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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:
Aug. 27, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 19, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Yuval Kesten, San Francisco, CA (US);

Shie S. Erlich, Sammamish, WA (US);

Peter Wang Weng, Bellevue, WA (US);

Markus Christian Messner Chaney, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 51/16 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/1034 (2013.01); H04L 67/125 (2013.01); H04L 67/20 (2013.01); H04L 67/2842 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a post associated with a first user of an online social network; extracting n-grams from the post; determining whether the post is associated with a trending topic based on whether one or more of the extracted n-grams are associated with the trending topic; identifying one or more second users, wherein each second user is a first-degree connection of the first user within the online social network and wherein each second user is a subscribing user; generating, for each second user, a live social module comprising the post; and sending, to a system of each second user, the live social module.


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