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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2012
Timothy Kendall, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Matthew R. Cohler, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Mark E. Zuckerberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yun-fang Juan, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Kang-xing Jin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Justin M. Rosenstein, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Andrew G. Bosworth, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yishan Wong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Adam D'angelo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chamath M. Palihapitiya, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timothy Kendall, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Matthew R. Cohler, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Mark E. Zuckerberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yun-Fang Juan, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Kang-Xing Jin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Justin M. Rosenstein, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Andrew G. Bosworth, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yishan Wong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Adam D'Angelo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chamath M. Palihapitiya, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A social networking system generates socially-relevant stories for a user based on actions taken by other users to whom the user is connected. The social networking system may receive a request for a sponsored story for a viewing user and may select information about one or more actions performed by one or more users to whom the viewing user is connected to identify one of a plurality of candidate information for a sponsored story based on one or more criteria (e.g., affinity of the viewing user for the candidates, expected value for the candidates, etc.). The social networking system may also generate the sponsored story and generate a feed comprising the sponsored story and news stories (e.g., non-sponsored stories) about one or more users of the social networking system with whom the viewing user is connected. This feed may be provided for display to the viewing user.