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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2006
Mark Zuckerberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ruchi Sanghvi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Andrew Bosworth, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chris Cox, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Aaron Sittig, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chris Hughes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Katie Geminder, San Jose, CA (US);
Dan Corson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Mark Zuckerberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ruchi Sanghvi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Andrew Bosworth, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chris Cox, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Aaron Sittig, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chris Hughes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Katie Geminder, San Jose, CA (US);
Dan Corson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for displaying a news feed in a social network environment is described. The method includes generating news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment and attaching an informational link associated with at least one of the activities, to at least one of the news items, as well as limiting access to the news items to a predetermined set of viewers and assigning an order to the news items. The method further may further include displaying the news items in the assigned order to at least one viewing user of the predetermined set of viewers and dynamically limiting the number of news items displayed.