Facebook, Inc.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Stefan Casey Parker

Mark E Zuckerberg

Samuel Wharton Lessin

Zachary W Stubenvoll

Jordan Richard Honnette

Jerod Wanner

Renyu Liu

Robert Benson Walton

Julia Harter Toffey

Skyler Bock

Silvia Chyou

Wei-Sheng Su

Rajat Bhardwaj

William Joseph Flynn, Iii

Drew Hamlin

Arun Vijayvergiya

Paul M McDonald

Zizhuang Yang

Burak Guzel

Steven Jay Young

Aaron Sittig

Nicholas Felton

Daniel Klatzko Gibson

Adam Mosseri

Samuel Odio

Raylene Kay Yung

Jeff Huang

Josh Wiseman

Wei Zhong Yeh

Sam Odio

An online system presents a content item to users and receives selections of reaction icons from the users. The online system generates a background animation with the selected reaction icons and a foreground animation to be layered on top of the background animation. The online system sends the background and foreground animations to a client device to be cached. Further, the online system presents the content item to a viewing user associated with the client device and receives a selection of a reaction icon from the viewing user. The online system selects a subset of the users based on the viewing user's affinity to the users, retrieves images of the selected users, and send the images to the client device. The client device customizes the background and foreground animations based on the images and the viewing user's reaction icon to generate a compound animation for display to the viewing user.

Compound animation showing user interactions

Compound animation in content items

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

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

In one embodiment, a computing device may receive a structured document that includes a list of markers and place-marker elements corresponding to data objects of the structured document. Each marker in the list of markers corresponds to a subset of the place-marker elements. Without loading all the data objects, the device may determine a size of a scroll bar for a GUI based on size information associated with the place-marker elements. In response to detecting a scroll or resize event, an event handler may identify at least one marker in the list of markers whose corresponding subset of place-maker elements is within a portion of the structured document that is viewable through the graphical user interface. The handler may load the data objects corresponding to the subset of the place-marker elements corresponding to the identified marker. The identified marker may then be removed from the list of markers.

Infinite scrolling

Displaying social networking system user information via a timeline interface

In one embodiment, a client application renders a structured document in a graphical user interface, determines whether a select place marker element in the structured document is viewable within the graphical user interface; if the select place marker element is viewable, the client application retrieves and render the data object associated with the place marker element.

Rendering structured documents with place-markers

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Leesburg, VA, United States of America

Stefan Casey Parker