A computer scientist who in 2010 received a $625 million jury award in a patent infringement dispute with Apple Inc. is now turning his sights on another major Silicon Valley player: Facebook, which he said ripped off a concept he invented for features like Timeline and News Feed.
David Gelernter, a Yale University computer scientist and founder of software company Mirror Worlds Technologies, claims he co-developed inventions for a “document stream operating system and method” in the 1990s that now serves as the basis of several of Facebook’s features.
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