The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Li Ju, Issaquah, WA (US);
David Ferguson, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Jun Sun, Saratoga, CA (US);
Jireh Yiwei Tan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bradley Ray Green, Snohomish, WA (US);
Kyle Philip Meyer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Xun Gong, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Pooja Jain, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A social networking system selects a set of groups for presentation to a user of the social networking system. To select groups, the social networking system determining scores for various groups representing a likelihood of the user interacting with the groups. When determining a score for a group, the social networking system accounts for a likelihood of the user providing content to the group as well as the user accessing or viewing content associated with the group. Based on the scores, one or more groups are selected and presented to the user. Additionally, the social networking system may apply one or more diversity rules so that the selected groups have a variety of characteristics.