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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2013
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Raylene Kay Yung, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel Schafer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Li Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Serkan Piantino, New York, NY (US);
Maxim Gubin, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
To generate stories for presentation to social networking system users, one or more story generation engines receives a set of actions of social networking system users. Various story generation engines output stories of different types that collect particular types of actions and arrange the actions in a specified format for presentation. The story generators may avoid selecting the same actions for different stories. Stories generated by the various story generators may be ranked and the ranking used to select stories for presentation to one or more social networking system users.