Facebook, Inc.

Radical Switchcam LLC

Brett Welch

Varun Kacholia

Sahil Prakash Thaker

Deepa Diwakar

Yuanxuan Wang

Fidji Nahema Simo

Daniel Klatzko Gibson

Gabriel Valdivia

Christopher Albert Hartley

Thiago Griep Hirai

Daria Stroganova

Razvan Racasanu

Gemma Louise Silvers

An online system generates a feed of content items for a user subject to a limitation restricting the number of content items including video data ('video content items') included in the feed. If the user interacts with a video content item the feed, the online system selects candidate video content items based on characteristics of the video content item in the feed and characteristics of the user. The online system determines likelihoods of the user interacting with various candidate video content items and selects candidate video content items based on the determined likelihoods. To present the user with additional video content items, the online system generates an interface including the selected candidate video content items and presents the interface to the user. The interface may be presented in place of the feed or may be presented as within the feed and presents different video content items based on user interactions.

Presenting video content to online system users in response to user interactions with video content presented in a feed of content items

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a social-networking system, an identifier corresponding to a first post item stored in the social-networking system. A first set of users is associated with the first post item. The method also includes receiving, at the social-networking system, a second post item. A second set of users is associated with the second post item. The method additionally includes associating the first and second post items with a story structure. The method further includes providing one of the post items in the story structure to a client for display.

Multi-post stories

A system and method including retrieving a multi-channel video file with a first video segment and a second video segment; assigning a rank to the first video segment and second video segment; and rendering at least the first and second video segment in a player interface, synchronized to a timeline of the multi-channel video file, and comprising: playing the first video segment in an active stream, progressing a timeline of the multi-channel video file when video is played in the active stream, when the timeline progresses to a synchronized time of the second video segment, playing the second video segment in the active stream and displaying the first video segment as a selectable video channel if the rank of the second video segment is greater than the rank of the first video segment, and otherwise displaying the second video segment as a selectable video channel.

System and method for compiling and playing a multi-channel video

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Brett Welch