Facebook, Inc.

Mark E Zuckerberg

Aaron Sittig

Andrew Garrod Bosworth

Eyal Michael Sharon

Matthew Joseph Cahill

Paul M McDonald

Peter Xiu Deng

Jeff Huang

Ruchi Sanghvi

Chris Cox

Arun Vijayvergiya

Raylene Kay Yung

Samuel Wharton Lessin

Serkan Piantino

Drew Hamlin

Adam Edward D'Angelo

Timothy A Kendall

Robert Kang-Xing Jin

Daniel Klatzko Gibson

Steven Jay Young

William Joseph Flynn, Iii

Xin Liu

Yofay Kari Lee

Michael Steven Vernal

Austin Haugen

Justin M Rosenstein

Spencer G Ahrens

Ray C He

Chaitanya Mishra

Yun-Fang Juan

Chamath M Palihapitiya

Yishan Wong

Josh Wiseman

Scott Marlette

Matthew R Cohler

Ryan David Mack

Joshua Wiseman

Ryan Case

Chris Hughes

Daniel Hsiao

Ross David Bayer

Joel Benjamin Seligstein

Stefan Casey Parker

Zizhuang Yang

Katie Geminder

Nicholas Felton

Marcel Laverdet

Daniel Corson

Kenneth M Lau

Matt Cahill

Burak Guzel

Steve Young

Jonathan David Perlow

Lucy Congyun Zhang

Arieh Steinberg

Benjamin Peter Davenport

Mark Tonkelowitz

Stanislav Funiak

Adam Mosseri

Eric Faller

Chris Kelly

Zachary Ethan Carpen Rait

Adam Hupp

Zheng Zhang

Dan Corson

Adam D'angelo

Gokul Rajaram

Hong Yan

Robert Kang Xing Jin

Jiakai Liu

Thomas Andrew Watson

Ben Gertzfield

Prashant Malik

Ami Vora

Wayne Jin Chang

Wei Zhong Yeh

Ben Hamilton

Katie Germinder

Austin Daniel Haugen

William Joseph Flynn

Drew W Hamlin

Paul M Mcdonald

Stefan Parker

To display a news feed in a social network environment, a social networking system generates news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment. The social networking system may also attach an informational link associated with at least one of the activities to at least one of the news items, limit access to the news items to a predetermined set of viewers, and assign an order to the news items. The news items may be displayed in the assigned order to at least one viewing user of the predetermined set of viewers, and the number of news items displayed may be dynamically limited.

Dynamically providing a feed of stories about a user of a social networking system

Display panel of a programmed computer system with a graphical user interface

The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.

Displaying dynamic user interface elements in a social networking system

Exemplary systems and methods for calendaring are provided. Exemplary systems include a natural language receiving component configured to receive a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, a calendar generation engine configured to create a calendar entry based on the natural language entry, a social network database configured for accessing and querying by the calendar generation engine, a privacy component configured to receive a privacy setting indicating a person who is approved to view the calendar entry, and a display module configured to display the calendar entry on a calendar. Exemplary methods include receiving a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, creating a calendar entry, and displaying the calendar entry.

Communicating plans for users of a social networking system

A social networking system provides a short, unbiased biographical summary for a user of the social networking system. The short biography includes a few relevant biographical information items selected from the user's profile and is displayed on the profile page. The short biography may be displayed with a set of photographs also selected from the profile for their relevance. Relevance may be based on various information including temporal relevance and relevance to the viewing user. Display of the short biography allows a viewer to easily find current biographical information about the user in an abbreviated format.

Profile page with biographical summary for social networking system user

A social networking service presents information about the social network using multiple feeds in a user interface and provides mechanisms for filtering the content. A content feed includes the most recent content generated by the user's connections, and a highlights feed displays content based on importance and relevance. A user may add content to the social networking service through a composer interface. A user may also filter either or both of the content feed and the highlights feed using a filtering interface, which allows selective filtering of the feeds using one or more different types of filters, including as filtering by the source of the content, friends or networks, and/or content type.

Filtering content in a social networking service

A system and method provides dynamically selected media content to someone using an electronic device in a social network environment. Items of media content are selected for the user based on his or her relationships with one or more other users. The user's relationships with other users are reflected in the selected media content and its format. An order is assigned to the items of media content, for example, based on their anticipated importance to the user, and the items of media content are displayed to the user in the assigned order. The user may change the order of the items of media content. The user's interactions with media content available in the social network environment are monitored, and those interactions are used to select additional items of media content for the user.

Dynamically updating media content for display to a user of a social network environment based on user interactions

A system environment supporting one or more advertisers and one or more ad publishers provides a means of sharing user-targeted advertisement. One or more hashing modules in the system environment provide the advertisers and ad publishers a means of sharing this information without revealing a user's personally identifiable information (PII). If a lossy hash is chosen, then an advertiser can communicate targeted advertisements to an ad publisher without revealing any PII to the ad publisher that the ad publisher did not already know.

Protecting identities of users to whom advertising is targeted

A method for tagging digital media is described. The method includes selecting a digital media and selecting region within the digital media. The method may further include associating a person or entity with the selected region and sending a notification of the association the person or entity or a different person or entity. The method may further include sending advertising with the notification.

Tagging digital media

A system, method, and computer program for social mapping is provided. Data about a plurality of social network members is received. A first member of the plurality of social network members is allowed to identify a second member of the plurality of social network members with whom the first member wishes to establish a relationship. The data is then sent to the second member about the first member based on the identification. Input from the second member is received in response to the data. The relationship between the first member and the second member is confirmed based on the input in order to map the first member to the second member.

Mapping relationships between members in a social network

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Mark E Zuckerberg