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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2011
Joseph Smarr, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Paul Adams, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shimrit Ben-yair, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jonathan Terleski, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mandy R. Sladden, Lafayette, CO (US);
Joseph Smarr, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Paul Adams, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shimrit Ben-Yair, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jonathan Terleski, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mandy R. Sladden, Lafayette, CO (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting contact data for displaying graphical representations of contacts for display to a user, the contacts being contacts of the user within a computer-implemented social networking service, generating a first social circle of the user, the first social circle comprising a first subset of contacts of the user within the social networking service and defining a first distribution for digital content, generating a second social circle of the user, the second social circle comprising a second subset of contacts of the user within the social networking service and defining a second distribution for digital content, and, in response to user input, providing the first social circle and the second social circle for selection by the user to define a distribution of digital content, the distribution comprising at least one of the first distribution and the second distribution.