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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2018
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Mark E. Zuckerberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ruchi Sanghvi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew G. Bosworth, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chris Cox, San Francisco, CA (US);
Aaron Sittig, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chris Hughes, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Katie Geminder, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel Corson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
To display a news feed in a social network environment, a social networking system generates news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment. The social networking system may also attach an informational link associated with at least one of the activities to at least one of the news items, limit access to the news items to a predetermined set of viewers, and assign an order to the news items. The news items may be displayed in the assigned order to at least one viewing user of the predetermined set of viewers, and the number of news items displayed may be dynamically limited.