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Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 18, 2013
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Nicolas Vera, Palo Alto, CA (US);

James H. Wang, San Francisco, CA (US);

Arieh Steinberg, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Christopher Kelly, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Adam D'Angelo, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for providing privacy settings for applications associated with a user profile are provided. Exemplary methods include receiving a request from a member of a web-based social network to install an application in association with a member profile, installing the requested application, providing privacy settings selections to control access to data associated with the installed application, receiving a privacy settings selection from the member, and displaying data associated with the application based on the privacy settings selection.


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