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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2022
Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Yigal Dan Rubinstein, Los Altos, CA (US);
Aditya Koolwal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ken Taro Deeter, Redwood City, CA (US);
Sergey Markov, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Karl Frankowski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of posting ephemeral posts is disclosed. The method starts with receiving, from a user of a social network, a request to post an ephemeral post, the request including an ephemeral variable associated with a threshold event. The ephemeral post is posted on behalf of the user. Then an occurrence of the threshold event is monitored. When the threshold event has not occurred, the post is allowed to be accessible to at least one viewer other than the user. When the threshold event has occurred, the post is blocked from being accessible by the at least one view other than the user.