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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2013
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Timothy Cameron Ryan, Medford, MA (US);
Jialiya Huang, Needham, MA (US);
Paul Henry Booth, Needham, MA (US);
Jonathan Andrew McKay, San Diego, CA (US);
Seungwhan Moon, Needham, MA (US);
Margaret-Ann Julia Seger, Needham, MA (US);
Amon Daran Millner, Cambridge, MA (US);
Peter Xiu Deng, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Christopher John Marra, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Andrew Thomson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory Matthew Marra, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Physical social actions are conveniently detected, characterized, and provided to a social networking system. This improves the user experience of the social networking system by more thoroughly recording the social actions of users occurring outside a social graph. This has the effect of extending an open social graph, which typically refers to social actions taken outside the social networking system but within a computer network, to physical social actions. By providing characterized physical social actions to the social networking system, the open social graph is extended to include physical social actions.