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Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2012
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Abheek Anand, San Francisco, CA (US);

Julia Lee, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/403 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 30/06 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes: determining a first user interaction on a social network system; identifying a social network object in the social network system associated with the first user interaction by traversing a social graph of the social network system; identifying a user account based on the first user interaction; generating an implicit social graph connection between the user account and the social network object; and selecting a content entry for displaying to a user device signed-in under the user account or a friend account based on the implicit social graph connection, the friend account socially connected to the user account via the social graph of the social network system.


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