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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
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);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
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.