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Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Mark Kar Hong Wong, Redwood City, CA (US);

Benjamin K. Billings, San Carlos, CA (US);

Joshua D. Williams, San Francisco, CA (US);

Cameron Chuk Hing Wu, San Francisco, CA (US);

Christopher Triolo, Commack, NY (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/20 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 67/20 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

A social networking system allows entities to delegate actions performed on behalf of the entity to social networking system users by assigning one or more roles to social networking system users. Roles may be assigned based on information associated with the entity by the social networking system. Different roles are associated with sets of permissions specifying actions a user associated with a role is authorized to perform on behalf of the entity via the social networking system. Certain permissions of a role associated with the user may be associated with additional users by the user. A persona including a subset of information associated with a user by the social networking system may be created for a user assigned a role, allowing the user to limit information accessible to additional users connected to the persona.


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