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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2013
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Eric Faller, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Zachary Ethan Carpen Rait, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joshua Wiseman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark E. Zuckerberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/403 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A social networking service allows a user of the service to create an interest list associated with a topic of interest, where the interest list includes members that may post content via the social networking service. Members of the interest list may post content associated with the topic. Other users of the social network service may subscribe to the list, and these subscribers may then receive a feed that contains the content posted by the members of the interest list.