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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
May. 18, 2015
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventor:
Christopher Lunt, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30528 (2013.01); G06F 17/30554 (2013.01); G06F 17/30958 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 12/585 (2013.01); H04L 51/04 (2013.01); H04L 51/12 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01); H04L 63/145 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/32 (2013.01);
Abstract
In particular embodiments, a method includes accessing a graph data structure comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, receiving, a request to send content relating to the first user to the second user, and prohibiting sending of the content to the second user if the node corresponding to the first user and the second user are connected to each other in the graph data structure through a series of edges and nodes that comprises an unauthorized node.