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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Scott Zuccarino, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paul Moody, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rudolf Michael Galfi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods are presented for managing shareable content articles in a social network. One of the methods includes receiving a plurality of articles from a publisher for access to selected users in the social network. In one example, the received articles are identified as having premium content. Each of the received articles is assigned a sharing parameter that includes a sharing threshold. The method further includes receiving a request from a first user, who is identified from the selected users of the social network, to share an article identified from the plurality of received articles with a second user in the social network, and providing the second user with access to the article when the sharing threshold is satisfied. The article is presented to the second user with supplemental content.