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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2011
Applicants:
Philip Anastasios Zigoris, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nipun Mathur, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Kang-xin Jin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Brian Boland, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Philip Anastasios Zigoris, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nipun Mathur, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Kang-Xin Jin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Brian Boland, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to sponsored story generation from an organic activity stream in a social networking site. A user wishing to promote an entry from an organic activity stream may, using a sponsor user interface, specify the types of stories to promote to a portion of the home page displayed to a member of a social network.