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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2017
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Gintaras Andrius Woss, Austin, TX (US);
Sriram Sankar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Zhongxian Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
Kihyuk Hong, Seoul, KR;
Kedar Dhamdhere, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rajat Raina, Mountain View, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user, a request to post content to the online social network, identifying a plurality of second users, wherein each second user is associated with a privacy setting, and wherein a percentage of the identified second users have a privacy setting likely to make the content posted by the first user accessible to the second user, determining, for each identified second user, whether the content posted by the first user is accessible to the second user, and sending, to one or more client systems of one or more of the second users, respectively, instructions for presenting the content posted by the first user, wherein the content is sent to second users determined to be able to access the content and is not sent to second users determined to be not able to access the content.