Facebook, Inc.

Ryan Case

Samuel Wharton Lessin

Mark E Zuckerberg

Ryan David Mack

Raylene Kay Yung

Paul M McDonald

Serkan Piantino

Jeff Huang

Nicholas Felton

Steven Jay Young

Arun Vijayvergiya

Josh Wiseman

Justin Alexander Shaffer

Robert Taaffe Lindsay

Drew Hamlin

Joshua Wiseman

Daniel Klatzko Gibson

Stanislav Funiak

Zizhuang Yang

A social networking system obtains specific structured data about a user via a composer interface having textual content with incomplete portions and input fields corresponding to the incomplete portions. The input fields map to data fields in the user's profile and are selected based on the social networking system's need for the information associated with the data fields.

Acquiring structured user data using composer interface having input fields corresponding to acquired structured data

A composer interface provided by a social networking system allows a user to provide input, such as text data, to the social networking system. The composer interface allows the user to identify an action and/or an object related to the input. An action is structured data describing a relationship between objects defined by the social networking system. Based on the action identified as related to the input, the social networking system stores an association between the received input and the identified action.

Composer interface for providing content to a social network

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.

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

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

Displaying social networking system user information via a historical newsfeed

A social networking system obtains specific structured data about a user via a composer interface having textual content with incomplete portions and input fields corresponding to the incomplete potions. The input fields map to data fields in the user's profile and are selected based on the social networking system's need for the information associated with the data fields.

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Ryan Case