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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Gintaras Andrius Woss, Austin, TX (US);

Sriram Sankar, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Zhongxian Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Kihyuk Hong, Seoul, KR;

Kedar Dhamdhere, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Rajat Raina, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6263 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06F 17/30958 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes retrieving, from one or more data stores, one or more objects requested by an application accessed by a first user of an online social network, wherein each object is associated with a privacy setting, and wherein a percentage of the retrieved objects have a privacy setting likely to make the object visible to the first user, determining, for each retrieved object, a visibility of the object with respect to the first user, and sending, to the application accessed by the first user, one or more of the retrieved objects, wherein each sent object has a visibility that is visible to the first user, and wherein objects having a visibility that is not visible to the first user are not sent.


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