidate node based on the determined context. A candidate node is selected that most likely represents the meaning of the anchor term based on the determined candidate node scores. The context of the anchor term may be a social context derived from users connected to the communicating user that use the anchor term in communications. A communicating user may be prompted to identify the meaning of the anchor term explicitly based on the use of the term in communications from other users connected to the communicating user. | 12-27-2012 |
20120331064 | SUGGESTING TAGS IN STATUS MESSAGES BASED ON SOCIAL CONTEXT - A social networking system determines the meaning of an anchor term used in a communication received from a communicating user. Candidate nodes are identified in the dictionary based on the anchor term, where each candidate node represents a possible meaning of the anchor term. The context of the anchor term is determined, and a score is determined for each candidate node based on the determined context. A candidate node is selected that most likely represents the meaning of the anchor term based on the determined candidate node scores. The context of the anchor term may be a social context derived from users connected to the communicating user that use the anchor term in communications. A communicating user may be prompted to identify the meaning of the anchor term explicitly based on the use of the term in communications from other users connected to the communicating user. | 12-27-2012 |
20140149501 | Efficient Navigation Through Social Networking Content - A social networking system presents an interface to a user for easily navigating through content items. The interface includes a content region and a navigation region. The content region displays content items while the navigation region displays navigation units. Each navigation unit represents one or more content items of the content region and is displayed at a location in the navigation region based on a time associated with a content item represented by the navigation unit and based on a value of a metric. Selecting a navigation unit modifies the content region to display the one or more content items associated with the selected navigation unit. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149538 | TRANSMISSION OF NOTIFICATIONS TO MULTIPLE DEVICES ASSOCIATED WITH A USER - A notification system provides notifications to a user associated with multiple user devices. The notification system selects a user device to receive a notification based on user behavior, such as user interactions with the notification system via the user device or acknowledgments of notifications received from user devices. The notification is sent to the selected user device, and the notification system waits for an acknowledgment from the selected notification system for an acknowledgement delay period. If no acknowledgment is received within the acknowledgment delay period, an additional user device is selected and the notification is sent to the additional user device. | 05-29-2014 |
20140164503 | DISPLAYING NEWS TICKER CONTENT BASED ON DIVERSITY IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system displays stories describing actions to a user in a news ticker. The stories may be selected so that a variety of types of stories, stories associated with a variety of users, or stories associated with a variety of actions are presented via the news ticker. Additionally, stories having a common characteristic, such as being associated with a common user, may be aggregated and a description of the aggregated stories is presented in the news ticker. For example, stories aggregated based on acting user may identify the user common to the stories and a description of the aggregated stories may be displayed. Further, the value to the social networking system of displaying different types of content may be used to modify how different types of content are displayed in the news ticker. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164978 | DISPLAYING AGGREGATED NEWS TICKER CONTENT IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system displays stories describing actions to a user in a news ticker. The stories may be selected so that a variety of types of stories, stories associated with a variety of users, or stories associated with a variety of actions are presented via the news ticker. Additionally, stories having a common characteristic, such as being associated with a common user, may be aggregated and a description of the aggregated stories is presented in the news ticker. For example, stories aggregated based on acting user may identify the user common to the stories and a description of the aggregated stories may be displayed. Further, the value to the social networking system of displaying different types of content may be used to modify how different types of content are displayed in the news ticker. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164979 | DISPLAYING NEWS TICKER CONTENT BASED ON VALUE IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system displays stories describing actions to a user in a news ticker. The stories may be selected so that a variety of types of stories, stories associated with a variety of users, or stories associated with a variety of actions are presented via the news ticker. Additionally, stories having a common characteristic, such as being associated with a common user, may be aggregated and a description of the aggregated stories is presented in the news ticker. For example, stories aggregated based on acting user may identify the user common to the stories and a description of the aggregated stories may be displayed. Further, the value to the social networking system of displaying different types of content may be used to modify how different types of content are displayed in the news ticker. | 06-12-2014 |
20140173399 | ORDERING OF BOOKMARKS FOR OBJECTS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system analyzes a user's interactions with objects linked to bookmarks associated with the user to generate a score for each bookmark. The score represents or is based on the probability that the user will access the bookmark or the linked object. For example, the score is a predicted click-through rate for the bookmark. Based on the scores, a subset of the bookmarks is selected for presentation to the user. Additionally, the scores may be used to order the selected subset of the bookmarks. Hence, the bookmarks that the user is most likely to access are presented while the bookmarks the user is less likely to access may be hidden. | 06-19-2014 |
20140188914 | SAVED QUERIES IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A user saves a structured query defining connections between two or more objects maintained by a social networking system. The social networking system finds objects matching the structured query, either by periodically performing searches for new objects or by analyzing objects as they are added or modified. The user creating the saved query can subsequently view the matching objects. | 07-03-2014 |
20140289384 | Filtering notifications from a third party application to a user of a social networking system based on an action of the user - A method for filtering a notification being provided from an application to a user of a social networking system based on an action of the user is described. The method starts by receiving the notification from the application to the user. If the notification is a first notification sent from the application to the user, the notification is displayed to the user with (i) a prompting message that includes a selectable opt in image, and (ii) a selectable opt out image. The prompting message includes a request to opt in to receiving notifications from the application. If the notification is not the first notification sent from the application to the user, the method determines whether to display the notification to the user by determining whether the user previously opted in to notifications from the application and whether click-through rate (CTR) of notifications from the application is greater than CTR threshold. | 09-25-2014 |
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20140172995 | Suggesting Opt-out of Notifications to Users of a Social Networking System - A social networking system notifies its users of different events and actions taking place inside the social networking system. To present notifications that are most likely to be of interest to the user, the social networking system observes the interactions of the user with notifications presented to the user and suggests an option to opt-out of notifications associated with a source based on the observed interactions. The option to opt-out of notifications associated with the source may be presented if the users interactions with the notifications presented are below a threshold. Notifications associated with a social group are presented to the user based on factors describing the group and the relation between the user and other users of the social group, for example, seniority of the user, size of the group, and the rate at which user actions associated with the group are received. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172996 | Sending Notifications to Members of Social Group in a Social Networking System - A social networking system notifies its users of different events and actions taking place inside the social networking system. To present notifications that are most likely to be of interest to the user, the social networking system observes the interactions of the user with notifications presented to the user and suggests an option to opt-out of notifications associated with a source based on the observed interactions. The option to opt-out of notifications associated with the source may be presented if the users interactions with the notifications presented are below a threshold. Notifications associated with a social group are presented to the user based on factors describing the group and the relation between the user and other users of the social group, for example, seniority of the user, size of the group, and the rate at which user actions associated with the group are received. | 06-19-2014 |
20140208233 | USER INTERFACE FOR BOOKMARKS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A bookmark displays one or more bookmark tiles each linked to an object in a social networking system, allowing faster and easier access to the linked objects. The bookmark tiles are arranged in a tile region displayed proximate to a page of content from the social networking system. For example, the tile region is a horizontal row proximate to the page content. The tile region may be accessed by performing a scrolling input when the page is displayed by a client device. The bookmark tiles may be navigated using a search region for receiving input to search the bookmark tiles. The search region may be accessible by performing a second scrolling input while the client device displays the page. | 07-24-2014 |
20150106326 | Saved Queries in a Social Networking System - A user saves a structured query defining connections between two or more objects maintained by a social networking system. The social networking system finds objects matching the structured query, either by periodically performing searches for new objects or by analyzing objects as they are added or modified. The user creating the saved query can subsequently view the matching objects. | 04-16-2015 |
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20100217329 | BONE SCREW - There are disclosed embodiments of screws for use in orthopedic surgery, particularly in pediatric patients. In some embodiments, inner and outer implantable members are provided, with the outer implantable member threadable on the inner implantable member to provide compression on two or more bone parts. In some embodiments, screw members are provided with a threaded shaft, and the thread continues into the head of the screw member to enable the thread to remain in pediatric bone. | 08-26-2010 |
20120180797 | MODULAR PEDIATRIC PLATFORM - A modular table is described for supporting a patient during application of a spica cast. In various embodiments, the table is modular, having a support for the patient's upper body and a separate support for the patient's lower body. The supports have coupling members that interface with existing examination or operating tables, or with additional members attached thereto. The coupling members may be placed into features shaped to receive them in one or more spaced-apart positions, or in other embodiments may slide through T-shaped slots or tracks that guide relative alignment of the supports. The tracks for the two supports may be the same or different; straight or curved; and parallel, perpendicular, or skew. Additional fixtures attach to the table or additional members to assist in applying traction to the patient during the application. | 07-19-2012 |
20150327903 | BONE SCREW - There are disclosed embodiments of screws for use in orthopedic surgery, particularly in pediatric patients. In some embodiments, inner and outer implantable members are provided, with the outer implantable member threadable on the inner implantable member to provide compression on two or more bone parts. In some embodiments, screw members are provided with a threaded shaft, and the thread continues into the head of the screw member to enable the thread to remain in pediatric bone. | 11-19-2015 |