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Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 09, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jeffrey Andrew Kanter, San Francisco, CA (US);

Robert Michael Baldwin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Paul Francois Carduner, Seattle, WA (US);

Sai Wo Li, London, GB;

Paul Tarjan, Belmont, CA (US);

Fred Zhao, Redwood City, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/20 (2013.01); G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A social networking system user creates an album including a shared collection of content (a 'shared album') and associates a privacy model with the shared album. The privacy model specifies additional users of the social networking system authorized to access content items in the shared album and specifies types of actions users authorized to access content items in the shared album are permitted to perform to content items in the shared album. Notifications describing actions associated with content items in a shared album may be presented to users authorized to access the shared album. The social networking system may prompt a user to create a shared album containing based on actions performed by the user or performed by connected to the user.


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