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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2012
Dan Yigal Rubinstein, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Vickrey, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert William Cathcart, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lars Seren Backstrom, Mountain View, CA (US);
Romain Jean Thibaux, Fremont, CA (US);
Dan Yigal Rubinstein, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Vickrey, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert William Cathcart, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lars Seren Backstrom, Mountain View, CA (US);
Romain Jean Thibaux, Fremont, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A social networking system generates a newsfeed for a user to view when accessing the social networking system. Candidate stories associated with users of the social networking system are selected and attributes of each story are determined. The candidate stories are ranked so that the ranking of a candidate story having one or more common attributes with another candidate story is modified. This reduces the likelihood of the newsfeed presenting candidate stories with common attributes proximate to each other.