Facebook, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Glean Technologies, Inc.

Tirunelveli R Vishwanath

Stephen Jared Maine

Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto

Stephen James Millet

Vijaye Ganesh Raji

Nicholas Alexander Allen

Arvind Jain

Piyush Prahladka

Erik B Christensen

Kenneth David Wolf

Michael James Coulson

James Jacob Yu

Sharvanath Pathak

Varun Vikram Bhartia

Michael Yehuda Rothschild

Alexander P Stein

Shivaal Roy

Alexander Martin DeJarnatt

Anthony Gentilcore

Neboysa Omcikus

Cindy Chang

Ravit Bennier

Ethan Charles Stock

Donald F Box

Justin David Brown

James Ernest Johnson

Geoffrey M Kizer

Nathan Christopher Talbert

Robert Brian Schmidt

Max A Feingold

Natasha Harish Jethanandani

HongMei Ge

Eddie Zhou

Mrinal Mohit

Kavita K Kamani

Martin A Ortega

Evgeny Osovetsky

David Robert Cliffe

Alberto Arias Maestro

Mustafa Tikir

Christopher G Kaler

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

David Wortendyke

Lance Olson

Richard Douglas Hill

Stefan R Batres

Umesh Madan

John David Doty

Stefan Harrington Pharies

Brian Daniel Amerige

Craig Andrew Critchley

Michael Marucheck

Vijay Gajjala

Uday Sooryakant Hegde

Elliot Lee Waingold

Krishnan Srinivasan

Tomasz Janczuk

Matthew Thomas Tavis

Geary L Eppley

Stephen T Swartz

David Edwin Levin

Michael Steven Vernal

Clemens Friedrich Vasters

Shy Cohen

Richard Dievendorff

Ling Bao

Christophe Marcel Rene Tauziet

Douglas M Purdy

David Owen Driver

David Eitan Poll

Sahil Prakash Thaker

Edward Kenneth O'Neil

Vladimir Fedorov

Siddhartha Puri

Saurab Nog

Aaron Stern

Jesus Ruiz-Scougall

Anastasios Kasiolas

Douglas A Walter

Caitlin Rothrock Winner

Sumeet Sobti

Kapil Gupta

Arthur George Rudolph

Debarghya Das

Vipul A Modi

Ryan Thomas Sturgell

Uzma Hussain Barlaskar

Sowmyanarayanan K Srinivasan

James Simonsen

Scott Christopher Seely

Jonathan T Wheeler

Mohammad Makarechian

Benjamin Golub

Yaniv Pessach

Mauro Ottaviani

Alice Wang

Michael Thomas Dice

Chaitanya Dutt Upadhyay

Erin Honeycutt

Yasser Shohoud

Methods and apparatuses for preventing the unauthorized use and display of sensitive information contained within search results or within documents that are linked to by search results or electronic messages are described. A permissions-aware search and knowledge management system may continuously scan the content of documents and messages indexed by the system and detect that a document shared by link contains sensitive information. In response to detecting that the document has been accessed by at least a first number of different users or has the ability to be accessed by at least a second number of different users, the permissions-aware search and knowledge management system may adjust file permissions, adjust access control lists, selectively disable links to the document, and/or perform content redactions for the document such that some system users do not have the ability to view or access the sensitive information within the document.

Automated detection, redaction, and reporting of sensitive information

Methods and apparatuses for providing a permissions-aware search and knowledge management system that incorporates user suggested results, document verification, and intelligent user activity tracking across group hierarchies to improve the quality and relevance of search results are described. The permissions-aware search and knowledge management system may enable content stored across a variety of local and cloud-based data stores to be indexed, searched, and displayed to authorized users. The identification and ranking of relevant documents corresponding with a user's search query may take into account user suggested results from the user and others assigned to the same group as the user, whether the underlying content of a search result was verified by a content owner as being up-to-date, the amount of time that has passed since the underlying content was verified by the content owner, and the recent activity of the user and related group members.

Permissions-aware search with user suggested results

Permissions-aware search with document verification

Permissions-aware search with intelligent activity tracking and scoring across group hierarchies

An online system stores information identifying interactions by online system users with content provided by a third party system. The third party system includes a tracking mechanism in content that specifies one or more interactions with the content. When a user performs a specified interaction with the content via a client device, the tracking mechanism communicates information describing the performed interaction from the client device to the online system. The online system retrieves information identifying the user from the client device and stores the information describing the performed interaction in association with the information identifying the user. The third party system requests the online system generate content for presentation to the user, and the online system identifies content provided by the third party system with which additional users having at least a threshold measure of similarity to the user interacted to present to the user.

Personalizing content associated with a third party system for presentation to an online system user based on interactions performed by the user with content from the third party system

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to maintain a plurality of templates that specify presentation of types of content items in a news feed, each template of the plurality of templates having an identifier. An identifier of a template associated with a content item to be presented in the news feed is received. It is determined whether the identifier of the template associated with the content item matches an identifier of a template of the plurality of templates.

Systems and methods to optimize acquisition of templates for content items in news feed

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can transmit a quick load article request identifying a quick load article. One or more media content elements associated with the quick load article are received, the one or more media content elements comprising a first quick load embedded web content element. The first quick load embedded web content element comprises embedded web content element information identifying a first embedded web content element and snapshot information identifying a first snapshot associated with the first embedded web content element. The quick load article is rendered, wherein the rendering the quick load article comprises rendering the first snapshot in place of the first embedded web content element.

Systems and methods for generating, providing, and rendering quick load articles

A method includes receiving a query identifying a first entity associated with the online social network. The method then includes accessing a deep-link index of the online social network including a plurality of records of indexed deep-links to a plurality of third-party applications. A deep link to the third-party application may include instructions for accessing a display state of the third-party application associated with the entity. The method further includes identifying one or more records of the deep-link index having an entity-identifier matching the identified first entity of the query, and sending one or more search results responsive to the query. The search results may include deep links corresponding to one or more of the identified records, and each deep link may be selectable by the first user to access a display state of a third-party application associated with the first entity of the query.

Searching for application content with social plug-ins

A method includes receiving, from a first application via a social plug-in associated with the online social network, a request for content from a second application. The content may be related to an entity associated with the online social network. The first application may be a third party application. The request may include an entity-identifier of the entity, an application-identifier of the first application, and a deep link to the first application including instructions for accessing a display state of the first application associated with the request. The method further includes accessing a deep-link index of the online social network including a plurality of records indexing deep-links to third-party applications, and then generating a record in the deep-link index corresponding to the requested entity. The record may include the entity-identifier of the entity, the application-identifier of the first application, and the deep link to the first application.

Search indices for social plug-ins

An online system provides video recommendations to a target user of the online system as a supplement to videos provided to the target user that were posted by the user's connections in the online system. The recommended videos are selected from publicly available video content and are likely to be of interest to the target user. The online system has video candidate generators that select video candidates based on a variety of selection criteria. The selected video candidates are filtered to identify inappropriate content or videos that the target user has already viewed for elimination from candidacy. The filtered video candidates are ranked based on weights of features of the video candidates. Based on the ranking, the online system selects videos above a threshold as recommendations to the target user.

Recommendation system to enhance video content recommendation

To allow a third party system to more particularly identify sets of users for distributing content, an online system receives data from a third party system identifying users of the online system who have authorized communication with the third party system and stores information authorizing communication between the third party system and the users in user profiles associated with the user. The online system receives a request from the third party system to transmit a notification to online system users satisfying criteria specified by the request. User profiles including information authorizing communication between the third party system and online system users are identified by the online system, which selects a set of the identified user profiles associated with information satisfying the criteria specified by the request. The online system transmits the notification to client devices associated with users associated with the set of the identified user profiles.

Communicating notifications from a third party system to online system users via the online system

An online system regulates access to information about a user by associating an online system user identifier with a unique application-specific user identifier used by an application to identify the user. Each application communicating with the online system and installed by the user is associated with a unique application-specific user identifier that is associated with the user's online system user identifier. For example, information identifying an installed application and an application-specific user identifier are associated with the user's online system user identifier when the user installs the application. When communicating about a user with an installed application associated with the user, the online system identifies the user via the application-specific identifier associated with the installed application and may provide limited information associated with the online system user identifier associated with the application-specific identifier.

Managing access to user information by applications operating in an online system environment

A method includes displaying, at a client device of a first user, first content associated with a first application on a user interface of the client device. The first content may be related to an entity associated with an online social network. The method then includes presenting for persistent display a first interactive element associated with a second application on the user interface, and then accessing, upon receiving the first user input selecting the first interactive element, a deep-link index of the online social network to retrieve a deep link to the second application indexed with the entity. The deep link to the second application includes instructions for accessing a display state of the second application associated with the entity. The method further includes executing, at the client device of the first user, the retrieved deep link to present the display state of the second application associated with the entity.

User interfaces for social plug-ins

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Tirunelveli R Vishwanath