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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2016
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Aigerim Shorman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ben Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Jeremy Samuel Friedland, San Francisco, CA (US);

Alan Thomas Clark, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ryan Michael Houx, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Xiao Yang Xie, Foster City, CA (US);

Xiaoyi Zhang, Redwood City, CA (US);

Rahul Rajagopalan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Adam Ankenmann, Mountain View, CA (US);

Mitchell Sadao Fukumoto, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Noah Bradley Blecher, San Francisco, CA (US);

Adam Shih, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jing Chen, Mountain View, CA (US);

David Martin Kaye, Redwood City, CA (US);

Crystal Rhan-Tsor Chen, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes accessing, from a data store of the communication network, user information associated with a first user of the communication network, identifying one or more entities associated with the communication network that are relevant to the first user based on the user information, and retrieving, for each identified entity, one or more content frames associated with the entity. The method includes ranking the one or more content frames based on the user information. The method also includes sending, to a client device of the first user, one or more of the content frames for display to the first user in ranked order, wherein each content frame is selectable by the first user to display the selected content frame in association with a particular content item for a specified period of time.


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