Facebook, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Peter Xiu Deng

Mark E Zuckerberg

William Joseph Flynn, Iii

Matthew Joseph Cahill

Arieh Steinberg

Jonathan David Perlow

Lucy Congyun Zhang

Kevin York Systrom

Michel Krieger

Samantha P Krug

Benjamin Peter Davenport

Ryan Jacob Gomba

Ian McIntyre Silber

Lior Abraham

Thomas Scott Whitnah

Josh Wiseman

Scott Marlette

Marcel Laverdet

Ben Gertzfield

Christopher Cunningham

Aaron Sittig

Keith Lanka Peiris

Kenneth M Lau

Joshua Richard Williams

Joel Benjamin Seligstein

Ross David Bayer

Joshua Wiseman

Mark Tonkelowitz

Hui Ding

Adam Mosseri

Daniel Hsiao

Adam Hupp

Zheng Zhang

Andrew Garrod Bosworth

Gregory Matthew Marra

Robert Michael Baldwin

Yofay Kari Lee

Robert F Mason

Srinivas P Narayanan

Ray Sun

Adam Gregory Wolff

Aaron Samuel Filner

Chad E Little

Christopher John Marra

Alex Li

Philip Rha

Oswald Soleio Cuervo

Scott Andrew Thomson

Timothy L Bui

Luke Andrew Delorme

Namita Gupta

Ian Mc Intyre Silber

Daniel Sunil Chai

Ben Hamilton

Timothy Cameron Ryan

Jialiya Huang

Paul Henry Booth

Jonathan Andrew McKay

Seungwhan Moon

Margaret-Ann Julia Seger

Amon Daran Millner

Koen Bok

Elliot Michael Lynde

Martin Smith

Timothy M Thairu

Kelly Gachet

Juan Jose Mejia

An external system (e.g., a website) is associated with an event and includes an interface that allows users to interact with streams of content associated with a social networking system. The interface allows a user to provide posts about the event via the interface, where the posts are displayed in the interface and also in a social networking interface on social networking system in connection with the user and other users associated with that user. The user can view, via the interface on the external system, posts from all users that are provided via the interface (e.g., everyone watching the event), thereby increasing the likelihood that the posts are relevant to the event. The user can also view, via the interface, posts from users associated with the user via the social networking system (e.g., friends of the user), regardless of where those are posted.

Interface for sharing posts about a live online event among users of a social networking system

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving multiple recommendations for a first user from multiple second users and the multiple recommendations are associated with multiple objects. The multiple second users select the first user as the addresses of the multiple recommendations. The method also includes determining that the first user is near a geo-location and recommending to the first user multiple objects that are associated with the geo-location.

Personalized-recommendation graph

Some embodiments of a method for withdrawal a message include receiving, by a mobile device, an input to send a first message to a first recipient, the first message containing at least one image or video. The mobile device processes the first message for transmittal to the first recipient. In response to detecting a request to withdraw the first message within a timeout period, the mobile device determines that the first message has not been sent from the mobile device and terminates the processing of the first message for sending.

Withdrawal of a message sent 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

In one embodiment, a method includes determining a current geo-location of a mobile client computing device associated with a first user; and selecting content associated with the current geo-location that was provided by a second user. The selection is based at least in part on a relationship between the first and second users. The method also includes sending to the mobile client computing device while the mobile client computing device is at or near the current geo-location a notification associated with the content.

Ambient-location-push notification

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication of a first location of a first user from a mobile-client system of a first user, generating one or more search queries based on the location of the first user, executing one or more of the search queries, and sending a plurality of search results corresponding to the executed search queries to the mobile-client system.

Pushing suggested search queries to mobile devices

In one embodiment, a computer system accesses for a first user contact information of one or more second users. The computer system then determines one or more contemporaneous attributes of the first user, determines one or more contemporaneous attributes of each of the second users, and then dynamically sorts the contact information of the second users based at least on the contemporaneous attributes of the first user and the contemporaneous attributes of the second users. The computer system then provides the sorted contact information of the second users for display to the first user.

Dynamically-sorted contact information

In one embodiment, a method includes determining a geo-location of a first user; and identifying a second user that the geo-location of the first user is of interest to. The second user is identified based at least in part on a relationship between the first and second users. The method also includes sending to a mobile client computing device associated with the second user a notification associated with the geo-location of the first user.

Predicted-location notification

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of recommendations for a first user. Each recommendation being made by a second user and including information that: identifies an item being recommended; provides an explanation for the recommendation; identifies the first user as an addressee of the recommendation; and identifies the second user as an author of the recommendation. The method also includes providing for presentation to the first user one or more of the recommendations.

A social networking system user identifies one or more social networking system users authorized to present content items to the user via the social networking system ('authorized users'). When an additional user requests presentation of a content item to the user, the social networking system determines if the additional user is an authorized user. If the additional user is an authorized user, the content item is presented to the user. However, if the additional user is not an authorized user, the social networking system identifies the additional user to the user along with a request to identify the additional user as an authorized user. If the user identifies the additional user as an authorized user in response to the request, the content item is presented to the user.

Applying user-specified permissions to distribution of content items to social networking system users

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Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Peter Xiu Deng