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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2013
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kent Schoen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ning Li, Newark, CA (US);
Robert Kang Xing Jin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Philip Anastasios Zigoris, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jessica Gronski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jordan Walke, Cupertino, CA (US);
Eric Michel Giovanola, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes monitoring an activity stream to identify actions that match stored sponsored story specifications, for providing one or more sponsored stories to a viewing user. The sponsored story specifications include a visual specification for the sponsored story, and matched sponsored stories are ranked for a viewing user. Users can set privacy preferences related to sponsored stories. The ranking and privacy settings contribute to which sponsored stories are provided for display to the viewing user.