Facebook, Inc.

Paul M McDonald

Mark E Zuckerberg

Arun Vijayvergiya

Raylene Kay Yung

Jeff Huang

Serkan Piantino

Samuel Wharton Lessin

Daniel Klatzko Gibson

Steven Jay Young

Ryan David Mack

Ryan Case

Drew Hamlin

Josh Wiseman

Zizhuang Yang

William Joseph Flynn, Iii

Stefan Casey Parker

Burak Guzel

Steve Young

Aaron Sittig

Nicholas Felton

Joshua Wiseman

Stanislav Funiak

Wei Zhong Yeh

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

Selecting social networking system user information for display via a timeline interface

Displaying social networking system user information via a timeline interface

Capturing structured data about previous events from users of a social networking system

The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system. 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 a diversity policy is applied to prevent overrepresentation of timeline unit type(s). The timeline units are used to generate a timeline view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.

Aggregating social networking system user information for diversified timeline view

The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline 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 can then determine a quantity of timeline for display in the timeline view and select them based at least in part on the ranking. The units then are used to generate a timeline view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time.

Aggregating social networking system user information for timeline view

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 whether the viewing user has permission to view them. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by time. The timeline view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.

Timeline view filtered by permissions and affinity to viewer

Displaying social networking system user information via a historical newsfeed

Aggregating social networking system user information for display via stories

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Paul M McDonald