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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2013
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Xiao Ou Wang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chris Struhar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert William Cathcart, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robyn David Morris, San Francisco, CA (US);
Laney Kuenzel, Stanford, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A social networking system generates stories based on actions taken by entities of the social networking system. The system applies a set of rules to the stories to categorize each story and displays the news feed as multiple sections, each displaying a category of generated stories. A story may be categorized according to its content and/or the user associated with the story. In addition to stories about a user's direct connections, stories may be generated by the user's soft connections. Supplemental content may be generated based on a section of the newsfeed currently being accessed and displayed in a related content unit adjacent to a news feed section.