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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:
Sep. 02, 2014

Filed:

Apr. 08, 2010
Applicants:

Todd Jackson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Andrew A. Bunner, Belmont, CA (US);

Matthew S. Steiner, Mountain View, CA (US);

John Pongsajapan, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jessica Shih-lan Cheng, Mountain View, CA (US);

Edward S. Ho, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Sean E. Mcbride, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Todd Jackson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Andrew A. Bunner, Belmont, CA (US);

Matthew S. Steiner, Mountain View, CA (US);

John Pongsajapan, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jessica Shih-Lan Cheng, Mountain View, CA (US);

Edward S. Ho, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Sean E. McBride, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 40/00 (2012.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems and program products. A server system receives from a plurality of computing devices indications that a user of each of the computing devices requested to receive posts that a first user authors. The server system receives from a first computing device a post that was authored by the first user. The post is transmitted from the server system to the plurality of computing devices. A score for the post is determined to satisfy a criteria for transmission to a second user who has not requested to receive posts authored by the first user. The determination uses a distance of the second user to the first user in a social network graph. In response, the post is transmitted from the server system to a second computing device that is associated with the second user.


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