Joff Redfern

Joff Redfern

San Francisco, California, United States
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Tall, slightly nerdy, product guy.

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    Menlo Ventures

    Silicon Valley, California, United States

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    United States

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Patents

  • Systems and Methods for Delivering Content to a Mobile Device based on Geo-Location

    Issued US US 9,009,249

    System and method for delivering content to a mobile computing device, where the content is selected for presentation to a member of a social network service based on the current geo-location of the member (device) and one or more associations and/or relationships between entities represented in a social graph of the social network service.

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  • Methods and systems for name pronounciation

    Issued US US8,873,721 B2

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  • Navigating with a camera device

    Issued US 8868109 B1

  • Enhanced Web Toolbar

    Issued US 20100153884A1

    An enhanced toolbar is disclosed. The enhanced toolbar is not static but is rather updated dynamically. In one aspect, the enhanced toolbar has a bounded perimeter and comprises a plurality of icons visibly displayed on a display of a computing device. Each icon occupies a first space within the bounded perimeter of the toolbar. Upon a selection of a first icon in the plurality of icons by a user, the first space associated with the first icon expands horizontally along a longitudinal axis of…

    An enhanced toolbar is disclosed. The enhanced toolbar is not static but is rather updated dynamically. In one aspect, the enhanced toolbar has a bounded perimeter and comprises a plurality of icons visibly displayed on a display of a computing device. Each icon occupies a first space within the bounded perimeter of the toolbar. Upon a selection of a first icon in the plurality of icons by a user, the first space associated with the first icon expands horizontally along a longitudinal axis of the toolbar to display information in a second bounded space within the perimeter. The information is not visible absent the expansion

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  • User interface for a portion of a computing device display screen

    Issued US D607,006 S

    The ornamental design for a user interface for a portion of a computing device display screen, as shown and described.

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  • Toolbar for user interface on a display screen

    Issued US Us D611,948 s

    The ornamental design for a toolbar for user interface on a display screen, as shown and described.

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  • PROVIDING SOCIAL CONTEXT TO CALENDAR EVENTS

    Filed US 20140136612

    A mobile communication device includes an application program interface and a computer processor configured with a calendar application and calendar database. The computer processor and/or application programming interface are configured to identify an event in the calendar database that is associated with a first person, and transmit a request to a social network server and/or a business network server. The request includes an identification of the first person and a user of the mobile…

    A mobile communication device includes an application program interface and a computer processor configured with a calendar application and calendar database. The computer processor and/or application programming interface are configured to identify an event in the calendar database that is associated with a first person, and transmit a request to a social network server and/or a business network server. The request includes an identification of the first person and a user of the mobile communication device. The computer processor and/or application programming interface is further configured to receive from the social network server and/or the business network server information relating to the first person and the user of the mobile communication device.

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  • INTELLIGENT, MOBILE, LOCATION-AWARE NEWS READER APPLICATION FOR COMMUTERS

    Filed US 13/833474

    A method of generating alerts pertaining to a commute by the user and selecting content items to be presented to the user in conjunction with the alerts is disclosed. A pattern in a commuting by a user is detected. A content item is selected based on a correspondence between the content item and other users and a similarity between the user and the other users. An alert is generated pertaining to a milestone in the pattern of the commuting by the user. The content item and the alert are…

    A method of generating alerts pertaining to a commute by the user and selecting content items to be presented to the user in conjunction with the alerts is disclosed. A pattern in a commuting by a user is detected. A content item is selected based on a correspondence between the content item and other users and a similarity between the user and the other users. An alert is generated pertaining to a milestone in the pattern of the commuting by the user. The content item and the alert are transmitted for presentation in combination to the user during the commuting by the user.

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  • Variable profiles and profile organizer

    Filed US 13/688039

    A system may include a profile module and a network interface module. The profile module may be configured to generate a first profile of a user of a social network based, at least in part, on first characteristics related to the user and a second profile of the user based, at least in part, on second characteristics related to the user, at least one of the first plurality of characteristics being the same as at least one of the second characteristics and at least one of the first…

    A system may include a profile module and a network interface module. The profile module may be configured to generate a first profile of a user of a social network based, at least in part, on first characteristics related to the user and a second profile of the user based, at least in part, on second characteristics related to the user, at least one of the first plurality of characteristics being the same as at least one of the second characteristics and at least one of the first characteristics being different from at least one of the second characteristics. The network interface module may be configured to transmit the first profile to a device of a third party based on the third party meeting a first criterion and the second profile to a device of the third party based on the third party meeting a second criterion.

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  • Wearable computing - augmented reality and presentation of social information

    Filed US 14/145,682

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  • User Profile Improvement System

    Filed US 13/673,196

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Courses

  • Stanford Directors College

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  • US Coast Guard 50 Ton Master Captain License

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Projects

  • Veterans Hackday 2011

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    Organized LinkedIn's first Veterans Hackday in conjunction with the White House to encourage hackers all over the country to build projects that benefit veterans. We had 44 projects submitted from around the country, 11 awesome finalists, and the celebrity judges (Tim O'Reilly, Sumit Agarwal, Jeff Weiner, Chris Vein) picked 3 amazing winners.

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  • Lauched Fidelity.com

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    Was part of a great team that launched the original Fidelity.com system becoming one of the world's largest and most successful brokerage systems.

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