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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2012
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Isaac Sparrow, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Anthony Howard Payne, Northridge, CA (US);
Kevin Courtney Smilak, Torrance, CA (US);
Simon Han, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Amir Fish, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David M. Cohen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Matthew Stephen Steiner, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure comprises systems and methods for providing a stream of only those photographs (including those inter-mixed with videos and hybrid types (animated gifs, animated photo bursts, etc.)) that may be of interest to particular users in a social network based on consideration of user social graphs and other external signals generated for the photographs based on predefined criteria to determine user interest levels. The systems and methods obtain photographs, retrieve social graphs for particular users, evaluate and filter photographs, rank them, and limit the number of photographs provided for viewing from a single source. Accordingly, only photographs that are determined to be most interesting to particular users are provided for display to them.