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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2015
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Antonio Felipe Garcia-Martinez, Alameda, CA (US);
Rong Yan, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30345 (2013.01); G06F 17/30598 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract
A story describing an activity performed by an interacting user is distributed to viewing users according to the influencer scores for the viewing users. Each influencer score can be calculated based at least in part on the influence of a viewing user on those users connected to the viewing user, and on the influencer scores for the users connected to the viewing user. Based on the determined influencer scores, at least one of the viewing users can be provided with the story describing the activity performed by the interacting user.